2004 08 30 Tropical Storm Gaston
Day 1 - Our Sandbox Toys are Bigger than Yours
2004 12 30 Second Cut, Headwall Starts
2005 01 17 Pipe Install, Last Sections
2005 01 18 Riprap In, Old Pipe Out
2005 01 19 Riprap In, Headwall Dig, Snow
2005 01 21 Headwall Pour Starts
2005 01 24 Headwall Forms Work
2005 01 25 Headwall Forms Work
2005 01 26 Headwall Forms Work, Headwall Poured
2005 01 27, Riprap, Drive Repaired
2005 04 15, Last Riprap, Grading
2005 01 07 Pipe Install
Friday .. another day, more pipe. The next few snaps show the second of three 22 degree bends that are going in.
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After that more digging. I think 4 more sections go in here, then the last bend, and then the last run of pipe.
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First of the 4 sections. The first two of these went quickly ..
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.. and hey got both excavators working at this.
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Until they busted our water line. The two guys at the top of the frame in the next shot are working on a temporary fix. In their defense I should say that there really was no way for them to have known it was there. Water lines are commonly made of plastic now, and to locate them a copper wire has to be put in next to or wrapped around them. Otherwise there is no way for someone with a metal detector to locate them. When the location was done here the gas and power were found (and you can see them in the pic below, power is lowest) but the third line found was an old power line, probably run into the house that was on the property before ours. So an omission when the house was built inevitably led to the waterline being cut.
As I write this on the 8th I have to report that the temporary fix was very temporary. It let loose sometime Friday night. It did not completely let go, so we had water, but very low pressure. I got them out to fix it. That held until about 4PM, when it went out again, this time because the earth settled and just yanked it apart. I called them out again and they repaired the pipe once more, this time after dark and lit by the excavator lights. They put a splint made of rebar on the pipe, to keep it from flexing while it was suspended in mid air. I am going to talk to them on Monday about replacing the whole length of pipe, since it goes into the house at the point closest to the street and I really don't like the idea of this pipe having a splice in it. Maybe they can convince me that would be acceptable once the line is buried and supported completely.
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Sorry about cutting their heads off .. I was not really paying attention and wanted a shot with all three lines in it.