Finally, A JOB!!!

dayexco

rock? what are rock?

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nedly05

What are rocks? looks like you might not know about hills or trees either! Man would you hate working up here!!! I would love to get on a job like that, flat, no rocks, no trees to watch out for, nothing overhead! Im not sure I'd know what to do!! Lookin' good Mr. Day, great pics, slick operation!!

nedly05

Heres some rocks for ya! These came out of the topsoil layer of a 26X30 barn foundation. When we got all finished we had enough stones to build a couple of stone retaining walls on the site for the guy!

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dayexco

a few pics from today as you can see, we've had so much rain here lately, that if the ditch sits over the wknd....ground's so saturated....it's full!

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dayexco

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tgeb

I am surprised that they did not combine some of that corn out of your way.

Looks good though, you are moving right along. Will you finish ahead of schedule?

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PipeGuy

Ya' got me harkening back to "the good old days" with those pics.......not a compactor to be seen. S#*t 'n git.

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dayexco

fields are so wet....they can't get into the fields....farmers are scrambling to dual/triple tire their combines....some are going to the extreme of putting track conversions on them.. area i'm in...has had a LOT of rain last 2 wks...wettest october in history

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PipeGuy

global warming........

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tgeb

I thought it might be too wet.

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PipeGuy

Day - Do you just stab the joints on top and kick it in the hole? Is there any kind of "field-lok" type gasket for PVC ?

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dayexco

pretty much.....2 guys rolling off trailer, shoving together...barring into the hole...more or less a "dig and doze"....this work goes CHEAP...i GOTTA have a min. of 800' a day. we've been hitting 12-1300' pretty consistent...hope the weather holds out

don't know if you can see it on the pics....after the guys stab the pipe together....they give it a shot of fluorescent orange paint on the joint..that way when i backfill, i can see if any of them have pulled apart....only locking joints are the megalugs on the fittings.

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PipeGuy

I'm thinking if a pipe goes thru my corn field like that I'd be awful tempted to make my own "private connection" ....so my corn'd grow even taller.

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jmacd

That looks very different than what I have seen. The work that I was involved in was cast iron pipe, mega lugs on all fittings, thrust blocks, hydrants, laterals etc. The pipe was placed in stone bedding. That looks easy The water sucks, would of been nice to do that work in June. Looks like you are moving along nicely!

izzy

Good job. Nice soil separation.

Williams Ex Co

Gene, How do they locate these lines for the One-Call system? Do you bury a wire with the pipe? GPS? Really good memory? Thanks.

dayexco

cast iron? must have been quite a long time ago....most current iron buried piping for quite a few years.... is ductile...when you talk miles of pipe to serve 1-2 customers....you have to do things on the cheap...all fittings are thrust blocks/mega-lugged....but with a PVC water main pipe...why would you waste money on bedding material? our contract calls for us to go back next spring after it settles...and doze/level the ditch back up...the difference tween this and what we'd do for a municipal...in the street job...is probably about $7-8 a foot difference...here, it's dig 7' deep, bar the pipe in...doze it shut. anything more than that would make it cost prohibitive for the system to do the project.

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dayexco

one of the operators of the system rides the line with a GPS on his 4 wheeler

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DBRhino

What direction of watertown is your job??
You been Stuck yet? or any farmers?

dayexco

it's s.w. of milbank couple miles

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