#Hitachi210 #Excavator #Ditching #WaterLine Tips on productive digging and slopping ditch. Digging waterline with a ledge/bench for power, 10’ feet deep for a new acreage.
I miss digging like this in tracks and new construction. I work for the gas Company and everything is rebuild. Saw cut, dig, and if over 5' we shore it. Benching and sloping is more fun
its nice to see how you work and explain. I'm gonna start driving crawler soon. A Hitachi 210-5 a actually. Probably gonna end up on something like what you do so this is like watch and learn 😃
Great video! I find it quite hard sometimes watching some wanna be operators on RU-vid but your great man! Also noticed you have cleats on your tracks, you a pipeliner?
When I was digging ditch for pipeline I'd plug the center then work from the farthest from where the spoil pile was towards it I usually did the out a tooth down a tooth to slope ditch most of them were 8 feet deep amd that dont look like a 36 inch bucket a 24inch is the same width on a 336 or 350 Hitachi as the dogbone pins
Going right to the top pin and curling is the easiest way to break utilities as well if you’re not careful. I’m sure the guy who made the video knows this is virgin dirt though.
That’s right. I change my digging style digging around lines. Especially doing main replacement, you want to pull grade every scoop to hopefully see the other utility ditch lines. The odd time you find a line without damaging it that wasn’t located or missed
Nice work ! if nobody's going down to the hole why bench all the extra material out on the right side...obviously it probably comes down to safety on the site that you're on ..Nice clean work though ! just subbed 💪🏼
he answers that question in the start of the video. Powerline will be on the ledge. his technique works ok for shallow cut, but its not practical with deep cut excavations. Soil types play a huge roll on making a cut look good. and following an 8 foot deep cut sloped is simple for any experienced operator.
It’s actually a 32”-36” bucket on that machine. Those smaller buckets just waste time in my opinion, spend more time trying to get the dirt out of them then you do digging.
You're a good operator, but a good operator isn't just about digging its about machine care as well. Do not slam the bucket open everytime thats bad for the cylinder. I know you're just a employee for a company but if you work for yourself you better be taking care of the machine and I would never allow that on my jobs. Same goes with idlers in the front. I've fired guys for digging over drives when I told them 1000 times.
All I learnt here is how to force too much of a bucketful into the bucket then bang the living daylights out of the bucket to empty it as its all stuck in the bucket , great way to bust seals on the bucket ram !! Rooky shit right there .
What is the purpose of spending all the extra time and burning all the extra fuel to slope the banks so good like someone is going to be in the ditch when it was said that a 1" poly water line was going to be dropped in from the surface? Everything about this just looks like burning money to me from using that wide of a bucket for 1" pipe to doing all the sloping when unnecessary.
It’s unstable loose soil, if you dig a narrow trench and don’t get the pipe in before small collapses the pipe won’t be laid properly. Also, trying to move back over the trench to dig out collapses just makes even more work. One option would be to lay the pipe in as you go, have someone just feeding it in as you pull back the trench. Would be quicker than this but double the labour cost I guess.
