In construction, sometimes you have to work in trenches like this. Rather than leaving two walls of dirt that can collapse, (dirt weighs something like 2,000 lbs per square yard¿ it’s like a lot less for the weight than you’d think). So if there ever is a collapse it’s easier to get out and it’s only prone to one side.
It's sad the stigma that trade workers and public workers have. Like a teacher telling you do you really wanna be a garbage man? Umm yeah a garbage truck driver makes 25 where I'm from and a teacher makes like 17 lol
@@antikz3731 RIGHT! And you dont have to waste multiple years at a college, just to get out and deal with disrespectful children for less than 60k a year💀 You're slow as fuck if you make fun of anyone who is in the trades or is a blue collar worker. Making a lot more than most who spent thousands of dollars, and years of their life just to not get a job in that department.
@@LongboardManiac exactly. I make 100k a year now drywall taping and painting. But I've been told to "go eat some plaster you moron" and things by stuck up people who think because they drive a new Mercedes they are better than me. I could get one of those too if I wanted lol I chose to own my things not the bank
@@LongboardManiac or when they get a degree and literally do nothing but talk bad about lower class people. Yet they don't work and are technically lower class at that point lol. I have a room mate now who I'm soon leaving but he acts so high and mighty because he went to university. Yet doesn't have any sort of professional job. He's collecting covid support cheques and worked at a skatepark 10 hours a week lol still talks bad about "uneducated" people though. Gets jealous when he knows how much I make though and asks if I have any extra work if he could help cause he needs money. Ya no..sorry I spent the last 7 years learning these skills to put my name on. May not be your useless $40k student loan but I put in a lot of work. Not having someone who doesn't respect my type of people coming in and fucking up my work/name
While you guys are screwing around on the internet there's a trench war going on. Battles of superior digging techniques won and lost in the blink of an eye. It's a cold world out there. You gotta fight for every tooth just to get a slope these days.
My operator trenches 1 bucket wide, no matter how deep we have to go. I dont like working with him when we have to do anything other then a water line.
@@hatredcopter838_ You mean one bucket wide with subverticale walls that aren't benched or slopped? How deep are you talking? Mate, your operator will one day kill somebody, don't be his first. Sure in a clay-like soil it will hold for a while, but in a granular soil, it's bound to fail at any time.
Great wisdom to spread. I did demolition back when I was 18 and because of lack of knowledge and no one telling you how dangerous it is. Our company ended up killing my grandpa and uncle and almost killing me because no one sloped
I was on a job at NCSU a while back doing a bunch of duct bank. Setting new manholes, the works. A guy on the next job over jumped into the trench at the end of the work day to retrieve something and the trench collapsed on him. Killed him. It was right before the Thanksgiving break. Trenches are extremely dangerous so hats off to this guy for taking it seriously and making it safe.
Dang it man that’s awful, it only takes a second to turn into an accident 😬 I hate that for his family 😔 terrible just terrible. I been digging ditches for 25 years and thank the lord everyday I’ve not had anybody get hurt 👍
When I took a HEO course, we were taught to always slope the trenches for the exact reason you mentioned. If those walls collapsed, the guys in the hole would be buried alive!
Thank you for this video. I almost died in a trench collapse (benched) outside Houston. I fell 15’ head first and took the corner off a thrust block with the brim of my hard hat. It knocked me out cold and the crane operator helping to lower the pipe into the trench saw it happen and swore I was a goner. I don’t care what anyone says I’ve seen multiple collapses (slabbing) while benching. A slope is safer period. As for those saying to use shoring yeah that might work for just a tie in on the corners or connecting joints in a bell hole. If you need access to the whole line they’re not about to install a thousand feet of shoring or put the pipe together only 100’ at a time and then move the shoring. The dirt guys slope that stuff weeks before piping gets there. I’ve always felt I can haul ass out of a slope faster than I can trying to climb benches in an emergency. Just my .2 cents from someone who almost got killed by a bench that was inspected by a “competent” person.
Straight walls are death trap. Its Great that you are doing it that way. Im 41 and so far I saw 1 coworker died on a construction site. You may have saved many lifes by doing so. Good job👍
As someone with no construction experience, what is the inherent danger of straight walls? Is it a line of sight thing? Or possibly that the sides fail and bury you alive?
