A few projects I have done recently

CM1995 said:

Unloading the machine, my trusted buddy and partner laying in the grass supervising..

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Is that HEF's very own CM1995 unchaining the T250?

CM1995 said:

So far so good and I am holding my breath that it stays this way.

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You and me both.

EGS said:

Is that HEF's very own CM1995 unchaining the T250?

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No, that's my evil twin.:tong

I thought I would post a few pics since we have this huge rain event pummeling the southeast and it kinda puts a damper on any dirt work.

First a small parking lot for a used car dealership. Supply, haul, spread and compact dense grade base.



This project was a very long driveway that was in need of some much needed maintenance. This is what it was before we started.



The D5G earning it's keep.



Red rock tailgated after we re-graded the drive and installed much needed side ditches. The problem the owner had was the original dirt guy just plowed a road in and didn't plan on managing the water. As you can tell from the pics, the terrain this driveway traversed needed a lot of water management.



The T250 clipping and dressing the red rock prior to compacting. Handy little bugger that machine is.



The red rock we used is a by-product of the iron ore mines that once dotted the landscape in my area. There are several "quarries" around that screen and sell this material. It's composition is similar to slate but has a red color due to the iron content. It's great material for driveways and parking lots and is on par with the cost of crushed limestone depending on how far you have to truck it, plus it just looks nice.

nice set up

steep slope ??

Thanks Maola and welcome to HEF!:drinkup

Yeah that drive was rather steep where it exited to the public road and then it went through some rolling hills. The tri's had a hard time getting up the hill in the first pics empty. They had to raise their beds to put more weight on the rears but what complicated that was an overhead telephone line. 3/4 the way to the top of the drive they had to lower their bed to keep from snagging the line. Fortunately we have some good drivers and there were no mishaps.:notworthy

A couple of pics from the January tornados that came through the area. It's very strange for us to get tornados that early in the year. These storms caused a lot of damage in the area but nothing like the April 2011 tornados that came through.

I showed up to clean up some trees in the yard, no big deal. Well it turned out to be more than I bargained for, I had to help cut this tree off the roof and then maneuver the stump to the from yard. All in a days work...


I drug the tree stump to the front yard to be piled at the street to picked up by the city contractors. It was a chore for the T250, way over it's weight limit so I pushed it, drug it and pushed it again through a gate in the fence, around the house and to the front yard.:cool2

This is a shot of another tree in the front yard that I had to get out of the ground and pushed to the street. This was easier than the one that was on the house.


As we were cleaning up the trees on this house, the power company was just just stringing lines and restoring power to this area.

Oh man, don't remind me of April '11 CM, I didn't have any property damage myself, but I was without power for six days. That sucked! :tong

That looks familar for this area too. Had another tornado on March 2nd '12 that crossed the same path as the April '11 tornados. Although with much less ferocity. But still, some people's who'd just rebuilt had damage again. :Banghead

Nice Work CM1995. Where in the world is all of that water coming from ? The water table taht low in the area ? I love looking at these kind of threads. Thanks for taking th etime to post.

pafarmer said:

Nice Work CM1995. Where in the world is all of that water coming from ? The water table taht low in the area ? I love looking at these kind of threads. Thanks for taking th etime to post.

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The area the building was built on was a natural valley and the best I can figure is the ground water still finds it's way under the fill that was placed many years ago and the natural ground.:beatsme What I do know is it was a lot of water and a big mess.

Thought I would add a few more pics and commentary of some tornado cleanup I did a couple of months ago. These were the same January tornados that came through and blew the trees over on the house in the other pics. It's very rare for us to get tornados in January in Alabama.

This was all that was left of the first garden home when I arrived. Local volunteers had cleaned up what debris they could. This was taken in what was the living room. The holes in the drywall are from flying debris. You can see the kitchen tile to the left in the picture. It was an easy job for the T250. The family rode out the tornado in the hall bath which is on the other side of the brown wall, all 4 of them - it's a miracle they walked away.:notworthy


One of the most erie things to see was the amount of sod and mud that was plastered all over the interior walls of the houses. This was taken inside a house that was 60% intact. The front windows were blown out but the majority of the structure was still there.


