Trenching.

Traill95

Rossville, Illinois
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Bring on the water!! Laying the line! Only 3000 more feet to go!!
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Headed to Tennessee this morning see if I can get in on the final run and hookup.
 
1275 feet of hillside 300-foot elevation drop.
 

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These are the lower part of the property. All total over 4000 feet of water line. Actually 8000 feet because there are 2 lines.

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This is the low ground, and you can see the hill in the background.


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I need a good garden tractor with an angle blade on the front to push the dirt in. Doing a small layer of dirt to cover the lines and then unroll a metal underground tape roll into the trench and cover it all up with the rest of the dirt. I am using the bucket on the bobcat to pull the small hill of dirt and it is slow going. with an angle blade I could just drive down the side.
 
My son eric and my son-in-law decided to hire someone to trench the hillside. Here is a pic of it when he got to the bottom. I walked by it while he was trenching and didn't even think to take a pic of it Here is a pic of it at the bottom of the hill and a pic of Eric and Bryce in the trench.
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This is a pic of the trench leading up to the hill.
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These are the lower part of the property. All total over 4000 feet of water line. Actually 8000 feet because there are 2 lines.

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This is the low ground, and you can see the hill in the background.


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I need a good garden tractor with an angle blade on the front to push the dirt in. Doing a small layer of dirt to cover the lines and then unroll a metal underground tape roll into the trench and cover it all up with the rest of the dirt. I am using the bucket on the bobcat to pull the small hill of dirt and it is slow going. with an angle blade I could just drive down the side.
Do you have a rear blade? You could straddle the trench and pull dirt over into the trench.
 
Do you have a rear blade? You could straddle the trench and pull dirt over into the trench.
He only has a box blade and it doesn't angle.
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Right now back dragging the small hill of dirt to cover pipes before laying in the metal tape for a metal detector. Then will turn around and back fill ther rest of the dirt. It would be so much easier and quicker with an angle blade.
 
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Here' a few pics of the hillside. the one with the view is a flat area that needs to be cleaned out and a little cabin put there so you can have your coffee and watch the sunrise. the last on is some of the rocks he dug up. He also opened up a cave the guy's are going to go back sometime and see ho big or deep it might be. They will drop a light and a camera.20230614_153205.jpg20230614_153418.jpg20230614_153423.jpg20230614_153704.jpg
 
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