PipeLaying/Utility Work.

[YoungOne]

Let's see some pictures of you guys at work laying pipe/utilities with excavators. And some dozerbackfill possibly!

-Michael-

 

[Dirtman2007]

It's not much, but this counts as pipe laying. Laid down 100 feet of 36" pipe today. we will haul the dirt in tomorrow to backfill around the pipe. I think we figured on about 350 yards.

 

[Gmads]

Laying some 42" RCCP waterline.

 

[928G Boy]

in the second pic i'm the handsome guy on the left... lol

 

[928G Boy]

oh yeah and in the first pic, it's like -40 degrees outside... thats a PITA to work when its cold like that... the 345B in the pic blew a motor starting when it was that cold...

 

[King of Obsolete]

oh you have to love that winnipeg black dirt that sticks to everything and i mean everything. LOL

thansk

 

[928G Boy]

king of obsolete, if you want to get your tracks all plugged up you should come down here and help us out on the floodway with your old school iron... it would look right at home on some of hughie munro's jobs... It's incredible that some of those old D8s and scrapers actually dug the original floodway... still workin today... finishing the job they started in 1962...

i like the old iron as well... i work with a brand new cat 140H everyday at work... not just any 140H, fully equipped with a GPS/laser augmented machine control system... on the weekends i'm running a cat 12 grader for my dad that was built before WWII the old knuckle buster is relaxing... no electronic anything... nothing to setup every morning...

 

[RollOver Pete]

 

[RollOver Pete]

 

[RollOver Pete]

 

[Bolan]

heres a few..

 

[Bolan]

a few more

 

[CM1995]

Rollover Pete -

Is that ADS that you are laying so deep?

 

[RollOver Pete]

It is....
Thats why everything gets covered with slurry.

 

[dayexco]

you don't use mono-bases, precast inverts, and boots on your manholes?

 

[mikef87]

oh yeah and in the first pic, it's like -40 degrees outside... thats a PITA to work when its cold like that... the 345B in the pic blew a motor starting when it was that cold...

You guys work when its that cold? Was it an emergency job or a regular job?

 

[EZ TRBO]

Nice pics yall, Bolan, are the photos with the HUGE trench for gas main. Northern Natural was installing some 36" gas main near home last year and had a trench dug about that wide. They laid a few miles of it in, purpose was to replace an older section of line, and using the 36" would also act as underground storage(bigger pipe more storage). Just curious.
Trbo

 

[928G Boy]

You guys work when its that cold? Was it an emergency job or a regular job?

pretty much regular... if we're ahead of schedule and theres not much work to do or something... we shut down at around -35C and +35C... but we aren't ahead of schedule very often! and we've worked in much colder, and much warmer..

here's some more pics...

 

[mikef87]

How do you guys even get equipment started? use block heaters? I know a mechanic I hired worked up in Northern Maine the coldest winter in like 100 years or something and they had problems keeping the hydraulic oil from freezing. They ended up building a shelter over the crane and putting heaters in to keep the machine warm.

 

[928G Boy]

How do you guys even get equipment started? use block heaters? I know a mechanic I hired worked up in Northern Maine the coldest winter in like 100 years or something and they had problems keeping the hydraulic oil from freezing. They ended up building a shelter over the crane and putting heaters in to keep the machine warm.

block heaters are a must!! When it's that cold you can only start a machine if you absolutely have to... Or run it 24 hours a day and park it indoors when not in use like we do sometimes with our loaders and graders on snow removal...

There was a company around these parts that used to plumb hydraulic quick couplers into the cooling systems of their loaders... and the foreman's trucks as well... the foreman drives his truck from his home to the company's yard/jobsite, and then connects his truck's cooling system together with the cooling system of the loader, which gets the cold engine of the loader up to operating temperature while the foreman sips on his coffee and has a smoke in his truck...