When Soft Ground Meets a One-Pass Idea… 🌱David JasinskiDavid Jasinski🏗️Construction Influencer | 130K+ Followers |I just saw a tractor...
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David JasinskiDavid Jasinski
🏗️Construction Influencer | 130K+ Followers |
I just saw a tractor-mounted tool that slices the soil in the direction of travel while feeding a flexible, perforated pipe from the surface into the slit. Minimal disturbance; the pipe vanishes in one pass.
From what I can tell, this lives in a narrow soil window: high-organic, saturated, very soft matrices where the slit can close and the pipe won’t kink. In denser sands, gravels, stiff clays, or shallow rock, I’d expect refusal, buckling, or damage.
Think “slitter + feeder” rather than a trencher: shallow depth, short runs, and light equipment. Potential fits: temporary drainage, irrigation laterals, or relief paths in peat and muck.
• What it solves: speed, tiny footprint, little spoil, quick restoration.
• Why it’s limited: grade control and machine flotation in wet ground; risk of smear or clogging at perforations.
• What to watch: outlet protection, backpressure during high water, and whether a geotextile wrap helps.
• Open question: proprietary attachment or a one-off shop build? How do operators keep consistent grade?
Sometimes the smartest engineering is the quietest pass.
Has anyone designed, built, or specified something like this?
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