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Trenching and Steel Edging Installation

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What happens here

Workers continue to dig a trench along the building foundation. They install steel edging along the edge of the newly graded area, using stakes to secure it in place. A laser level is consistently used to check the heights and ensure the steel edging maintains the desired pitch away from the building. Alex explains that the goal is to achieve an appropriate pitch that accounts for winter frost heaving, ensuring that even after heaving, the ground will still drain effectively away from the building. They also discuss getting the delayed utility locates resolved by directly contacting the area manager.

Goal: Install steel edging and ensure proper ground pitch for drainage and frost heave mitigation.

Tools and materials

  • Laser Level — Checking the height and pitch of the steel edging and graded area
  • Measuring Tape — Measuring distances and depths
  • Shovels — Digging trenches
  • Stakes — Securing the steel edging in the ground
  • Steel Edging — Creating a durable edge for the graded area and containing materials

What they say

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hey i heard you got hit yeah with the hydraulic line sprayed in the face with hydraulic what happened are you okay yeah i'm fine it just it was hot and it burned a little bit but yeah i mean look inside the cabin you can see it i mean i already wiped it down a pretty good amount but you can see it it was sprayed all over inside of there i i heard it and i was like right away instantly just i felt it right into my face it had to straight shot into my face as we saw it sprayed up over the kit over the it was like a cloud it was what did you do i just started rinsing water in my eyes and wiping my face off and i looked up on the poison control center and they said just rinse your eyes keep blinking while you're rinsing it did it had been running for a while or did it just start up or 45 minutes or so oh dude it was as hot as it was gonna be yeah it was as hot as it's gonna get i don't know if you're running it all day it got even hotter but it wasn't i didn't burn that bad um how's this going it's going we won't talk about that steel edgy like tim and i were talking you guys are having a bit of a challenge on the steel edging and uh mainly just getting these heights set here because in a lot of these front yards we don't have much pitch to work with so we got to get this down low enough to where we can have an inch or so out of the ground and still have good pitch out of there he's having water problems and frost keeping four feet off from the building so i wanted to give it enough pitch to where when it heaves in the in the winter again it's just going to kind of balance it out yeah so you're shaving this down aren't you yeah this is right there it was a big old hump here we shaved this down probably two three inches already so far oh alex and i were on the phone fighting with uh and tim we've all been fighting with the gopher state did you finally get the locates all done yeah i got a hold of the area manager tim gave me his number and he called the guy and he was out here within an hour so because we we had been the locates they were supposed to be done seven days ago right came out not a locate and you were you got on the phone and and then two days i tried to call them or two times i try to call him that morning and then you try to call him a third it was the same thing tim got the same thing never heard back so what i did was and uh sometimes they call you to see if you can delay markings actual people on um you have people that mark there's a i uh i…

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