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A few projects I have done recently
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Yeah I guess I'm getting softer with age. Although it does depend on the tree. It could be a 5' around sweetgum and I'd take it down with a delight.
Well, like long needle pine, sweetgum grows like weeds down south.
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Finally got the new 325 to a jobsite. Addition with a new loading dock for a biomedical lab. We finally got a job close to the yard, it's about 15-20 mins away.
Mob'd in Monday. The 65' foot manlift is a rental from the Cat house since there are several trees to take down and no way to do it except from top down.
Topped the short pines then pulled them over. The first official work this machine has done.
This pic shows how close the trees were to the existing building. The guys had to take down each tree limb by limb and trunk by trunk in 3-4' pieces. Tedious work but at least the brush didn't require additional processing to fit in the truck.
The pine to the left of the manlift had a huge poison oak vine attached to it. Even if poison oak is dormant the oils can still mess a fella up.
Ol' big boy behind the 325 was taken down as well.
Once the pines were topped out the 325 made easy work of the rest. Taking down the poison oaked pine.
Mob'd in Monday. The 65' foot manlift is a rental from the Cat house since there are several trees to take down and no way to do it except from top down.
Topped the short pines then pulled them over. The first official work this machine has done.
This pic shows how close the trees were to the existing building. The guys had to take down each tree limb by limb and trunk by trunk in 3-4' pieces. Tedious work but at least the brush didn't require additional processing to fit in the truck.
The pine to the left of the manlift had a huge poison oak vine attached to it. Even if poison oak is dormant the oils can still mess a fella up.
Ol' big boy behind the 325 was taken down as well.
Once the pines were topped out the 325 made easy work of the rest. Taking down the poison oaked pine.
Sweet!
This is the first electric over hydraulic machine for you isn't it?
We didn't like the feel of our 330 at first but have become accustomed to it. There are a tremendous number of adjustments that can be made to the feel and hydraulic priorities.
This is the first electric over hydraulic machine for you isn't it?
We didn't like the feel of our 330 at first but have become accustomed to it. There are a tremendous number of adjustments that can be made to the feel and hydraulic priorities.
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Neat pic from the manlift showing the overall area. It's a tight site with a lot going on. To the left of the WM compactor is the 2 existing loading docks. This facility gets 10-15 deliveries a day from Sprinter vans to UPS short tractors. That and we have to extend a 6" DIP sanitary sewer lateral from the left of the pic, across the loading dock area then run parallel to the compactor to the new addition. Fun stuff.
Pines down, processed and ready to haul out Monday morning.
Pines down, processed and ready to haul out Monday morning.
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CM1995
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Wrapping up our downtown remodel and parking lot project we started back in '22.
Parking lot finishing up and the only thing we had left to do was put the cast iron dome grates on the Nyoplast inlets.
New 5 story wood framed apartment project on the other side of the bridge. They started after this project and just now dried in.
Now for the funny part. Landscape PM came up and told us they only had 6 loads of topsoil figured for the parking lot and our grades were off in the "island" which took 6 loads of topsoil to fill in. We informed PM that it wasn't a typical landscape island, it was a bio-swale that requires a special planting mix. His reply - what?
It's on the drawings... and the city inspector has to sign off on it.
Love it when another trade we work around comes up and without even asking a question tells us we made a mistake. In this situation it could end up being an expensive mistake.
So basically now the entire parking lot drains into 2 - 10" HDPE pipes to the UG detention system. The green nyoplast basins with dome grates are designed for overflow not everyday rain fall.
Parking lot finishing up and the only thing we had left to do was put the cast iron dome grates on the Nyoplast inlets.
New 5 story wood framed apartment project on the other side of the bridge. They started after this project and just now dried in.
Now for the funny part. Landscape PM came up and told us they only had 6 loads of topsoil figured for the parking lot and our grades were off in the "island" which took 6 loads of topsoil to fill in. We informed PM that it wasn't a typical landscape island, it was a bio-swale that requires a special planting mix. His reply - what?
