Removing diesel contamination pic

[DPete]

sorry about the link, having trouble resizing pics. The fuel went 45 ft. deep DP

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[Lashlander]

Hey DPete did you try downloading the image resizer off the sticky on the support thread. I'm not to sure if it will work on windows 98. Those are getting pretty old. I resized em and will put them up for the guys that can't open photo bucket.
What are the particulars of this fuel spill. How many gallons. How was it spilled? The military literally dumped millions of gallons of fuel and all sorts of stuff around here when WWII was over. We spent over a month a few years ago with divers pulling 55 gallon barrels of asphalt off the bottom where they back out on a pier and dumped them. It amazes me what went on back then.:Pointhead

[LowBoy]

This reminds me of a story of a contractor in Vt. who was building a roadway in the early '70's, and had a substantial amount of equipment. The owner, a crass, miserable old cuss was on one operators case to get the oil and filters changed in his machine, because they were responsible for it at the time.

The machine was an old American track hoe. The old dude that ran it dug a hole about 6-8 feet deep, pulled the machine over top of it, and proceeded to pull the drain plug and threw the filters and all in the ditch.

About the time he was screwing the plug back up in, the owner AND a state inspector came walking up to this mess, and the gruff old owner screams out, "What the :soapbox do you think you're doing?" The inspector's jaw is on the ground as well. The wise old operator looked up from the hole at both of them and said,"Just puttin' it back where it came from..."

Needless to say, the operator was fired and the mess had to be cleaned up.

That came from another guy working next to this deal, and we roared about that for quite a while, and still get a chuckle every time I think about it...:lmao

[DPete]

I tried the resizer, won't work on 98 thanks for putting them up.I can resize at photobucket but don't know how to get them posted without using the IMG tag. The site is a demolished poultry ranch. They had diesel fired boilers to heat the birds in the winter, the boilers,tanks and lines all leaked after time. Once the fuel hit the blow sand it went to China. It is not us digging the material, my job is to fill the hole and build pads for a new poultry ranch. This is the third hole on the job, must be compacted back to a min of 90% tested every 2 ft. DP

[Dozerboy]

That’s a good bit of dirt did it all have to be trucked out of state, it does down here?

[DPete]

Dozerboy, the material was accepted at a private landfill about an hour away for $18.oo per ton if it weighs 1500 lbs per yard that's $13.50 per cu yd. He11 I'm in the wrong business. DP