Pipeline trenching

Pipeline and cable works can be small renovation jobs, short connection lines for new buildings or pipelines thousands of kilometers long. Smaller scale operations offer plenty of opportunities for hydraulic attachments and carriers, especially when pipes are mounted underground.

Basically, trenching is an excavation method that involves digging the ground or  cutting/breaking rock formations to install, maintain or inspect the pipes. The trench is long, and deeper than it is wide. On the market special dedicated trenching machines can be found, but the hydraulic attachments like drum cutters or breakers are more flexible on the construction site, and the investment costs are much lower than for a dedicated machine. Compared to the breaking method, the drum cutting technology allows more accurate shape of trenches.

 

Up to 70 % of cut material using a drum cutter can be used again as a refill material.