Tomorrow, I do battle.
The iririgation system will, weather dependant, be theoretically going in. This of couse affords numerous opertunities for me to flood and or blow up my house. The soil is mostly clay, with a chance of wooly mammoth bones. I think I have a decent layout, and the utility people have sprayed the crap out of my yard so I know where not to dig, but I figure this should be an adventure anyways!
Anyone have any experiance with these trencher thingies? Any tricks to watch out for other than not cutting gas lines and killing everyone?
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
trencher thingies?
Where I come from we call a spade a spade.
"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders". Carlin.
How aobut if I just name mine "Sam"?
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Take some of the clay you dig up and make some pottery, this way you can sell them to make money for the call to Miss Utility. You cause an outage and the state will bury you in one of your trenches.
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You did make sure to know where to dig and not cut any underground cables, right?
Make sure to route a portion of the water into a underground grow room...for tomatoes, yeah tomatoes.
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
How aobut if I just name mine "Sam"?
I think Sambo is more appropriate.
Thumbelyna Quick Hands wrote:
You did make sure to know where to dig and not cut any underground cables, right?
Yup, called the locate people, they spraypainted lines everywhere. only one small area where i'll have to dig manually, and thats where the control valves are going anyways, everything else is in other areas.
I have a maltese falon to sell Moe...
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Tomorrow, I do battle.
The iririgation system will, weather dependant, be theoretically going in. This of couse affords numerous opertunities for me to flood and or blow up my house. The soil is mostly clay, with a chance of wooly mammoth bones. I think I have a decent layout, and the utility people have sprayed the crap out of my yard so I know where not to dig, but I figure this should be an adventure anyways!
Anyone have any experiance with these trencher thingies? Any tricks to watch out for other than not cutting gas lines and killing everyone?
The iririgation system will, weather dependant, be theoretically going in. This of couse affords numerous opertunities for me to flood and or blow up my house. The soil is mostly clay, with a chance of wooly mammoth bones. I think I have a decent layout, and the utility people have sprayed the crap out of my yard so I know where not to dig, but I figure this should be an adventure anyways!
Anyone have any experiance with these trencher thingies? Any tricks to watch out for other than not cutting gas lines and killing everyone?
More than anything, take your time. You don't say if your soil is full of rocks, but assume that it is. Go slow. When you find the inevitable rock it's pretty easy to ease around it and leave a more-or-less straight line. Hitting a rock at speed is bad for your trencher, your straight line and your temper.
Happy trenching!
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His Excellency MoebiusLord wrote:
Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
How aobut if I just name mine "Sam"?
I think Sambo is more appropriate.
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Anyone have any experiance with these trencher thingies? Any tricks to watch out for other than not cutting gas lines and killing everyone?
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
I have a maltese falon to sell Moe...
I was going a different direction.
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Hate Speech!
She totally gets me. /swoon
So Flea, when do we get the Demi Moore shots of you posted on t3h webz?
His Excellency MoebiusLord wrote:
So Flea, when do we get the Demi Moore shots of you posted on t3h webz?
Good luck with your irrigation system. I'm going to use a sprinkler and a garden hose on my garden.
Like a ditch witch?
Not much to them really, helpful to have a couple of guys with shovels on either side to pull the dirt away from the trough is about all. I'm assuming you'll be using a smaller, walk behind (or in front of) model but I think the principle is the same.
Not much to them really, helpful to have a couple of guys with shovels on either side to pull the dirt away from the trough is about all. I'm assuming you'll be using a smaller, walk behind (or in front of) model but I think the principle is the same.
Expect it to take a *lot* longer than you think it will. Unless you rented a really big jobber (like in the picture Wint linked to), the going will be pretty slow, especially in clay. Kinda has to do with weight. The walk-behind models don't have the total mass to dig through clay quickly. The trenching thingie (as you can see, I'm up on the industry terms!) will tend to try to slide forward instead of continuing to dig downward once you hit the hard stuff (which is usually about 6 inches down around here). It's vastly better than trying to dig a ditch with a pick and shovel, but it's not nearly the "smile while pushing tool one handed and sipping lemonade with the other" process the brochures might have you think...
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My advice? Stop being poor and then hire you some messicans.
Well I didn't read anything in the news about a fat man blowing up a neighborhood, so I'm assuming it went ok?
I take perverse joy in doing manual labor. That said, I don't do a lot of it. Like many folks, I exercise and I find it totally inefficient. Instead I could be digging or weeding. Thus I dig trenches for my irrigation systems by hand.
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