Trencher?? Backhoe? Our local Soil Conservation district rents out a one or two shank ripper. They use it to rip along tree lines to cut the tree roots and improve the yields in fields that are bordered by trees. The idea is to keep farmers from loosing yields along tree lines and then they wont doze out the trees and loose the wildlife and windbreak benefit. They can go 2-3' deep with thing, but it takes on horse of a tractor!!
If I tilled 2' deep around here, I would bring up clay, rocks, roots, maybe a few arrowheads or indian bones if I go through a burial mound.
I know you can't argue with the guy who is hiring you, but the roots need to be in good topsoil. They need access to air, water, and nutrients. Ripping the soil 2' deep might improve the drainage of water, but roots will penetrate as deep as they need to reach the air/water/nutrients they need. Roots also serve to anchor the plant.
A seed bed worked up 8-12" deep would be plenty for anything I can think of. Even if you could rip to 2', I can't see any advantage. Maybe even a disadvantage if available rainwater is allowed to leach out below the roots.
So back to the plan. What are you going to do to get that deep?
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