On Tuesday, after many months of waiting on the state, etc we finally got to starting to install the new plant at one of our main locations. For me this means lots of headaches I'm sure, beings I'm pretty much in charge of the odds and ends stuff that needs doing. Installed the new septic system, as the old one needs to be removed as it will interfer with the placement of the new plant. Eventually the plant and office building will all be tied into look like one building. Thus making the dispatcher able to load all of the trucks from the office, and getting more consistant mix. Enjoy Trbo
Con't of the septic install. Trbo
Still got some comming. Trbo
you didn't really bury that grass with the pipes on top of it did you?
NIce job. Whats the green roll of wire for? doug
:beatsme line location would be my guess but :beatsme
looks like tracer wire...some inspectors require it...some don't
Yes we did...at grade system called for no rocks or THICK vegitation, and the sod must be plowed up before setting the drain field. The plumber doing it is one of them SUPER fussy guys and thats what it called for. I'm not going to second guess the county zoning, the engineer firm on the project as well as the plumber with over 20 years of doing this. Trbo
Tracer wire yes. What i'm not sure of is that the drain field pipe(from tank to drain field didn't have any wire, but from the building to the tank they did. Trbo
its always baffled me about the designs people spit out.... we have done more sand mounds and atgrade mounds then i care to count and most say just to chisel plow the ground...but as all of us who have dug up old ground,that grass under there just doesn't decompose, it creates a mat that makes it tough for water to get through...so we always stripped the grass off...only 1 inspector ever gave us problems for doing it my guess would be septage will be coming out the sides of the mound in 2 or 3 years...but what can you do..if its on the plan you have to follow it..im also kind of suprised they had you put the mound in the low spot on the site
Lookin good so far! Keep the pics commin.
THat tracer wire is a good idea. Do you know what type and size wire it is? I suppose the bigger the wire the better the metal detector would find it.
When I dug the perk test I started out at about where the tank is located and we kept going down to find decent soil for an at grade system. As it turns out, we would have been cheaper installing a actual mound system closer to the building. I was kinda wondering that issue on the grass as well, I would have thought you may have ran a disc across it and then maybe a a roto type tiller to really break everything up(I just do what I'm told). I was talking to one of our customers who does a ton of these and he said make sure you get plent of dirt around the sides for that reason. I enjoyed doing this but I belive we would have been further ahead to have one of our customers come in and do it(more experince on them, and would have been done quicker as i keep getting called to do other things). Trbo
Thanks D5G, just getting started but I know the plant manager is excited to have it started as the old batch plant is 35 years old. Its actually going to be a fairly simple set up is my understanding, not sure if they are encloseing it right away or going to wait til next year, etc. Trbo
Yeah I'm a fan of it, just makes locateing that type of stuff easier, They left a tail that comes up the side of the tank so I'm thinking a locater might even be able to hook onto it for a tone. It was at least 12 ga wire, fairly thick. Still kinda of baffeled at why they put it only on one side of the tank. Trbo
usually it is only required on the building sewer because that is considered the sewage line...if there is ever a clog it is a lot easier to locate and dig it up...theoretically the effluent pipe going from tank to field should never clog because there is never supposed to be solids going into that pipe, so there should never be a need to dig it up...since there doesn't look to be any trees in the area it probably never will clog (tree roots can cause big issues)
That's an interesting teeth combination on the bucket, what are those flat ones like for digging in tough stuff?
They are paddle teeth for dine grading, they give a nice flat finish. But they don't last long in hard digging.
Those teeth save the laborer from having to do as much shovel work. Trbo, wow, sounds like you really needed a new one! I thought of this today when I went by a concrete pour. Can't wait to see whats next.
