This is a sweet number bro, had a giggle when I saw Tim breast feeding the shovel it reminded me of road workers in the past. O'l Betsy is just right for the job. Stay safe up your way guys
Haha, lol!!! Breast feeding a shovel.....I've never heard that saying, & I've been in the business for over 20 yrs. Love it. Great solution to a problem Chris.
Gas line reminds me of when I was working for a lawn sprinkler company putting in a system. The place was marked for all utilities. The person operating the machine to drag the pipe underground was headed to where a gas line was marked so I waved for him to stop. He said : "Don't worry, the gas line will be deeper than this drags the pipe. He cut a 6 inch gas main. Fortunately he got the machine shut down before it started puling in natural gas. You can't even get some people to avoid the utilities by properly marking them AND telling them to not hit it just before they hit it. This is probably why that supervisor was worried when you were digging near the gas pipe.
For me it's the different equipment used.. and the different ways of doing it. Mind you I am the same with watching drains being cleared.. that RU-vid rabbit hole Hope all is well
Straight corrugated metal pipe should only be used for temporary conditions, like temporary stream crossings and such. If a person is going to use CMP, it should be Aluminized, Type 2 Coated CMP. Army Corps of Engineers did a pipe material longevity study of the topic back in 1986 and found that ALCMP, T2 outlasted all other metal pipe coatings by 2X - 6X.
So amazing watching you dig without hitting boulders, here in Newfoundland, Canada you don't get 6 feet without hitting boulders and the 6 feet you do get is just about all rock.
i dont mean to be offtopic but does anyone know a way to get back into an Instagram account..? I was stupid forgot the password. I would love any tips you can offer me
This big boys use that method too, just not very often. The last building foundation I worked on was a 10 arce building for Microsoft's world headquarters in Renton WA. As they progress down the hole, they turn the bucket around like that to fines the dirt out of the way for the cribbing crews.
Great video as usual. Really enjoy the time lapse. Not worried about that ditch sliding in on the kid? In that clay soil he would be finished. A little shoring goes a long way. Just a thought. I’m a retired fireman and have seen that end tragically.
That dude doing the core drilling got no ear defenders? Just the thought of trying that is making my ears bleed, don't know how he can stand that noise! I'd be in agony on the floor from that trying to cover mine up
@@westonhoffman9710 Nice to have something that doesn't need a lot of focus and attention playing while I'm doing my editing, helps to keep the boredom at bay! Besides, watching an experienced operator like this at work is always good, can learn little tips and pointers from watching him that I wouldn't have otherwise thought of
Damn it, my hands and neck are sore from pulling on the same leavers your pulling on.. I'm and old wore out operator that just loved to do that kind of work.. Nice job finding that Gas line , No BOOM today, See Ya Texas
we have installed 100s or 1000s of sewer and storm pipes into manholes and have never seen one done that big with a drill only 4 to 6 inch with drills.. rest are done with cement saw and a sledge hammer. Grout after pipe is installed and done.
Good smooth operator really knows how to operate that excavator. Must have a lot of experience operating equipment good smooth Job some guys dig a two ft trench and it winds being four foot wide !
Believe you are gonna be back there many more times Chris, They didn't want to spend the money awhile back when ya had a 30 ft. Deep hole dug checking all that junk pipe but, they are gonna have to spend it , just like on that section... with many more to come i'm afraid.....lololol...They should have just broke down the first time and had you guys fix it all then !! That's ok too !! Instead of one Big Job , just gonna be a bunch of smaller ones on that site it's looking like... Thanks for sharing !! Have a Great Evening... Stay Safe !!
2,4,5, comes to mind watching this. 2Ft spoil pile and tools away from trench, 4Ft when ladder is needed, 5ft when shoring or benching is needed and you have 1 of the 3 took care of.
I was going to ask if the yellow pipe was a Natural GAS Line. I waited and you confirmed. The core drill, That was very interesting. Knew there had to be a way, just didn't know HOW.
that owner might have been antsy around that gas pipe but i bet he was dam impressed after the digging was done. dam these guys know what the hell they are doing i bet he thought.
I am just curious why you don't have the area marked for utilities. The state where I live a contractor blew up a good portion of a downtown area and there was a fatality where it happened. I noticed that you had someone making sure that you didn't hit the gas line. Also I know that you know what you are doing with the machine. They even encourage the homeowners to get the utilities marked. It is a free service.
@@nealgramento2055 Wow. I Wisconsin they will mark any public utilities and the owner of private property owned electric and water and drainage is thiers to mark.
They will mark the gas, electric and telephone cable TV on your property for free. They want you to give them a call even if you are planting flowers. And if you would accidentally hit the line without a hotline you could be charged for the damage
Okay I know that it had be dug up I don't see any of the markings in the video. The reason why I was I work for a municipality and we didn't put anything in the ground before it was marked.
There was a time when at my home I had a sewer lateral that was blocked by trees roots. The contractor that I had to do the work was not really happy if they had to dig it up. There is a city tree, in the sidewalk is a 12 inch Waterman then a electric duct that is before getting into the sewer. I was lucky that they tried before the digging started. They got a huge lateral snake and got through the blockage. I was very happy a the contractor was happy also.
Hell of an electric line.Amazes me that these places get built and no one knows exactly what utilities are where.No excuse.Building owner /supervisor should have maps of where everything is located outside .Would have been a bad day for you to bust that ,even though you were assuming electric was there.Nice job working around it
That's why we watch this. to learn these awesome tricks :) And it seems so trivial in hindsight, but damn that would have helped me when I was putting my pipes in.
