"Old Nick" wrote in message
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Sorry, but is this a trench for the engineered foundation of a
structural wall? As in house..brick etc?

If so, it might be worth checking the ramifications of the trench not
being in "native soil" any more, because it's being dug right
alongside and into a recently filled trench. A lot depends on soil
type, but this can matter a lot. Even in nice yellow sand soil, I
would be considering compaction of the errant trench.

I could be wrong, but "they" are pretty serious on that one.


You're not really wrong, but it may not be a concern. If the operator
simply veered off course and then had to go back and re-dig a stretch
properly along the line, then he's still in naturally compacted virgin
soils. He's wider at that point than he needs or wants to be, but as long
as he didn't horribly screw up his depth of cut either on the errant pass or
on the correction pass, he's fine. If not - that's what tampers are for.
Bring it back up and compact it.
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-Mike-