Track Froze up and Locked out on a Job. 4 k video

this is what I call one of those go-between jobs what I mean is is we're actually going between seasons when we started the job it was fall and then overnight mother nature decides let's be winter and drop about eight to ten inches of snow on us and so that's what you're going to see today is my crews learn a new word and we call it track lock let's see how today's video [Music] so it looks like it's all concrete but there's actually four separate loads going on here there's clean concrete which goes to one sorting facility then there's concrete with rebar which goes to an entirely different facility then there's just pure metal and then last but not least is just pure garbage or refuse so we've got to be careful and sort through everything to make sure that we get the right material on the right load going to the right dump facility [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay so this is one of those cases where looks can be deceiving now the dump trailer looks like it's pretty much partially empty but in truth is this entire truck and trailer combination is only legal to haul up to nineteen thousand pounds meaning the truck the trailer and everything aqui ruiz can't come in over that so that even though this load doesn't look completely full when we waited in it was hitting within a hundred pounds of the nineteen thousand pound max load that we could legally carry and safely carry according to all right fun fact we kind of forgot about there's concrete there's a slab underneath all of this that this is piled up on that we need to get out of here too so using the dump trail at a halt or load here today so it's about three to four trips in the dump trailer is equal to one trip in the dump truck we're using this though today for a couple of reasons first of all the place that we are dumping the concrete at super close basically right down the road it's taken about twelve minutes round trip there and back so we're averaging about twenty five minutes filling the trailer up driving there and back and dumping so it's going going pretty quick second we were able to bring this out right away in the morning with us we weren't waiting on our truck driver and we got about the equivalent of probably about four trailers full trailer falls out right away in the morning so we've already gotten more material out probably then if we were using the dump truck just because he doesn't usually get here until a little later in the morning all right she's fall [Music] so I want to answer two questions the first one is the reason we sort everything is because it all gets recycled everything from this pool removal project that you guys have been watching but 100% be recycled and reused the concrete gets broken up at the plant and that gets actually turned into it's called recycled class-five or road base material so it goes underneath the new roads that are going on out there of course all the metal gets recycled but one of the other questions that I want to answer is why do we remove so much concrete and the answer to that is yes we could leave some of those concrete footers that are down deep and the pool in place but if the people that lived in this house ever wanted to do an addition into their backyard or if they sold their house and the next people wanted to do an addition and then discovered concrete down below that would wreck their entire edition plans their entire home building plans and the reason I say this is from experience we've had to actually go in and correct swimming pools because people have wanted to put additions on to him and found somebody else had buried something down long ago that shouldn't have been buried and before they can do the addition that means that we've now got to do a lot of extra work we've got to oversize the whole pull all of the material out and then do a soil correction while being supervised by a geotechnical engineer what we found is if we do it right the first time we eliminate any future potential hazards or have hassles for this homeowner and for anybody else that ever moves into this house that's why we remove all of that concrete that's why we don't compromise on that one [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right here's the deal so it was cold enough for a couple of weeks to freeze the ground salad then it snowed for three days and then this week it's all been mid 40s so it's been warm enough to you know melt the snow but not start thawing out any of the ground so this whole site was real nasty because the water wasn't really going anywhere except for sitting on the top all the dirt here was it was a slimy soupy mess it was probably about as close to being a liquid as it could be and still technically be considered a solid so that being said the tracks on the ASB by the end of the day yesterday was just full of slimy soupy fill soil so Tim and I probably spent half-hour or so yesterday scooping out and cleaning out the tracks as best as we could with it being pretty much a liquid and of course we got here this morning and we were track locked so that soil it expands like I think it's like 22% or so what is wet and freezes so obviously the stuff that we can get out of here froze expanded and blocked all the rollers and stuff in place you can see they're pretty pretty gross that's after we cleaned them out even so when I got going on over here is we got the torpedo heater and I thought some of this dirt so I can chisel it out of the rollers there when they're on our track lock like this you don't want to run them or whatever we had to move it but you can see these guys don't spin you start all starting all wearing grooves and the track and stuff like that you you don't want that tell you what working in the winter is a pain in the butt they're actually pretty lucky they clean those tracks as well as they did I remember back when it was about 13 years old and my dad and I were just getting started in excavating and we had no clue about track lock or frozen dirt and tracks and we went out and did a job with our John Deere 450 crawler loader and the next day we went out to move it nothing seemed to want to work right so almost thirteen year old kid with an air hammer a sledge hammer a chisel pounding seven hours it took me seven hours to clean those tracks out to get that machine so it would run the right way again so these guys don't have it so bad luckily they cleaned them out the night before [Music] to break it loose with a piece in my hand good shot as I walk to the water for a last goodbye he begs so it clouded my mind one thing's clear the man makes right so he said when he alright guys well that's our video for today hope you enjoyed it let me know what you think of it in the comments down below and if you want to see more jobsite videos I'll make sure to keep those coming for you but we got a lot of heavy equipment videos coming down the pipeline but we're gonna be taking a look at the newest and heavy gear equipment form from the 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