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welded steel pipe
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ddigger
Senior Member
Very nice, is Doug Kyles welding on that job? Do you know him? Hey can you believe it I started clearing for a new subdivision for the green trucks today in Roseville.
dayexco
Senior Member
reddot, you're an artist at what you do, i'd hire you in a heartbeat.
A real, live subdivision?? With houses and everything??
I don't know if I remember what one looks like it's been so long now.
Congratulations on the work.
LT-x7
Senior Member
I agree! Amazing work!
I always look at your pictures and think how does he make it look that nice.
tonka
Senior Member
Whats the size of the pipe Reddot? How many inches are the welders getting a day?
JimBruce42
Senior Member
very impressive as always. When it comes to tunneling under existing pipe like that, what is your prefered way? I've seen it done a few different ways, I am just interested in way you do it.
dayexco
Senior Member
"only" way to do it, is keep gnawing away at it, time consuming, but if you have a pair, very doable. i gotta buy me one of them buckets.
JimBruce42
Senior Member
I think maybe I didn't explain myself correctly. I know that some guys will just keep diggin under it from one way till they got under and past the existing utility while other's will attack it from both sides and if one has a pin grabbing coupler, flip the bucket around and dig front shovel style as well.
I am not experienced with the v-shaped buckets, but I assume you can do the same with them, but I could be wrong:beatsme
Course there is always the lazy way, where ya just dig right through it, haha:cool2
EGS
Senior Member
Jim I usually dig up to the utility, then up and over it and then down the other side. Then you can have the labors locate it easier, then you can dig the rest away easier. Kind of hard to explain.
Scrub Puller
Senior Member
Yair...Speaking of how to do things with a hoe...is there a set procedure taught in "excavator school" as to how to deal with how to expose a pipe for repair after having accidently cut through it at (say) ninety degrees? I'm talking small stuff, four to six inch or so.
The reason I ask is that about fifty years ago when I was on a Bucyrus back acter (a sort of little cable operated track hoe) there was a detailed explanation as to how to go about it in the machines instruction book.
The technique seems to have been lost over here in Australia. The excavator operators I have to deal with do more damage digging the freaking pipe out than they did when they first broke it...and most of them are smart asses and dont like to be told.
The reason I ask is that about fifty years ago when I was on a Bucyrus back acter (a sort of little cable operated track hoe) there was a detailed explanation as to how to go about it in the machines instruction book.
The technique seems to have been lost over here in Australia. The excavator operators I have to deal with do more damage digging the freaking pipe out than they did when they first broke it...and most of them are smart asses and dont like to be told.
cat 385
Senior Member
yep this is how i do it let the boys shovle the last few inches of dirt off it so i can see it from the cab then start digging under it to get it exsposed, somtimes if you are in a deeper dig you can start digging underneith like you said jim,kind of risky there are always unown suprises under ground as we all know.this is my way, but situations are always different,just have to be relaxed and not in a hurry it always takes longer to fix than not to hit it,standing by to hear how redot does it.:drinkup
the pipe in that pic is 42"..we are also digging 54" and 48". the welder is averaging 7 joints a day
lol..thank you for the kind words...i tell my foremen all excavator operators are artists, thats why we are temperamental
thank you
my preferred way is to roughly locate where the utility is then starting from the top start digging down carefully a little at a time..have your laborer/gradechecker use his probe.once he feels it with his probe and tells you how deep it is i usually take the top off to within a few inches and let him find it with his shovel..once located i like to get as close as possible on my side of the utility and go straight down, getting to a grade 3 or 4' below the utility.. then i walk my machine forward and reach over the utility and proceed to dig the surrounding dirt out to grade.then i put my bucket a foot or so under the pipe and "punch through"..than its just a matter of digging the rest out in a safe manner...using the "V" bucket to tunnel is a pain in the ass..sometimes like in this pic i use 2 buckets to dig the ditch with anyway so i use the traditional bucket for my tunneling and the "V" bucket to trim up with
cat 385
Senior Member
that's funny **** right there!!lol..thank you for the kind words...i tell my foremen all excavator operators are artists, thats why we are temperamental
tonka
Senior Member
ah a one pass wonder...