How To Dig Pipeline Ditch

[@efficientexcavations]

Correction -40 is the same in Celsius and Fahrenheit

[@DIRT-BOSS]

Nice Tip with the H link 💪

[@efficientexcavations]

Thanks bud 🍻

[@rubberduck8007]

Do you prefer to dig with teeth or flat bottom? I was always told you can't cut with a fork so I always flat bottom.

[@efficientexcavations]

I like a cutting edge doing water and sewer ditch and teeth for pipeline. Probably cause we cover so much more ground on pipeline so you encounter a lot more rocks. Also better that water and sewer pipe is on virgin ground so you don’t end up with a sag

[@TheENLIGHT3NED]

Also in Alberta Can. I’m in an Operator course to get certified on, excavator, dozer, articulated rock truck, and skid steer. Do you have any tips or prerequisites for someone looking to get in this line of work?

[@mattbrown7249]

Great video!

[@efficientexcavations]

Thanks bud 🍻

[@svelements]

Just to be clear, you're digging to the bottom three holes of the thumb for grade at 90°, then using the H bar pins reached out on the clean-up pass?

[@efficientexcavations]

Yup, at 90 degrees I know I got my depth. Then you can use the H bar to find that sweet spot where you’re not cutting nor healing too much that you’re not getting a grade cutting scoop

[@montylane2033]

Best tip yet!

[@efficientexcavations]

Thanks buddy! Was a pleasure working with you the past couple months 🍻

[@montylane2033]

Hell yah! Pleasure working with you to

[@mrmom4806]

1 to 3foot of sand then clay here in Michgan.

[@efficientexcavations]

Nice, so do you use the sand to bed the pipe when backfilling?

[@martygrande873]

where’s is that H bar?

[@efficientexcavations]

@@martygrande873 The highest pin on the bucket

[@kellieromanoff8548]

Don't be a bottom digger!

[@kellieromanoff8548]

Bottom digging is the least efficient way to dig ! Unless you're in sand !

[@efficientexcavations]

I used to think that for about 10 years. I dug deep ditch water and sewer for 7 years, up to 7 meters deep. Would start at the top as wide as needed for a safe ditch and work my way down, then went pipelining and figured it was the same style of digging for 6’ foot ditch. A couple other guys would get 15 joints to my 10 joints and I couldn’t figure out how they were doing it. Turns out they were bottom diggers. I tried it one day and I eventually got up to their level, took awhile to get used to but I swear it works. If you think about it, you’re getting way more virgin dirt in your bucket, not fluffed up 30%. Give it a try one day and time yourself your way for a joint then try bottom digging and I think you’ll be surprised