Origins
“Ditch Witch” is a commercial underground construction equipment built by The Charles Machine Works, Inc., from Oklahoma, USA. The term is commonly used to describe the company’s original product, a power trencher which was itself called the “Ditch Witch.”
The original Ditch Witch was the first mechanized, compact service-line trencher developed for digging long trenches for the purpose of laying underground water lines. Up to that time (1949), digging trenches was tedious and arduous manual labor performed with a pick and shovel.
Uses for the Ditch Witch
- Dig small trenches.
- Replacement of steam shovels and wheel trenchers
- Small trenches such as the ones used to carry water, power and telephone lines.
- Raft foundations
- Various small jobs
- Commercial and even residential landscaping