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Subsite Electronics at Ditch Witch West: Your End-to-End Trenchless Advantage Subsite Electronics at Ditch Witch West: Your End-to-End Trenchless Advantage

Subsite Electronics at Ditch Witch West: Your End-to-End Trenchless Advantage

When you’re installing utilities underground, precision isn’t optional—it’s essential to staying safe, compliant, and profitable. That’s why Ditch Witch West carries a full lineup of Subsite® Electronics: guidance systems, utility locators, inspection solutions, and software that work together to plan, steer, verify, and document every bore. Below is a streamlined look at the core Subsite…

Subsite Electronics at Ditch Witch West: Your End-to-End Trenchless Advantage Subsite Electronics at Ditch Witch West: Your End-to-End Trenchless Advantage

Subsite Electronics at Ditch Witch West: Your End-to-End Trenchless Advantage

When you’re installing utilities underground, precision isn’t optional—it’s essential to staying safe, compliant, and profitable. That’s why Ditch Witch West carries a full lineup of Subsite® Electronics: guidance systems, utility locators, inspection solutions, and software that work together to plan, steer, verify, and document every bore. Below is a streamlined look at the core Subsite…

Boring Beneath Critical Infrastructure: Engineering Considerations for Airports, Railroads, and Freeways Boring Beneath Critical Infrastructure: Engineering Considerations for Airports, Railroads, and Freeways

Boring Beneath Critical Infrastructure: Engineering Considerations for Airports, Railroads, and Freeways

At Ditch Witch West, we understand that trenchless drilling, boring, and precise underground installation are more than just dig-and-install operations. They involve rigorous engineering, strict tolerance management, and a deep awareness of risk. Below, we’ll unpack the key engineering considerations when planning underground installation beneath critical infrastructure and how the right equipment and partner support…

Large-Scale Trenching Equipment for Infrastructure: How Ditch Witch West Keeps Projects Moving Large-Scale Trenching Equipment for Infrastructure: How Ditch Witch West Keeps Projects Moving

Large-Scale Trenching Equipment for Infrastructure: How Ditch Witch West Keeps Projects Moving

Rebuilding and expanding infrastructure takes more than determination. It requires machines that can dig precisely, work continuously, and stand up to hostile ground conditions without slowing down crews. On utility corridors, highways, data routes, and energy projects across the West, teams rely on purpose-built trenching equipment to lay conduit, water and sewer lines, drainage, and…

Preventive Maintenance for Directional Drills: Make the Off-Months Count with Ditch Witch West Preventive Maintenance for Directional Drills: Make the Off-Months Count with Ditch Witch West

Preventive Maintenance for Directional Drills: Make the Off-Months Count with Ditch Witch West

When your crew is on the clock, the last thing you can afford is a drill that won’t start, a pump that won’t prime, or pipe that won’t thread. Preventive maintenance is the difference between a smooth, profitable bore and a costly day of idle labor. It protects operators, keeps schedules on track, and stretches…

Smarter Sewer Maintenance: Safer, Faster, and Built for the Long Haul Smarter Sewer Maintenance: Safer, Faster, and Built for the Long Haul

Smarter Sewer Maintenance: Safer, Faster, and Built for the Long Haul

Aging infrastructure, tighter budgets, and growing populations are putting new pressures on sewer systems across the western United States. Keeping lines flowing is about much more than emergency digs; it’s about smarter inspections, nondestructive cleaning, and trenchless repair techniques that minimize disruption and risk. Whether you’re a municipal crew, utility contractor, or industrial facility, the…

Enhancing Safety in Underground Digging With Subsite HDD Equipment Enhancing Safety in Underground Digging With Subsite HDD Equipment

Enhancing Safety in Underground Digging With Subsite HDD Equipment

Subsite guidance equipment makes locating underground utilities safer and easier. Read about how their range of equipment can help your business here.

Cost Effective Solutions for Gas Line Replacement Cost Effective Solutions for Gas Line Replacement

Cost Effective Solutions for Gas Line Replacement

Here at Ditch Witch West, we want to help you find long-lasting, effective, and economical solutions for your business. When it comes to gas line replacement, one of the best investments you can make is going trenchless. This will save you money during extraction and installation, and be a more effective solution in the long run, making future repairs less costly and invasive.

Ditch Witch West Now Offers American Augers and Trencor Products Ditch Witch West Now Offers American Augers and Trencor Products

Ditch Witch West Now Offers American Augers and Trencor Products

Attention, customers! Our product line is expanding rapidly, and we are thrilled to be adding American Augers and Trencor products to our extensive list of machinery for underground contractors!

4 Steps to Winterizing Your Ditch Witch Equipment 4 Steps to Winterizing Your Ditch Witch Equipment

4 Steps to Winterizing Your Ditch Witch Equipment

For the majority of the West Coast, mild winters are what we typically expect to see, but even with mild winters taking a few steps to prepare your equipment for working in cold weather is a good idea and can prevent unnecessary breakdowns. Our Ditch Witch equipment experts have put together some helpful tips to help you properly winterize your Ditch Witch equipment.

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