Trenching Technique

Excavator

• use thin bucket, bite down on upper crust so top edge is clean. Otherwise up stroke rips up clods on the upper edge, making a clean edge impossible. With extreme technique like this,minimal forming is needed. Grade can in fact be raised, compacted, and no forms need be used. Mastery of moisture level and backhoe technique is required. See Microhiuse 34 Greenhouse or SEH 1 pond.