What to use for digging holes around newly laid pavers...

[J.D]

We have a contract to tender for that requires approx 38 semi mature trees planting and obviously we will need to dig the holes.

 

There is no way we will be digging them by hand, so I wondered what to use bearing in mind we will have to drive over newly laid flags etc ?

 

 

Cheers

[Omniata]

Put several boards down and use a mini JCB???

[TheTreeWiseMen]

.........Mexicans and El Salvadorians.

[niftysteve]

Put several boards down and use a mini JCB???

 

as above but ask for a micro digger they weigh approx 800kg and can go through a 750mm opening

like one of these

http://www.kubota.co.uk/uploads/productpdfs/U10-3_JPN%20front%20ROPS%20Oct2007.pdf

[combined tree services]

personally i would say fook the paving just go strait in with a 16 ton swinger mate . only messing , i would go for a 3/4 ton mini digger mate , just make sure you dig an extra pit so that you can burry the digger after

[karlton]

As the others have said mate mini digger (the teaspoon) with boards down should'nt have any problems.

[ScottF]

If it's a clay-ey soil and you're going to use a little machine watch out for "glazing" along the edge of the tree pit where the nose of the bucket pushes the soil smooth. If the edge of the pit looks a bit shiny, just break it up, or puncture it with a fork and blend some sharp sand into your backfill.

 

Sounds like a tidy job. Maybe whack up some pics when you're done?

[J.D]

Cheers all, I was thinking Bobcat's for some strange reason, the Micro digger didn't even come into my head.

 

Doh.

[ukminch]

Maybe worth thinking about a jcb as the wheels may leave less marks than the tracks, irrelevant if your going to board it though.

 

R

[J.D]

These trees are gonna be bloody expensive, the sundries are running into hundreds of pounds alone, 37 x root management systems, irrigation precinct, grapples, s/steel stakes etc etc....