Project Overview and Safety Briefing

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CLOSE CALL! Alex almost Hits Zak with the Skid steer.

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The speaker provides an overview of the completed preliminary work, explaining the initial problem of water runoff from the street and storm sewer outlets flooding the backyard. He points out the two storm sewer outlets that directly dumped water into the yard and explains that extending pipes to the pond was not feasible due to city permits, inspections, and associated costs. He highlights the success of the new drainage system during a full day of rain, noting the absence of water rivulets in the yard. The speaker also discusses the use of massive rocks in the dry creek bed to resist movement during heavy storms and mentions the hand-placement of these rocks by one worker while another handles grading with the skid steer. He stresses the importance of safety when operating heavy equipment, advising against laborers working in the blind spots of machinery, advocating for constant eye contact between operators and ground crew.

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[Music] this [ __ ] is amazing all right you guys if you're just tuning in let's get you caught up real fast what's going on with this project is the city's water directly dumped right off from the street and flooded out my customers backyard on top of that they have two storm sewer inlets that outlets technically that dump the water that comes pipes underground directly into their yard leaving these guys with a really big mess now one of the questions that came up is why don't we just extend these pipes all the way down to the pond and we would love to but we're never allowed to technically connect into the city's system if we do want to connect into the city system it just requires more permits it requires more inspections it requires time and expense and these guys had had enough and we needed to come up with a solution to give these guys a backyard as quickly as possible now we've had a full day of rain yesterday and last night and i'm out here just checking on the system and you can see we don't even have any water rivlet so a little bit right there okay but i believe that's more than likely just contained from right within the property because if it was coming off the street or overflowing the system this would be a complete washout one of the things that you'll notice is we're using pretty massive rocks to do this and the reason we're using these bigger rocks is it resists movement in heavier storms so this thing just has a massive water coming out we don't have to worry that any of this wall any of this material any of these boulders are going to end up down in the pond now in a little bit you're going to see in the video where zach is actually hand placing these rocks and alex is over here grading and it's the worst of all possible scenarios because alex almost hits zach without even knowing it and one of the things that we see in the construction industry is the more competent the equipment operator the more complacent the laborers get and what that basically means is they get very comfortable around a good equipment operator and they overestimate the skills of the equipment operator with their own lives they put themselves in situations that can be very dangerous and you're going to see it what should have happened in this case is if alex did have to back drag this way because sometimes when you're grading you've got to go in one direction then you've got to change directions zach should have just not been working in this zone at all…

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