Mississippi Mud..Clay...??

[Squizzy246B]

I had an gentleman come down to watch our worksite today. He was visiting Aus from Mississippi. We chatted awhile and he began telling about the clay around where he used to live...which I think was Jackson or somewhere north of that. Anyways he was talking about something called Yazoo or Yezoo or something like that. Sounded like messy stuff???..Anybody?

[tylermckee]

Clay is the devil:cussing

[Squizzy246B]

Anybody from Jackson???

[CascadeScaper]

Wet clay is the worst, I don't mind clay when it's 5+ feet down and not soaking wet. When it gets wet around here it fills tire cleats and even excavator grousers up and it's time to hit the slip and slide if you're on a slope.

[tylermckee]

Yup, clay is great when it is dry, but the second it gets some water all hell breaks lose. Its about all we have around here is clay, we have anywhere from 4-18" of topsoil then hard packed clay. It will hold a vertical cut great, but it just acts like a sponge when you get some rain, walk around on a jobsite in the rain and you'll likely be 3 inches taller and 15 pounds heavier from all the clay stuck to your boots.

[Dozerboy]

One of the last jobs we did we ran into a lot of clay that looked like pottery clay. Soil tech told us it needed 30% moisture :Banghead that would make it a liquid we talked him down to 20% IIRC it was fun running 627s around in that.

[Taylortractornu]

Hey Squizzy sorry for not answering earlier but Ive been offline a few months workin. Yazoo is a town north of the capitol of Jackson. Om in the far northeasth corner of Mississippi. In Tishomingo county its sand after you pass the red clay but some spots around the rivers are what we call gumbo. Its the devil. Further south around Yazoo jacksone or a bit south west in the Delta around CLarks dale and sledge Ive Had alot of mis fortune of working in the stuff down there. We had a grey Market Komatsu D31P that had pyramid pads worked great in the stuff. What made the problems was all thejobs we worked on that plant grounds was the mainetnance workers from here went down there and would just dump gravel on the ground and spread it with out layin a good base or stripping first. We had to nuder cut alot. No aggregate in that area either Its all sticky clay. We had Hoover truck 125 loads in about 150 miles one way cause Vulcan only sent us 2 trucks at a time from their stockyard 45 miles away. Heres how sticky it is, all the shovels sold there have holes drilled in them to keep them from drawing a suction and sticking so bad to them. still has the bee beatin off the shovel. All the backhoe buckets ara also holed up. We put a poly liner in one of our buckets down there worked good. I hope I never have to go back either, In facct Ill steal before I go back down there lol.

[Squizzy246B]

Taylortractor: Thanks very much for that:thumbsup