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VEHICLES => TRACTORS/MOWERS/HEAVY EQUIPMENT => Topic started by: TR on January 17, 2019, 04:14:32 PM

Title: Life's a ditch!!!
Post by: TR on January 17, 2019, 04:14:32 PM

I dug 2900 ft of ditch in 2 days in the median........heck it was only 2 feet deep ;D

TR
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Title: Re: Life's a ditch!!!
Post by: Heiny57 on January 26, 2019, 07:48:47 AM

That usually causes rain.   :D

Title: Re: Life's a ditch!!!
Post by: slip knot on January 26, 2019, 10:30:36 AM

Quote from: Heiny57 on January 26, 2019, 07:48:47 AM

That usually causes rain.   :D

Yeah just as soon as the sparkys get finished with conduits and say its ready to pour, then it pours down rain. At least that's how our duct banks go.

Title: Re: Life's a ditch!!!
Post by: highland512 on January 28, 2019, 09:28:56 AM

You let the sparkys finish? I am usually chasing them out of the ditch with red concrete.  :D

Title: Re: Life's a ditch!!!
Post by: J.A.F.E. on January 28, 2019, 10:43:23 AM

What is red concrete?

Title: Re: Life's a ditch!!!
Post by: highland512 on January 28, 2019, 11:03:03 AM

Most electrical duct banks (on my jobs anyway) get encased in concrete that is dyed red to protect the conduit and warn any future crews excavating of the electrical duct bank.

Title: Re: Life's a ditch!!!
Post by: J.A.F.E. on January 28, 2019, 09:29:10 PM

Thank you. Makes all kind of sense.