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    This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

    I worked for a county road dept for 50 years. The first 16 years I worked in the Engineering division - 30 =/- employees (BSCE 1972 Michigan Tech). I spent the next 10 years managing the Maintenance Division - the big boss just appointed me, never asked meo_O. There I had 125 employees. I got...
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    Working the National 1300A

    Hey I resemble that remark LOL I'll have my 50 years in with the county road department as an engineer on June 26th.. Did 2 afternoons of new employee training last Fri and today with my daughters engineering company. She been assigned to be my training buddy:) It should be fun. They recruited...
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    Memories for us old truckers

    Yes. Maximum axle weight with 3'6 spacing is 13,000 lbs. Tandem axle is 16,000 per axle. If the axles are 9 feet apart 18,000lbs. We have more crazy axle configurations that you can count.
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    A few projects I have done recently

    Another teaching moment today. One of our Asst PM's comes and says he and another Asst PM have been looking for the regional factor for our county for Pavement Design. He's says they have looking and finally had to ask me. I grab the manual on the corner of my desk, the well worn copy and do a...
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    A few projects I have done recently

    Back when I started 50 years ago drawing with a pencil and paper, you could think about what you were drawing. Now days it just click and snap points as fast as you can. No time taken to think about what their doing.
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    A few projects I have done recently

    You have to just love the engineer that calls for 9 feet of concrete pipe. For Pete's sake use commercially available lengths. Or at least a 4 foot piece. But one foot??? o_O
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    My stress is off the chain..... I hit a fiber optic!!!

    I tried patching a copper aerial ATT cable once about 50 years ago :) My road contractor was baling out a muck hole with a drag-line.Tossing it to the side. The pile was getting high and one of his buckets of muck took out 4 wire to 4 houses at the edge of the pile. Clever guy I was, I borrowed...
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    Unloading steel track Ex on a 2 laner?

    I was managing a job a number of years ago. The gravel trains had to back up about a half mile around a lake to get to the job site. Directions were to go to the intersection of Woodward and Reeds Lake and then back to the left. Well one driver didn't know his left from right and backed the...
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    Railroad ties for small irrigation diversions

    If you only need 50 or so, you will need to sort thru the ones at lumber yards and leave the junk. A couple years ago, the local Home Depot had 2 bundles that looked almost brand new. :)
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    Railroad ties for small irrigation diversions

    A&K Materials has yards around the US, new and a couple grades of used. There's others as well. Google RR ties :)
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    Having a hell of a time finding work right now.

    My gray hair story: I was managing a project for the county road department. I hadn't worked with the contractor's PM before. I found out later had asked a competitor what do you know about this guy (Me) . I had worked for the county about 30 years at that time. The competitor told him "He'll...
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    Thoughts on stream bank erosion, threatening structures.

    Move the house, either back from the bank or onto a different parcel of property. You couldn't hire a house mover a couple years ago on the lake Michigan shore in MI. They had more than enough work moving lake front homes back from the eroding sand bluffs.
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    Memories for us old truckers

    Retirement project to earn a little (a lot) of spending money:)
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    Some pics of my current project

    In the 90's I managed the road maintenance department in our county. 125 employees 85+ single axle dumps for snow removal.Got into an interesting "discussion" with my boss about adding air conditioning to our dump trucks. He says nope, they won't get out of the trucks in the summer. I told him I...
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    B&D Equipment in Glendive MT

    Hey I resemble those remarks :):p BSCE Michigan Tech Class of 72 with a MI PE license
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