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Deep Excavation for Final Grade

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Massive water problems led to one disaster after another. 4 k video pt 2 of 2

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What happens here

The skid steer loads more excavated dirt and organic material into a dump truck. The narrator explains that extensive excavation is required to correct the grades. It's not enough to simply skim the surface; they must dig deep enough to allow for the re-importation of new organic material (topsoil) and to account for the thickness of the final sod layer. This ensures that when the sod is installed, the final elevation is perfectly set, promoting effective drainage. A lot of existing dirt is removed to make way for controlled, precise new layering.

Goal: Excavate sufficient material to establish the correct base for regrading, accounting for new layers.

Tools and materials

  • Dump Truck — Removing excavated material from the site

What they say

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you come out of break lanai chime so free to correct the grades means we've got to do a lot of excavation because we can't just skim down to where we want the elevation set we've got to actually dig deep enough that we can then re-import organic material and then also take into consideration the actual height of the sod itself the side typically will come with its own padding of black dirt as well and so all of that has to get added into the measurements for the removal prior to the restoration beginning so a lot of dirt basically comes out and we can bring water back in but not quite as much dirt is the easy way of saying

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