Perform Initial Trenching & Discover First Utility Line

that go from there to the house we're trying to dig through like pretty much clay yeah last few rainstorms we had this whole thing was full full to the top just holding water there was no water seeping down now this area used to be the driveway that we used for about two decades so it is hardpacked material with different layers of class five and material put in place hand digging through this thing is not an option and these are all new tools so we don't know if what we're work working with today is even going to work the the key element is this hydrovac let's just see how this thing works so this hydrovac is basically a glorified shot back on steroids and it's not cheap either I ran into this guy at a trade show and his name was Ed really good dude and what he told me was that this thing has got so much power that if you put it on top of a wheelbarrow cuz it's designed to fit right on top of a wheelbarrow and then it has so much suction it just basically sucks itself onto the wheelbarrow but if you have the wrong wheelbarrow it will collapse and crush the wheelbarrow out from underneath it so he says the only kind of wheelbarrow that it doesn't crush and collapse is a steel Jackson so luckily we had one down at the shop we grabbed it and we're going to see exactly if this thing can do everything that Ed claims it can do he says that it can suck from 50 ft away he says it can suck 12 feet underground he says this thing is a sucking monster let's just see how well it sucks okay so I got to explain this to my granddaughter cuz you're going to be digging in the dirt when you get bigger yes you are little one so this guys is actually a hydro vac and it's designed to do excavation underground you can go down as deep as this thing as the hose is I've seen videos where this thing will suck 50 ft away and they claim that this thing here will crush a normal wheelbarrow oh yeah I can hear it flexing the metal wheelbarrow as I'm using it you can hear it flexing the that's a steel Jackson yeah it's flexing the sides of it any other one would probably just imploded like a tin can well it looks like it's leaking right now I'd rather just leak the water out I know but is it full how much do you get in it no that's pretty low so what we're doing is we're going to be putting a pond in in here but we have got an electrical line a live electrical line that powers the barn and it runs from the barn to the house and it's somewhere in here and we've got to dig that up