With or without the rental houses buying, there's still considerable work for which sub-100-horsepower trenchers are positioned best. "Even though the housing is down, we see a lot of work in the ...

A wide range of available attachments give excavators the versatility to accomplish virtually any task associated with a trenching application, including digging, lifting, placing and more. Following ...

The Ditch Doctor is a hydraulic excavator attachment designed to create, restore and maintain infrastructure drainage ditches by creating a two-stage ditch The Ditch Doctor chews up material with ...

Big trenchers existed in 1948 for digging distribution lines, but when utilities were being installed to individual houses, the trenchers were too large, and the job of digging trenches fell to men ...

"Dad" Hill was known in Raceland 70 years ago as a successful corn farmer, but a story in the Dec. 30, 1937, Lafourche Comet revealed him to be the inventor of internationally popular ditch-digging ...

Continuing on with projects around the homestead with this mini excavator is a drainage ditch. After clearing the land with the mini excavator I was able to gain access to my previously hand dug ...

The start of a major expansion at Ditch Witch this week was part of a national celebration of manufacturing — by road trip with a stop in Perry, the trencher maker's headquarters since its own start ...

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