skyking1
Senior Member
I went back to the neighborhood to mark for locate on another job and stopped by to see the telebelt operation. They were between trucks when I got there.
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skyking1
Senior Member
Today I helped the service crew with a leak.
This pipe
Was hiding under this hunk of sidewalk. I blade grabbed it like a steel sheet after I I got it out of the hole.
We had the vac truck do the work, and he hauled off two loads out of that hole. The leak had saturated the soil there and digging it would have been a muddy mess.
This pipe
Was hiding under this hunk of sidewalk. I blade grabbed it like a steel sheet after I I got it out of the hole.
We had the vac truck do the work, and he hauled off two loads out of that hole. The leak had saturated the soil there and digging it would have been a muddy mess.
skyking1
Senior Member
I took a WAG at how much rock I needed. I had maybe a ton or so of pea gravel already.
I guessed it about a half ton short!
I told the service guys there's room for the landscaper now :
This is $100,000 of copper looks like.
Not this ring the little missing bit.
I guessed it about a half ton short!
I told the service guys there's room for the landscaper now :
This is $100,000 of copper looks like.
Not this ring the little missing bit.
skyking1
Senior Member
I got word about my other job that might start this week. They have almost completed the water compaction phase. That equipment is guarding the site to keep the rain from falling now, and the flatbed trucks with extra large paper towels are on the way.
Seriously, the plumber went to the edge of the gravel and stabbed a lathe in a foot. We need to dig 8' below the FF of that adjacent building. Perhaps the plumbers will get dive certified.
:facepalm:
Seriously, the plumber went to the edge of the gravel and stabbed a lathe in a foot. We need to dig 8' below the FF of that adjacent building. Perhaps the plumbers will get dive certified.
:facepalm:
skyking1
Senior Member
That is the little slice of 1.25" copper pipe that has the leak in it.
Sort of like that bad fuse on 3" HDPE that I posted a couple of years back.
The water bill went nuts and neither the city or the person writing the checks did anything about it.
The service guys discovered it when the fixed a frozen pipe in the building. You could HEAR it at the inside shutoff valve and then they looked at the meter going round and round.
" hey, you have a big leak here"
Sort of like that bad fuse on 3" HDPE that I posted a couple of years back.
The water bill went nuts and neither the city or the person writing the checks did anything about it.
The service guys discovered it when the fixed a frozen pipe in the building. You could HEAR it at the inside shutoff valve and then they looked at the meter going round and round.
" hey, you have a big leak here"
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skyking1
Senior Member
I went to Pape and picked up some new twin tigers for the corners on the 2'.
Apparently under all that goo above, there is a nasty hardpan layer that will be slow going.
While there I spotted this monster Johnny. It is the only place I have seen one.
Lots of Forestry Green in the yard there.
Apparently under all that goo above, there is a nasty hardpan layer that will be slow going.
While there I spotted this monster Johnny. It is the only place I have seen one.
Lots of Forestry Green in the yard there.
BC Placer gold
Senior Member
Last summer saw a Deere 1050 fitted out just like that one at Brandt tractor in Kamloops. We were picking up some teeth for the 210.
Looked like a nice upgrade from our Euclid C-6; wife was with me told me in a stern tone to look the other way!
Looked like a nice upgrade from our Euclid C-6; wife was with me told me in a stern tone to look the other way!
skyking1
Senior Member
700k? More?
Our wives are usually right!
Our wives are usually right!
BC Placer gold
Senior Member
skyking1
Senior Member
I went by a job we dug before Thanksgiving, to assist with some camera work on an unrelated sewer stub.
This:
is now all gray
The building is 250' x 124'
They cut everything down and used a power screed, so all the pipes are just feathers out there. Hopefully this relief cut did not wreak too much havok with this stack.
Note these big "staples" of steel in lieu of diagonal bracing. The building has a bunch of walk doors for demising the structure for tenants, with windows etc.
They were putting in the last row of purlins.
This:
is now all gray
The building is 250' x 124'
They cut everything down and used a power screed, so all the pipes are just feathers out there. Hopefully this relief cut did not wreak too much havok with this stack.
Note these big "staples" of steel in lieu of diagonal bracing. The building has a bunch of walk doors for demising the structure for tenants, with windows etc.
They were putting in the last row of purlins.
skyking1
Senior Member
The lake is gone!
They exed out all sorts of dark soil and placed it on site out of the way, and have been trucking in bank run.
We'll get started down there in a couple of weeks.
They exed out all sorts of dark soil and placed it on site out of the way, and have been trucking in bank run.
We'll get started down there in a couple of weeks.
skyking1
Senior Member
I mobed down there today and waited a while for sleeve pipe to get delivered.
The site crew had exed out the pool area, and they had a couple of trench drains and sumps to dig in the bottom of it. We had pipe to put between those sumps and trench out, so what they were doing was going to be the holdup.
