tommcintire
Bronze Member
Did a quick search and didn't come up with much. So, here it goes...
I'm in the process of ditching around the horse paddocks on our farm right now in my spare time. I'm cutting them about 2 feet deep, and about 3 feet wide (bordering on being a swale, but not quite), which past experience and observation says will be sufficiently "big" for my project... My question to the community is how do I cut reasonably angled sides on a ditch with a BH? I can cut something that looks much more like a trench easily, and have even made a terraced trench, but a true sloped ditch (something like this: \_/ or like this \/ ) eludes me... I can always do some shovel work afterward, but would like to let the machine do as much of it for me as possible...
Its fun soil to work in, the previous owners (or someone before them) clearly buried "junk" in it in spots, especially trees... Every 10 feet or so I haul up yet another piece of wood about 5 feet long and 6 inches in diameter... Good thing the wife suggested up front (before I could) that we get the hydraulic thumb with the BH). Even hauled out a boulder that was roughly round and 2 feet in diameter at lunchtime today...
Thanks!
-Tom
I'm in the process of ditching around the horse paddocks on our farm right now in my spare time. I'm cutting them about 2 feet deep, and about 3 feet wide (bordering on being a swale, but not quite), which past experience and observation says will be sufficiently "big" for my project... My question to the community is how do I cut reasonably angled sides on a ditch with a BH? I can cut something that looks much more like a trench easily, and have even made a terraced trench, but a true sloped ditch (something like this: \_/ or like this \/ ) eludes me... I can always do some shovel work afterward, but would like to let the machine do as much of it for me as possible...
Its fun soil to work in, the previous owners (or someone before them) clearly buried "junk" in it in spots, especially trees... Every 10 feet or so I haul up yet another piece of wood about 5 feet long and 6 inches in diameter... Good thing the wife suggested up front (before I could) that we get the hydraulic thumb with the BH). Even hauled out a boulder that was roughly round and 2 feet in diameter at lunchtime today...
Thanks!
-Tom