Greg DeWind takes pride in his one-pass trenching machine. With a smile on his face, he watches Wednesday as it is used to dig a trench at the Lake Tyler Dam. The 225,000-pound, 3,000-horsepower ...

Trench construction is the perfect amalgamation of all four of OSHA’s top construction hazards: falling, being struck by a vehicle or materials, getting caught in between structures, and electrocution ...

Digging requires horsepower. The faster, deeper and wider you want to dig, the more power you actually need. Ideally, you would like to get the job done as quickly as possible at the lowest possible ...

Drive past a small commercial lot early in the morning, and you might see a compact excavator working near the curb. No ...

Edwin “Ed” Malzahn, who invented the first compact trenching machine and built his family company into global manufacturer Charles Machine Works on the success of his “Ditch Witch,” died Dec. 11. He ...

Conventional wisdom says a tool designed specifically for a given task is the correct choice. Sure, there are other options that will work, but why use anything but the machine designed for the ...

White Township supervisors unanimously approved purchasing a trenching machine for the township’s Ventrac tractor. Township manager Chris Anderson said Wednesday the township will likely get the ...

LA CENTER, Wash. — A 16-year-old boy working on a job site in La Center was dragged underneath the blade of a walk-behind trencher causing him to lose both his legs. The Washington State Department of ...