I work for a geotech company, do alot of dirt work inspections in the summer when im not busy with PM, and man, I've seen probably thousands of operators in my day and I've gotta say you're 100% the best I've ever seen. Had a guy doing a Porsche Dealership, younger dude too, who had you beat before but God damn. CORRECT, clean, efficient excavation work makes literally everything go smoother. Also I've seen soooooooo many ops just leave trenches wide open, no shoring or benching at all so it's nice to see some people care.
I'm a pipe layer, I love when the new "operators" come in and instead of taking it off the top slowly like this guy is doing. they stick the entire bucket in and try to grab as much as possible. Good god
When so many people die to dirt accidentally collapsing on them and cutting their blood flow. I wouldn’t want jump in a trench that wasn’t dug by someone who takes it personal.
Why are we even here? This means there's a bunch of channels out there just about digging trenches. I never knew how much I needed that until right now.
Bench vs trench is a function of soil type. A bench works well in soil that has a higher clay content. Everything you do when trenching is to protect workers in the trench. In the soil you seem to be working in, you may want to go wider and bench
@@ExcavationLife When we assume, well you Know the rest. Without a geo test, you dont know and conditions can change with depth. In New Orleans we had clay.and Cypress stumps, 25 ft below grade. We surrounded the hole with a Coffer dam, 60 ft + driven with vibro hammer. In Kentucky we used trench boxes, clay mix. Slope is great but watch your depth, engulfment happens when you least expect.
Clay can also dry out and slab off I know how to avoid that but there’s a lot of civil hands that either don’t know you have a time frame watch out for (or you can soak the clay). I almost died when a benched trench in Houston gave way. I hit the corner of a thrust block with my hard hat. Caved it in and now it’s a coin dish at home. (I’m a pipe hand).
As someone who has to get in these constantly to do my job I appreciate this man digging them the way he does and thinking of us guys down there. Keep it up man!
I've seen guys get buried in shallower ditches. One guy was filling in for me because I had to go to court. The ditch caved in on him(no dig box) and crushed him. That would have been me that died. I still think about that but I no longer lay pipe. Always watch your banks... happened in Clemmons N.C.
@@big_banana7194 he means you don’t know what you’re talking about and shouldn’t have commented. Crews go down their and lay pipe. It’s dangerous if the trench isn’t dug right. If it collapses, it’s literally tons of dirt crushing and suffocating people.
Straight up and down walls is very dangerous without shoring or a trench box. A 6ft deep trench has several tons of dirt just waiting to fall into the workers which is why slopes or benching is important. Good work.
Some folks don’t realize just how HEAVY dirt, gravel etc, is! That trench looks like it’s approx 3-4’ deep, 3-4’ wide, and approx 20’ in length. So, if just one cubic yard of dirt falls over, and into the trench, that’s approx 3000 lbs of dirt! It’s HEAVY, folks.!.!.!
Well, it can be lighter than compacted dirt, but, it is still usually MUCH heavier than some people think. When I asked one of my laborers a few years back, how much he thought one bucket of dirt weighed (it was a 1 yard bucket), he responded, "About 300 lbs".... When I told him what 1 cubic yard of dirt weighs, which is approx 3000 lbs., he was floored....
@@Rejoice1631 considering we've been watching HEAVY machinery move dirt for decades and know that a labourer digging holes is hard work, I highly doubt ANYONE has ever considered dirt as NOT being heavy. I'd imagine that in your line of work, there are many who didn't pay much attention to volume/density in science class, hence their surprise.
@@retrovi4128 It's not that people don't know that dirt, gravel, and such, aren't heavy, they just don't realize the magnitude of it. And, you have to admit it, when watching an excavator, backhoe, dozer, or any number of pieces of "heavy" equipment, the equipment makes it look very easy to move.
Hell nah almost died in a hole collapse cause I “only had to do one thing” If it ain’t benched at 5ft I ain’t gettin in it.. over that’ll kill ya an I love layin pipe but I like layin my lady a whole lot more 😂
We lost a man in 2001 in tallahassee florida,I was the foreman on the site crew the underground guys came in to lay some pipe it was only 8ft deep I noticed the soil was shit kept breaking and collapsing I told the ground man I wouldn't get in that ditch,he did anyways the side broke covered him up fast the young operator panicked and stuck the bucket in trying to uncover him and ended up cutting him in half
If you slop your trenches like that then how do you battrr them, Generally if your slopping the sides of a deep trench it would be wider then benching Other wise it's unsafe.
