10th October 2011, 06:47 PM
Often for the same amount of money etc you can get a lot more out of a 'rescue' site by boxing, especially where the edges are tricky - the only point really in digging ditch (/gully?) sections in many cases is to get the section to draw/photo so it's a lot more efficient to whack a machine bucket through it than leave someone messing about for 3 days looking for the edges and then discovering later that the thing's hugely underdug. Have just spent most of the summer on a job where a lot of stuff's been underdug in horrible gravel, machine-boxing stuff over the last week or so has been quite revelatory....and of course boxing things like wells has been standard since the dawn of digging...