Excavator terms

Hi, what do those terms mean?

What is "batters?" "It’s much more manageable to pull batters towards a finished product on your return."

What is "Key cut?" "A key cut must be implemented at 45 degrees across..."

Thank you so much.

The term batter isn't used much in the midwest USA in regards to excavating. We would call the same thing a slope.

Tinkerer, the text is probably from Australia (I need to translate it to another language). Does it mean that the excavator is pulling some earth that it cut from a slope?

Thank you.

Try this search just for grins...

http://www.google.com.au/#output=se...653,d.dmQ&fp=e3213a33a87803e8&biw=960&bih=522

A batter means nothing to me, but a key cut to me is the trench you dig [to remove the topsoil] before you backfill and build an earth levee bank.

batter sounds pommie to me!

vrflash said:

Tinkerer, the text is probably from Australia (I need to translate it to another language). Does it mean that the excavator is pulling some earth that it cut from a slope?

Thank you.

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The ''key cut'' to me sounds like an excavation that's deep enough to tie something in such as when I'm placing my impervious material surrounding the bank-run-gravel on a raised fill section for a new septic system.I have to dig a minimum 2' into virgin ground,place the clay and compact,this way ensures best that no gray water bleeds out of the slope.

tuney443 said:

The ''key cut'' to me sounds like an excavation that's deep enough to tie something in such as when I'm placing my impervious material surrounding the bank-run-gravel on a raised fill section for a new septic system.I have to dig a minimum 2' into virgin ground,place the clay and compact,this way ensures best that no gray water bleeds out of the slope.

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Yep. same principal.

Batters

Batters is the Queens english in Australia.
It refers to "slopes". It originates from open cut mining. The batters are the sloping walls between benches. They vary in degrees of steepness (grade) to each site. Depending on the type and stability of the surrounding natural rock. They are also defined by the size of the pit that they are digging.
Benches are the roads that spiral around your pit. Each bench is your old working level before blasting out the middle and going deeper down.
Hope this makes sense




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