It depends on the dirt you're digging and how deepthe trench is, doesn't it? If it's loose and sandy, it has to be a very shallow slope, it'll just collapse otherwise. If it's a stiff soil like dry clay, you can bench it with no problems, because it is unlikely to collapse. Hell, with some of the dirt around where I am you could get away with just staight-edge and no shoring (but you shouldn't, because if it goes wrong, whoever's down the trench is fucked)
@@samuelmellars7855 there's calculations/requirements depending on soil and trench depth. My point was the Way he was wording it was that "it makes it safer" like it's a nice thing to do for them where it's actually a requirement for safety. I'm probably reading too much into it and overthinking it.
@@hondaguy9153 late reply, sorry. The point I was trying to make and missed was that you can often bench the soil and meet safety requirements. However, the point the video was making (I believe) is that even when benching is "good enough", sloping is safer
I've always felt safer in a sloped trench then a benched trench for that reason right there. Watched alot of benches slough off over the years and it's better than being stuck in a hot ass trenchbox sweating your nads off
Yuup as a rescue worker I hated working for a team without slopes, doesn't seem like much at all when you've never seen a collapse but that shit is pretty scary man. Always have to think about the what ifs! Safety first peeps.
And the guys down in the trench really appreciate you going the extra step to keep us alive and well. Slopes give you more points of egress also on a hot day when everyone is to tired to and sometimes.. fat to vault up those benches.
I don’t know anything about Trenches and what a good trench looks like, but I feel like that’s a pretty good looking trench
Amen
Yessir
That’s pretty much me too
Thats whay im getting from it
Yea if it’s straight up an down walls they can collapse in on the center, experienced that when I was digging out one by hand
I'm a simple man; I see big dirt machine my brain makes the good chemicals
That good good you know
made me burst into laughter 🤣🤣🤣
Same 🤣👏👏
Big dirt = good squirt
Chemicals and trenches? Oh god it’s Belgium all over again
My personal trenching method requires sending 750,000 Germans through Belgium into France, but that's just me personally.
I did Nazi that coming.
@@mmmcounts cReichy mate that was a pretty unclaSSy pun. I hope U-Boated Democratic
@@mmmcounts nooooo😂😂😂😂😂
I love a nice Jewcy comment 🤣🤣
@@TheRamipril 😂😂😂😂
imagine being the loser that doesn't go down, 1 tooth, go down
Couldn’t be me!
😭
Like you before you seen this video..
That's what I tell my ol lady, move over a tooth, go down and so on.
Nicely played sir!
😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣 under rated comment 👍
@@bambam-cm8we I'm not exaggerating, last night when i read that, i almost pissed myself.
Excellent sense of humor
😂
Lls
Ahh, I see what you did there. 👏
And the gentleman on the bulldozer is saying he's on tiktok again.
Loooollll
Lmao! 🤣
Lol!
Rip not a bulldozer
@@schantavonamor3803 yes it is
POV: You have no idea whats going on but its interesting
In construction, sometimes you have to work in trenches like this. Rather than leaving two walls of dirt that can collapse, (dirt weighs something like 2,000 lbs per square yard¿ it’s like a lot less for the weight than you’d think). So if there ever is a collapse it’s easier to get out and it’s only prone to one side.
@jordan5221 how are u upset at this man like fr
Yes yes i do know whats going on and yes it is interesting. Watch and learn
So this is the guy who was warned growing up that he would wind up digging ditches if he didn't change his ways.
It's sad the stigma that trade workers and public workers have. Like a teacher telling you do you really wanna be a garbage man?
Umm yeah a garbage truck driver makes 25 where I'm from and a teacher makes like 17 lol
@@antikz3731 RIGHT! And you dont have to waste multiple years at a college, just to get out and deal with disrespectful children for less than 60k a year💀
You're slow as fuck if you make fun of anyone who is in the trades or is a blue collar worker. Making a lot more than most who spent thousands of dollars, and years of their life just to not get a job in that department.
