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Soil Compaction Techniques

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Dissed by The Building Inspector! #fail

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What happens here

This segment delves into the technicalities of soil compaction and 'bridging' during backfilling. The contractor explains that excessive compaction can lead to water wicking up and compromising the integrity of the fill. Instead, applying the correct amount of gentle compaction, particularly over areas with existing, potentially questionable, material, can create a 'bridging' effect, which helps distribute weight and ensure stability. The video shows the skid-steer operator meticulously working the soil, sometimes with a worker manually assisting with a shovel to achieve proper distribution and leveling.

Goal: Properly compact soil layers to ensure stability and prevent future settlement.

Tools and materials

  • Shovel — For manual leveling and spreading of soil
  • Skid-steer loader Caterpillar — For compacting and moving soil
  • Non-organic soil/dirt — Material being compacted and layered

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[Music] um okay what's the deal with the inspections i'm just waiting to hear back from you now so wait a minute we gotta have two inspections clear this up for me so there's two separate permits holders one for the natural resources and there's one for the building permit one for the silt fence yeah essentially the silk fence and like erosion control and silt socks up in the front i'm sure they're probably going to want to see a sewer outlet protection you know right there okay so i i'm trying to get a hold of the guy but no one answers their printed phone so i got two voicemails left to him but i just want to know if i got to get that offensive before he comes out here or what you know okay so then the other inspection is for the actual pool itself you you best let him know we got to do it this way because we don't have the space to do it any other way the actual building inspector yeah i got a voicemail into both of them okay well they'll let you know by tomorrow but we're that's why we'll film so if we have to we'll just show them this video to prove how we did it and what we're doing oh hey i got i got a line on a guy bringing in uh dirt for us for free and when i went to home depot there were these guys that they had a monster load of tin on their truck i would have never sent anybody down the road like that but it was all metal oh crap we got no metal in here right just a little bit i swear that stuff i pulled off first was 10. yeah but this is a buster crab right here yeah it is right there yeah so yeah we we can i can call these guys and they'll take all the 10. that's all they do is 10. they're scrappers but i got their number if you get a load of scrap you don't have to put it on johnny but are you going to save that to the end most likely that's usually how we do it yeah we'll just save it to the end and then we'll throw it on the throw it on them guys or throw it on john one way or another that's not what i put in here's what i put in is nice and firm still soil i got you're gonna bridge just fine you're gonna bridge just fine that little bit of something we put a house on on a spot where the middle was like jello like legit jello and i called the engineer out i called a different engineer because i didn't like the first engineer's opinion because he's like no it's fine and i'm like that in my my opinion that can't be okay i call the second engineer out he came out and he's like yeah what's the problem like it's doing it's doing this but it…

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