The T250 was called upon again to complete the demo on the second house. The contractor wanted to save the slab so that left the 953C at home, which would have been my first choice. It was tricky getting the roof structure down, but I started at the garage that was still intact and laid it down, inside it's footprint. Then I was able to get high enough to take the main roof structure down. The house in the background is similar to the one I took down.


House down, slab cleaned up and debris pushed to the street. The protocol was to get all the debris to the street for the FEMA contractors to come in and haul it away. This particular house we loaded out in 30 yards, as the insurance paid for it but the other debris from the other houses are still waiting on the FEMA contractors to haul away..:cool2


The amount of destruction in this neighborhood was mind blowing, I love demo but this was totally different....

naders are mean mean things. :yup

Another job. This was a "we need to remove a tri-axle load of dirt and do a little grading around the house, it's closing soon" type job.

Well as usual it was a little more than that. Removed 2 tri-axle loads of dirt from the driveway, this was a garden home lot, and spread another 20 CY's around the house and then they needed the backyard "dressed up".:cool2

First pic is grading under the deck. Had to bring the fill material between the two houses with the T250 and dump it off the hill. Then carry each bucket with the 334 and carefully place it under the deck and dress the "slope".



Different view, the excavator is in the same position as the first pic, just rotated.

Enjoyed looking at your work, CM. I don't come here often enough, but know you're just down the road a few hours... and we often pull or against the same teams, etc.

Good pics and commentary of your work. My work isn't as exciting or diverse (and as of this moment, I'm okay with that...) but customers are.. maybe not so diverse... most all jobs just need "dressing up" by the time they call me (or at least that's what they think/hope/wish.)

Thanks for sharing your joys and pains...

Steve

Stevenbrla said:

Enjoyed looking at your work, CM. I don't come here often enough, but know you're just down the road a few hours... and we often pull or against the same teams, etc.

Good pics and commentary of your work. My work isn't as exciting or diverse (and as of this moment, I'm okay with that...) but customers are.. maybe not so diverse... most all jobs just need "dressing up" by the time they call me (or at least that's what they think/hope/wish.)

Thanks for sharing your joys and pains...

Steve

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Thanks for viewing and reading the thread Steve. I seem to get into all sorts of projects, I guess it keeps life interesting.

I pull for the Tigers, the orange and blue kind but I was a purple and gold tiger last January.....

This is your mission should you choose to accept it. Fill in temporary retention pond with material stockpile adjacent to it. Intel reports the pond will require 8K CY to fill and on-site material is of good quality. (Later on that bit of intel..) Existing retention pond is holding some water and has approx. 1' of muck that will need to be extricated. This mission must be completed in 20 working days. If you choose to accept this mission, payment will only be made once project is completed. In 15 seconds, this message will self destruct...

Yeah, that's pretty much how it went.

First course of action is to dig a sump and start pumping


Second, put the dozer in there and start pushing the muck. I like to keep a dam pushed up that forces the water to the sump. I V-ditched the middle so the water had somewhere to go.


Another picture of the sump area. The white PVC contraption is hooked to a 12" ADS pipe that goes into a 15" RCP. This was the skimmer for the pond.


Pond stripped and cleaned, ready for proof roll.


Proof roll of existing soil went well, compacting the existing sub-grade

Stripping the stockpile. It had very little vegetation on it and if it were my project I wouldn't have bothered as what little was there would have been thoroughly mixed in and not caused a problem. However, the job spec's were to strip the stockpile..



Mixing the fill prior to loading. Now back to the "Intel" that the stockpile contained good fill material...hardly. It consisted of many different types of what I suspect unsuitable spoils from the shopping center next door. Yellow and red clay that was wet and sticky. We had to plow the pile and let it dry. We fought moisture on our compaction tests pretty much the entire time. Only the core of the pile was a nice red silty-clay material that was a very easy to work.


Typical fill lift. This was repeated many times. In the background is the spoil pile and you can see where I plowed the pile in order to dry it out while we were loading.

Decent size dirt project CM, beats mowing with a brush cutter eh.

We have the same skimmer contraptions up here. Seem like so much fun... not. Sounds like your Intel of "good dirt" should have said "contractor's mix" instead. Stockpiles on jobs almost always seem to be a risk like that. The "leftovers" from a previous phase, or just a jumble of junk that couldn't be lost in a borrow pit or used as fill. And it's always what is left to use to finish a job.