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Air Trenching - Who Needs a Shovel?

submitted by WKB

7 years 7 months 2 weeks ago

From YouTube: Published on Dec 3, 2016
Progression of our off grid water system: http://purelivingforlife.com/off-grid...

We are working on installing a more elaborate water system before winter strikes, but we ran in to a huge problem: we needed to dig a trench on a 47 degree slope that had lots of tree roots and was full of rocks. This exact situation made it not ideal for an excavator OR a Ditch Witch, meaning we had to get creative. Jesse remembered that he knew someone that had a tool that used air to dig through soil, and he thought it just may do the task, so he gave him a call to see if we might be able to borrow it. Miraculously, he said yes, and we got to work! While we were off to a slow start due to a learning curve, this tool surpassed our expectations and we now have a 200' ditch 3' deep that we dug using air! Now, we're on to more challenges to getting a cistern and plumbing system in before winter, but at least our ditch is dug which we thought would be the hardest part!

3 Comments

newtboy

says...

With all the river rock they unearthed, it seems they missed an opportunity to sluce for gold. They might have recovered their $400 if they had used a water powered excavator instead of air power.
Still, good solution. Digging roots sucks.