It's on the drawings... and the city inspector has to sign off on it.
Love it when another trade we work around comes up and without even asking a question tells us we made a mistake. In this situation it could end up being an expensive mistake.
So basically now the entire parking lot drains into 2 - 10" HDPE pipes to the UG detention system. The green nyoplast basins with dome grates are designed for overflow not everyday rain fall.
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Back at the lab project.
Our erosion control sub was busy down in south AL and there wasn't much silt fence to put up so we did it ourselves.
Typical wire backed silt fence with t-posts.
Pic back in Sept when we were bidding the job. We salvaged the 3 picnic tables. Going to put one up at our yard and the guys are taking the other 2 home. One for them and one for their mom's backyard.
Same area above - Tree and stump debris hauled off along with the CMU brick pavers and faux stone decorative walls in the break area.
Rubbing the paint off the recently painted and refurbished 48" bucket.
Our erosion control sub was busy down in south AL and there wasn't much silt fence to put up so we did it ourselves.
Typical wire backed silt fence with t-posts.
Pic back in Sept when we were bidding the job. We salvaged the 3 picnic tables. Going to put one up at our yard and the guys are taking the other 2 home. One for them and one for their mom's backyard.
Same area above - Tree and stump debris hauled off along with the CMU brick pavers and faux stone decorative walls in the break area.
Rubbing the paint off the recently painted and refurbished 48" bucket.
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Project specs called for 2' of undercut from the ground surface then import structural fill to sub-grade. The existing soils were a very loose sandy clay with organics. What probably happened was the excess cut on the site was pushed out in this area and not compacted since it was a landscape area. That's what we would have done.
2' UC by the building. The new addition will match the FFE at the man door.
The new building addition will be in the foreground with a new dumpster enclosure and loading dock on the left in the pic.
Main hoe operator trying out the payload feature on the 325. Not normal having this dry of dirt in Feb/March.
End of the day Thursday.
2' UC by the building. The new addition will match the FFE at the man door.
The new building addition will be in the foreground with a new dumpster enclosure and loading dock on the left in the pic.
Main hoe operator trying out the payload feature on the 325. Not normal having this dry of dirt in Feb/March.
End of the day Thursday.
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So, they filled in part of the swale with their 6 loads of topsoil and then buried the rest of your subgrade with fill dirt? Could you post the bioswale detail drawing so I can figure out what it's supposed to look like?
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So our scope of work was the Nyoplast yard inlets, 10" ADS N12, 6" perf underdrain, filter fabric, 6" washed stone (#57's) and 2" choking stone (#8910). Basically a big assed french drain the entire length of the swale. The soil media, pine straw and plants are designed to retain and filter the runoff which were not in our scope and should have been installed by said landscaper.
What happened was the landscaper just filled it up with unscreen topsoil to to the 607 pavement and 606.5 yard inlet elevation which eliminated the soil media, pine straw and ponding depth.
Essentially making the entire parking lot sheet drain to the 4 Nyoplast inlets which have one 10" HDPE pipe going to the UG detention system.
Keith Merrell
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Good deal on cervesas that day?
HATCHEQUIP
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OOKKKAY ill ask whats PBR ? professional bull riders is what poped up when I searched it . When i first read it I thought maybe its a bunch of kids and its PB&J.
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Need me to come down and scratch the counterweight on a retaining wall? Spare you the agony of the first scratch....
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Too late. It's a tight turn out of there and the lowboy caught a tree limb giving a nice scratch down the side. Operator was 4 shades of pissed off. Tomorrow's a rain day so he's going to china freight to buy a buffer and some rubbing compound. It's not to bare metal so it might buff out.
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Received around 1" of rain this morning so we wrapped up the parking lot downtown with the bioswale..
As talked about up thread this is nothing like the design called for. The drain basins with the metal domes are supposed to be 6" above finished grade.
The seal coat is not on the asphalt yet so the ribbon curb is holding water back and yeah that's another homeless hilton in the background.
