In other cases, HDD may be the only option available to navigate the ever-increasing underground congestion of cables, lines and pipes. Initial purchase price and maintenance costs associated with HDD equipment have come down, while restoration costs for open-cut trenching have gone up. The significant difference in per-foot cost that previously existed between open-cut trenching and horizontal directional drilling (HDD) has begun to evaporate. One reason Ersland is drilling more frequently is economics. A Ditch Witch XT1600 excavator-tool carrier was also added last Fall. Tools in its underground equipment cache include a Ditch Witch JT921 horizontal directional drill and a 5110 combination trencher/plow. K & L focuses on placing power, gas and phone lines. Now we tend to use the drill more than our trencher."Įrsland, his wife, Lori, and his son, Aaron, own/operate K & L Trenching, based in Huxley, IA. "With the changes we've been seeing, it seems that we drill more and more.
"It goes out with us on just about every job," he notes. But today, he finds he uses it much more often. When Jon Ersland purchased his first horizontal directional drill about 10 years ago, he figured he would use it only occasionally - likely just once or twice a week.
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