Couple of pics. I found on the net.
Double Trouble
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hows all that hair on the fella with the tie in the bottom picture
It is amazing how quick things can go wrong some times
Paul
It is amazing how quick things can go wrong some times
Paul
Your better to die trying than live on your knees begging
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modelman093 wrote:Can only see the pic of the bogged Euc !?
Hi modelman,
That's strange, I'll load the pic. again.
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TrevorJ wrote:"Yeah, I told you a couple of days ago we weren't getting good compaction there, it was feeling a bit spongy to me"
Hi Trevor,
I think compaction would have been a bit of a problem in ground like that.
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Yeah, I think it might. I'm curious though, as to thoughts on whether they dropping a foundation for a new suburb/ shopping complex or stripping away overburden? Not that I have a clue what sort of soils the UK has, but if they were stripping, I'd guess there was either a spring right there or a ponded area that had been covered the day before or the ground up until that day was still frozen.I was probably laughing harder about "compaction," as I have memories of one dodgy site developer in our parts accepting fill of uncertain pedigree and not bothering to do anything more than a quick and nasty, level the tops off each truck load with a bladed trash compactor. I heard no one needed any engineers to know the foundation wasn't good enough, as, rain event + bogged machines in certain areas after it dried out = last I heard he had to strip the lot off, dumping it elsewhere and start again.
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No problem modelman.
Trevor, Dowsetts D9 was working in a borrow pit on a Motorway extension in Yorkshire.
The UK winter weather can be a problem on jobs involving cut and fill, (you can't compact water).
I remember one of my jobs, (about 1978 I think), where we had to pull off in late October and it was April the following year before we could start back.
This reminds me of this pic. of a couple of Cats working on our M4 motorway.
The caption on the pic. says it all.
Fred
Trevor, Dowsetts D9 was working in a borrow pit on a Motorway extension in Yorkshire.
The UK winter weather can be a problem on jobs involving cut and fill, (you can't compact water).
I remember one of my jobs, (about 1978 I think), where we had to pull off in late October and it was April the following year before we could start back.
This reminds me of this pic. of a couple of Cats working on our M4 motorway.
The caption on the pic. says it all.
Fred