They were hard way jonesing it down there with a 305.5 with a moldboard on the bucket, in that hard glacial till.
:facepalm:
I suggested that I rough it out with my new tiger teeth on the 120, and we traded places. He dug the sleeves in for the plumbers in the imported bank run.
It got them done much quicker and out of our way.
I'll be about 2' below the floor of the pond then we'll trench into that bank about 10' to get outside the footings. That puts the trench 7' down, and I am picking up an 8x12 aluminum box to get that done.
The site is really saturated fill above that floor and would not stand up, nor do I want to blow it out wide and then try to get any compaction on it.
The site crew had exed out the pool area, and they had a couple of trench drains and sumps to dig in the bottom of it. We had pipe to put between those sumps and trench out, so what they were doing was going to be the holdup.
They were hard way jonesing it down there with a 305.5 with a moldboard on the bucket, in that hard glacial till.
:facepalm:
I suggested that I rough it out with my new tiger teeth on the 120, and we traded places. He dug the sleeves in for the plumbers in the imported bank run.
It got them done much quicker and out of our way.
I'll be about 2' below the floor of the pond then we'll trench into that bank about 10' to get outside the footings. That puts the trench 7' down, and I am picking up an 8x12 aluminum box to get that done.
The site is really saturated fill above that floor and would not stand up, nor do I want to blow it out wide and then try to get any compaction on it.
skyking1
Senior Member
Getting it done.
Camshawn
Senior Member
When we put in the septic tank, it was scratch the surface with the digging bucket then switch to the cleanup bucket to flatten the bottom and corners, check level and depth, rinse and repeat. The cleanup bucket just skated across the surface. That till was hard. The little Kubota was at the end of both in depth and power. Cam
skyking1
Senior Member
I stayed late to get it done. The import is soggy saturated stuff, and it snowed 6" and melted and then rained a few inches, so the site is full up on moisture.
I covered a pile of the glacial till yesterday, and then I creamed the top off all the piles to get the trench solid.
Per an agreement with the site guys, I moved all the excess out and tamped it, and ran the hoe pack on it. It is jelly tonight, but it might be decent in a week or two.
I chose to stay late because it is going to rain an inch or two tomorrow. I'd much rather get it done in the better weather, and we kept it to a day's rent on the trench box.
Isn't she lovely!
Trench and the bank are solid now.
Looks OK, don't walk on if for a few days.
I covered a pile of the glacial till yesterday, and then I creamed the top off all the piles to get the trench solid.
Per an agreement with the site guys, I moved all the excess out and tamped it, and ran the hoe pack on it. It is jelly tonight, but it might be decent in a week or two.
I chose to stay late because it is going to rain an inch or two tomorrow. I'd much rather get it done in the better weather, and we kept it to a day's rent on the trench box.
Isn't she lovely!
Trench and the bank are solid now.
Looks OK, don't walk on if for a few days.
skyking1
Senior Member
The facility is a seafood harvesting processing facility. They harvest oysters in the bay, then put them in stacked crates and run ocean water through the stacks and clean out the oysters.
Then they go to either fresh sales or to the shucking plant.
This is phase one, which we plumbed 4 years ago.
Then they go to either fresh sales or to the shucking plant.
This is phase one, which we plumbed 4 years ago.
skyking1
Senior Member
I topped off the box to 11.5 tons then raised it about that much, and made it a stealth load.
I had parked the iron over in the woods out of the way. Rather than pack the kit over there I planted them in the top of the load.
Eeny meeny miney MO.
I decided to side dig it with the cleanup. It is an awkward lower pipe with other pipes a foot above that one, 2' on center to each side.
I had parked the iron over in the woods out of the way. Rather than pack the kit over there I planted them in the top of the load.
Eeny meeny miney MO.
I decided to side dig it with the cleanup. It is an awkward lower pipe with other pipes a foot above that one, 2' on center to each side.
skyking1
Senior Member
That bottom pipe is 10" Sch 80 PVC, no joke. It will have 90 PSI working pressure with ocean water.
I brought an array of chokers with me.
We can put in the pipe closest to the machine, but that other one will have to wait until they pour and strip the pool wall and backfill a little.
I brought an array of chokers with me.
We can put in the pipe closest to the machine, but that other one will have to wait until they pour and strip the pool wall and backfill a little.
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skyking1
Senior Member
that first one is hiding 3" below the pea gravel. Next pipe is Sch 40 10" PVC being used as DWV.
I think I will heel in that slope of pipe with a foot of black crushed rock and give it a light massage with the hoe pack. It's awkward all right. there's 33 tons of pea gravel in that mess.
I think I will heel in that slope of pipe with a foot of black crushed rock and give it a light massage with the hoe pack. It's awkward all right. there's 33 tons of pea gravel in that mess.