how hard would it be for me to dig a 15m 600mm trench?

how hard would it be for me to dig a 15m 600mm trench?

would i need to get a detector to check if there's no rocks or can one of these cut through the rocks?

I'm doing this because the solar installer has said they need a trench from the shed to my house so they can install conduit pipe to connect the two

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Get a shovel you pussy, that's not even a big trench

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Easy if soil. I've dug longer deeper ditches by hand with a trenching shovel for the exercise though trencher rent is cheap. Call your power company before digging if in US.

      is correct. It's really not difficult but sharpen your shovel and pick axe. I use my angle grinder with a flap disc for that. (Every DIYer should have one.) A 1/2 round mill bastard file works fine too (files move a lot of metal).

      Pile the spoil neatly next to the trench then you can rake it back into the trench.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >15m
    >600mm
    m's, huh?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      sorry, are you used to hairs?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah your mothers c**t hairs

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      To be fair, even if you are a metricgay your units are still fricking moronic... 15m long right? And 600mm deep? Why couldn't you say 60cm deep, or .6m deep instead of mm? How wide does this trench need to be?

      Maybe you should have put this entire thread into the SQTDDTOT instead of shitting up the board with your homosexualry...

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        He says
        >solar installer has said they need a trench from the shed to my house so they can install conduit pipe

        Which kind of implies that it is just a single conduit run for some cable/wire.

        https://i.imgur.com/zuXh6Iy.jpg

        how hard would it be for me to dig a 15m 600mm trench?

        would i need to get a detector to check if there's no rocks or can one of these cut through the rocks?

        I'm doing this because the solar installer has said they need a trench from the shed to my house so they can install conduit pipe to connect the two

        If this is in fact the case, then yeah a little walk behind unit like your OP pic is going to work just fine as long as you don't hit any rocks much bigger than your fist. Smallish rocks will simply be broken or displaced by the action of the machine, but if you encounter a big rock then its not going to go through it. You can normally get 15m done in about 15 minutes, assuming that you don't hit any large rocks. Roots the size of a childs arm will be eaten through by even a small machine like that, while the higher HP ride-on units will often chew right through a root 10cm across.
        Neither of these types of chain-saw style units is going to work great if you're trying to frick with big rocks.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >would i need to get a detector to check if there's no rocks or can one of these cut through the rocks?

    you are a lot more likely to cut through pipes or electrical shit. the little ones don't cut through rocks, and if you run into something fricking giant that is an issue.

    google that shit:
    https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/do-rocks-damage-trenchers.194522/

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    get a mini-ex with a small bucket. or shovel it.
    that blade is only good to 3ft, which is 1/6th of what you need. most mini-ex arms can only reach to 3-4 yards which means you are going to have to bench it or get one of the larger-smaller excavators that actually has an arm that reaches 20 ft into the ground.

    >at 20ft that means you are going to need a long arm excavator.

    so you want a Kubota 101 with a long arm, assuming they have one, which is unlikely. so you can either opt to bench or get a regular long arm.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think you mixed up the dimensions. OP is trying to dig a trench for a conduit, and needs it to be 15m long and 60cm deep.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        sorry you are correct, still though that is what you would do if you needed a 6m deep hole.

        I skipped one decimel-point.

        600mm=>60cm=>6dm=>.6 meters ~> 2 ft.

        yeah the trencher pictured will work. I am thinking about having to rebury a fiber line. last time I was 20 ft in the ground I was connecting to a sewer line in the middle of Texas.

        but now you know what you need if you need a 20ft tench in the ground.

        >rocks
        not a problem

        >other utilities
        >om-nom-nom.mp3

        check your utilties before you dig. begin that close to a bulding there are probably pipes in the ground and they will be 1~5ft, or .2~1m.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          If you are this out of touch with the world that when someone posts about an electrical trench you start googling shit then advise them to go rent a longarm,

          Maybe just shut the frick up till someone who knows what they are talking about comes along. Its called PrepHole, not /give poor advice regarding subjects completely beyond my scope of knowlege/

          There's plenty of advice on how to be an butthole, sorry, 'get women' on /adv/ for that.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    also as far as rocks are concerned, just be gentile, larger ones can cut rock, but if they are small rocks the will just be dislodged and thrown..

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    how hard would it be for me to dig a 15m 600m trench?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      you could reasonably do it by hand with a shovel. it would be a nice workout.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah true should only take an afternoon

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah true should only take an afternoon

        Pickaxe + shovel and a big half day of healthy workout
        Bonus points if you have a friend or a kid to help you

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Lol. Wait so John Henry was a nig? And now he's some badass warrior? Kek.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            I honestly don't know how to respond to that comment. It is by far the most asinine thing you could have said. do you not know about American folk lore or something? Is your entire personality based around your low level IQ?

