trench digging
Making long ditches
Trench digging is the excavation of long, narrow channels in the ground.
Trenches serve purposes from laying pipes and cables to military fortification to drainage.
The work is notoriously laborious, whether done by hand with shovels or by machine: Three days of trench digging left his back aching.
- benchingRemoving from active play
- excavatorMachine that digs earth
- backhoeHinged-arm excavating machine
- mattockTwo-bladed digging implement
- shovelTool for moving earth
drainage systems · cave in · sloping · mine clearance · pickaxe · dewatering · archaeological digs · six feet under · dig in · spade · work crew · hazard assessment · hard hat · irrigation channels · safety barriers · shoring · fortifications · protective gear
- archaeologyexcavation, dig site, archaeologist, dig, archaeological digs
- earthworkexcavation, excavating, trenching, shoveling, earthmoving
- military labormarching, drilling, guard duty, patrol, sentry duty
- military engineeringengineers, combat engineer, combat engineers, sappers, sapper
- dirty workshoveling, scrubbing, dredging, mucking out, stall cleaning
- combat skillsgrappling, striking, blocking, parrying, dodging
excavation vs. filling
trench diggingbackfilling
Replacing removed earth
filling in · grading · infilling · burial · covering
ground disturbance vs. ground preservation
trench diggingnon-invasive methods
Techniques avoiding body penetration