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jimcox
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Mud, mud, glorious mud
There's nothing quite like it
For cooling the blood

Setting pile positions today after the first heavy rain for months

Well over ankle deep - should have bought my snorkel

 
Posted : March 16, 2016 7:17 pm
anonymous
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Jim your pleasure is shared. We need that wet stuff badly.
Piles! For a building?
Will that upset the locals? Pile driving next to houses can bring out the unexpected and even from long way off.

 
Posted : March 16, 2016 11:53 pm
jimcox
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Yes - piles for a house - around 40 x 10m piles. But they are screw piles - so not hard driven

The ground in this part of town is pure crap - that's a technical term. Boggy swamp and river sediments shot through with liquifaction.

There is a driven pile operation going on a couple of sections away. The driver of that digger in the pic says he can feel it even when operating.

Will it upset the locals? probably not - its way less vibration than any earthquake and we have more than ten thousand of them

 
Posted : March 17, 2016 12:07 am
Joe the Surveyor
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Good thing the port-o-potty is up on dry ground. B-)B-)

 
Posted : March 17, 2016 3:18 am
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jim.cox, post: 362720, member: 93 wrote: Mud, mud, glorious mud
There's nothing quite like it
For cooling the blood

Especially when this happens...

 
Posted : March 17, 2016 5:16 am

brad-ott
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Joy joy joy.

 
Posted : March 17, 2016 9:11 am
skwyd
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jim.cox, post: 362720, member: 93 wrote: Mud, mud, glorious mud
There's nothing quite like it
For cooling the blood

Setting pile positions today after the first heavy rain for months

Well over ankle deep - should have bought my snorkel

Snorkel? In ankle-deep mud? I'm wondering why your ankles need to breathe... 😛

 
Posted : March 17, 2016 9:54 am