July 8, 2008 at 2:17 pm
#630476
Ken
Participant
Calculate the rental price of a trencher with a wide cut, the cost of your time for a day, and the transports of the rental trencher back and forth and you can pay those shovel wielders quite handsomely and feel like you are getting the better end of the deal.
I have laid water lines both ways by myself and I am happy to pay top dollar for strong shovel work.
The 2′ wide part is where manual shovel work beats technology unless you are going to rent a bucket loader.