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Blocker in MS said:
Oh yeah Ronsii! That is some good thinking! I have to ask though, What are these ROCKS you speak of?
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Oh.. sometimes we just have nice topsoil or clay to dig through...
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Other times we get little bitty rocks...
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Then usually we get some that are a bit bigger than the small guys...
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That job had 3-4 vaults 1800-2200 feet of conduit and a road crossing we were there a few days and dug up atleast a couple dozen of those big guys had a couple that were too big to get out of the trench :eek: and we had to skirt around them ;) hundreds of the little 1-2 foot rocks.
 
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Ronsii said:
That job had 3-4 vaults 1800-2200 feet of conduit and a road crossing we were there a few days and dug up atleast a couple dozen of those big guys had a couple that were too big to get out of the trench :eek: and we had to skirt around them ;) hundreds of the little 1-2 foot rocks.
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I live on the flood plain from the Missoula floods, I am no stranger to rocks. Running pipe more than once I have had to dig a pit to the side of the trench to roll a big one out of the way. By big one I mean maybe 10-15 tons.
 
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Might have been an option if we were doing storm or sewer but this was just a power service near eatonville so a couple 3 inch and a 1" if I remember right so we had a little wiggle room :)
Plus the really big ones we came across didn't have a 'waterline' as we tried to go deeper with them:eek: so not sure how big they were but we weren't gonna spend all day on one rock ;)
 
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Ronsii said:
Might have been an option if we were doing storm or sewer but this was just a power service near eatonville so a couple 3 inch and a 1" if I remember right so we had a little wiggle room :)
Plus the really big ones we came across didn't have a 'waterline' as we tried to go deeper with them:eek: so not sure how big they were but we weren't gonna spend all day on one rock ;)
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Mine were in the way of a 20" sewer line. You know how that works.
 
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You guys need some dirt, Top soil depths around Colfax and Pullman can run over 300 ft deep, around Wally world 125 ft deep.
 
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You guys need some dirt, Top soil depths around Colfax and Pullman can run over 300 ft deep, around Wally world 125 ft deep.
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Back in 2002 I had 2 excavators picking rocks on a 30 acre farm up north of Ephrata for 90 days, scratch out a rock, scratch for fill, scratch out a rock... There is still a rock pile the size of a football field about 20' high. And all they can farm is hay.
 
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