New job again..

Dozerboy · Mar 10, 2008

bobcat ron said:
That rat's nest must weight about 3 tons!

Not sure but its all a 40 ton hoe can do to get all of the rebar from 1 span up off the ground and into a dumpster. Some of the spans have a extra section and I can only pick up half of ball at a time to get it in the dumpster.

[-Agent-] · Mar 11, 2008

Demoguy324 said:
I've tested this theory both ways, (in prime conditions, might i add, Washington state...) a vertically parked hammer gathers much less rain water than a horizontally parked hammer. it seems to be pretty common knowledge around here that water and hammers don't mix that well.

Eric

Up here in washington when we had 2 ft of snow we still laid ours down flat?

Dozerboy · Mar 17, 2008

Well I did it last week on the last span I had to shut down after working 10-14/7 days a week on the hammer killed my shoulder. Tendon problems I think. It was just a little sore if I wasn't running the hammer, but while hammering I couldn't stand the pain. They took me off it and brought in one of the leaver pullers to finish. I'm not sure what was more painful my shoulder or watch him running the hoe and finishing my job. I felt good the next day, but got chewed out when I hopped on the dozer they don't want me doing anything just "supervising". But it gave me time to take a few more pics, but I'm post them later the wife just got home.

Dozerboy · Mar 19, 2008

Here
3 rolls of rebar about 85% of the rebar that is in one span anything small enough that can be crammed in a truck gets loaded out.
Hammer the last of it
See anything missing in this pic?
What was missing
I think this is a pile of bar or maybe its concrete.

Dozerboy · Mar 19, 2008

Subs doing the dirt work
The train tracks connected from the water to land.
Explosives are here
After they blew up the supports.
Not a good pic, but a crane playing tug of war with a case dozer...I think they where just trying to get the twist out of the cable after a cable job.

Dozerboy · Mar 19, 2008

I like these pics and they make that 460 look big and they put my teeth/shanks back on I was down to 3.

The last one a retaining wall the has to be demoed, but they got in a hurry and built the new bridge over and right next it. I have a feeling that is going to be fun.

MRM99 · Mar 20, 2008

Cool Pics!

BIGBEN2004 · Mar 20, 2008

You don't need those pictures to help make that 460 look big, those things are big for anyone who knows Excavators. I know their are much larger Excavators but still they are a great sized machine.

Dozerboy · Jul 1, 2008

Well this one was winding down so I started a new job here are the last of the pics.

We tried to bring the larger concrete on to the land to be sized, but we where tearing up the rolloff boxes. After moving a few to land we decided to just pile them all up close to shore where I could get to them.

last pic
Lifting those 50K lb chunks of concrete gave our 3900W that sinking feeling. Just wait until those 90K lb pre-cast beams start showing up. We just kept fill in the ruts with crushed concrete that I was making with the mucher you can see a small pile of it on the right of the pic. The crane quit sinking for now after we put about 4' concrete down in the ruts.

Dozerboy · Jul 1, 2008

Size all the concrete and demoed the enbutment now just to make a road in for the trucks and get it all move up to there I can load it out. At this time they still don't want me to run the hammer weeks after I hurt my shoulder there lever puller got the job done, but it was ugly. I got to clean up the mess. We still had that retaining wall to demo that the new bridge was built over. They asked me how to demo it I told them the 460 would fit under there to do it, but it would be VERY close. So they bring in a 580 with a hammer to demo the 2' thick 10' tall 30' long wall. Two weeks later and 15 hyd hoses I'm told to go down there I take care of it. I told them I ain't running the 580 I can do it with the 460. "Ok" 2 hrs. later I'm done.

Dozerboy · Jul 1, 2008

Next bit of fun
I was asked to dig up a pile that was in the middle of one of our drill shafts. Well a side of my trench caved in and broke the pile off 25' down. Thats how deep I had it exposed and all the reach I had with the 460. Fill it back we will deal with it later. Well later has come and the 460 is down and being sold. No problem I can do it with the 330 Case just need to bench myself down 8'. The problem I'm only 2' above sea level. Had to bring the crane over since they didn't want to bring matts because so much of the hole caved in from me sitting there I could no longer reach the pile.

Dozerboy · Jul 1, 2008

Pile expose and slipping the choker on it to pull it out with the crane.

Well the crane couldn't do it so we need to back fill the hole. Just shove it in with the dozer ain't no compacting this slop. Thats all I was there for they put a "T" row on the trussel to get the crane closer and get the crane boom angled away from the freeway. In case it comes down when they leave it hooked to the pile pulling it up over the weekend hoping to break the suction on the pile.

D5G · Jul 1, 2008

Dozerboy, do you have a photobucket account? Some real interesting jobs you are on!

dozerdave · Jul 26, 2009

Dozerboy, those are fine pictures and they give me an idea about a phase of construction work that I know nothing about. Looks like it would be hard to bid a project like that not knowing what you are going to run into. Experience I guess just like anything else.

Dozerboy · Jul 31, 2009

D5G said:
Dozerboy, do you have a photobucket account? Some real interesting jobs you are on!

No I don't sorry

dozerdave said:
Dozerboy, those are fine pictures and they give me an idea about a phase of construction work that I know nothing about. Looks like it would be hard to bid a project like that not knowing what you are going to run into. Experience I guess just like anything else.

Ya I wouldn't have a clue where to start but they know there stuff as far as building bridges. They are a big company Traylor Bors.

D5G · Jul 31, 2009

only reason I asked dozerboy, is because with a photobucket account, you can turn your pics.

Dozerboy · Jul 31, 2009

Oh ya I can do that but I must have miss that one or didn't know how to do it then.

D5G · Jul 31, 2009

no big deal, just wanted to try and be of some help. keep the great pics commin!

-3Doc · Jul 31, 2009

The reason you store a hammer standing up is, when the hammer is on it's side the weight of the heavy piston forms a flat spot on the seals and when you start it up in the morning oil can seep past the flat spot and do premature damage to the seals, it does make a difference I have rebuilt many hammers with flat seals!

Dozerboy · Aug 8, 2009

Thanks doc

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