{"id":22223,"date":"2014-08-26T02:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=22223"},"modified":"2014-07-11T17:27:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T00:27:03","slug":"trenching-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/trenching-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Trenching tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We use these for trenching in dripline in difficult conditions, and for other trenching work.\u00a0The wood\u00a0handles last a long time, unless you are careless with them.\u00a0Lee\u00a0Valley sells spare handles\u00a0and I keep a couple on hand. I have not replaced any for several\u00a0years now. They work best if sharp, of course. Sharpen them with a large chainsaw (round) file on the inner curve of the tool and clean up the outer edge a bit with a flat file if<br \/>\nneeded.<\/p>\n<p>Trenching depth: typically about 6&#8243; to 8&#8243;, any deeper than 12&#8243; and it is a bit awkward. <\/p>\n<p>I also find them handy for general excavation (e.g. digging out a bit of extra soil for<br \/>\na valve box) and one of the people who works for me uses one in his garden a fair bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick dripline trencher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22225,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22223\/revisions\/22225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}