4" PVC clean outs at the end of the 6" perforated under drain - 4 EA, 2 in each swale. This will probably be needed to flush the underdrains out.
The CO will probably never be used but it's there per the plans.
As talked about up thread this is nothing like the design called for. The drain basins with the metal domes are supposed to be 6" above finished grade.
The seal coat is not on the asphalt yet so the ribbon curb is holding water back and yeah that's another homeless hilton in the background.
4" PVC clean outs at the end of the 6" perforated under drain - 4 EA, 2 in each swale. This will probably be needed to flush the underdrains out.
The CO will probably never be used but it's there per the plans.
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Back at the lab project.
Crew stripped the entire area 2' below existing ground per the geotech report and hauled it all off. We didn't have a truck available so the geotech had us use the bucket penetration test to see how the subgrade held up.
Basically take the 325's bucket and raise the tracks off the ground around a foot. If only the teeth sink in and the machine raises up, the ground is good to fill on. I forget the actual PSF this indicates.
Placing imported structural fill. This material came from a friend of mine's place not far from our equipment yard. Really nice sandy red dirt that is great to work with handles water pretty well.
The site is so small and the lab was worried about vibrations from our 84" padfoot so we just used the two trench rollers to compact the fill. By some miracle unbeknownst to be we were able to keep both trench rollers going at the same time and finished the job.
You have to keep the lifts thinner obviously but we hit compaction specs.
Crew stripped the entire area 2' below existing ground per the geotech report and hauled it all off. We didn't have a truck available so the geotech had us use the bucket penetration test to see how the subgrade held up.
Basically take the 325's bucket and raise the tracks off the ground around a foot. If only the teeth sink in and the machine raises up, the ground is good to fill on. I forget the actual PSF this indicates.
Placing imported structural fill. This material came from a friend of mine's place not far from our equipment yard. Really nice sandy red dirt that is great to work with handles water pretty well.
The site is so small and the lab was worried about vibrations from our 84" padfoot so we just used the two trench rollers to compact the fill. By some miracle unbeknownst to be we were able to keep both trench rollers going at the same time and finished the job.
You have to keep the lifts thinner obviously but we hit compaction specs.
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As we are filling an area we always like to get the loaded trucks up on the fill lift not only to help with compaction but perform an unofficial proof roll each time. This will tell us how the fill is really being compacted as the nuke box can lie from time to time with bad data. A loaded 85K lb tri-axle rolling over a lift is like spandex and innocent children - none of them lie. Dirt tech observing.
Pad finished out.
Side note on this project. We had a GPS model built early on so we would have it ready when we started. GC had their surveyor come out to set us 5 control points, pretty standard procedure. Well not this time. The surveyor the GC hired could not calibrate the original surveyors control points - some were out 3-4 tenths horizontally and even worse 3-4 vertically.
Hired surveyor worked on it for 2-3 days and quit. After talking to him he said he was basically so busy with good paying work that he didn't want to be drug into a mess created by someone else and be liable. Can't argue with that.
So we had to resort to old school methods or rather the GC did. Our contracts state we need 5 control points provided by a licensed surveyor paid by the GC for our layout. Since the GC couldn't provide that we pushed it back on the GC to perform all layout.
Yeah it turned into a cluster...oh well.
Pad finished out.
Side note on this project. We had a GPS model built early on so we would have it ready when we started. GC had their surveyor come out to set us 5 control points, pretty standard procedure. Well not this time. The surveyor the GC hired could not calibrate the original surveyors control points - some were out 3-4 tenths horizontally and even worse 3-4 vertically.
Hired surveyor worked on it for 2-3 days and quit. After talking to him he said he was basically so busy with good paying work that he didn't want to be drug into a mess created by someone else and be liable. Can't argue with that.
So we had to resort to old school methods or rather the GC did. Our contracts state we need 5 control points provided by a licensed surveyor paid by the GC for our layout. Since the GC couldn't provide that we pushed it back on the GC to perform all layout.
Yeah it turned into a cluster...oh well.