This is sort of like the Lawton Blog, only different.
A typical day, any more, is anything but typical. Before the economy tanked, I was busy with boundary and topo work, now I'm lucky to have a construction site to go to.
They should make a reality show called Totally Drama Construction Site. Not that the job I'm on is all that much drama, it's just that construction has evolved into this finger pointing, it's not my fault, way of making money, that I have come to not really liking it all that much.
So, my day starts pretty early; I have to be on site at 7:00 so I get there by 6:45 to make a good impression. They are building a gravity sanitary sewer line. It's 16" ductile iron, 17' deep in some really bad conditions. (This is the reason for most of the drama). The project is in a valley, close to the sound, so they run into logs knocked down when Rainier blew a thousand years ago, plus the ground water is right there too, even though they are dewatering the area.
It's tough to keep good control for them....
The ground cracks and slides towards the trench and makes it difficult to keep the hubs accurate.
It's been warm and dry here, so it makes the conditions a little better. But now it's pretty dusty and the locals like to complain.
They are only getting about 80' a day, on average, so I don't need to be there every day. It would be nice to have some filler work to make my weeks a little better. Oh well, I'm sure I'm doing better than some others.
This is my 1,000th post and I tried to think of something really good, this was the best I could come up with.
Hope no one was too disappointed.;-)
Dugger
You sure this isn't in West Texas somewhere?
Good post for 1k Dugger. Hope the work flow begins to pick up speed for ya.
Cheers
Could be in my backyard. That top picture kind of looks like my lawn.
I remember de-watering operations in the sandy soils in West MI that often times also de-watered nearby wells, usually older ones that weren't real deep. Those folks weren't too pleased either, even if it was for installation of the sewer or water to service them.
There is a name for the drawdown cone for each pipe (I can't remember it), but in that sand they were pretty big so that they could be 10 or 15 ft deep. So every once in a while a persons well got effected.
There was just no way anybody could dig when the groundwater is only 2 or 3 ft down, so they just had to deal with it.
"Hope no one was too disappointed."
never disappointed by your posts
Don
> "Hope no one was too disappointed."
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> never disappointed by your posts
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AMEN
DDSM
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