2004-5 Pipe

2005 01 05 Pipe Install

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Today was again a straightforward day. No complications, just progress. Very nice to see this.

Several sections of pipe were laid past the now completely buried and almost completely forgotten dam. The contractor had both excavators going, one digging and the other moving the earth taken out for the pipe back, filling in where the pipe was buried. This is the general technique, I think, they just could not do this until now due to very tight quarters here.

And, they had to divert the flow of water from the old 24" pipe to the new one.

Some of this is actually flowing down and through the coarse gravel under the new pipe, but they had to start breaking up the old pipe. Some of it is actually flowing in the new pipe, as you can see. Oh Boy.

The temporary black plastic pipe was yanked out unceremoniously.

In about mid afternoon they had to swap out one of the excavators for some reason. I think the excavator that left was rented and the one coming in was owned by the contractor. The one that came in also has a larger bucket. It was impressive to see one of these arrive on a truck

The swap. You can see that we now have three, at least for a while..

These things weigh 40 tons, and they get them on the truck this way:

The tractor detaches from the trailer. There are two pins that hold the flat bed onto the part of the trailer that is attached to the tractor. You can see one of those pips just behind the read wheel. When the trailer is loaded they lift it off the road hydraulically. It takes about 5 seconds.

Bye Byee!

It won't be long before we see them all depart like this ..

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