With or without the rental houses buying, there's still considerable work for which sub-100-horsepower trenchers are positioned best. "Even though the housing is down, we see a lot of work in the ...

Watch powerful trenching machines working together to excavate deep trenches for large-scale pipeline and utility ...

Watch a compact hydraulic mini excavator perform precise digging, trenching, and earthmoving on a construction site. Designed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Remote-control trench rollers improve safety. Operators stay out of trenches and away from cave-ins, vibration, dust, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every time Don Pemberton fires up the Super Witch, people stop what they are doing and pay attention. "I'm the operator, the only operator," says Pemberton, 55, who for years has sat behind the wheel ...