the dreaded well points been there.first time I ever did well points we had to use raw sewer to drill the well points 1500 feet 500 between mh it was bad lol.
Pretty lucky to be able to bed the pipe in native besides your base. Nice work putting the crown to the side ive fought with guys about where to put it with them saying it needs to go to the top!!??? Like wtf haha. Im confused to why your running such wide spreaders? Nice dig though bud looked good 😁. Ive been mainlining for 18 years and am currently sittin on a komatsu pc490 23 feet deep 42" storm in black heaving sand. (In the sumner valley in washington state where the mt rainer lahar went through a thousand years ago. Hard pan at 175' lol.) 2 foot below invert quarry spall over X, fabric then 5/8's around pipe jumping jacked base, pogo'd spring line jumping jack top. Pipe layer works hard for a stick doin all that and makes it hella slow De watering the whole 9.
Thanks Kyle. Why mix perfectly good bedding with the crap. I guess I’m just anal about things. I’m now a super running 10 crews and I spend most of the time shaking my head. A good crew starts with a good operator and pipelayer. If the 2 click you’ve got something. But to answer the spreader question, I was using the box to lay some large diameter RCP as well.
I take it this is Florida hence the palm trees. I always see you guys in the excavation business wellpoint absolutely everything down there regardless of the ground elevation and have always wondered how the ground water behaves in Florida. I do excavation work on the shore in the north east mostly on barrier islands and its all sand/mud at those low elevations and we well point it sometimes other times we use stone and lots of pumps. Once you leave the barrier islands and the elevation increases the ground water will eventually be non existent in some spots. You know when I was visiting florida on the east coast I saw a city crew installing a fire hydrant they were about 4 feet deep and they had a little well point system set up with a header maybe a 6x6 but they seemed to be at least at elevation 15 they were near the beach but they were up top a big hill and the ashy clay they dug looked like what you were digging. My question to you sir is how does the ground water behave down there is it like an artesian thing where it will boil up? In the same area but right on the road along the beach I watched a contractor set a precast storm water pump station they were maybe 13-15 foot deep and had it all sheeted up and well pointed and man those boys fought that for a few days but they got it they had a pile of sand it had to be 30 tri axel loads from digging that thing and kept loosing the hole before they sheeted it.
We do a combination of all that you mentioned. Looks dry in the video but that’s because of the points. We also use 6” perforated sock stalled with a huge trencher. Notice I’m laying in rock? The bottom is saturated clay. Not stable material for sewer. We have 4 basic soil types down here. Sand, clay, hard pan, and shelf rock or cap stone. Sometimes you need dewatering, sometimes you can outrun the water and lay on stone, but we also have good dry sand where you need no bedding. Elevation doesn’t matter much here you can find water just about anywhere you dig. Coastal or inland.
This time last year we were 35' down for sewer line. We were building a pump station but 50' is not uncommon,,now that will make your balls crawl back up inside ya
You can really tell who the wanna bees are that criticize vids so quick. You can tell who has experience from the comments. Nice work man I'm on the eastern shore of MD we battle water every day as well.
Ya id like to know his explanation. Haha. Only thing i see thats weird ( critisize me all you want, i think this is a nice set of pipe) is why you pulled the box up out of ground before digging next set which all it does is engulf the bell making the pipelayer hand dig a bunch when you pull the box and have to beat it down again. Recommend leaving box where its at and pulling it. All in all quick set and nice work 😁
Well the problem I was having was the box was sticking in the clay and if I got to far away the machine wouldn’t pull it free without a dance. Compensating for the conditions I guess.
Just got done with this same situation lol putting the ladder and taking all that time ain’t getting you no where. Smarter ways to be safe in with the trench box
the ladder is something that was always a concern for me and my crew when we were working. The day you skip putting it inside the trench box is the day OSHA shows up
Dry conditions presented by the well points warrants rock under the structures only as per build specs. Did hit a few spots the well points weren't drying up that we had to rock.
Im a retired pipe layer, and your comment reminds me that the last 3 years I worked I spent about 60 to 70% of the time just attempting to keep the new guys alive.....
@LionelRichiesCrackpipe Ive dug more pipe than you can dream of. My guess is you have zero training and very little experience or were taught by someone who didn't know how to either. 13' is not deep sewer. When you hitting 20' plus then you have something to talk about. I can tell he's picking his tracks up, digging to deep into the ditch first, should be skimming the tops toward him till the bucket is full, he's not smooth, jerking stopping motions. I could out dig him two sets to his one. Especially in that sandy soil. Swinging way too far to the sides. All of that adds up to less production at the end of the day. Ive never had to pound the sides of a box that way. That tells me he has no clues and whoever is letting him do that should be fired too. Not to mention you are laying 8 inch and having to set it in with the hoe....Thats lazy. You can set that shit by hand. You can set C-900 water line by hand in 8" This is sewer pipe. That company is loosing money with these laborers and operators. They wouldn't last a day here.