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Compacting Fill Layers

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A homeowners Nightmare

What happens here

As layers of soil are added to the pool basin, they must be properly compacted. The video discusses the importance of achieving specific Proctor density levels, usually around 95% for residential backyards and 97% for commercial sites, to ensure stability. Over-compaction in residential settings, especially where gardens or grass are desired, can make the soil too dense, preventing water penetration and plant growth. The CTL is used to drive over and compact the soil layers evenly.

Goal: Compact each layer of fill soil to the appropriate Proctor density to ensure stability and prevent future settlement, adjusting for site-specific needs.

Tools and materials

  • Compact Track Loader (CTL)

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Heat up here. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Okay, camera's about to die, so we got to talk fast. Uh, end of day numero do. Good morning, everybody. Back out on the pool demo. We were rained out on Friday. We got like over an inch, which was nice, but [Music] And then We packed her up a little too good there. Uh so yeah, and Tim's got the pump out on his pool demo. So we're just uh we're just going to skim this off until we hit something solid and then uh work from there. I can't believe that this is still wet. And it's not just wet. There's like standing like actual like inch and a half of water in the bottom of this thing. And it was a good job at packing it up. It was like 80° all weekend, too. I can't believe it didn't dry out. Oh well. Small hurdle we're facing today. Like like a 18in hurdle. Not not one of them super high regular ones. So with that puddle we had, I got that mucked out. We got down to dry solid fill, but the fill that's coming in is kind of wet, which doesn't really matter. it'll it'll pack up and stuff like that. But with that and working on where that puddle was, we got to be I got to be real careful about not overwork the material when I'm packing it so that it doesn't start sumping water up out of this. So, we're just uh we're we're going to pack it. We're just going to be careful packing it so we don't over so we don't go wild and start sumping a bunch of water out of there and then really making problems for ourselves. My dumb ass forgot to pick this back on after lunch, but y'all really didn't miss too much. So, we're just going to keep filling in a hole. What Sam is t talking about is if he packs and there's water way down here and he's packing up here, that packing starts to to draw the water up. So, there's a certain amount of packing you can do. Now, let me just throw this out there. If it's a commercial site, you can't overpack it. 97% standard proctor density is what most commercial sites like to aim for. A lot of times typically we'll hit at 102 103% standard proctor density which is 2 or 3% over 100% and a lot of people are like oh you can't do that. Well that's because they're telling you that they don't understand geoengineering. Yes you can absolutely get to 102 103% standard proctor density. It's physically possible. You can do it. It's not a big thing. But you can overpack in someone's backyard. That's when you want to hit at around 95% standard proctor density. If you're in…

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