Digging a basement & getting big trucks stuck

[Evasive1]

Started our basement for our new house last week and here are a few photos of the progress.

This is what started off the project. He dug it in about 3 hours and packed the dirt around the outside for the concrete trucks.

 

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This is a pic of the forms for the maze of footings.

 

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This is what happens when the concrete truck drives off of the pad the excavator made for him. He had 10 yards of concrete on board at this time.

 

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Another pic of the truck. The driver said he thought he was going over when it started to sink...

 

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THis is what showed up to pull him out. He pulled him forward first using a snatch block to a tree and then pulled him out sideways.

 

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Free at last!!!

So now the cement truck is out and pulls out onto the driveway. So what does the big tow truck do?? Instead of pulling out to the driveway, he cuts across my front yard and you guessed it, it sinks up to the axles. They have the bright idea of using the concrete truck to pull it out and it to is stuck. So he had to winch himself back and this time he stayed on the hard ground and got out and pulled out the concrete truck again.

The bad thing was though that the concrete in the truck was starting to set up (calcium with hot water) and they had to dump all 10 yards on my driveway (gravel still). I was running against the clock having to spread it out with my Century 45 hp tractor before it set up.

 

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Here are the finished walls.

 

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The family checking out the view. The back side will be view out on both ends.

 

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This is the crane truck that set the forms in the basement and here is a picture of it lifting the forms out.

 

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Since the basement will be a viewout in the back, we are having to bring in a lot of dirt for fill for the front. Here is the wife getting some dirt to move up to the house. I had dug several large piles of dirt before we started digging to save on time moving it up by the house.

 

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Last pic is of the wife dumping the dirt up by the house. She has always liked playing with my toys and driving fast cars. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Freds]

Nice pics.
I was wondering why you had the crazy footers... then I saw the concrete walls. Not too familiar with that type construction.

Murphy's law on the trucks getting stuck and all. Guess there's something to be said for waiting til summer, but construction goes year round these days.

Great looking pic of your tractor at work, too!

 

[Nat]

It always amazes me when I see pics of footings in other places. Here in central NC they are always dug into the ground, not set on top. Our footings are 6 x16 for 1 story, 8 x 18 for 1 story on a basement, and 8 x 20 for 2 story, and we dig them into the ground.
Here almost every concrete plant has gone to front loader trucks , and they are all wheel drive. When they poured my basement, the driver drove around the house and stuck the chute in the basement door, not to amazing till you see that I only cleared about 30 ft outside the foot print

 

[Freds]

One of my friends used to have a concrete plant in NC with front pour trucks. He moved back up here and is the only one with them. Pretty slick to watch him. He's got inching the truck and moving the chute side to side to a science. Everyone else calls them backwards trucks.

 

[Bowhunter]

Great pics and great view. Keep us up to date on your home. Gotta love a gal that like tractors. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Evasive1]

Boy wish they had those trucks here. They brought in a pumper truck to do the 50 yards in the walls.

The pumper truck runs $125 an hour with a 3 hour minimum, $50 trip fee and $2.25 per yard pumped.

 

[RobS]

I can relate to your pain E1! We started building our new house three years ago this February. All was dry and/or frozen until concrete days. Rather than put the drive in, only to have it trashed we agreed with the builder to have an excavator on-site to help the mixers in and out. It was pretty cool to watch. I put some pictures in this thread.

Enjoy that homebuilding process, it's hectic, stressful but tons of fun /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[KubotaSteve]

I saw them use one of those pumper trucks when constructing the building next to where I work. They poured 12 floors plus 4 floors below ground. They had two trucks dumping into the hopper at one time. I'd hate to see the bill for building that building.