@@LongboardManiac exactly. I make 100k a year now drywall taping and painting. But I've been told to "go eat some plaster you moron" and things by stuck up people who think because they drive a new Mercedes they are better than me. I could get one of those too if I wanted lol I chose to own my things not the bank
@@LongboardManiac or when they get a degree and literally do nothing but talk bad about lower class people. Yet they don't work and are technically lower class at that point lol. I have a room mate now who I'm soon leaving but he acts so high and mighty because he went to university. Yet doesn't have any sort of professional job. He's collecting covid support cheques and worked at a skatepark 10 hours a week lol still talks bad about "uneducated" people though.
Gets jealous when he knows how much I make though and asks if I have any extra work if he could help cause he needs money. Ya no..sorry I spent the last 7 years learning these skills to put my name on. May not be your useless $40k student loan but I put in a lot of work. Not having someone who doesn't respect my type of people coming in and fucking up my work/name
@@antikz3731 you should make a yt n tell stories lmao
Him:
"Much safer than the guys down there"
Guys down there:
*buried alive*
I just spit all over my phone and I'm currently typing this comment through the mess
Sorry friend 😂
Much safer FOR the guys down there
@@nausi5105 bullshit
@@nausi5105 wasn't even that funny
"that right there you couldn't sh-"
THE NOT-SO SACRED TEXTS
Ngl i thought he was gonna say that right there you couldn't *SHIT*
If i had to guess it would end, "that right there, you couldn't shovel off a man in time, if he got buried."
You couldn’t shit that much is what I was expecting
While you guys are screwing around on the internet there's a trench war going on. Battles of superior digging techniques won and lost in the blink of an eye. It's a cold world out there. You gotta fight for every tooth just to get a slope these days.
The amount of dirt he pulls out at the end is enough to keep 5, 6, and 7 year old me happy for a week
but not 8 year old you ?
Operators like you keep pipe layers like me alive, thank you.
I mean would you actually work in a trench that hasn't been stepped, sloped, shored, or had a trench box set? You really shouldn't...
My operator trenches 1 bucket wide, no matter how deep we have to go. I dont like working with him when we have to do anything other then a water line.
Its a very long process to get him to step it out or shore it with me.
@@hatredcopter838_ for you id go 2 bucket wide
@@hatredcopter838_ You mean one bucket wide with subverticale walls that aren't benched or slopped? How deep are you talking? Mate, your operator will one day kill somebody, don't be his first. Sure in a clay-like soil it will hold for a while, but in a granular soil, it's bound to fail at any time.
Great wisdom to spread. I did demolition back when I was 18 and because of lack of knowledge and no one telling you how dangerous it is. Our company ended up killing my grandpa and uncle and almost killing me because no one sloped
Sorry for the loss 😢.
Sounds like a csi episode
Dam! Never, EVER go in a trench without sheeting or bracing.
Sorry to hear. God Bless .
I’m a utility locator. All I know is “u no dig here”
Nothing more important than an operator who cares for the well being of the laborers
I see you're a union worker 😂😂😂
Well if they keep the ground stable and get the job done then he knows how to do his job.
@@theteddy1487 I am, laborers local 860 of cleveland ohio
@@colefiorille8272 Laborers local 833 out of New Brighton Pa and 323 out of Butler Pa
@@theteddy1487 stay safe out there
Simple: you give a man a shovel he’ll dig a big hole. You give a man a bigger shovel he’ll make a giant hole to show off to his friends
I was on a job at NCSU a while back doing a bunch of duct bank. Setting new manholes, the works. A guy on the next job over jumped into the trench at the end of the work day to retrieve something and the trench collapsed on him. Killed him. It was right before the Thanksgiving break. Trenches are extremely dangerous so hats off to this guy for taking it seriously and making it safe.
Dang it man that’s awful, it only takes a second to turn into an accident 😬 I hate that for his family 😔 terrible just terrible.
I been digging ditches for 25 years and thank the lord everyday I’ve not had anybody get hurt 👍
Damn how deep was trench?
I've been talking shit about his trench digging for years, but I guess he proved me wrong.
It’s actually shite
When I took a HEO course, we were taught to always slope the trenches for the exact reason you mentioned. If those walls collapsed, the guys in the hole would be buried alive!
