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This would be a return trip to a customer we have done work for before, and they are ready for the next phase.
here we are just after sunup getting camp setup.
You may recall I posted some pictures of their place awhile back. And seeing as we are going to be there anyway, and we have some equipment, we might as well fix up some of their dirt work and trash issues.
Here’s what they had:
Among all the left over construction trash that nobody bothered to put in the dumpster, or even in one spot, and old pallets scattered everywhere, there were several important things like well heads and underground water tanks hidden in the weeds that I needed to avoid. Accidentally driving over or into a buried plastic tank with a 10,000 pound skid steer would have immediately expensive and catastrophic consequences, so to help me keep my bearings in the dust as the terrain changes during the clean up process, I attached some 8’ tall scrap lumber and painted them bright purple to avoid any incidents.
Once I had that ready, the first thing to take care of was all the pallets scattered everywhere.
I stacked them all in one spot so the owners could throw them away, burn them, or whatever they decide to do with them.
These are the ones that didn’t get tossed in the dumpster. There were just a few. 🙄
Once that mess was corralled, I put the grapple bucket on and started hauling all the brush and trees that were pushed over when the dirt work for the house pad was made.
The brush pile ended up being way bigger than this picture makes it look.
Again, pictures don’t really do justice, but here’s what the place looked like the next morning.
It’s hard to see, but on this end of the house I brought the grade up about 8” to where it needed to be, then sloped it off for drainage. It’s not quite final grade, but it’s close and way better than the rough rock and trash pile that was there before.
Their little dumpster was full, so I stacked up the next pile of trash next to it.
This side of the house still needs some dirt work, but at least all the trash is now gone and it’s easy to drive around.
