Pilot Bits - Ditch Witch Pattern

Ditch Witch machines use their own bolt pattern family: a 5-hole 12 mm circle on the JT-series mid-size rigs and a 6-hole 16 mm pattern on the larger JT30 and up. The two are not interchangeable with each other or with Vermeer heads, so contractors running mixed fleets have to keep three bit bins on the truck. Drillworx stocks the full Ditch Witch line so one phone call covers the whole fleet.

The Ditch Witch geometry leans toward a flatter bit face than the typical Vermeer profile, which gives the sidewall more grip during steering — useful on short utility crossings with tight cover. Drillworx's extreme-taper and serrated-carbide variants push that steering authority further without sacrificing penetration rate in standard overburden.

For hard-ground work, the 5-hole 12 mm pattern has a full catalog of carbide-coverage bits that match Vermeer-pattern rock bits shot-for-shot. Expect the same mass, the same hardfacing, and the same service life in comparable formations.