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Overnight Concrete Pad Preparation

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What happens here

During the Menards project, the presenter was given a demanding deadline to prepare the entire interior pad of the superstore for concrete by the next morning, starting from raw dirt. To meet this challenge, and with his limited existing equipment (an excavator, a New Holland 180 skid steer, and a dump truck), he rented two Komatsu D41P dozers, which were outfitted with masts for laser grading. He, his father, and Tim worked continuously through the day and night. This intense effort successfully made the vast area concrete-ready by the deadline. The unforeseen success with their resourcefulness further angered the project supervisor, who saw it as a personal affront.

Goal: Faced with a tight deadline for concrete readiness, the presenter had to rapidly prepare a massive indoor pad, leading him to rent additional heavy machinery.

Tools and materials

  • Dump Truck
  • Excavator
  • Grade Lasers
  • Komatsu D41P Dozers
  • New Holland 180 Skid Steer
  • Aggregate

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and excavators and compactors at etc etc and so I would start to see him do little things like he would start to sabotage me in little micro ways and I would notice it but I would just keep working I mean I was just built to work plain and simple but a big red flag popped up one day when he came in and we were prepping the inside of the entire building now this is a Menard superstore so this is a massive amount of space that we've got to prep and he looked at me and said I expect this entire interior pad to be concrete ready by tomorrow morning we had rod earth at this point we weren't even close to having a pad that could support concrete and like Oh No so he left he didn't stick around I don't know what he was doing or where he went but I got on the horn to the aggregate pit and I ordered $45,000 worth of aggregate to be shipped in that day we are talking about n dump after end up in a continual stream now to keep up with them at this point I had an excavator and I had a skid loader I had a New Holland skid loader New Holland 180 and that's it and a dump truck so I rented two dozers I rented two Komatsu d40 one-piece and I had him outfitted with mass and mass means I could set my rip my grade lasers up on each mast and could grade and so it was my crew was me my dad and Tim and we worked all day long and we didn't even get close to it and so as the day was coming and I knew the trucks were gonna start to stop I decided to have them strategically placed oil throughout the entire building path so that as we would go from one aggregate pile we could then push the soil to the next aggregate pile we would never have to touch the sub base with our tracks and worry about contaminating it but it also meant we weren't even close to being done at that point so I said to Tim and my dad can we just work through the whole night and they both agreed Tim was running Packer he wasn't an equipment operator then he was running a compactor at runnin my dad hopped in the other Komatsu d41 Pete and I ran the first Komatsu d41 Pete and we never missed a beat we went from all day through the evening through the night to the next morning and the next morning's when I figured out what this supervisor did when he left he actually went back to the office and he called all of the reps from Menards he had them come out with him he had every person inside of the office that was his superior come out to the job site with him because his plan was to come out and show that we weren't…

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