Electrician has instructed me to provide a 600mm deep trench for the 25m run to my workshop. He’s recommended getting someone with a mini digger in. It’s occurred to me it could be moled? I had a water pipe moled and it was quite cost effective and minimised disruption big time. So can this be done? What to do with the warning tape?
Yes. Moling will be a lot more more expensive ( make sure your sitting down before you read the quote) than hiring a mini digger for a day,(around £75 a day,probably around £150 for digger & driver a day) what is ground like, you could dig 25mtr trench easily in a day,heavy clay allow 2 days.
You could even get a labourer to dig that in maybe 1-2 days. I had a 25m 750 deep, 400 wide trench dug in had solid clay soil, and it took around 2 days.
it is horrible heavy clay, but maybe I'll start with a quote from a landscaper I've used before and see what we get before turning to moling. Cheers guys
But, 1 day rental, delivery and collection, and if needed, someone to operate could be over £200 OR a local man and digger around here is £200-240. What is the price of a labourer?
I should have thought that by the time you have dug the access and egress pits for the mole you could have done a fair bit of the trench anyway. Have you looked into hiring a chain trenching machine and how that compares?
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