Cutting Complex Corner Cap Blocks

an outside 90 degree and the inside like what we got going on over there is just like that right and then the outside like this obviously is like that i'm working on the outside right now let's do is take either a or b it doesn't really matter you have the rough side on one end and then you need to split the other end i've done that already and when you're splitting these caps it's not like when you're doing the blocks where you can kind of just score either side and beat the balls off of it on the back and split it like that these you need to score each side and then constantly keep rotating it so you get a nice clean uh split on there otherwise they can end up looking kind of crappy yeah so what sam is talking about is those splits on the caps they don't have a beveled edge to let you slide a chisel in and use so you gotta really finesse those meaning you gotta work them all the way around evenly you can't bang one side or another because the whole face won't split at the same time but let's actually break down how much money we lost on this job at a thousand dollars per day our first breakdown we didn't lose a full day of work we were able to pull this asv in to save the day then we discovered our first of four soil corrections the first one took us the longest between two and three days to really come up with a solution and to get that solution approved and we can't expense the lost time because we can't expense our overhead toward the project if we're not actually working at least that's not the way we