Moving Dirt

[turbo36]

Paper is so more willing than actual practice



It surprises me that your own out of plumb, off level, off key -ness doesnt drive yourself crazy then...

What do you mean by that? Did I insult you?

 

[Renze]

What do you mean by that? Did I insult you?

...No... you just surprised me about how you contradict yourself... You say something out of plumb, off level, off key drives you crazy, though it seems you dont care to bother other people with your obsessive/compulsiveness as you say... O/C may be a reason, but not an excuse.

On paper you might be right but in practice, one cannot get ANYTHING level, key or plumb. Please bear in mind that most of this forums contributors are practical executors that dont like theoretical skyscraping.

 

[turbo36]

...No... you just surprised me about how you contradict yourself... You say something out of plumb, off level, off key drives you crazy, though it seems you dont care to bother other people with your obsessive/compulsiveness as you say... O/C may be a reason, but not an excuse.

On paper you might be right but in practice, one cannot get ANYTHING level, key or plumb. Please bear in mind that most of this forums contributors are practical executors that dont like theoretical skyscraping.

Sorry Renze but now you have set the high mark for arrogance and far reaching analysis; "Theoretical skyscraping" what are you smoking????

Time to hit the ignore button and go trick or treating.

 

[BTDT]

I wish I was as smart as ya'll think you are

Just kidding.

 

[BTDT]

Here's a few more pics on the road project. The rains made it too muddy to move dirt with the dump truck for a few days, than I had a few good days, and now it's raining again. Yesterday the forecast was 100% for rain for last night and today. For once, they got it right!!!

I had about 40 loads all lined up and decided to smooth it out before it rained. Dirt piles are like a sponge when it rains. After a certain point, the dirt just absorbs all the water and it's impossible to work it. The only solution is to spread it out a bit, let it dry, and spread it some more. Not fun, and it takes months to get it dry enough to be usable.

The first pass is just to knock off the tops of the piles and start spreading the dirt a little. It takes allot of passes to get it where I want it. The ground slopes down quite a bit on one side because it was a drainage area, so it's taking twice as much dirt on one side than the other. It's impossible to get the dump truck into that area, so I build up my piles and spread with the dozer.

I'm leveling it by eye for now since I'm only rough grading it. I still have several more feet of fill to build it up, but I'm not wide enough all the way through yet either. The road needs to be 36 feet wide across the top when finished. I need to have two RV's be able to pass in oposite directions and room for people to walk along the side of them.

Eddie

What's that bent bar sticking out of the top of your blade in pic 32,33?

 

[EddieWalker]

BTDT,

The metal trianglular shaped attachement on my dozer blade is to stop logs from rolling over the blade. They start to build up when pushing them and will pop over onto my hoses.

It's pretty effective, but in a day of heavy tree work, I'll have to get off the dozer a few times to pull something out of there. Usually it's the smaller sapplings, but sometimes I have to get the chainsaw and do it in pieces.

Eddie

 

[Renze]

Sorry Renze but now you have set the high mark for arrogance and far reaching analysis; "Theoretical skyscraping" what are you smoking????

I think you understood what i said.
Now i say something, suddenly your definition of arrogance has altered...
The theoretical skyscraping, you come running by with the books, to bother people with building codes. This is a thread about Eddie being happy while moving dirt, not about dry theory codes.

Time to hit the ignore button and go trick or treating.

This is the first thing where i agree with you !
Nice talking to you, but if you dont mind, i'll go back watching some pictures here.

 

[slowzuki]

Another engineer stepping in, codes have a place, its to keep people safe when someone else constructs something for someone. The reason they have begun to regulate what an owner can do is frequently this impacts someone else beyond the owner such as their family or whatnot.

My biggest problem is codes which attempt to regulate beyond safety into resale value. If I am in a wheelchair, I don't want to install electrical outlets inside my upper cabinets just so the next person doesn't have to replace the outlets when they do the cabinets back to normal height.

Locally, no one can do electrical work except licenced electrical contractors. I can't legally change a lightswitch in my own house. I have a fairly heavy electrical background, even including electronics so I know I can safely find the information I need, meet code and do most any residential work in a "good workmanship manner" but there are some stiff penalties.

 

[Renob]

I didn't realize there were so many people that drive trains on this site! .

 

[mudcat]

Eddie,
Sorry to see your thread get so far off topic. Anyway,Great Project. Keep the pictures coming.