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Import and Manually Compact Fill Soil

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FAILING house foundation 2/2 . 4 k video

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What happens here

After the drainage is installed, new fill soil is imported to achieve the desired grading. A large dump truck delivers a load of gravel to the site. A Bobcat T180 skid steer loader with a bucket attachment is used to transport and distribute the gravel into the excavated areas around the foundation. Due to the repaired yet still vulnerable foundation, manual compaction is preferred over heavy machinery. Workers use hand tampers to compact the gravel in layers, ensuring stability without risking further damage to the foundation. This process also involves removing any remaining wet, unsuitable soil from the site and replacing it with dry, compactable material.

Goal: Backfill the excavated area with suitable material and compact it carefully to establish new grades.

Tools and materials

  • Bucket Attachment — Scooping and distributing fill material
  • Dump Truck — Transporting and delivering gravel fill soil
  • Hand Tamper — Manually compacting soil to prevent settlement
  • Rake — Fine-grading the fill soil
  • Shovel — Spreading and leveling fill soil manually
  • Skid Steer Loader Bobcat T180 — Moving and spreading large quantities of gravel
  • Gravel — New fill soil for grading and drainage

What they say

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needs to go [Music] now while we're back filling this we've got to do a couple things differently for one we're hand tamping it we'd never hand tamp around a foundation but we know that that foundation has already been compromised once and then just been patched over so we can't afford to run any heavier compaction equipment than just simple hand tamping second thing is we're importing fill soil the fill soil that was there was just wet sloppy mud so all that gets hauled away and dry soil gets imported in now we've got to start to rebuild the retaining walls along this foundation and to do that means we've got to import a few of our own stones so that we can get some better material in there some larger stones that will be a little bit more solid to raise the grade up [Applause] so that means we're gonna go down to our yard and go through our own personal stock pile of boulders that we have set aside just for cases like this where we need very certain size stones serve the shape that we can dig through we also have some Drive fill soil on hand so that we can bring it all out in one load so we've got to do a little sorting and separating so that we can move on retaining walls and altering those grades to correct the water

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