The problems of Trenching

Problems:

• Cannot turn to install J-hooks and smiles now required in most SWPPP's and ESC manuals
• So many locations where trencher cannot manuever at all makes trenches not feasible
• Requires extra crew members
• Work-stoppage in wet conditions or complete inability to operate
• Slow and costly excavation
• Cumbersome backfill and compaction (leaving a half empty trench is not longer allowed)
• Expensive and frequent high cost maintenance with claims and hydraulics
• Moving chains and throwing rocks is hazardous to employees and increases insurance
• Incalculable lost profits from time lost and customers lost
• Expensive call backs from washed-out silt fence
• Poor visual installation if constructed on a windy day or with 10 feet post spacings
• Inability to service customers in a short time - either before a coming storm, after a significant storme, or between storms
• Al the extra cost with more employees - overtime, workman's comp. payroll taxes (15%) insurance base on payroll, rainy days lost, etc.

All the Hassles of Trenching

• Excavation in sod, rocky soil, wet conditions
• Trencher getting stuck in soft soils
• Hand-digging many locations
• Management of more employees
• Time-consuming over-lapping joints
• Lost partial rolls and needs for extra stakes
• Cannot manuever around obstacles or trees
• Backing up and causing damages