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Install a Culvert Pipe

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The "Backhoe Killer"

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What happens here

A culvert pipe is installed by first digging a precise trench with the Mecalac 11MWR excavator. The machine's variable angle boom allows for close-range digging, precisely following the pipe's path without straddling the trench. Workers on the ground assist with final trench shaping using shovels. The machine then carefully lifts and places the large corrugated culvert pipe into the trench. Once positioned, the excavator backfills the trench with soil and gravel, then uses a plate compactor to compact the material around the pipe, ensuring stability and proper drainage. This sequence showcases the machine's ability to handle multiple aspects of a culvert installation project from digging to backfilling.

Goal: Install a culvert pipe by digging a trench, placing the pipe, and backfilling.

Tools and materials

  • Dump Truck — Transporting soil and gravel for backfilling
  • Excavator Bucket — Digging and moving soil and gravel
  • Mecalac 11MWR Wheeled Excavator Mecalac — Digging the trench, lifting the pipe, and backfilling
  • Plate Compactor Wacker Neuson WP-1550 — Compacting soil and gravel around the culvert pipe
  • Safety Vest — Ensuring visibility of workers on site
  • Shovel — Fine-tuning the trench shape and assisting with backfilling
  • Corrugated Culvert Pipe — Creating the culvert structure
  • Soil/Gravel — Backfilling the trench

What they say

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place okay it's 11:00 we're at our third site we've already taken down a treat we've cleaned the ditch now we're going to pop on a stump we're popping on a stump grinder now is that the [Music] [Applause] [Music] plan we've been here 4 minutes since we pulled up to this right so I noticed that's a skid steer attachment you got on the end of there yep you can dig in the piles you can put the pallet perks on there we use it all the time just for a cold storage cuz you don't have to move the trailers out of the way you can reach right up and over and put them back on the Shelf so that was another benefit of this machine you can flip everything over you can suck the Boom in get it nice and close to the cab and you can use it essentially just like a skid

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