Landclearer
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I checked today and there are no vents on the door side of the cab but still it does a good job of keeping cool.
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Demolition, clearing and grading
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movindirt
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I gotcha, I should have gotten a picture of behind the seat of the Cat, there was plenty of room back there I thought. It was raining and cooler one of the days, that side of the cab wouldn't stay defrosted either, its a small issue I know, but I would have figured of all companies Cat would have had that figured out.
Landclearer
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Not sure why they can't put some vents on that side of the cab. It sure would help with the sun coming in the windows as well as the door windows fogging up. Our Volvo has a sunshade you can pull down over the back window and it makes a lot of difference.
Landclearer
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We are now officially 100 percent done on the firehouse job. We fought rain for months on that job and now we have not had a drop of rain in weeks on that site.
We also cleared and filled 2 lots this week. Sorry no pics of the clearing.
Moving the dozer from one lot to the next.
We also cleared and filled 2 lots this week. Sorry no pics of the clearing.
Moving the dozer from one lot to the next.
Landclearer
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Here is the second lot that has been cleared and stripped.
Lot with fill.
Start of a new job. it is going to be a pool house and parking lot. Should have more pics of that next week.
Lot with fill.
Start of a new job. it is going to be a pool house and parking lot. Should have more pics of that next week.
Hitachi225
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Looks good! I always look forward to your update every week. We do the same type of work but up in the great white north. Always interesting to see how it is done else where
Landclearer
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Thanks Hitachi. I am sure things are a lot different by you than it is here but the goal is the same. After this week I might trade your weather for ours, we have been in the high 90s all week.
JNB
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Good looking work. I'm living vicariously through posts by you and CM. Tropical Storm Bill finally got out of here...and it's raining again today. It's like being a dragon slayer and there's no more dragons.
Landclearer
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Landclearer
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CM, the const. entrance is crushed concrete and the fill is our version of dirt. It is white sand dug out of a pond near the coast so back in the day(not sure how many thousands of years ago) it was beach sand. You see some shells so it was definitely beach front property some time.
CM1995
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I thought the construction entrance looked to be a different material than the fill. How much does a tri-axle load of crushed concrete go for?
We have chert pits in Central Alabama, good stuff to build on it's a rock clay mixture, that will have sea shells in the rock. I've found all sorts of cool fossils in the coal mines. I have a neat trilobite fossil I found on time.
We have chert pits in Central Alabama, good stuff to build on it's a rock clay mixture, that will have sea shells in the rock. I've found all sorts of cool fossils in the coal mines. I have a neat trilobite fossil I found on time.
Landclearer
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Crushed concrete goes for about $30 a ton delivered.
Does the chert get muddy or slippery when it rains?
I know a guy that found whale vertebrae well inland digging a dirt pit and have found a sharks tooth in a load of limestone base.
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Wow, the crushed concrete is expensive comparing it to what I can get a load of #57's locally but like all things it matters where you're located. I can get a 25 ton load of #57's delivered on the cheap side at $350 a load to the high side of $500 depending on the location.
Some chert is great and some is so-so. 10 years ago had a project where we flat-topped a mountain ridge that was solid chert, 30' cuts in the deepest area. This was great material, even ran into seams of pure white sand in between the rock layers. You could dump it out of the truck, spread it with the 953 and achieve 98% compaction without putting a roller on it. The PCF was in the 128 range. Most chert has enough rock in it that it's not slippery or muddy when it's wet. In the winter it's about the only option for engineered fill other than crushed limestone which is obviously way more expensive.
We did the site work on a Sonic in Greenville, AL adjacent to I-65 years ago. Ran into some very black dirt that had to be undercut. We run into deep topsoil all the time but this was different, it had a sheen to it. The geotech said it would probably be the oldest dirt we'll ever move as it was the remnants of an ancient sea. The plumbers found a large sharks tooth when they were putting in the sewer line. Greenville is about 150 miles away from the gulf.
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Landclearer is sanders bros still in the concrete recycling I've one of their crushers for sale lately
Landclearer
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Half the price of our rock is trucking. To pick up crushed concrete is between $16 and $18. Vulcan has a yard we go to to get granite and 57 stone is about $26 a ton at the yard.
That is interesting about the chert. I had no idea about it. If you go to the upstate you have clay or rock and the same thing in KY where I grew up. Limestone in KY is like granite and our limestone is very soft here.
That is neat about the Sonic job. You never know what you are going to run into and looks like you found a good one. I wonder how long ago it was a a sea being 150 miles from the coast. One interesting thing we run into is sand shell. It is very coarse gray sand that is about 40 percent or more shells. There is usually a layer of gumbo either above or below and if you mix a little of the gumbo into it, it packs like concrete when dry. When you are digging it, it comes out like wet cement.
Landclearer
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Yes they are. Can't hardly buy the stuff from them because they keep it for their own jobs. I think they might be selling or have sold one recently because I think they just got a new one. They are paving a job we graded tomorrow and will ask if I see the paving supervisor.
90plow
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I'm down in your neck of the woods for the week staying with my in laws. Lots of work going in down here it blows my mind. Are you working around the dunes west area? I saw some big land clearing projects going on in this area. It's good for you guys. My father in law has been complaining about the price of real estate going up so high he can't buy anything.
Landclearer
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So how do you like the temp? Yes there is a ton of work in Charleston now. I think every one is busy and just about every company in town is looking for operators, drivers , labor, and supervisors. We did a bunch of work in Dunes West several years ago but we have been staying on the south side of town lately. Yeah the price of houses, commercial and farm land is crazy around here. Ever since Boeing came here they have been nonstop expanding and now Volvo and Mercedes are planning on building factories here so hopefully there are going to be several more years like this.