Simple trencher?

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How about something like a Quick Spade?
Paumco Equipment | Quick Spade

I've done shallow trenches by cutting with a middle buster and then clearing the soil out with a trenching shovel. Once the soil is broken it's pretty easy.
I did come across those in my search and wasn't sure if they would work out of the box for this application, do they do look handy as heck for a myriad of things. Might get one just to have.
 
   / Simple trencher? #22  
I have seen a picture of a plow being used for trenching. Can’t find the picture, but I think that the plow was pointing downward: don’t know if toplink was used.
Anyway, saw it on yesterday’s tractor website.
 
   / Simple trencher? #23  
I have seen a picture of a plow being used for trenching. Can’t find the picture, but I think that the plow was pointing downward: don’t know if toplink was used.
Anyway, saw it on yesterday’s tractor website.

I think I saw that, too. But I think it was a two bottom plow tipped up in back to use just one bottom for trenching.

Bruce
 
   / Simple trencher? #24  
Been there, done that. For our type of ground, this simply CAN NOT be beat for shallow trenches, and we have an actual trencher that goes 5' deep.

I was fortunate to find this ditcher by John Deere. Very old. :cool: It was made for making actual irrigation ditches. 9" wide at the bottom and 19" deep from ground level. the long ditch is almost 300' long, took less than 5 minutes to pull. I simply put the blue tractor in 1st gear low range and idled the distance. If you want the ditch clean-clean, a flat end shovel should be used to clean out the crumbs.

This is one of the best implements I have. Really makes putting in irrigation lines a breeze. :thumbsup:
 

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   / Simple trencher? #25  
Amazing job for such a simple implement. Thanks for sharing.
 
 

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