Abstract: A ditch digger having a horizontal cutting disc with spaced and angled replaceable cutting blades housed within a circular frame and surrounded in one semicircle by a dirt blocking chain barrier and by a solid guard barrier in the other semicircle. The digger is attached to a farm tractor via a 3 point hitch and includes a power takeoff connection. The forward portion of the digger's superstructure has a pair of collapsible stands which support the digger with the rear end wheel during storage. The wheel is provided with a height adjustment device for the ditch digger and maintains the position of the ditch digger in the ditch being dug.