Some Phots Of Jobs

[SKP 428]

Just A Few Photos Of Jobs Over The Last Few Years

 

[Wolf]

what is that big stuff you're digging out of the ground?

 

[bobcat ron]

I like the end pieces on these concrete culverts!

 

[SKP 428]

The pipe is made out of old boilers from the gold mines that were around the area . They cut the ends off the boilers and buried them under the county roads in the mountains for culverts . We had to remove and replace with RCP ,I even found a old concrete bridge buried 7' deep under the county road and was made out of rail road tracks and cables. The tracks were dated 1903 and one was 1898.

 

[Wolf]

That's pretty cool. I noticed the date "1903" on the track in one of your pictures. What did you do with that track and the other one that was dated 1898? That's a pretty cool find.

 

[SKP 428]

They are laying around the yard in the landscaping .

 

[95zIV]

Ok, I'm sorry to do this but it's not track, that's just rail, track has plates and spikes/clips and rail. It's just like those funny trucks with the drums on the back they're not cement mixers. Cement is a powder, those trucks mix concrete=cement, aggregate and water. Sorry but there are just some things that bother me beyond silence.:my2c

 

[bear]

95zIV know what you mean. I've gotten worse sonce taking all these college math and science classes. My wife tells me I'm so anal retentive she can't belive I poop. At least he wasn't doing the news anchor thing, if it runs on something round it's a steam roller and if it has tracks it's a bulldozer. I'm going fishing now cheers! :drinkup

 

[SKP 428]

I found some old photos of a boiler when I was hunting for deer in the area .

 

[DigDug]

I removed a old steel boiler similar to the last pic . It came out of a old kiln building at a lumber mill we were demoing. It took a 315 excavator and D-6 to get it loaded on my lowbed and it filled the trailer. After securing it down I was off to the scrap yard thinking i was going to cash in on this beast. When i got to the scrap yard the manager took one look at it and said , "I dont even want that here!" He pointed out to me that it was full of round pipe and it was a pain in the butt for there men to prepare. He wanted me to haul it somewhere else but after telling him i was in a hurry and wanted to get rid of it he agreed to let me leave it there but not pay me.
Nowadays I would have hauled it to our shop and we would have cut it up to size. But this was 8-9 years ago when scrap wasnt as high. I still wonder to this day if the guy was porking me and got it for nothing or did he have a legitamate concern that it was a pain in the butt to prepare. It was about 7' tall and 18' long and full of steel pipes. Must have weighed 3-4 tons at least. Any of the scrap yard men here have a opinion? Thanks doug

 

[AtlasRob]

scrap prices

Nowadays I would have hauled it to our shop and we would have cut it up to size. But this was 8-9 years ago when scrap wasnt as high. I still wonder to this day if the guy was porking me and got it for nothing or did he have a legitamate concern that it was a pain in the butt to prepare. It was about 7' tall and 18' long and full of steel pipes. Must have weighed 3-4 tons at least. Any of the scrap yard men here have a opinion? Thanks doug

Dont think he screwed you DigDug. About the same time, we had a problem getting rid of the centre reservation crash barrier posts which are galvanised.
The scrap yard took them but didnt like it, let us tip but no money. Yet a month ago I took the exact same stuff in and got £140ton :beatsme :drinkup
Only problem, it wasn't mine I was just the truck driver :Banghead

 

[SKP 428]

I have been taking my old cast water pipe and valves to the scrap yards, from the last water line replacements . It has been paying good , cheaper then taking the pipe to the dump.

 

[bear]

I've taken off about 3 boilers like that in the past few months. I'd already cut 'em up and kept the pipe for some cattle runs I'm building for a guy. Here they'll take anything you can haul in. I sold my wife's cousin some iron wheels and the boiler off an old horse drawn rock crusher. In my spare time I'm building him a frame and bed for the thing. Cut down 2 oak trees for the bleedin thing and had 'em sawed up. should look good when it's done.

 

[SKP 428]

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

 

[w2bstoned]

What's up with the concrete blocks under the concrete pipe?? ?

 

[SKP 428]

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

 

[D5G]

never seen anyone insulate a pipe like that before....interesting

 

[SKP 428]

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 .

 

[D5G]

wow thats insane

 

[SKP 428]

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