Some pictures from last September.
From time to time we assist the site supervisors on their field inspections.
At Kortrijk we have a subdivision site under pre-construction, the archeologists started with their recon trenches.
Once the the contractor has finished the excavations he has to compact the soil again to bring the site in its original state.
I have to stake some locations for a pressure test, part on undisturbed soil, the other where the excavations were located, these were surveyed before by our colleagues the archeologists.
The crane is used as counter weight.
As our engineer expected the results were bad ...
Up to the coast for another special job for our environment division. On two coast locations we have to measure the salinity in the soil.
One project at Knokke is for the enlargement of the new casino, The salinity is important for the type of foundations. At 'De Haan' the Royal Golf Club wants us to investigate if the groundwater can be used to irrigate the golf course.
The 'greenkeeper', an Englishman, was very kind an offered us a survey truck for this job.
During September I had Jef,an engineer-trainee, with me. We don't have the Em39 for the Conductivity Logs but we have an appointment with Jasper from the Geological Department of The Ghent University.
For Knokke one of the boreholes is located on the beach, the borehole company had to cut off the pvc pipe 1 m. below the sand. I did stake it a month before
but they arrived late, I had to leave already for another appointment, so it was not 100% sure that that the pipe was where I did stake it.
Jef in action, re-staking the borehole and preparing for some manual labor.
We locate the pipe exactly where it was supposed to be.
Setting up the Em39 and reading measurements every 20cm up to a depth of 30m. and 40m.
I enjoyed these types of surveys and good to team up instead of being on the road solo.
Happy Holiday from Belgium!
Christof.
Christ:
Way cool, as always, thanks for sharing. I am sure there will be comments about the bomb logo on the excavator.
Happy holidays.
T.W.
Christof.
The beach and a golf course! Now that's the way to work. Although, I'm not so sure about the bomb squad. Do they often find anything? Great pics as always.
Thanks Christ, I sort of figured it was somthing like that. We (the US) don't think about any past history that includes shells and bombs being left around.
T.W.
Thanks, Christ!
Very interesting.
I particularly like the tripod arrangement holding the pole. Can anyone provide more info on that unit?
Ian
When I visited Christof a little over a year ago he showed me the bipod unit and I tried to use it but never quite got the knack for setting it up. Christof was a real pro with it. It is a pretty simple device. The bipod legs we use over here telescope up and down but always seem to hang-up.
They sure do find remainders, depends a bit of the region, take Ypres or Melle near Ghent and you can't do any construction without
DOVO = Demining department of the Belgian army does collect about 3500 items a year, these range from grenades to 500 kg. bombs.
chr.
We use the light version, costs about €20.00
chr.
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