Thank you for this video. I almost died in a trench collapse (benched) outside Houston. I fell 15’ head first and took the corner off a thrust block with the brim of my hard hat. It knocked me out cold and the crane operator helping to lower the pipe into the trench saw it happen and swore I was a goner. I don’t care what anyone says I’ve seen multiple collapses (slabbing) while benching. A slope is safer period. As for those saying to use shoring yeah that might work for just a tie in on the corners or connecting joints in a bell hole. If you need access to the whole line they’re not about to install a thousand feet of shoring or put the pipe together only 100’ at a time and then move the shoring. The dirt guys slope that stuff weeks before piping gets there. I’ve always felt I can haul ass out of a slope faster than I can trying to climb benches in an emergency. Just my .2 cents from someone who almost got killed by a bench that was inspected by a “competent” person.
Straight walls are death trap. Its Great that you are doing it that way.
Im 41 and so far I saw 1 coworker died on a construction site. You may have saved many lifes by doing so.
Good job👍
Thank if I can save one person from entering a dangerous dig then I feel accomplished
Sloped with multiple escape routs with ladders on them. Its the law where I live.
This is awesome training for operators.
I work in vertical trenches all the time. Usually around 2m deep. Soil is completely different tho, it's mostly damp clay in virgin ground.
As someone with no construction experience, what is the inherent danger of straight walls? Is it a line of sight thing? Or possibly that the sides fail and bury you alive?
I work for a geotech company, do alot of dirt work inspections in the summer when im not busy with PM, and man, I've seen probably thousands of operators in my day and I've gotta say you're 100% the best I've ever seen. Had a guy doing a Porsche Dealership, younger dude too, who had you beat before but God damn. CORRECT, clean, efficient excavation work makes literally everything go smoother. Also I've seen soooooooo many ops just leave trenches wide open, no shoring or benching at all so it's nice to see some people care.
Nothing beats working with a competent operator
“That hole right there, you couldn’t sh...”
I wonder what he was going to say 😂
You couldn’t shovel that bucket full fast enough to save someone if we didn’t take it off
@@ExcavationLife 🙏thank you, i was expecting something dirtier lol.
Someone died in a trench a mile from my house
@@derekwhite9932 ...
@@derekwhite9932 well.......... we're waiting....
"That right there you could-"
Me: YOU COULD WHAT!?! YOU COULD WHAAAAAAAAT??!
Couldn’t sh.. that’s what.
“Couldn’t shovel that bucketful fast enough to save someone”
I'm a pipe layer, I love when the new "operators" come in and instead of taking it off the top slowly like this guy is doing. they stick the entire bucket in and try to grab as much as possible. Good god
Nobody cares what pipelayers think.....let alone people that dont know what it is you do....
@@YTiswoke 👈🏼 “laying pipe…? don’t know what that is…” that’s what she said
That was exactly what I was thinking. "Hey, he makes fun of other trenches. I bet he cant do a trench"
You sure did prove me wrong
I’m a utility company splicer and I appreciate a good slope trench but I’d always prefer the steel box
#1 cause of death in construction is falls. #2 is being buried alive. Great work.
#3 Falling into a hole that then collapses in on top of you..👌
Why is this so satisfying? Looks like cake is being cut by a crane. And yes, I am high right now
Not a crane. This is an Excavator
The last thing he said at the end auto filled in my head as “you couldn’t shit that much dirt”
I don’t know what you’re talking about but I used to sit in the bench during basketball games.
Damn. Didn't know digging a hole was so personal
When so many people die to dirt accidentally collapsing on them and cutting their blood flow. I wouldn’t want jump in a trench that wasn’t dug by someone who takes it personal.
@@JackOfAllScream I rewatched this video recently and realized why it was dug. I thought it was just a random hole lmao
It is a trench lol holes go straight down for the most part.
Why are we even here? This means there's a bunch of channels out there just about digging trenches. I never knew how much I needed that until right now.
Imagine being that one guy who leaves a trenches walls straight up and down with no slope
Bench vs trench is a function of soil type. A bench works well in soil that has a higher clay content. Everything you do when trenching is to protect workers in the trench. In the soil you seem to be working in, you may want to go wider and bench
Most companies always assume type c. If you are going to do that you have to slope it
@@ExcavationLife When we assume, well you Know the rest. Without a geo test, you dont know and conditions can change with depth. In New Orleans we had clay.and Cypress stumps, 25 ft below grade. We surrounded the hole with a Coffer dam, 60 ft + driven with vibro hammer. In
Kentucky we used trench boxes, clay mix. Slope is great but watch your depth, engulfment happens when you least expect.
