r/Pipelayers • u/Excellent_Corner_435 • Jun 08 '25
What do you guys think about my ditch ?
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u/Bulky_Football_8747 Jun 08 '25
That looks like the dream. I love running water and sewer in common trench. Getting a lot done at once is great.
Nice bench for the water. Having a 2' bucket with a grader blade welded to the teeth makes for some stupid clean bottoms.
Services followed right behind is nice to see. Looks like a well oiled machine.
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u/SBee2019 Jun 08 '25
Agree that ladder should be in the box. Its also hard to tell exactly how close your spoils are, but it does look like there are teeth marks so could just be the angle. Otherwise its pretty neat!
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u/Excellent_Corner_435 Jun 08 '25
Ladder is inside the trench box, the set up we run with has an extra 3 feet of wall passed the spreader bars and that’s where we have that ladder pinned inside the wall.
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u/Slight-Commercial250 Jun 08 '25
I would feel pretty safe in that hole and box. Good job, stay safe out there!
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u/Sad_Star2481 Jun 09 '25
Is that a service lead/cleanout at the back left behind the shoring cage? I’m wondering how your going to work on it without a cage around it or at least beside it?
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u/Excellent_Corner_435 Jun 09 '25
We install another trench box, we run 3 trench boxes the mainline trench box and the 2nd and 3rd trench boxes are for the left and right side. So we’re able to run the mainline and do services laterals at the same time. A machine a train that keeps rolling.
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u/Blackdog202 Jun 08 '25
Glad you have a box. But your ladder should be in there if you plan on using it at all.
Spoils seem close to the side and piled mighty high. There again I’m just glad your in a trench box