How To Dig Pipeline Ditch

[@PolarisRider06]

Cut your slopes as you dig, only bucket from the center should be your last of the set. Alternate side to side starting out far and each scoop a little deeper and a little more to the center, you will get the slope without the wasted movement. Little tip I was given years ago by some world class hoe hands. Depending on the size of the pipe and machine it ends up being a 3/5/7/9 ect bucket set. The odd number being the last scoop up the middle to clean the ditch bottom. Works pretty damn slick once you get the hang of set length and the pattern. Not gonna say I can nail it every time, I've never been a straight up ditch hand but the guys who have been doing it like that for 30+ years fucking fly and have damn pretty ditches when they're done... just an idea for you anyways, definitely not the only way to do it but it might save you a little fucking around dressing the slopes in some situations and gain you some footage.

[@Nono_713]

Make sure that swapper measures that ditch make sure you have enough cover!!

[@sanity1977]

Mad skills 👍

[@efficientexcavations]

Straight as an arrow 👌🏼

[@texasllstep4500]

Looks like a bunch of chickens scratched it out

[@vladkushevsky4917]

Great concept, but ditch bottom is sloppy from all the rollback.

[@almohareb]

Hello im here from algeria

[@marvinserrano8420]

Nice!!!

[@danmagstadt8345]

Doesn’t get any easier of digging there, wide open field with no over head lines or existing underground utilities and no trench box. I’m a mainline digger out of 302 operators union and that’s real digging, 25’ sewer in the road. Keep practicing you’ll get there!!

[@حمزةحمزة-ن4ط7ت]

La vencement de terrassement si bon mis ouia le équipé pour continuer le travaille compactage de fond de fuit et lie de pose avec géotextile obligatoire par ce que le soule agressif pour éviter le tassement de conduite (Je suis chef chantier travaux conduite AEP et assainissement 13 ans pour société

[@rodcody7278]

A CAT though

[@PolarisRider06]

Mainline pipeline is a whole different world than sewer and water... you guys definitely get into some wild shit way more often than ditch crew... more like what tie ins and road bore crews on pipeline deal with.

[@ahhjoel685]

how much do u get paid for this ?

[@rodcody7278]

Not 3nough

[@PolarisRider06]

Depends on location and union or not... never enough for how much a guy has to miss to do it, it's not just a career z it's a lifestyle that's for sure.

[@rodcody7278]

With a lazor

[@rodcody7278]

A passing grade

[@jefflevesque4581]

Nope

[@kellieromanoff8548]

Oh man quite being a bottom digger makes you look so bad if you did it properly be way faster