I kinda got the idea from ROP a few years ago and when we were stripping the quarry at one place one of the guys there had some "saber teeth" and gave them to me. I just put them on the outsides to see how they worked when shaving the edge or when i get into a rock area I can just work the corner of the bucket in. I've been happy with them and as far as the "paddle" teeth I didn't think i would like them, cause I had only used straight teeth but I've not had much trouble with them. However we don't do much rock excavation anyways, when you get to rock on top of a quarry its time to stop. Trbo
Ok, finally some more pics of the site prep. I haven't had a ton of hours involved in doing this but I also have not been able to keep steady on it because of other things that have needed doing. Trbo 1. Digging up the old concrete, this is approx where the conveyor will go. 2. Looking to the east(new plant will sit in about in line with the radio tower you see) 3. Looking SW, just loading some concrete up to haul to the quarry. 4. Busted the concrete patio and old septic tank out next to the office. 5. Starting to dig out where the pad for the plant will sit.
The pad where the plant will sit consist of about 15"s of sub base(used clean breaker run, and 3/4" clean stone), then an 18" thick pad of reinforced concrete, On top of them there will be 8 pillars(sonic tubes) where the legs of the bin and silo will sit, around them there will be another 2 feet of clean stone, then finally the top base of concrete. Trbo 1. Plant location dug out to sub grade. 2. Placing the breaker rock. 3. Getting it placed to the right grade. 4. Rock is placed and the trench for the water line. 5. Water line is laid out, and already plumbed inside the office.
More pics of pad prep. Trbo 1. Clean stone is on and placed(some one thought you had to COMPACT it...well it doesn't pack in like gravel). 2. Rolled and waiting for the plumber to install the stand pipe for the water line. 3.Stand pipe is in place and the elbows are mega lugged as well as concreted in. 4. Got some clean stone over the pipe enough before it rained, didn't need my ditch to cave in.
Picture time again. Been plenty busy the last little while and we hadn't worked a whole lot on the new plant. From where I left off last, pads and pillars are poured, and we just got the plant tore down from the previous location. Everything but 3 pieces are hauled down and ready for placement. Trbo 1. Trench that handles the power and water line for the new plant. 2. Water main and electrical stubbed up through the rebar for the base. 3. Concrete crew working on the "ramp" section, this is where the trucks will pull under the silo to load. 4. Looking towards the ramp section. 5. Pouring pilars for the ag bin and silo to set on.
Tear down day. For our tear down day, 2 cranes, our heavy service truck, skid loader, man lift, and the tractor's and trailers. 3 guys with the crane company, myself, my boss and our main supervisor, two guys from one of the quarry crews and our heavy field mech. Everything actually went very well, we had been debating wether we could get everything down in a day. Took all day to do it but we managed to do just that. We did spend the day before removing everything that needed removed and few things that needed braced up, etc. Trbo 1. Overview of the plant before tear down, we had already gotten alot of small items removed or braced up. 2. Kevin and Trav up torching off the final welds on the silo leg. 3. Unbolting the power tubes. 4. Getting the crane up to lift off the bag houses off the top of the silo. 5. Lifting the silo off the legs. bout 30k lbs.
More tear down. 1. Got the silo free from the rest of the plant, we set it down close to the ground and took the other crane and attached the cables to the legs(only 2) and then were able to lay it down on its side on the trailer. 2. Unbolting the ag bin, lifted this much the same way, then flipped on its side for the trailer. 3. Attaching the cables to the bin. 4. Rooney and Brian torching off the bottom leg pads for the main structure. 5. Silo laid down on the trailer, ready for transport. Trbo
Last few.. 1. Ag bin laid down and loaded onto the flat bed, 79KW with an A Mod Cat under the hood, pretty cool old truck. 2. I'm loaded with the pieces to the conveyor, 18foot wide. 3. silo is all ready to be moved. Trbo
Awesome stuff, trbo... quite an interesting process i'm sure. Looks like it all went very well, and organized. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, yeah the day went by pretty fast. Always somthing to do and it was interesting/thinking type work. Everything came down real well, helps when you have excellent crane operators too. We had originally thought about using a man basket in one crane but then decided that just getting a man lift was going to be our best route. Having our heavy service truck there, with the crane was a huge plus as well for the pipes and small items that had to be removed. Now we will see how everything goes back up, either monday or tuesday. Trbo