Culvert Updates

[GlueGuy]

<font color=blue>Constructive comments are most welcome. Okay, GlueGuy, I'll take your comments, too.</font color=blue>

Hardy har har Harv. Verrrry funny. But, as you expected, I'm taking the bait.

Filling sandbags with concrete is a very common practice up here too. It's easy to get them to form around the culvert pipe, and you don't have to call the ready-mix truck. In fact, some really el-cheapo guys around here just take the quick-crete bags and stack them. Only problem with that is that they are yellow bags, and look pretty ugly /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif until they're a couple of years old.

Maybe a bit late to go back, but it looks like you used a lot of sand in the in-fill area? One of the things we've been using with a lot of success lately is what the local quarry calls <font color=blue>"#2 recycle"</font color=blue>. Basically it is crushed concrete that's had some additional lyme added to it just before transport. Lays a good road base just like #2 road rock, but after it gets wet, it gets REAL REAL HARD. For your culvert project it would have made the entire roadway a solid block.

My other comment about packing between the pipes is to treat them like engine baffles: air tight. This is a lot harder than it sounds, otherwise we'd have a lot more successful culverts.


The GlueGuy

 

[Bird]

<font color=blue>Oh to see green again</font color=blue>

Andy, you mean like this; in dire need of mowing if it ever stays dry 3 or 4 days in a row?

Bird

 

[cowboydoc]

Is that your lawn this year Bird? That's it I'm moving to Texas!@! This six months of winter is for the birds, no pun intended.

 

[Bird]

Yeah, Richard, that picture was made this morning; 68 degrees out there right now. And the cottontails don't have to run for cover across the road anymore; they can stay concealed in the clover until it get dry enough to mow./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Bird

 

[cowboydoc]

Do you get that hot, humid weather in the summer? Here in Iowa it's six months of winter and six months of summer. Colder than heck in the winter and hotter than heck in the summer with the humidity. That's probably the biggest thing I miss about Idaho is the true four seasons and NO humidity!

 

[Bird]

<font color=blue>Do you get that hot, humid weather in the summer?</font color=blue>

Absolutely? From mid-June to late September, it'll be miserably hot, and we'll be wishing for some of this rain we're getting now. I haven't seen a lot of Idaho; spent a week at Obsidian (just south of Stanley) and another week at Twin Falls in August '91 and certainly enjoyed it. What we did see of the state was really enjoyable.

Bird

 

[AndyR]

Looks fine to me! At this point I've been pushing back snow at the limit of my L3710. 'beginning to consider something on the order of a hydraulic catapult is this keeps up...raises all sorts of possibilities.

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Ben Franklin

 

[gordon]

Well Harv I must say good job. I gave my two cents on the other thread so I'll leave well enough alone. Two out of three ain't bad figuring it was your first real large tractor project and didn't you say that you had to hurry on that third one!!!

Water always amazes me on it's sheer power. So peaceful yet so destructive. Sorry that your hard work went down the drain. But the main thing is that you learned from it and will improve the design. Like I say live and learn.

I could tell you some stories of the training that I've gone thru in the past two months. I've learned that capstun does work on me quite well. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif --Thats pepperspray--
The good news is that I graduate on Friday!!!!!!!
Gordon

 

[Bird]

<font color=blue>I've learned that capstun does work on me quite well</font color=blue>

Did you know before you took the job that maintenance personnel get a little of the same training that security personnel get?/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

 

[RMulkey]

John,

As my contractot would say... "Yea, you could do that... Or you could just put in a bigger pipe with lots of concrete and rock around it".... /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

I am pretty accustomed to looking at formulas like this, but I must admit this one gave me a headache. I use my tractor to get away from this stuff.....Great post/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif