Commercial construction work pictures

[skyking1]

Today I have dug as far as I can go. I'm hanging 10 behind me.

And trenched right up between my tracks.

At least I have the bedding material within convenient reach.

The job site coordination here is just abysmal. I had to move rebar, garbage bins, lumber just to get a place to put the dirt. I could get more done if I had more room!
There was freezing rain and ice on the roads this morning so I took my sweet time bringing the dump truck out. There was a wreck not far from my house.
Here's the 3406 on a cold morning with no heat, not bad until you crack the throttle.

 

[CM1995]

Nice trench! Sanitary or storm line?

Are the mafia blocks for temporary shoring or part of the final construction?

Curious as to how much you use the hyd. thumb as opposed to laying pipe. We have manual thumbs as opposed to hydro on both our hoes since we lay pipe and grade more than we need a thumb. When laying pipe a thumb gets in the way and slows down production so the crews will drop the thumb and put it on only when it's needed.

 

[skyking1]

Left to right, 8" storm, 8" sanitary, and 4" oil/water line from the catch basins and the elevator sump pump.
Not dug yet; 4" grease line from commercial kitchen above. It is brought out from under the pour, but is shallow on the left.
The blocks are set to grade in this case, as there is a massive footing pour just under the pipe. I bedded it with pea gravel and the blocks are abandoned.
Grease goes to the 2000 gallon interceptor we crane set in December. It is approximately under the truck's rear axles, buried in the ramp.

Tomorrow after this trench is inspected and backfilled, I will set the little oil/water separator.
I don't care for the thumb, but since it is on there I use it to move my buckets around and it is handy for doing other contractor's jobs, like gently getting rebar bundles out of the way. When I am digging in a box, the thumb is a pain. Deep 2' wide ditch is also a pain, as the frankensteins are wider than the bucket. It is not enough of a hassle to completely re-tool the excavator.
I have already decided that the next deep double stack job I will rent a 200-ish with appropriate bucket and NO thumb. My guess is there will be approximately one of those before I retire

The whole job steps down 4' and that little chunk of 10" in the first picture below and behind me is the sleeve for one of the lines. The general wants me to be done to that non-existent wall by Friday. I explained *once* the wall needed to be backfilled before we set that pipe, but it made his head hurt. I quit 'splaining at that point.

 

[Coaldust]

Skyking1 don’t claim to be a plumber, but that ol’e boy can lay some pipe!

 

[skyking1]

I can dig it!

 

[skyking1]

Nice trench! Sanitary or storm line?

Are the mafia blocks for temporary shoring or part of the final construction?

Curious as to how much you use the hyd. thumb as opposed to laying pipe. We have manual thumbs as opposed to hydro on both our hoes since we lay pipe and grade more than we need a thumb. When laying pipe a thumb gets in the way and slows down production so the crews will drop the thumb and put it on only when it's needed.

I will take a higher shot tomorrow, the first half of the upper level of building is poured out, there is 200+' of pipe under that.

 

[skyking1]

OK I forgot, but now I have a fancy Liebherr to take pictures of tomorrow. It rolled in today to get set up and assemble the tower crane. It looks pretty stout, it had a 5 axle jeep under the boom.

 

[Crummy]

I rented a 300 with 2 buckets from H&E there right after they opened- delivered it with the small bucket on & the thumb was way wider than the bucket. I was scratching my head why someone didn't notice that before they sent it out.

 

[Welder Dave]

DAVID WILCOX - Layin Pipe - YouTube

 

[Coaldust]

Welder Dave,

LMAO!! Never heard of David Wilcox. That’s awesome.

 

[skyking1]

I backfilled that trench yesterday and promptly made a new pile of dirt next to it.

we dug out for the oil/water separator and daylighted the pipe.

Getting ready to set the oil/water structure inside the 8x8 aluminum trench box. Something is wrong with this picture.

 

[skyking1]

The crane is a Liebherr LTM 1300 6.2, a 360 ton with 256 feet of main boom.

Thatś a heckofa jeep for the boom!

It was a little breezy by the time they were setting the boom. The tag line guy was getting a workout on the ground.

They hung a couple of more sections on the boom, I am guessing it has 240´
The tower is only about 120' high.

 

[skyking1]

Nobody took the bait on that third picture with the shoring, so Iĺl spill the beans.
Note all the gravel and stuff on that new tank? That was the second time I set it. They decided to daylight that pipe so I did not have enough pea gravel, I ran at lunchtime to get more. Iḿ almost back and get this call, we floated the tank!
They had pumped down the tests on those 3 pipes, but clearly not enough. When they popped off the caps, the water ended up in the hole i had dug, and they were sciencing now
I get parked and there sits that tank, all askew floating in the pea gravel at a 30 degree slant. OK that sucks. Then I hear the story and it s a gut buster. The plumber is standing on the tank, supervising his guys, and it slowly starts floating up. My main helper is watching and the plumber is clueless as to what is happening. Once it started to go, it came up at that 30 degree angle and he is surfing the tank going "WTF is happening?¨
That was a missed Kodak moment if ever there was one
We talk about floating tanks, caution people about filling them, etc, and then they get a lesson not soon forgotten.

 

[Coaldust]

Interesting circumstance. Really caught the surfing plumber off-guard and took a moment to recognize the situation.

I wasn’t familiar with the phenomena until recently. The new Costco in Fairbanks installed USTs at the gas station and the trucking company we hired to deliver the fuel was a couple days late with the delivery. The contractor was freaking out because the tanks were starting to move.

 

[skyking1]

It for sure is a thing. Concrete septic tanks will come up too.

 

[Coaldust]

I need a septic installed after the snow melts. The outhouse concept is getting old. I’m getting old.

Skyking, fiberglass? Concrete?, plastic?
One bed, one bath. Ground perks fine.

As per the MatSu Borough, I can watch a video, take a quiz and get a permit to do it myself. Probably not worth the learning curve when there are lots of contractors available that can do it.

What’s your schedule look like?

 

[skyking1]

Snort!
The mobe would be prohibitive
If they sell plastic tanks up there, that would be great. The thing that goes bad on septic tanks are the baffles on the inlet and outlet.

 

[Coaldust]

Lol. Thought I’d ask.

 

[skyking1]

IF you can hold it for two years we will drive up after we retire

 

[CM1995]

I wasn’t familiar with the phenomena until recently. The new Costco in Fairbanks installed USTs at the gas station and the trucking company we hired to deliver the fuel was a couple days late with the delivery. The contractor was freaking out because the tanks were starting to move.

We did the site work for 2 large gas stations in 2018. We dug the tank hole on one and the tank setting guys dug the other one. Talking to the head guy one day I asked him how they kept the tanks in the ground between the initial backfill and first delivery of fuel as it was a couple of months between the two.

His answer was we fill them with water like a septic tank. Curious, I asked how do you get all the water out before the first gas dump and he replies "we do our best to pump most of it out". He then proceeded to say don't buy any fuel here for a couple of months after the store opens...