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  1. SKP 428

    Painting equipment ?? Airless vs regular.

    It makes me sick when they scratch the paint , but I look at this way job security for me .
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    Painting equipment ?? Airless vs regular.

    here are some more photos
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    Painting equipment ?? Airless vs regular.

    I have been painting for over 20 years painting things from toys to excavators. I would recommend using a synthetic or acrylic enamel . The cheapest way is to buy it from a equipment dealer they sell the paint for around $30.00 + a gal. I worked in a paint store in high school the owner was a...
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    What kind of tractor?

    Here are some more photos of the tractor
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    What kind of tractor?

    What kind of tractor is this ,I bought this a few years ago and want to see if any of you guys know what it is. The engine a JD it has 2 cylinders water cooled and is gas and has a 3 speed trans . Looks home made to me .Hand crank to start it .
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    backgrounds

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    backgrounds

    Here is a photo from a job I did fixing a bank on a ditch back in 2006
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    water line

    I have been installing a lot of SDR 21 on the smaller jobs I have done , they make brass saddles and glue fitting for the pipe. It is nice to work with due to it is gasket pipe and comes in 20’ lengths. A lot of cities are staring to use the pipe on 2” services more and more and it is a lot...
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    Some Phots Of Jobs

    Finshed the last geo bed . Here are some more photos
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    12" Water Main Leak

    I had a job 2 years ago that was a 12" dip main line was over 2 miles long with 3 line vales we and we had a leak in the line .It was a 275 psi test the line had a leak at 275 psi. but when we tested lower than 170 psi it would hold . after a week of looking .I hammered the line a few times...
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    Some Phots Of Jobs

    The cover has to be 8' min and they are finding out that it cheaper than drilling and the system works allot better on the heating and cooling laying them horizontal than drilling vertical . I am glad that we just have to dig and backfill it looks like it would be a pain to lay out all of the...
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    Some Phots Of Jobs

    new job Sorry I didn't get back to you D5G I have been trying to finish up some site grading so that I could get to my next job. Atlas Rob thanks for the reply for my post .The system was for over flow storage for the 100 year flood pond. Here are some photos of my newest job. they sent...
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    Some Phots Of Jobs

    I started a new job with a different company . They had me finishing up a storm tec system . It is nice to get to run equipment again and not being a supervisor running crews .
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    what kind of machine is this?

    The company that I worked for 17 years ago had 2 hydro hammers .They put 4' lifts and compacted the water lines in the streets . They were vary dirty and greasy and what a pain to change the cables. They had a new guy and he put 2' of dirt over a storm line and broke over 100' of pipe before he...
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    Water Wagon

    It was on it side less then 30 min, we first made sure the operator was not hurt and was ok, he even helped to getting it back over .Then we worked on tipping it back over. Good thing all the equipment ,guys and cables were close by. It sat for a couple hours before our service guy showed up he...
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    Some Phots Of Jobs

    It seems that every year a least one of the cites thinks up more crazy specifications for us to go by.:Banghead
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    Some Phots Of Jobs

    The bad thing is that the insulation was over $35.00 a ft I had 5 crossings at 10' wide . It sure is hard to make the budget when they don't catch it in the bids .
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    Some Phots Of Jobs

    The concrete blocks were required by the city I was working in .They wanted the blocks were the water line had 2'6" or less separation from the RCP and we had to insulate the line too:confused:
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    Some Phots Of Jobs

    Here are some photos of the end of my last job . The worst set of plans I have ever worked off .
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    new guy

    I started new photos in showtime
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