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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2015
Ihc Engineering Business Ltd, Sliedrecht, NL;
Ralph Manchester, Rowlands Gill, GB;
Stephen Wilkinson, Newcastle, GB;
IHC ENGINEERING BUSINESS LIMITED, Sliedrecht, NL;
Abstract
The invention provides a trenching apparatus and a method of using a trenching apparatus. The trenching apparatus () may include a main body portion (), trench cutting equipment () depending from the main body portion, at least two ground contacting units () arranged on opposed sides of the main body portion and on which the main body portion is supported, each of the ground contacting units being connected to the main body portion by a respective independently operable suspension assembly (), the respective suspension assemblies being configured to compensate for unevenness of the ground thereby to maintain the trench cutting equipment in a desired angular orientation with respect to the vertical.