The guy watching from the insurance company? (I'm guessing a gas line, as they're yellow here in the UK). ETA and two minutes later - you gave the answer...:-)
im sure you put in a short pipe already at that pond head wall and poured cement around it . maybe it was on the other part of this same job, as it had 2 places
Nice job Chris! :-) I'm wondering, how many times do you dig up something that shouldn't be there? Not like a dead deer or cow or something, but more like a car, or chunk of aeroplane? :-O
Well now apparently that guy didn't realize he was dealing with a PROFESSIONAL team of dealing with underground utilities you go let'sdig 18 or maybe he's in a bad mood because he can't find toilet paper 😂😂😂 nice work guys 😎👍👍
Donald Triumph HERE HERE.....US YANKS JUST HAVE NO COMMON SENSE.... DONT FORGET WW2 WHERE WE CAME ACROSS THE POND AND SAVED YOUR ASS.... YOUD BE SPEAKING GERMAN. HAHAHAHAHAHAH😁
How many hours does that machine have on it now? We just got a ‘14 io35 with 800 hrs on it. We’re still waiting on the yanmar dealer to get the thumb on it so I haven’t even laid eyes on it yet... we’re sure excited and really hope it’s a good machine.
Oh ok, how well has the under carriage held up in that amount of time? And was that the first set of tracks y’all put on it? 3500 hrs isn’t bad at all for a set of tracks!
2 questions: What is the makeup of the soil that eats what appears to be a 20 year old piece of culvert? Normally that has a lifespan of 60+ years. Second; do you ever just form up the outside and pour a concrete block to hold the new culvert in place? I see that done here in the Pac NW all the time, It seems to make a better seal so I have been told.
More than likely its whatevers running through the pipes into stormwater (more than likely salt water from road de-icing and stuff like that) than the soil makeup, which looks mostly like dirt. Also, corrugated pipes tend to rust and decay to the point where its quite common. That's why most pipes these days are plastic or concrete.
knotbumper looks like 80% clay, 10% marl(at the bottom, the gray stuff) and 10% topsoil(dirt that came from digging the pond?). Thats what it looks like to me, anyway. Clay soil is acidic.
Hey there Chris , It must be hard on Tim’s back leaning on the shovel - you maybe aught to get him a seat to sit on to watch you work, just saying is all. Cheers and beers from Aus 🇦🇺
question, does that mean that you will have standing water in that concrete junction below the new pipe? If so wont that wate leach out of the old pipe and possible cause a wash-out or sinkhole near the retention pond where you cut it?
Their going to fill the catch basin with concrete up to the bottom of the new pipe, the old metal pipe will get filled with flow able fill witch is similar to concrete in that it get hard
Hey Chris, WTF was up with the original engineer or contractor on this project? I'm pretty sure I've watched most of the videos on this project, but don't understand why the drain was laid with so little fall. And as always thanks for all the videos and I'm still pulling for Tim's raise...
@@letsdig18 I wondered if this building was originally built for another purpose OR, deep enough for expansion of the building on top of the buried utilities and drainage. Maybe the retention/detention pond used to be much deeper and has filled in??
Jim M i would be willing to bet the dirt dug from the detention pond became the hillside the building is sitting on. So when the pipe was laid, it might have been only 6 feet deep, but by the time the pad was finished and hillside graded, it was 20 feet. Just a theory. Our pond dam was created when our across the street neighbor built his inground swimming pool and needed a place to put the dirt. Win, win.
That's a really good question. From the video and info given, no utilities in the way, like the two 12in pipes into the manhole, looking at the tailwater level and the invert elevation, probably not a good design. Last thing you want to do as an engineer is use a manhole that deep unnecessarily. Especially that small of diameter. Unfortunately shortening that manhole can cause some HGL problems, and your unable to upsize the outfall pipe cuz of the manhole size.
Hope you had an engineer verify the Hydraulic Grade Line (HGL) when you shortened that manhole? Otherwise you probably will have a fountain ⛲ instead of a manhole, among several other problems like backflow. But hey, it's cool to see a manhole cover fly into the air when it rains.
@TheOtherBill either way any marked utility line should be hand dug till verified. You should include the hand digging at the utility line. CYA your insurance company rates could be effected. If you're a contractor that only cares about speed and not safety your premiums are sky high. As a former district inspector for a large gas utility watching this video i see you do it correctly. But more video of hand digging could help you some day to verify your work ethic. An insurance company will always try to blame a contractor to get out of a claim. Your trenching method is a great way to safely comply with the shoring requirements. The angle of repose most people don't understand. As a person who on a daily basis encountered many contractors and some incompetent ones. When something bad happened it was asked of me to give input into my experience with a contractor. I learned in my documentation and photos to note possible evidence good or bad. Hoping i would never have to give it. In my state Massachusetts a gas utility had a major incident involving over pressurized system. In government evidence there is a picture that shows the contractor and utility worried about a possible problem. Utility blames lower management and contractor. Management blames documentation and contractor blames utility. The fact is everyone knew that there could be a problem a big problem. They set up a group of gages to watch for the problem but didn't tell the crew monitoring what to expect. Meaning the workers didn't know what to watch for and I'll leave it there There concerns were correct but the crew doing the monitoring didn't understand what the setup of pressure gages were for. The situation could of been stopped rite away but wasn't. Cover your ass CYA
