A few projects I have done recently

[Metalman 55]

Nice pictures...........looks like quite a project. What city is the build in?

 

[CM1995]

Nice pictures...........looks like quite a project. What city is the build in?

Metalman this project is located in the Magic City - AKA Birmingham, Alabama - my hometown where I was born and raised.

 

[Blue Pete]

Looks like a good project.

 

[Nige]

The 325 has earned its keep over the last several months - (knocks on wood ) since the issue with the auxillary valve.

It's moved a couple thousand CY's and hammered a couple 100 CY's of old concrete foundations on the arena job. Just turned 2K hours a week or so ago.

Just nicely run in then.....
It made me think of the 994K I put together at the end of August. That hit 2k hours at the end of last month.

 

[CM1995]

Just nicely run in then.....
It made me think of the 994K I put together at the end of August. That hit 2k hours at the end of last month.

Nige that's why I like being a site work contractor. It's like being an excavator, demolition man, plumber, concrete mason, landscaper and carpenter all in a days work. Always something new.

TBH I'd jump off the high wall if I had to work in a mine day in and day out doing and looking at the same thing every day, month and year.

 

[CM1995]

As the arena project turns.

24" core drill though the 14" thick concrete wall of the wet well at the pump station for an 18" RCP install. This is the pump station that has 2 Cat nat gas engines running 8" pumps.

The new electrical power and control wires for the pump station floats and Cats in the grey conduit. As usual space was at a premium.



Core complete. 18" RCP installed, grouted and stone backfill.



Now this is something I have never seen in my career and far as I know is not even available to purchase.

A 15" RCP 45 degree fitting.




It's a well done pre-cast unit.

 

[hvy 1ton]

Now this is something I have never seen in my career and far as I know is not even available to purchase.

A 15" RCP 45 degree fitting.

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It's a well done pre-cast unit.

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Someday those concrete 3D printers the Marines keep playing with are gonna make stuff like this easy.

 

[CM1995]

18" RCP from the wet well to an overflow in the loading dock parking lot.

This is how to lay pipe and make money. Crew didn't get started laying pipe out of the manhole until 9 AM due to other trades on the site.

Regardless they put 19 - 8' sticks of 18" RCP in the ground with every joint grouted by 5 PM. This pic was taken around 2:30 in the afternoon. I'll put this 3 man crew against any 3 man crew in a pipe laying competition.



View from the manhole towards the loading dock and the retaining wall the 18" goes through into the loading dock.

 

[DMiller]

At least can bench out slot not require slip frame wall shoring and all the added OSHA Trench safety requirements.

 

[CM1995]

DM we get so much more production when we can bench a trench instead of using boxes. When a job comes up that requires a box the price per FT goes up substantially.

We got with the GC's field engineer and concrete crew to make us a box out for the 18" RCP overflow for the loading dock. Saved us the time and expense of calling the sawing company out to cut a hole.

The line and green dots are our alignment shots - hit pretty damn close to center.



We're not concrete guys but can cobble forms together every once in a while.

 

[Metalman 55]

Nice work CM! We have a similar laser (GL422N) I really like it. Right on with that pipe alignment!!

 

[CM1995]

Space is always a premium on projects like this. The glaziers have 3 man lifts and the steel erectors have 2 on site.

Various pre-fab structural steel is scattered across the site...



The curtain wall will be all glass. Glaziers are installing all the mullions with the 2 lifts on the right.



Thought this was a neat pic - lowering R2D2 behind the retainer wall to compact some backfill.

 

[CM1995]

Nice work CM! We have a similar laser (GL422N) I really like it. Right on with that pipe alignment!!

MM55 I really don't know how we laid storm pipe in the past without it. We also have a Topcon in the pipe laser that cost 2.5 times what a GL does but we can lay storm faster on alignment with the GL. Now when it comes to sanitary it's a different story.

 

[CM1995]

The 18" RCP through the retainer wall turned out alright. The first round of mudding the gaps, the crew will rub the blockout one more time with some portland and sand to clean it up a bit.



Finished up the lake project. Looking back up the new parking lot.



This work was done by our second crew who is really good at finish work. The dumpster pad roof should withstand a F5 tornado. 6x6 tube steel with 4x6 ceiling joists holding up a tin roof...



Headwall for the 18" RCP installed in the parking lot a couple of months ago. Nice shot of the finish work the crew did - ready to lay sod.

 

[CM1995]

Around on the front of the building cleaning up and final grading with the 321DL. This section of the building with the porch is the new main dining room.



We had to work the transition from the building down the slope and still keep an access road to the other side of the building.



The access road being built.


The 2013 F350 we bought new still making money. Put a transmission in her over the holidays at 180K miles for just over $6k - it's got another 200K miles on it.

 

[CM1995]

As the arena sorta turns -

So JLG showed up and wanted to shoot a prime time man lift TV commercial....

I really think they could've fit another one in there.



One of the JLG's went rouge as actors and actresses are known to do.



Just missed the 2- 4" exhausts from the nat gas Cat engines powering the pumps for the pump station that drains the entire project. This is the pump station we cut the top off of.



It would've been a very, very expensive fix..



This was the glaziers lift. Instead of driving it down the street, removing a few fence panels and driving it in they decided to drive around the pump station between the parking meters, gas meter (live) and the exhaust. Brought one of those fancy rotator wreckers out with the axle behind the cab like one would see on those Canadian trucks.

No JLG didn't shoot a commercial - just another day on a congested city jobsite.

 

[CM1995]

Pic of the front of the addition as the glass is going up. This area is where the sat trucks and performer's buses will be parked.



There are very poor soils in the loading dock area that we had to undercut. As the schedule goes we had to start the UC before the concrete guys were finished with the retaining walls.

1.5-2' of UC, place surge rock and top off with DGB. First load of surge rock about to be spread out with the trusty D5G.



Loading dock finished, watered and nuke tested. The danger tape is to remind the other trades with lulls and manlifts that if they damage the subgrade it will cost them dearly.

 

[Don.S]

I find it very interesting what different areas use to to accomplish the same task. The truck with the second steer behind the cab we call a twelve wheeler. Most can carry about 20 ton in the box what do you guys use to accomplish the same task? A ten wheeler here can carry around 15 ton.

 

[CM1995]

Don our regular tri-axle dumps, which are a heavy tandems with a lift axles set forward of the tandems, can legally haul 25 tons on local and state roads but not the Interstate highways.

This is a typical tri-axle here - KW with big Cummins and either an 8LL or Allison auto. OX Hardox bed with highlift gate. Good for 25 tons legally.

 

[CM1995]

Undercutting the upper loading dock area that will be parking for the touring buses and sat trucks. The glass curtain wall is wrapping up so maybe we can a few of those man lifts out of here.



2004 D5G XL still cutting the grade. At 17 years old it's getting close to a break on it's auto insurance.



325FL with 48" bucket stockpiling the undercut for load out.