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              I knew Paul Bunyon was trees and John Henry was railroad spikes, but never knew he was an African Kang. And now I see this woke israelitetube video of him as a "Warrior that built this world" or some other propaganda bullshit meme saying. Probably one of their premium black history month go to lessons these days...

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                well of the two, Paul Bunyun is a fictitious character and John Henry is a very real man, who has an actual statue and an actual family that survives him. the Story of John Henry is given some puffery, but there is a factual story told in taxes, receipts, and documented accounts. the real John henry wasn't a "we waz kangs" type of person, he was what one might call an honest black man. though with everything, the KANGZ like to twist every story into an ungodly horror. I might recommend you watch the entirety of the Disney American folk tales series, directors commentary included. James Earl Jones does some narrating.

                honestly John Henry's story is rather respectable. When I sees a KANGZ I will cull either his pride or his Kangdom. however let us not accost the well meaning black man, he is our friend, he is our fellow, and he likes the KANGZ as little as we do.

                I assure you that while slavery may not be part and form any more, I work them KANGZ in the trench and feild, so rest assured that God's holy justice is brought, and when they stray, they deputy will correct them.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Pickaxe + shovel and a big half day of healthy workout
      Bonus points if you have a friend or a kid to help you

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Pay neighborhood kids in pizza and twisted tea to dig it for you

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >how hard would it be for me to dig a 15m 600mm trench?
    Depends. If it's sandy moist loam it might take a day. If it's hard clay till with boulders in it, it can be nigh impossible without a mini excavator.

    >would i need to get a detector to check if there's no rocks or can one of these cut through the rocks?

    Just try digging a section out by hand. No. Those things can't cut through rocks, lol.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they definitely can cut rocks, not that I would recommend it. I have sawn granite and concrete in half, the only thing that has ever stopped me is Rebar. just took an demosaw and cut.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-yYB2J9PPeA
        the clicking sound at the end is what it sounds like. you have to go slow and kind of "tap" it and use the saw like a sledge hammer. though if you are cutting into a rock substrate , you either want a rock cutter or a jack hammer.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I would like to point out again that this anon is claiming steel rebar is a problem to cut when granite is not.

        This does not represent a claim about the real world.
        Granite is much harder than rebar.

        Did he chunk through some rock and break it apart then try and dick swing on the internet? Maybe. Did he "cut granite" then pull out a saw for rebar?

        No. No, that's not real. That's just words on the internet.
        At least try and be credible, dumbass.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    imagine using a system of measurement in which you describe simple things like the depth of a trench you're digging in hundreds of units. that's communism for ya.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I do groundwork for solar
    Others have pointed out several good points. The main point id like to make is if you care about money, not time, the best way to do this will be a shovel, pickaxe and rake after the foundation for the arrray goes in.

    Ive seen a lot of homeowners try and do their own trench and leave conduit stubbed up in a way thats gonna be a huge pain to deal with later on. Have your electrician leave you a flag exactly were he wants the conduit ends coming out of the ground.

    The difference between professionals and you is the speed it happens. We bring machines to do it in one day then write an invoice. A hand dug trench may seem intimidating, but a shovel or bucket both do the same thing.
    Move slow.
    Work at a pace you can shovel all day
    Switch feet pushing on shovel to not destroy your knees.
    Take a few, maybe 3 days. Do 15 feet a day, think of how much you save per day. Youll feel good.

    Avoid the ditch witch/trencher. The guy saying hes gone thru granite with one is a liar. I run a rock drill probably 4 days a week. Big rocks will start ripping teeth that get you charged a ton by a rental place per tooth, and if you come across foundation drains, cletus' redneck greywater drain no one knew about or anything else those will make a nightmareof utility repair so fast that a shovel never will.
    There's not always, but a lot of the time, shit in the ground no one knew about.

    Tl, dr. Grab a shovel, get to work.
    15 meters is under 50 ft. You do not wanna pay a company to bring a machine and two employees to do a 50 foot trench that probably has to be half hand dug from utilities anyway.

    Our companies minimum trench charge is 150 ft or so i think. So youll be paying 3 times what you should per foot for some buttholes to destroy your yard and milk it all day to put it back together.
    Soil type: this is huge.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw digging a 2 foot deep 200 foot long bamboo trench by hand
    fricking hate bamboo so much, frick the previous homeowner
    rhizomes are an inch and a half wide and there's one every 6 inches, even with a root slayer it's a pain in the fricking ass

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