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Excavate Trench and Manage Groundwater

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He INSULTED my crew

What happens here

The project begins with the essential task of site preparation and excavating a trench to the required depth and width. Heavy machinery, such as an excavator, is used for the bulk of the digging, while shovels are employed for fine-tuning the trench edges. A crucial part of this stage involves managing any unexpected groundwater intrusion, which is shown being pumped out to maintain a dry and stable working area. The wall's layout is meticulously marked using string lines and stakes to ensure correct alignment and curvature.

Goal: Prepare a stable, dry foundation trench for the retaining wall.

Tools and materials

  • Excavator Daewoo — Digging the trench and moving large quantities of soil
  • Shovels — Fine-tuning trench edges, spreading materials, and minor digging
  • Stakes — Anchoring the string line for precise layout marking
  • String Line — Marking the wall's layout and ensuring straight lines or curves
  • Water Pump — Dewatering the trench to remove groundwater and maintain dry conditions

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here all right good day good morning well like noon now or whatever there we're all back from the Fourth of July we all got our fingers again and hopefully everyone had a good time and didn't really capture very much this morning cuz there just wasn't much to capture it was just we putting four or five blocks on discussing some stuff and then Timmy and Alex work on this other end while me and Sam we're on that end so a little busy doing stuff so now we we're just going to get this based out and go from there there's some things that happen on a job site that I just won't accept today we're going to run into some challenges and by the very nature of what we do as contractors that's normal whether you discover some soils underneath the retaining wall that you weren't expecting or a hydraulic hose brakes or something else happens my my team is trained to handle those day-to-day occurrences but on a job we just wrapped up before this one something happened on it that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up let's just dive into the video and see what we got [Music] cooking so right before we got to this job site we were working on a project and the customer comes up stands over the top of one of my guys and looks down at him and says yep the stupider you are the harder you work now he may not have been directing that directly at him but when you walk up with a cup of coffee in your hand and you look down and you see someone sweating and busting their butt to do the absolute best possible job they can for you you do not disrespect them by saying yep the stupider you are the harder you work I know they're there delivering the absolute best they possibly can the best possible work they're trying to do they're trying to take on all of the challenges that we have on a day-to-day basis and not make those challenges the customer challenges so my team is already facing enough things that to have them be disrespected on a project is the line that I don't allow to be [Music] crossed okay so there's there's water coming in from underground here it's kind of filtering through our Bay too but it's uh pretty clear water coming in now so it's it's coming from the ground and then Alex was just digging more here there's some coming from this side starting to starting to get in here too we pumped out a bunch uh got down to a better ground and we're going to do another

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