Yet another slightly offbeat assignment...

[Dougster]

Should of kept my mouth shut.

Not at all. Very sorry if I offended.

Larry (my friend and mentor) and I had already been carrying on a private, off-line conversation about this job and I simply chose the PM route to continue it.

Renze wanted details I had already covered and I didn't feel it appropriate to re-post them again.

I appreciate every little bit of input... but we are kinda starting to go around in circles here.

Dougster

 

[Willl]

You didn't.

I meant to include a bunch of these

 

[civesnedfield]

Doug have ya seen these?

Concrete Bucket - Mud Hopper - Quick Attach Attachments, Inc.

Dumping Box - The Big Dump - Quick Attach Attachments, Inc.

 

[Dougster]

Doug have ya seen these?
Concrete Bucket - Mud Hopper - Quick Attach Attachments, Inc.
Dumping Box - The Big Dump - Quick Attach Attachments, Inc.

Don't quite get the second one's applicability, but that first one is very similar to my original concept of renting a skidsteer concrete hopper. It didn't work out when I couldn't find one for rent anywhere nearby.

Related to that concept... but obviously smaller and a lot cheaper... I've finally got my long-overdue stump bucket on the way:

Should be here as soon as Thursday or Friday.

Dougster

 

[bindian]

Don't quite get the second one's applicability, but that first one is very similar to my original concept of renting a skidsteer concrete hopper. It didn't work out when I couldn't find one for rent anywhere nearby.

Related to that concept... but obviously smaller and a lot cheaper... I've finally got my long-overdue stump bucket on the way:

Should be here as soon as Thursday or Friday.

Dougster

Dougster,
I don't know if you got this job, but here is my question. Why can't you just use your bucket and dump a load or two on the opening, then drive 90 degrees and push one side in, then drive over it and pull the other side into the hole? That is the way I fill in stump holes. It should work if you can dump the sand on the street around the opening.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Dougster]

Dougster, I don't know if you got this job, but here is my question. Why can't you just use your bucket and dump a load or two on the opening, then drive 90 degrees and push one side in, then drive over it and pull the other side into the hole? That is the way I fill in stump holes. It should work if you can dump the sand on the street around the opening.
hugs, Brandi

Hi Brandi - Your last qualifier says it all. These were raised manholes, close together with relatively small openings... all in an area of extremely tight access.

Funny that you should ask about this job because I just stopped by there on Saturday. I did not get the job and I was kinda wondering why since I had bid the job awfully aggressively. Turns out there must have been a change in the design plans because the raised manholes are no longer there! Neither was the fence separating this lot from the adjacent lot. I'll have to wait until construction is done and the store is open to figure it all out, but it's clear that the original plan to merely fill and abandon those manholes in place had obviously changed.

My best guess is that plans for the adjacent retail property became clear and they decided to add a second customer access door on that side. To do that, the manholes would have had to have been cut down or removed... not just filled. My second best guess is that the owner bought that adjacent property and is switching all customer parking and access to the opposite side.

Dougster

 

[john_bud]

Dougster,

Didn't see this tread until now. Did you get and complete the job?


I did have a thought that no one else seems to have brought out. Why not use the 3pt and build a rear dumping scoop? You do have hydraulic top, right? Back up to the trailer and get a scoop, drive over, dump and repeat.

Would be more $$ as those expensive 3/4" ply wood funnels, but could be used for many other chores.

jb

 

[Dougster]

You do have hydraulic top, right?

Oh man JB... you really do know how to hurt a guy! They've been beating me up in another thread over my lack of a hydraulic top link. You rich folks all bought them with your tractor. I am still saving up for mine.

I really bid this job on the cheap. The job was right near my home and I was very hungry at the time. No way I could afford to buy or build much of anything that wasn't already in the budget. Turned out the job never had a chance. Right after I gave the owner my bid, it seemed clear that he was calling me just for a comparative bid and that the general contractor was to get the job under a change order. Now that I've revisited the site and seen the obvious change in plans, I am not so sure it wasn't a whole 'nother issue.

Dougster

 

[john_bud]

Hate to break it to you, I (gasp!) still get off and spin my top link by hand. I know, it's old school, it's slow, it's not cool, but hey that's me. Old, slow and not cool!

jb

 

[Dougster]

Hate to break it to you, I (gasp!) still get off and spin my top link by hand. I know, it's old school, it's slow, it's not cool, but hey that's me. Old, slow and not cool!
jb

Well, I'll be darned. JB is just an ordinary, everyday tractor guy after all. Who knew???

Dougster