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    Road bore

    tceq Hi Don- check out the tceq website, section 217 of the rules, subchapter C
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    Road bore

    trying to remember.... Hey Don Seems like tceq used to require 5' horizontal (for parallel) and min 2' vertical (clear) separation betw. water and sewer. That said, i think the casing gives you an exception (i think). However, i don't know if i've seen any crossings where less than 1'...
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    Road bore

    Hi Don- what type of line are you installing that crosses the sewer/gas? If water, i think those clearances are more than regular separation. I'll have to look at the tceq requirements. Has your sub looked at the Txdot UAR? Where are you guys working? thanks
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    Civil Engineer/ Owner Operators?

    Joispoi- I'm partnered in a construction firm and am licensed in my state. I spent 15 years for our DOT, almost pure survey/design. Great experience in a state known for a mighty highway system. Many good friendships made with experts in the civil engineering field. We now perform work...
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    Mbe/dbe

    Recently spoke to our accountant that our state DOT has a program in place to help "smaller" contractors upgrade financials from reviewed status to full audits (thus allowing for higher bond lines, bigger jobs, etc..). Sounded pretty good to us............until we found out that it was for HUB...
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    Does the anxiety of the night before a new job ever go away?

    And bid openings too! I get so nervous sometimes that i just drop off the paperwork and don't stick around for the reading of the bids.
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    Mbe/dbe

    web search Drum- do a web search for Williams Brothers DBE violations. Sorry, I had trouble posting the link. WB got fined for a situation that sounded similar to what you described. thanks
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    Why Sheepsfoot?

    maybe my history is bogus..... Yeah, seems like i had heard/read that some of the original great road contractors , the Romans, used flocks of sheep to compact roadway subgrade, and that the knobby rollers we see today are the evolution of that......
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    Is it ethical to count on making your profit on change orders?

    I view our particular field of business as an allocation of risks. IMO, we as businessfolk "roll the dice" each time we take on an engagement with an owner. The better informed we can be, the better prepared we are to reduce risks (and thus put or increase cash in our pockets at the end of the...
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    Bid Bonding Question?

    We do not get charged a fee by our surety for bid bonds. That said, the bid security that we obtain is almost always a 5 percent bid bond (with the exception of those projects which allow alternate security such as returnable cashier's check). Do 100% bid bond projects come up for you guys...
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    Stupid Question of the Day

    Does a scenario ever develop in worn out seals where the grooves "short circuit" and erroneous flow pressures develop?
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    cement stabilized base

    No intent to hijack this thread FinBlade, but i gotta ask TxDirt-How exciting did it get when you ran across the snakes in the culvert in your photo? Where was that taken?
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    Lime stabilization

    I know where you're coming from FinishBlade. Great deal of high PI material in our parts. Lime seems to be the typical boilerplate answer to creating a working platform. I've seen a couple instances , however, of situations where the clay had significant amounts of sulfates in the soil , and...
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    Just an observation

    LegDoc- Dually noted. In my local travels, i'm seeing items for sale as well, but not noting any "steals" on used (maybe i'm always too late for those deals). We try to keep a pulse on equip. activity via Heavy Equipment Trader mag and Iron Planet, etc. Seems like prices are down on used...
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    College Degrees???

    for civil degree-might check out University of Texas for construction management -seems like i've heard Texas A&M had a good program, as well as Texas Tech in Lubbock
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    pulling a shield

    Shackleford- the 28' top width value is based on a Class C soil (1.5H:1V), correct? Wouldn't that be considered a "bad" soil, relatively speaking? Wouldn't B (1H:1V) and A soils allow narrower top width, respectively (although those types may not exist many localities)? Maybe i've got...
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    Pressure washer water feed question?

    we bought a 330 gal tank from a guy who did this. He said that he ran the pressure washer off gravity feed with no problems. However, seems like our model called for a minimum flow as well and maybe a minimum pressure value as well. We bought the cheapest Harbor Freight pump we could find...
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    aarrgghhh

    one rock that fell out of 310G bucket which was actually much larger than it looked when i ran over it..........$14 /ton new transmission dipstick fitting..... $65 new dipstick tube........ $197 new fluid etc......... $150 fuel spent to get part......$50 lesson learned because i was...
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    Sewer Pics/ PC 400

    I don't know the whole story on this trench cut, but we've been on plenty o jobs in pavement or adjacent to where subgrade undermined during excavation- shoot, and this guy's 20' +. Looks like the native material is more granular (hard to tell , just speculation) to me, so doesn't surprise me a...
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    Anyone gone storm chasing?

    We've been contacted by TxDOT about some emergency debris removal and a cleanup firm to head south. Can't go due to another project beginning soon. Pictures we've seen out of Houston/Galv area look pretty rough. Seen a lot of iron headed toward the coast (lots of skids with grapples...
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