Clay can also dry out and slab off I know how to avoid that but there’s a lot of civil hands that either don’t know you have a time frame watch out for (or you can soak the clay). I almost died when a benched trench in Houston gave way. I hit the corner of a thrust block with my hard hat. Caved it in and now it’s a coin dish at home. (I’m a pipe hand).
Ive been in trenches 12ft deep never occurred to me I could die and i stopped to take photos lmao never doing that again
Jesus Christ.
Yes, the ‘IDK Why UA-cam Thinks That I Know What This Is’ Club right over here.
Bro, solid skill man, smooth as silk.
Bet the machine didn't know it could do that
Edit: shout out from Local 3 district 11 RENO BABY!
I never knew digging a trench could be so technical. Thanks!
Digging tranches for ww3
"That right there, you could sh-"
We missed out on very profound dialogue
Someone above in the comments actually got an answer to that question by the creator of this video lol
As someone who has to get in these constantly to do my job I appreciate this man digging them the way he does and thinking of us guys down there. Keep it up man!
I've seen guys get buried in shallower ditches. One guy was filling in for me because I had to go to court. The ditch caved in on him(no dig box) and crushed him. That would have been me that died. I still think about that but I no longer lay pipe. Always watch your banks... happened in Clemmons N.C.
Wow, godbless man
Probably the only time one would be glad to be in court.
Glad we're practicing building trenches. Gonna need em for the upcoming civil war
Thanks I was always wondering how this was done.
"That right there, you couldn't sh"
Me: .. Sh.. Shit?
My old football coach died in a trench collapse.
In sweden we always do like that, never ever have straight walls.
he said don’t put no disrespect on my trench digging skills ever again
As a commercial waterproofer... guys like him I rely on to make it safe . So I can go home after a days work.
Thanks
I feel like I could dig a trench now
Let’s do it now 😎
The world needs ditch diggers too, Danny.
How about a Fresca
This is giving me flashbacks I don’t need this rn i need sleep
Sign me up!! I definitely want a job now in the exciting world of grading!!
Back in my day we had to dig trenches by hand
I was always wondering what his trenches looked like
As a World War One veteran I can confirm. That is indeed a trench
I have absolutely no idea what’s happening here but I am also weirdly, very invested.
“Safer for the people down there”
My guy is acting like he works at the air force😂
This guy walked onto jobsites without a helmet.....yall can see the results of that here
@@alwaysplay13 ?
@@big_banana7194 he means you don’t know what you’re talking about and shouldn’t have commented. Crews go down their and lay pipe. It’s dangerous if the trench isn’t dug right. If it collapses, it’s literally tons of dirt crushing and suffocating people.
When you think of others of the job, it pays in dividends, nice eye keeping a lookout for your fellow hardhats!
Straight up and down walls is very dangerous without shoring or a trench box. A 6ft deep trench has several tons of dirt just waiting to fall into the workers which is why slopes or benching is important. Good work.
Thanks man really helped wit my trenching
Just finished watching the Jeff witteck documentary and I actually cringed seeing this 😭
😭😭I feel that
Some folks don’t realize just how HEAVY dirt, gravel etc, is! That trench looks like it’s approx 3-4’ deep, 3-4’ wide, and approx 20’ in length. So, if just one cubic yard of dirt falls over, and into the trench, that’s approx 3000 lbs of dirt! It’s HEAVY, folks.!.!.!
Ummm...huh? Some people think gravel is light?
Well, it can be lighter than compacted dirt, but, it is still usually MUCH heavier than some people think. When I asked one of my laborers a few years back, how much he thought one bucket of dirt weighed (it was a 1 yard bucket), he responded, "About 300 lbs".... When I told him what 1 cubic yard of dirt weighs, which is approx 3000 lbs., he was floored....
@@Rejoice1631 considering we've been watching HEAVY machinery move dirt for decades and know that a labourer digging holes is hard work, I highly doubt ANYONE has ever considered dirt as NOT being heavy.
I'd imagine that in your line of work, there are many who didn't pay much attention to volume/density in science class, hence their surprise.
@@retrovi4128 It's not that people don't know that dirt, gravel, and such, aren't heavy, they just don't realize the magnitude of it. And, you have to admit it, when watching an excavator, backhoe, dozer, or any number of pieces of "heavy" equipment, the equipment makes it look very easy to move.
