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Prepare Site and Equipment for Winter Work

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What happens here

Before commencing work in sub-freezing temperatures, it is crucial to prepare all materials and equipment to prevent freezing and ensure proper operation. This involves physically clearing ice from concrete blocks using manual tools like a hammer and chisel (or a putty knife), and utilizing propane torches to thaw frozen surfaces and materials. Additionally, cold-starting heavy machinery, such as excavators and skid steers, requires significant time and effort, emphasizing the need for robust cold-weather operational procedures and potentially specialized fluids or pre-heating systems to protect hydraulic components from initial strain.

Goal: This step involves preparing the work site and heavy equipment for operation in freezing temperatures, focusing on methods to thaw materials and ensure machine functionality.

Tools and materials

  • Chisel/Putty Knife
  • Concrete Blocks
  • De-icer/Warm Liquid
  • Hammer
  • Propane Torch
  • Roller Brush

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well it's like they say anything's a hammer unless it's a screwdriver then it's a chisel unless you can weld then uh anything's whatever you want it to be oh sam one up to us that's the running joke in our company what we're doing here is we have gotten rain and we didn't get a little bit of rain it rained and then it froze and we had about a quarter inch of ice covering our blocks so before we could even start back up on this big engineered retaining wall that we're working on we're gonna just takes time it's getting we spent an hour getting the machine started this morning and it was 14. i got hours scraping all these off yep i'm having flashbacks to that first wall i did with you when i started we had the brush burner out and i was melting dirt but then the weather looks like it's going to be in the 40s coming up here yeah it's going to be nice for the next one we didn't swiddle our thumbs or do we keep going it's always tough tough call to make sometimes wrapping it up [Music] yeah it feels kind of nice

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