Running a Water Line.

[Texas Horses Hogs and Deeres]

Customer wanted a new water line run from they're place to they're son's new place. He can't afford to connect to the main yet, 4,500.00 to drop a meter in! So rented a new walk behind Ditch Witch trencher and got the trench cut in this morning at just over 400 feet. When he saves up enough to pay for the hookup, we'll come back out and make the connection on his side. It's Honda powered 22hp V-twin.







I got to thinking that these tracks would make a great GT project but I'm sure that Ditch Witch get a fortune for them.

 

[KennyP]

Those would be nice on a project. Quite the ditch!

 

[Jazz]

Those Ditch Witches are slick, used one 42 years ago, had never seen one previously.
Couple years ago was at my nephews and they needed a 400' trench for power line to new house,,,,he used his chainsaw. Obviously did not do the chain any good but quick and cheap enough. No doubt the saw came out when time to run power to new barn. Something to keep in mind for narrow trenches for sure.

 

[chieffan]

$4500 to drop a meter in is crazy. Rural water was going in when I bought the place and to get water to the corner of the property was $300 which included the pit & meter but that was 18 years ago too. But they had to run the line 1.25 miles to get from the main to the corner of my property. I knew the guy real well that was overseeing the installation and rather than stop at the corner he brought it another 200' and put it next to the drive.

 

[Dropped82]

I probably could've used that but didn't want to fork out the money. I did it the old fashioned way. 61' at 24" deep for direct burial wire. It was a good time!!

Eric

 

[Texas Horses Hogs and Deeres]

I ended up going to a friend's house and trenching his sprinkler lines in that evening. Cut 5 more trench's for about 300 feet. Got 2 jobs out of one 24hr rental period.

 

[Toomanytoys84]

That thing is a beast! Saves a lot of hand digging!

A buddy of mine wanted to run his outdoor wood stove water over to his garage floor. 200 feet away. We hand dug a trench for it. What a nightmare. Speaking of which, he still owes me a favor for that one...

 

[Sawdust]

I used that same beast last year to run a 220 line out to my shop from the house. I was going to do it by hand but when my shovel went clang then the pick axe sent shivers through my whole body I thought no way! I had so many rocks I had to add fill when I back filled it. I loved the tracks on that thing too. It was only about 100' but took most of the day because of the rocks.