Advanced Techniques for Frozen Foundation Removal

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Winter Excavation is tough on equipment and guys

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What happens here

The excavator continues its laborious task of breaking the frozen concrete foundation, which is now revealed to be frozen into the surrounding bank of soil and ice, making separation even harder. To overcome the extreme hardness of the frozen material and the lack of purchase, the excavator performs a "cheat move": it picks up a large, heavy piece of the frozen foundation, lifts it high into the air, and then drops it back down into the excavation pit. The narrator explains that this impact technique is intended to fracture the stubborn frozen concrete further, similar to how concrete swimming pools are sometimes broken up using heavy boulders dropped from above. However, due to the thoroughly frozen ground, even this method is less effective than it would be in warmer conditions.

Goal: Break down stubborn frozen concrete foundation segments using impact to aid removal.

Tools and materials

Excavator Komatsu — Lifting and dropping foundation pieces to break them apart
Frozen Concrete Foundation Pieces N/A — The solid, frozen remnants of the foundation being broken apart

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can't get anywhere with it what he's working on there just a normal footing should pop right out be able to snap break in half but it's actually frozen into the bank next to a senato is he trying to remove that footing he's got to separate it from the from the ice that is holding up holding it in place right now making the job even more difficult than it needs to be hey I want to take a moment just to say thank you to everybody that subscribes and to all my subscribers to all you fans out there that are sharing these videos that means a world to me if it wasn't for you guys subscribing sharing commenting and liking I would have quit this a long time ago so a big thank you to all of you for everything you guys do for sharing these videos on Facebook and for sharing them on the different lawn and landscaping forums thank you so much and your house is really appreciated you can really hear the strain the machine is putting on just this one small piece of frozen foundation now imagine having to take up the entire basement so what you're gonna see next is our cheap move what we do is we grab a piece of that foundation lift it high up in the air and let her go when it hits the bottom it should spiderweb if this was a concrete pool this is how we take up the concrete pools we remove we use a big boulder now in this case it still works but it's not very effective because the ground is so frozen but you still keep struggling away you can see how much longer it takes to do a job

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