How much is trenching worth?

[rutwad]

I am wondering if anyone knows what the average rate for trenching is. Approximately 18"s deep 650', dig and cover up only. Any ideas what to charge?

Thanks

 

[QwikDraw]

5.50 a foot here, although I jujst bid a 400 foot long electric trench (18") @ $4 a foot ($1600) and got under bid @ $1100.......

 

[rutwad]

5.50 a foot here, although I jujst bid a 400 foot long electric trench (18") @ $4 a foot ($1600) and got under bid @ $1100.......

Seriously?? Per Foot?

Hello trencher, goodbye mulcher!

People may want mulching, but they need trenching. At 10 ft/min and $4/ft, that's $2400/hr.

That can't be right, can it? A 1 mile trench would pay over $20k

 

[QwikDraw]

Well, I'm just getting info from a buddy with a very sucessful business. He gets 10 a foot with conduit installed...dude makes good money and has very nice equipment.

He just helped me quote sitework for 8 houses on a road I cleared,the developer said they were the best prices he got. Different kind of work, much easier on the machines too.....

This is Connecticut so prices may be higher than down south...

 

[QwikDraw]

Just to be clear this is trenching with an excavator not a trencher...I don't know what that would be...

 

[rutwad]

Just to be clear this is trenching with an excavator not a trencher...I don't know what that would be...

That probably makes a diference, but it sounds like he's got a good business.

 

[Cat_Driver]

Yep trenchers get big money.

It was worth me buying a Bradco trencher for the front of my MTL, since I was being charged about the price of the equipment.

I used it for the first time yesterday, did two separate 200ft trenches in no time. I have to say it was sweeeet.

I've rented 4x4 trenchers in the past, and they all got stuck every few minutes, but with the tracks, and trencher attachment, I never got stuck - heck I almost felt guilty it was so easy.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Seriously?? Per Foot?

Hello trencher, goodbye mulcher!

People may want mulching, but they need trenching. At 10 ft/min and $4/ft, that's $2400/hr.

That can't be right, can it? A 1 mile trench would pay over $20k

I would like to know what trenches at a rate of 10' per minute. I think that if somebody is trenching at that speed, they aren't trenching very deep. After all, you would be trenching a mile in less than 9 hours. If your trenching that shallow, forget the trencher and use a plow of sorts and be done with it in no time at all. Of course non of this applies if you have to go through rock.

 

[Cat_Driver]

Well, mine does that at about 18", BUT I'm in pure sand

 

[rutwad]

I would like to know what trenches at a rate of 10' per minute. I think that if somebody is trenching at that speed, they aren't trenching very deep. After all, you would be trenching a mile in less than 9 hours. If your trenching that shallow, forget the trencher and use a plow of sorts and be done with it in no time at all. Of course non of this applies if you have to go through rock.

I was guesstimating, but I would think our R40 would do better and worse depending on depth and soil type. Alot of my trenching has been across pasture land with mostly top soil. That's 2"/second.