With or without the rental houses buying, there's still considerable work for which sub-100-horsepower trenchers are positioned best. "Even though the housing is down, we see a lot of work in the ...

Continuing on with projects around the homestead with this mini excavator is a drainage ditch. After clearing the land with ...

A wide range of available attachments give excavators the versatility to accomplish virtually any task associated with a trenching application, including digging, lifting, placing and more. Following ...

The flexible Bucyrus-Ruth model HU Dredger is shown in travel position. An operator hand cranks the steering adjustment of the remote crawler on the Ruth Dredger. The Ruth Dredger was a unique ...

Day 3 of the BIG DIG: The Ditch — operating the John Deere 50ZTS mini-excavator to dig a drainage trench from scratch. Watch as I demonstrate trenching techniques, machine controls, and safety best ...

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"Dad" Hill was known in Raceland 70 years ago as a successful corn farmer, but a story in the Dec. 30, 1937, Lafourche Comet revealed him to be the inventor of internationally popular ditch-digging ...