Recently we were sent a few pictures of an installation by a reader that showed two workers walking back and forth in an excavated trench between two and three feet into the soil. They were using rakes to rake the bottom and sidewalls of the trench to repair some apparent smearing from the backhoe bucket.With this, we felt it was time to revisit some of our “principles for good installations.” Those principles are keep it dry (KID), keep it natural (KIN) and keep it shallow (KIS).KID means not working the soil when the moisture content is at or near the
