Continuing on with projects around the homestead with this mini excavator is a drainage ditch. After clearing the land with ...

Day 3 of the BIG DIG: The Ditch — operating the John Deere 50ZTS mini-excavator to dig a drainage trench from scratch. Watch as I demonstrate trenching techniques, machine controls, and safety best ...

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Things with “French” in the title are usually fancy, right? Poodles, perfume, pastries. But a French drain is nothing more than a ditch in sloped ground, inset with a perforated drain pipe under a ...