Commercial construction work pictures

[skyking1]

The banjo is off the table now. I won't dig grade without help anymore. If they insist I will hand them the keys at that moment and I do believe they understand that.
It's just stupid and shortsighted to not give me a grade guy. We don't have to dig very long to get a bunch of trench done that way. The other way just sucks.

 

[John C.]

You might check into disability payments if you can’t work any longer because is a repetitive motion problem.

 

[skyking1]

Speaking of tight quarters, the current job is in Foss Waterway Seaport, a local maritime museum.
https://www.fosswaterwayseaport.org/

Pretty cool place for a boat guy to hang around.

 

[skyking1]

We are digging a bathroom group in the working museum.
That's a fin whale skull, the second largest species of whale.
My 35 wasn't going to cut it so I rented a 17.
They had requested a hand dig.
Um, no thanks.

 

[skyking1]

The slab grades are so wonky in here. It's a 75-year-old warehouse, by the time they regraded they generated at least three yards of extra sand.


I had to get it out of here. I chose to use my personal truck rather than the company one ton with the 12 ft bed and dual wheels.
I backed all the way in the museum, please be careful and don't hit any artifacts okay?
Notice the trailer tracks outside of my truck tracks in this picture.


Tight quarters indeed.

 

[skyking1]

I got the bigger dump trailer and I needed it. I'd rather not make two trips backing through this place.





We found this lovely little surprise. A one foot thick grade beam 5 ft wide.

 

[DMiller]

Would know that Dodge anywhere!!! Would not want that work FOR NUTHIN!!!!

 

[skyking1]

He diced it up into manageable pieces and then I put dirt back in the hole and tracked it right out the door very carefully.
Once it gets a core drilled I will back my way out of there, finishing the trench. It's a one-way trip.

 

[CM1995]

Nice work!

That's going to be one expensive bathroom.

 

[Welder Dave]

He diced it up into manageable pieces and then I put dirt back in the hole and tracked it right out the door very carefully.
Once it gets a core drilled I will back my way out of there, finishing the trench. It's a one-way trip.
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Is that a hyd. concrete saw with water cooling in the 1st pic ? It's an optical illusion that the bucket and/or the thumb are twisted.

 

[CM1995]

Is that a hyd. concrete saw with water cooling in the 1st pic ? It's an optical illusion that the bucket and/or the thumb are twisted.

Yep that's a hydraulic concrete hand saw - brutal piece of equipment to operate. The water is to cool the blade and an added bonus of keeping the dust down.

 

[skyking1]

Nice work!

That's going to be one expensive bathroom.

Its a half dozen each plus a family bathroom. That's not the half of it they need to bring in more water. Lots of creep on this project

 

[Welder Dave]

Like the book for kids says, Everybody poops.

 

[DMiller]

Its a half dozen each plus a family bathroom. That's not the half of it they need to bring in more water. Lots of creep on this project

Always creep in commercial work
Too much hidden stuff

 

[CM1995]

Always creep in commercial work
Too much hidden stuff

Remodeling...We make good money on commercial remodel jobs.

 

[skyking1]

here is how I left it late yesterday afternoon, ready for piping. There is a barn door with a low overhead over the ditch, I had to narrow up and go around that dangling post on the left to get through there. This was a seriously one-way trip.

Tracks out


Tracks in. Not so much fun, none too stable.

 

[skyking1]

Welcome to my world.


Lots of goo. I have to backfill with that junk under the plastic and it's not much sweeter.


Grease line next to sanitary. Thankfully we could run it at the same grade and elevation. The prints had the sanitary @1% and the grease line @2%.
That makes for a long day.

 

[skyking1]

I started backfilling that and the Gen Sup thought I was going to leave it ready for the electrician to lay conduit.
"I'm not fixing your whole muddy site for you, get the dirt guy down here"
He did and I graciously stayed on and helped scrape the whole thing down. I rarely get to dance the excavator dance with some good guys, and lately it has always been this crew. They brought in a 50 and the volvo 160 loaded it into a truck to take it away. He put the bucket on backwards and I tucked the last bit in there.
Here you go sparky.

 

[skyking1]

Today was a little government job. This retaining wall was falling over. It was poured with the garage walls and portal, so we got the saw cutter out there with his hand held and chainsaw.
Note the lovely guy wire, power pole, and street signage. I laid down plywood to protect the equally old sidewalk.

 

[skyking1]

That was a full load of concrete, and I was able to dump it for free fairly close by. I loaded out a heaping load of dirt to prepare for the wall guys to follow.