street work

nothing exciting happening untill the ladies come out of the building across the street for lunch!! i love street work!!

You road whore you. I always love lunch time. Never really care for the cadilac wrecklessly driving into the ditch.

The trench box looks tight too. How deep?

And you could not snap a pictures to show??

ah,mad max does have a normal bucket

insleyboy said:

The trench box looks tight too. How deep?

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Judging by the trenchman, I'd say around nine or ten foot deep.

yea, we got a few regular buckets laying around..notice the wal-mart sidecutters on the bucket..lol.+-. in my company they hire laborers to be underground foremen. i dont know why...then they pay them operating engineer foremen wages..but the problem is they have spent most of their time in the ditch and know nothing about equipment. the smarter ones will usually ask our advice but not the foreman on this job..our shield there is 2 feet on the inside and 3 on the outside my bucket is 3'. we were digging in expansive moist clay..guess what? once the first set was dug the clay relaxed and i got the shield down about 2/3's of the way..instead of taking it back out and rubbing the sides a little they had me beat it into the ground!!!. i gues they werent thinking about the next set..i didnt say anything..so i dug the next set..rubbing the sides to make it wider.. since we got such a skinny shield i could not change buckets to pull the shield from the inside they used a nylon strap around the whalers to pull with..we never use a tugging cable..infact we usually never use a shield skinnier than 3' but this time we were gonna set the world on fire and try to save hella money on the one foot of rock over the pipe!! 3 hyloh straps later the shield was unstuck and we were on our way!!my foreman had the mechanic come out and weld those "side-cutters" on. he had him put them 3 " over on each side..now think about it..36" bucket+ 3 inches over on each side= 42". we had a 42" bucket on the job..sitting around back..duhh...i didnt say anything..see what i have to deal with

Are you permitted to own 556's with redots in CA?
Telescooper

telescooper said:

Are you permitted to own 556's with redots in CA?
Telescooper

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One would hope for his "foreman"s sake he isn't =D

It's always amusing when YOU know better but since you do this all the time you couldn't possibly know what you're doing in the "foreman"s eyes. So you just sit back and follow their orders. Let the gong show begin! w00t!

Vantage_TeS said:

One would hope for his "foreman"s sake he isn't =D

It's always amusing when YOU know better but since you do this all the time you couldn't possibly know what you're doing in the "foreman"s eyes. So you just sit back and follow their orders. Let the gong show begin! w00t!

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no kidding,and to top that off ,the guy pulling the levers usally gets blamed for the footage.

can i have 556's with a reddot here? yep...but i run 1x-4x's on my ar & fal and i'm getting the new larue iron dot on my ak...why is it in the foremans eyes even after 29 yrs of digging we don't know anything?

Because no one could know more then them, that's why they are the foreman. Right?

cat 385 said:

no kidding,and to top that off ,the guy pulling the levers usally gets blamed for the footage.

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Amen to that.

And when the laborers are to lazy to look for a small cast iron water line and the operator knicks it and floods the street he gets the heat for that to.