Commercial construction work pictures

30 basins, that's a lot of basins for labors to run over lol.

LOL they are on foot so no harm no foul.

That's good, labors on lulls are sure death to catchs, vaults, pull boxes, valve boxes lol

My mini will have to fly out with the tower crane, and the only other iron down there is the dirt guys and they look competent.

I loaded out a full truck of pea gravel into the concrete bucket, and the tower crane delivered it to the plumbers. The pipe is shaded and ready for inspection tomorrow.

@skyking1 Do you have more pictures or specs of that speed shoring? I've been looking for something like that for little holes that can be used with plywood. Rent build a box when I have to, but for some little jobs it would be nice to avoid renting and have something that works on any size hole.

speed shoring tops out at about 6' wide hole and for good reason, hard to insure it will keep integrity.
https://www.speedshore.com/vertical-shores

We had 2" or rain overnight, but the ground is good and drank it up. Still no inspection and I will not go down there with a load of pea gravel in the truck and wait for it. The general contractor would like that, they ask for that and we have made it policy to never do it. I will take PTO first before that fool's folly.

skyking1 said:

speed shoring tops out at about 6' wide hole and for good reason, hard to insure it will keep integrity.
https://www.speedshore.com/vertical-shores

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Perfect thanks. Was hoping they were manual ones, utility company here uses them basically like screw jacks, works really slick just not sure where to get them. Like the idea of just turning them by hand and not needing a bunch of other stuff. Generally I find if it's much over 6' width i'm not worried about shoring as it's enough room to cut the banks back.

These are hydraulic pistons that use water.

How do you like the build-a-box shoring?

Slightly related to the thread, I'll be installing a 1500 gallon grease and some welded HDPE next week.

I thought it was pretty handy I haven't seen the bill yet.

skyking1 said:

I thought it was pretty handy I haven't seen the bill yet.

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It's expensive the last time we rented from Trench Plate Rental last year. Build A Box was double the rental of a regular orange steel box the same size. They charge for every piece - corners, bolts, lifting eyes, etc..

Also have to be careful with it as the panels have an aluminum skin and structural foam of some sort inside. Easy to put a tooth through one.

The system is fairly labor intensive putting it together and taking it apart compared to a steel box. All in all it's great for certain shoring conditions but we try to use steel boxes where ever we can.

Since I was flying it in at the end of a tower crane's reach, the added cost for aluminum was worth it IMO. I could also wiggle it up with my 35 mini. Steel? not so much

Dirt contractor was changing out some old tracks on the midsize mini with the smaller mini for a prybar.


That track was half gone through.

Best tool for rubber track work.

The owner wants a temporary loading dock ramp put in behind the office. I ran down to pick up the 120 from the downtown job. It was a little congested with a couple of CAD trucks delivering cap break into the hole, and the shotcrete guys setting up a pump. I backed over the curb, loaded and drove down the road a block to chain down in peace.
The gravel pit had these oversized ecology blocks in a huge stack, and were selling them for $20 each. I figured they would do for this job.



The guys at the pit said they were close to 4 tons each. That looked wrong so I measured ( 32" x 36" x 67" ) and came up with 6500 pounds. I did not deduct for the fork slots on two sides, so I was pleasantly surprised to have them scale at 6120#
4 tons would be a deal breaker for the 120. They are a bit of a PITA with two lifting cables, and I thought no way could i thumb them off but again I was pleasantly surprised. If I rolled them away as I grabbed them, I could get enough traction with about a 30 degree lean on them. I can haul 4 easily and 5 is a bit of a stretch. The gravel pit is too close to worry about production. I will haul 4 and probably get about 30 of them.

My picture above is broken, I wonder what is up with that?
I loaded a couple of rounds of block Friday, after setting frame and grates and manhole at the big job.
Today I finished up that part, bringing a total of 27 blocks for 167,000 pounds.
The demo operator at the pit got tired of swapping out a hammer or magnet on the 300
to load them, so he walked over this 800 with thumb. It should have a 'godzilla' soundtrack with it

I rarely see a hoe that big with thumb. usually they are main line digging or working a pit. He grabbed two blocks and walked over, but put them on one at a time.
When thumb buckets get that big, they no longer measure them in cubic yards. The unit of measure is 'hurts'.
This thing has a whole lot of 'hurts'
Hardhat on it for scale.
I like the custom plasma cut nameplate on the side, just in case you misplace your bucket.

And its a progressive style thumb aswell. That would be fun to tear **** up with it.

I got some help setting the blocks, and damned if they were all I could handle with the 120. When I was thumbing them, I had that little bit of height advantage. Once I added in rigging I ran out of power.
I trucked out 3 loads and probably have 8 more there. We dug slots and set the 3 sides and tossed the junk in the middle, after I stripped off about a foot of good gravel. The material is mostly clay, not too sweet.
The plan is to export that clay, overexcavate a bit, and then finish it with the pile of gravel I stripped.