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HD6GTOM 
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 4:26pm |
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Fellows they are building a new dollar general store and maybe a new McDonalds across the highway from us. Why would they spend 3 or 4 days with a sheepsfoot packing -- then spend 2 weeks tearing up everything they rolled and put in sewer. Got 3 track hoes, a jd crawler loader moving dirt, man can these guys move a lot of dirt in a day.
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DMiller
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 5:13pm |
Most construction sites are choreographed for efficiency, sound like the band leader for this event aint got a clue!
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 6:25pm |
or the government is payin them... 
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 7:38pm |
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"It's all a matter of plannin' "
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shameless dude
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 8:04pm |
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Tom....I too watched a new construction site being worked, they bladed off the grass, dug out about 2 ft of black dirt and hauled that away, hauled in yellow clay and packed it for a couple days. then a week later they came in and dug all that out and hauled it away and poured a basement and built on top of that! WTF? bet that was an expensive danged basement!
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HD6GTOM
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 8:30pm |
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Ya -- haint figured it out yet, they have torn up everything they packed. Wondering if it isn't something to do with the dirt. My partner in the tire shops son was killed in a sewer cave in right in front of my north office window. This would have been 40 years ago. These guys are right across the highway. Going kinda deep when they have one of the trackhoes in the ditch you can barely see the top of the house. If one of them guys is close to the road when I trip up to get the mail next day or to I will ask.
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Coke-in-MN
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 8:38pm |
Compaction is needed to build on - i put septic system at a water treatment plant near here - while doing it blacktop outfit came in and started laying base - then brought in large smooth vibrating roller - had it set so hard my hole for septic tank - 100 ft from where they were started caving in - had to tell then either park it until I set tank or pay my guys to stand around until they were done with their job . Was just working on a sewer job in city their 30" clay tile is 20' deep and over the top of that they are laying a 60" concrete storm sewer line - packing it with a plate compactor on a rubber tired backhoe
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Posted: 13 Apr 2017 at 8:40pm |
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young guy that went to collage to be a engineer
And no field experience .
In town near me they made them pile crusher run six feet deep over the whole building site to compact ground for like a year. And this was virg ground
Edited by Mikez - 13 Apr 2017 at 8:49pm
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HD6GTOM
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Posted: 14 Apr 2017 at 8:43pm |
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Well they dropped off -- looks like a high track 7 and set up the laser today. Then they bring back in a articulated sheepsfoot. Man these fellows can move dirt. One hoe is so deep you can just see top of house digging deeper. He's dumping the dirt up on the edge of the pit. Another hoe in picking it up and dumping it behind him. Then the guy running the track loader shoving it away from the hoe on top of the pit. This has been going on for 2 solid days. Mountain of dirt. Glad I'm not over there with a shovel moving dirt.
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Posted: 15 Apr 2017 at 12:35am |
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I worked on a project at the new, 20 years ago, Denver International Airport. Saw a track hoe digging in front of the under construction terminal building. A wheel loader was moving the dirt away. Walked over and looked in the hole, discovered another hoe in the hole digging deeper and the upper hoe moving it to the surface. Asked a foreman looking guy what was going on. Said there was a 5' storm drain about 30-40' down and they needed to get down to it to hook a pipe up from the deck on the terminal building. Didn't do it at the time as nobody thought about where the water would go from the deck. Asked how much it was going to cost, guy said he quit asking a couple weeks into his job, too depressing!
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