Excavate Exterior Soil

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Day 1: Emergency Foundation Repair

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What happens here

Using the Bobcat 325 mini excavator, the crew begins to excavate the soil from the exterior of the garage wall. They dig a trench alongside the wall, removing the heavy, wet soil that has been exerting pressure and causing the wall to bow inward. For areas directly under the overhanging roof where the excavator's boom cannot reach, a worker manually shovels the soil to ensure the entire wall is exposed. This removal of external pressure is crucial for allowing the wall to move back into its original position.

Goal: Remove soil from the exterior of the garage wall to relieve pressure.

Tools and materials

Bobcat 325 Mini Excavator Bobcat — Digging the trench and removing soil
Shovel — Manual excavation in hard-to-reach areas

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will work more guy with the ground frozen it's not gonna help the dig go any better but that's not the only challenge these guys are facing [Music] it's tight with that eave overhead they can't get the right attack angle and on top of it they're dealing with a failed foundation wall that means that they can't just go in and put the bucket down and grab as much dirt as they want that extra pressure on that foundation wall could blow it out so what they've got to do is take a little tiny baby sized chunk and slowly pick away at getting the pressure off from that wall until they feel that it's a little safer I'm not sure if you'll be able to tell looking down this wall here but it is right about where that window is not all of it can be safely cleared with the excavator there's an area where the concrete wall meets the footing that's got to be hand scraped off just to see how bad the damage is all right so in

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