During the 1920s, trench digging was transformed from back-aching hand labor to mechanized continuous operation by several enterprising individuals who invented and marketed specialized trenching ...

Although rarely seen, the mechanical trencher has a strong role to play in the machinery field. We see them about the place, used mainly for dewatering purposes. Trenchers dug out their own niche many ...

PITTSBURGH, April 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I needed to dig a trench for a water line connection and didn't want to rent a trencher machine," said an inventor, from Saucier, Miss., "so I invented the ...

Wartime memories of my childhood in Bedford Part Three — My father’s (Major Clarke) invention of a trench digging machine and then becoming a SOE Training Officer in sabotage. He was made Commanding ...