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Final Project Reflection and Safety Reinforcement

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How NOT to help trees guys. (while building a retaining wall)

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What happens here

As the project progresses, the crew continues to build the retaining wall, compacting the soil and gravel layers with a plate compactor and adding more retaining wall blocks. The terrain above the wall is regraded by hand and with heavy machinery like the Kubota R530. The narrator reiterates the critical importance of safety, especially when working near utilities. He shares a cautionary tale about hitting a high-voltage line on a previous job, emphasizing that even with marked utilities, caution and skepticism are vital due to potential inaccuracies. The key takeaway is to always prioritize human safety over project timelines or equipment. The project pauses again due to heavy storms forecasted for the night and the following day.

Goal: Reinforce safety practices and project management lessons.

Tools and materials

  • Kubota R530 Wheel Loader Kubota — Regrading terrain and moving materials
  • Plate Compactor Wacker Neuson — Compacting soil and gravel layers
  • Rake — Leveling soil
  • Retaining Wall Blocks — Building the wall structure
  • Shovel — Grading and moving soil by hand
  • Gravel — Drainage and backfill
  • Soil — Backfill and grading

What they say

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touched it man here you go the one machine right here I'm not making that phone call [Music] [Applause] and they got all the trees over here so got a pile of stuff right here here I got an awesome team I'm just going to tell you right now I have an awesome team what the guys are talking about is that's my personal K cabota I reserve it for snow plowing I'm trying to keep it in as good a shape as possible so I can get the most years out of it for snow plowing as possible and I don't usually let it go out on job sites like this that's why they feel so bad but the fact that they feel so bad tells me they care that's all they want out of a team I just want guys that care care about the equipment care about each other care about their work care about how the job site goes you can't buy that you can't buy that you got to find it you got to Foster it you got to grow it in your team I got a great [Music] team put in 1792 6 1792 the future but all right we were digging out for our next chunk of wall here and we hit storm sewer not marked because it was a private line and he called out private lines and I bet the site manager didn't even know about this line here otherwise he probably would have requested uh drain water as well too on top of just electrical you know but he didn't so this wasn't marked and I thought it was a curb or just Concrete in the hillside which you find a lot the only way to do anything is to bring our wall and step it over there probably enough meat on the sidewalk there to put Rock right on top of that this bit started coming up pretty quick over here yeah you can see there's nothing else to do here if we get if we get it up to here and then rock it step it up we got to bridge it it's been years since 1992 that mother that thing ain't moving you know no it ain't going nowhere good thing you didn't crack it in half be because I was cuz then it's tearing all this out putting a new new section in yeah because you can't well lucky we would have broke it right by a hub so they could have gone there to wherever their next splice was or they would have had to redo it all the way till where it ends usually there's not enough especially with this concrete pipe I bet there's not much room to be able to slide a piece on and then I think that tree came down and smashed this thing and left those scratch marks me too yeah broke the window pours guys if you dig in the dirt please mark your utilities and respect the time frame they required to locate those…

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