2004-5 Pipe

2005 01 12 Pipe Install

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Today was more of the same .. installing pipe. The contractor is putting in the final few sections now. They run parallel to the road in front of the house, and it is very tight quarters for them here. We had to take down two very large sycamores in preparation for this work (not that I was sorry to see sycamores go..) but I don't want to lose any more trees.

The next couple of snaps show the first section put in today.

This shot is looking toward the river, and shows that they had to move quite a bit of pipe out of the way so they could work out front. It also illustrates someone's mistake counting. It appears that 5 or 6 too many pipe sections turned up. I don't know whose error this is, but now they have to take them out. Someone somewhere is not happy..

The second section of pipe put in today.

This next is interesting. I think the dark band just above the trench box is the bottom of the old pond that used to be here.

The only "excitement" today was when the water line to the house was broken again. My brain looked like an old black and white television with no signal.

This happened when a 40 ton excavator was driven repeatedly over the very mushy earth that the line was buried in. It just pulled apart at the couplings that were used. The line was repaired and a ton a of gravel was put in around it. I told the contractor I did not want this to happen after the driveway was repaired.

So, back to section 3, going into the ground.

This shows one of the sycamore stumps being yanked out. It was surprising how much work the excavator had to do to get it out. Pulling up on the stump caused the machine to rock forward quite a bit and the operator really had to work it out. He's got a future as a dentist.

Section 4 going in.

Moving the trench box.

And preparing for more..

I hope the rest of the pipe goes in tomorrow ahead of a bit of rain that is predicted. The last steps of the job will be building the head end structures, putting all the granite riprap in at the tail end, and all the cleanup and grading and topsoil and seeding.

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