Where was the operation black ice intro?

@@Gcitylofi_ at the beginning of the video? Are you blind?

Good keep at it young man 💪it's a great trade running equipment. It's been good to me for more than 30 years. 👍✌️

this is sweet!!! work hard!!

we hope to visit BC logging one day I'd love to see it

With a name like treehugga you’d think logging would be your least interest

@@MrThatnativeguy not to be that guy but most smart tree lovers know controlled logging is good.

@@MrThatnativeguy Logging is necessary for healthy forests.

yep it's still pretty common

I think one gps rig would be a little cheaper than 15, if the ground guy can keep up

It can be scary your heart drops when you lose sight of them.

The singles (631) need a D8 or 9 to push them through the cut, the twins (627-637) do push-pull where you hook up to a partner. Twin push pull will out perform any single. The fuel use is justified as The pair is independent and can haul 60 to 70 yards per lap if they overload.

The only outfit in Colorado that uses 631s is bemis and they've got a couple dozen of them. Every so often you catch them overroading at 2:00 in the morning with a train of 15 scrapers going up the highway.

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whoopsy

@@AaronWitt thats why I like the videos so much, you have such an irony in them

unfortunately for you I've visited Bemas before

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that's awesome

hell yeah!

Engineering mostly. The determine dig and fill depth for drainage

that's amazing

It's called subexing. We dig out 25 to 40 ft down, then do lifts as we water each lift and compact it to rebuild all the way back up to grade. It's the only way to build in Denver or the house was sink in 20 years.

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They moving dirt

Pangea?? Or before that?

Wish I could post pictures.. we were 75' down out in Ft Lipton gravel pits when we hit the clay under the sand. For weeks we cut sand that no man has ever seen. The patterns and colors were incredible from champagne pink to rust color clay. That's the best part of cutting earth, sometimes your the first being to ever lay eyes on it.

@@jamescaliendo1030 Pangea I’m thinking. There’s a good video here on KZfaq showing the migration of Colorado throughout time. I just wish I could remember the name.

@@headfirst6227 I'm wondering what epoch is was in?? I find geology amazing. The KT boundary,how pangea split apart etc

@@johnsheridan6452 dude that's amazing. Knowing you're the first person to ever lay eyes on that, on top of the fact you're exposing it to the first time it's seen sunlight in millions of years...just incredible man

this is amazing. Work hard and you can go far

So in Colorado most of the dirt there is clay based. As a result, the dirt is VERY expansive (to the tune of about 20-25%) when it comes into contact with water/moisture. The idea of an Over Excavation (which is what this is) is to expand and then compact the dirt properly so that a house foundation won't be threatened/damaged. It's basically a way to prevent future expansion. Ironically, I used to work for Ames/Bemas as a scraper operator YEARS ago. I have since moved into the management role as a superintendent (different company). In Colorado, There's a really good chance I've worked on a road you've driven on or a neighborhood you're familiar with.

thanks for the explanation Jay

whatever you say you're the expert

You should get out of a city maybe and use your brain.

YES by my home when they build where large blocks of former FARMERS Land, the Farmer retired or Died. A Development corporation buys the plates. What they do by my home is called (Pre Loading) they bring in a 15 to 20 foot high layer of Large rocky gravel. The material from another Per Load or just the extra from a Rock Pit. It sits for 6 months (Lowering itself into former tilled soil. SINKS into the ground) The former ground had been turned over for years by Farmers. Very soft. They then Remove the Pre Load, just down to the grade they need, pre Load is moved to another sit being prepared. This former Farmer tilled soil has "0" stabilization. Have seen Fire Hydrant when done. The underground contractor has to pour huge cement block forms around Hydrant just at below grade, Base of Hydrants or Hydrants would start to SINK. Have also heard Contactors doing power Repairs by my home talk about the direct burial of Main power cables at a huge Mall/ shopping center, having to be replaced/Repair, from corrosion eating through power cables. The Developer was cheap, did not want to put in conduit. The City allowed Direct bury. The Farming SOIL was very corrosive.

@@rp1645 but how much does a block cost

They do this because the soil is expansive not unstable by placing it back moisture density controlled you limit shrink swell to acceptable limits

Buy all the land so they can’t develope

the American dream ; give me a house where the buffalo roamed. :(

@@blueman5924 where do you live that is so much better I’m sure you haven’t infringed upon any already existing animal life throughout the course of your life? Please explain

Why?

Wears them out faster and if you spin on rocks you can slice open a very expensive tire

The scrapers take it out haul it away then they put it all back in and compact it a layer at a time? That’s what the video just showed lol