Viking work pictures

[joispoi]

I live near a tidal river. When the tide comes in, it comes in fast enough to create a wave. When the coefficient is high enough, it can be surfed.



The river is constantly eating away at the river banks which are primarily soft clay held in place by whatever vegetation is growing. One of the nearby towns hired me to patch low spots on the levee. Here are a few pictures from today.

The sand is from this winter's sand bags. The disintegrated from sun exposure.

I couldn't get the truck any closer.






Who needs a skid steer?

 

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[joispoi]

This last winter, the water level nearly put the top rail under water.



Surfers on the river!

 

[AlldayRJ]

Is that a hooklift truck? Lets see some pics of it

 

[ScottAR]

What he said.

Great Pics!

 

[joispoi]

Mitch: your PM box is full.

Steve: Mitch needs a bigger inbox

AlldayRJ and ScottAR: Here ya go:


Unloading the mini at the stockpile

I love the tilt bucket, but it's hard to beat the backhoe bucket for loading.





I didn't want to overload it since all the deliveries involved driving across soft ground.

 

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The thumb is getting closer to being finished.



I added some LED work lights, today.

 

[CDNDIESELMONKEY]

very nice job on the thumb! How did you cut the serrated edges?

 

[joispoi]

Thanks! I had the pieces for the thumb laser cut.

 

[joispoi]

A few pictures from a pool surround that I redid back in May






Couldn't get the truck in on this job so here's the Sprinter earning its keep.

 

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Microstation job I did back in May





This job was a bit of a sad story. The homeowners put in a pool last year, but the "installer" did a horrible job. It's one of those cheap steel wall + pvc liner in ground pools. Ground water pushed the liner out of place and the only way to fix it was to put in a drain. In order to get the drain in, I had to make room to work. I took out about 100 yards from behind this house. The 1.5 ton mini proved to be useless on this job. I tried to keep the concrete wall in place to keep dirt away from the pool. I needed another 6" to get the PC50 in there. I finally got sick of bouncing off the hard clay with the volvo and took out the wall to let the komatsu in. Taking the wall down was a joke. It was built by the same pool "installer". I hooked it with the bucket and pulled on it and the whole thing slide along the footing like a sliding door on a track.

 

[joispoi]

I fixed a broken water line at my friend's farm after work a couple of weeks ago. I had an audience of about 12 cows lined up in a row watching me, but I missed the shot. This was the best I could do.

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[joispoi]

I finished the thumb a couple of weeks ago. There are a couple of things that I could have done better on it, but it works well and I'm pretty happy with it.








I was working down by the river again last week. Here's a picture of one of the locks along the river. The river side is on the right, inland to the left. The tide is on the way out in this picture, but it hasn't gotten low enough for the lock to open up. The idea is that if there is severe flooding expected, they can open up the lock so that the flood plane takes on the water instead of having the river flood somewhere else.

 

[maddog]

nice setup

 

[JD8875]

Thumb looks good! I wish I would have given mine a little curve when I built it, but it works well. Its so handy I'd hate to give it up that's for sure. Mine is pinned on. Takes about a minute to hook it up if I need it or drop it if I'm running straight trench work or doing something where I need to shave a few pounds off the end of the stick.

John

 

[joispoi]

Maddog & JD, thanks.

Being able to take off the thumb would be a plus in some cases. The extra width of the thumb has rendered my 30cm bucket useless for trenches deeper than 2'. Overall though, I'm happy to have the thumb.

Getting ready to unload some clay at an old gravel quarry. There were a few thousand yards of gravel that left the quarry that weren't part of the approved extraction area. The owners have been advised to restore the area to correspond with the official topographical map. I've gotten the truck close to being stuck a couple of timesat this site. The beauty of having a hooklift truck is that you can push yourself out of a bad situation with the box.

 

[JGibson]

Looks awesome! I wouldn't want to be without mine. Why don't they use thumbs in Europe that much?