The hard part is done. Trench is in and wire is run. Tomorrow is the panel work on both ends. Now a smart man would have looked at the trencher and realized that the dirt will only clear properly if you trench backwards. He also would have started at the shop and worked back to the septic tank, then started at the house and worked back to the tank.
I am not a smart man so first I started out running it forwards until I realized that the dirt was just filling in the trench I just cut. After I figured that out, I then started between the house and the tank and worked back to the tank, then started at the house and worked back. Of course this left a lot of dirt I had to dig out by hand. I didn't rfigure out I should start at the shop until of course I started at the tank and worked back to the shop, then turned the trencher around to finish the last few feet..... That doesn't include the rocks that the trencher wouldn't clear that I had to get out by hand, or the 18" dia 6" thick one that was sitting 6" down directly beneath the panel at the house.
My neighbor and I split the cost of the trencher. It took me 3+ hours to trench 130ish feet. It took him half that time to trench 150.
I am not a smart man so first I started out running it forwards until I realized that the dirt was just filling in the trench I just cut. After I figured that out, I then started between the house and the tank and worked back to the tank, then started at the house and worked back. Of course this left a lot of dirt I had to dig out by hand. I didn't rfigure out I should start at the shop until of course I started at the tank and worked back to the shop, then turned the trencher around to finish the last few feet..... That doesn't include the rocks that the trencher wouldn't clear that I had to get out by hand, or the 18" dia 6" thick one that was sitting 6" down directly beneath the panel at the house.
My neighbor and I split the cost of the trencher. It took me 3+ hours to trench 130ish feet. It took him half that time to trench 150.
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