Phased Demolition and New Wall Construction

[Applause] [Music] another thing that we do is not remove the entire driveway all at once and then start to rebuild the entire driveway the reason we're not working that way is because imagine what would happen to that driveway if we get it all removed and then a monsoon comes through and just downpours for two or three days then we could have a lot of potential driveway damage so what we're doing is we're removing a section then building a section then we're going to another section then building another section and yeah this makes the job a lot tougher but it also protects that driveway while we're working the last thing we want for anything more to happen to this driveway it's already in a state of compromised and our job out there it's like to protect it jeopardize [Applause] [Music] another thing that really a lot of people don't even know about is the difference from building a wall from the front meaning you're sitting in front of the wall and looking at it or building the wall from behind which is where Tim is at right now building the law from behind is I can't tell you exponentially more difficult because you can't see what you're doing you can't see the boulders you can't see how they're fitting together and you're 100% relying on a spotter to be able to know where you want it and Tim is super technical super picky and so Sam who's helping Tim out got a pretty tough job because he's got to be able to almost read Tim's mind and know exactly how Tim wants to operate so communication between the ground pounder and the operator in the machine is critical [Music] now as you watch and pick this wall apart look at his position in the cab as he's looking down he has very limited visibility to actually see where any of these materials lives so a lot of this goes by field as well as being able to just kind of tell where things lie because it's so different when you're working from behind the wall then when you're working in front of the wall and have a very clear line of sight it speeds up the process a lot more if you can possibly work in the front but we don't have access on this job to be able to do it which adds another layer to the challenge so right here is those blocks and then material plops down to the bottom they're pretty much out of Tim's line of sight at this point he's kind of guessing where they are so he's putting the thumb down there or total grapple and just going by field to try to grab them without grabbing any more dirt than he has