Ah thanks. Definitely was the one thing I needed to know right now. Sloping a trench. Wish I knew this information sooner.
Yup reminds of this time long ago in the sandbox with my "Tonka" great memories. Thanks. And good trench work as well. Thanks for sharing.
"That right there, you couldn't sh"
Finish the sentence 🔫
I thought the same. Guessing he was about to say you couldn’t shovel that out in ___ hours
Most likely going to say you couldn’t shovel a guy who had been buried underneath that collapse, before he passed away
Im watching this like I know what he’s talking about
I work as a trail builder where we use 3 ton machines, it’s crazy how I understand what you’re doing and why, respect to the trade homie
Just got told
To do this at the training site. Always helps to see it. Thanks
Another name its called "bench trim"
Hell nah almost died in a hole collapse cause I “only had to do one thing”
If it ain’t benched at 5ft I ain’t gettin in it.. over that’ll kill ya an I love layin pipe but I like layin my lady a whole lot more 😂
Trench enthusiasts probably wilding right now
I wish I could operate one of those. I’d be happy
Same
Life savings method, I'm from Houston and we heard of people get buried all the time with straight up walls trench.
We lost a man in 2001 in tallahassee florida,I was the foreman on the site crew the underground guys came in to lay some pipe it was only 8ft deep I noticed the soil was shit kept breaking and collapsing I told the ground man I wouldn't get in that ditch,he did anyways the side broke covered him up fast the young operator panicked and stuck the bucket in trying to uncover him and ended up cutting him in half
I’m truly sorry to hear that thanks for sharing your story
Great crew goober
If you slop your trenches like that then how do you battrr them,
Generally if your slopping the sides of a deep trench it would be wider then benching
Other wise it's unsafe.
This was not the cat videos I was looking for but I wasn’t disappointed
Lmao cat videos ? Really? 🤣🤣
The art of digging a hole. Wow
"Makes it much safer for the guys down in there."
... If it doesn't have shoring, it's required to have a slope.
It depends on the dirt you're digging and how deepthe trench is, doesn't it?
If it's loose and sandy, it has to be a very shallow slope, it'll just collapse otherwise. If it's a stiff soil like dry clay, you can bench it with no problems, because it is unlikely to collapse.
Hell, with some of the dirt around where I am you could get away with just staight-edge and no shoring (but you shouldn't, because if it goes wrong, whoever's down the trench is fucked)
@@samuelmellars7855 there's calculations/requirements depending on soil and trench depth. My point was the Way he was wording it was that "it makes it safer" like it's a nice thing to do for them where it's actually a requirement for safety.
I'm probably reading too much into it and overthinking it.
@@hondaguy9153 late reply, sorry. The point I was trying to make and missed was that you can often bench the soil and meet safety requirements. However, the point the video was making (I believe) is that even when benching is "good enough", sloping is safer
@@samuelmellars7855 That makes sense. My understanding is if you don't have it sloped, it has to have shoring.
This man saving lives. On top of that, this is the fastest I've ever seen a trench get dug
I've always felt safer in a sloped trench then a benched trench for that reason right there. Watched alot of benches slough off over the years and it's better than being stuck in a hot ass trenchbox sweating your nads off
This is some solid trench work right here 👌🏽. Don't want to bury the crew
It always amazes me how precise these machines are.
Well done, Sir. Excellent manipulation.
I love all the various insights the UA-cam community has to offer learned about this today
Excellent technique man real game changer
*me not knowing the first thing about mechanical construction equipment but still liking it* 👀👍
Being precise with heavy equipment is an art form!
Thanks for caring about other people and keeping workers safe!!
I never thought I would be so amazed, satisfied and interested in a video like this
Beautiful precision work !
Have to step back. I've seen couple guys almost get killed from not doing it.
Use the same method, self taught, alot of deep trenches, good video. 💯
You have fast, smooth and concise control work.
Used to do hydro ductbanks. operators like you were the best
Yuup as a rescue worker I hated working for a team without slopes, doesn't seem like much at all when you've never seen a collapse but that shit is pretty scary man. Always have to think about the what ifs! Safety first peeps.
And the guys down in the trench really appreciate you going the extra step to keep us alive and well. Slopes give you more points of egress also on a hot day when everyone is to tired to and sometimes.. fat to vault up those benches.