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Site Preparation: Geotextile & Rip Rap

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What happens here

After initial debris clearing, the crew begins preparing the area for the drainage swale. Geotextile fabric is laid over the newly graded area. The fabric is cut to a specific width (5-foot wide from a 6-foot roll) and carefully stapled down, particularly around the drainage pipe's outlet, to prevent bunching and ensure stability. The speaker emphasizes securing the fabric firmly to avoid movement. Following the fabric installation, rip rap stones are brought to the site via the dump truck and are then transported and spread by the mini skid steer. Workers use rakes to evenly distribute the rip rap over the geotextile fabric, creating a functional and stable drainage channel.

Tools and materials

  • CASTLOADERS Carbon 33T Mini Skid Steer
  • Dump Truck
  • Fabric Staples/Pins
  • Hand Rakes
  • Utility Knife
  • Rip Rap Stones

What they say

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there's got to be snow inside of it and it's not used to warm temps so [Music] so i've been practicing my grading in this and i've got a job coming up where i think i not this job but i think i finally got the grading in this mini loader nailed nailed [Music] okay so this is the so this is the rip rap going out to the job site the camera magnet mount kind of goes wherever it wants to doesn't it all right let's see how he does oh wires we're watching for that box to not hit them power lines i got you covered i'm watching so he's dumping the air on the truck right now because that'll give him an extra six inches of clearance we use air bags uh for the suspension first time i ever heard of using that on a dump truck i thought it was stupid but it actually works pretty decent we don't do a ton of off-road yeah you're gonna hit if he pulls forward you can come okay dump the whole thing you're good then yeah i was a little worried about him because it's kind of automatic when you get used to dumping pulling forward at the same time right and i did not want him to do that all right we're gonna go five foot wide the rolls are six foot but we're still gonna double it up and then cut it to the right dimensions that way we're not worried because our trench isn't gonna be perfectly straight this way it's gonna go kind of like that instead so we are going to staple the fabric down especially up around the the throat of the pipe or the outlet of the pipe i should say because that way we can't get any of it bunching up and going down so there you go zack we'll do that all right i'll help you we'll get that busted out so the reason i'm stapling it's not going to go anywhere it's going to get covered in rip wrap i just didn't want the fabric to bunch unevenly underneath it so i didn't want the fabric to pull god that's a tight turn right around that fence this machine just maneuvers on a dime it's just like freak today's drink is strawberry waterloo oh that looks nice that the video all right zach you can crack open the seed we'll throw that out real nice we'll rake it in then we'll put the straw blankets out so the reason we brought black dirty and even though we have a site we just got done hauling black dirt out as this is light and fluffy and the black dirt we were digging up was hard packed clay if we had a hydra bucket or something

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