Bridge progress

fixerupper · Jul 25, 2013

Ok, a day has passed. There's a lot of finger pointing going on out there. The plan was to dig 12" below grade and build back up to grade with 120 tons of sand. They ended up 36"-48" below grade before the digging stopped. Oops! Lots of guys were standing there talking on their phones. They claim the original measurements they were given were wrong. Anyway the excavation company has to swallow the bill for the extra sand and they've been sitting around a lot waiting for the trucks.

The fearless scout

The ditch is running so slow they didn't need to pump out the reservoir behind the dam this morning. The weather forecasters are talking 80% chance of rain for tonight and 70% for tomorrow morn. I hope they are right. These guys understandably don't want rain before the tubes are put down but for us farmers it would be a million dollar rain. Jim

The Red · Jul 25, 2013

Jim it looks like progress!

dpendzic · Jul 25, 2013

What are the "tubes" going to be? concrete, corrugated steel, ABS,? Diameter size?
thanks

fixerupper · Jul 25, 2013

You can kind of see the tubes in the top of the second picture though they're hard to see. The tubes are 96" diameter and the finished length of the tubes will be 70' by the time the tapered ends are put on. Jim

thesmoothedeere · Jul 25, 2013

The 4 legged supervisor calls for snack break too often around here

dpendzic · Jul 25, 2013

Oh yes--looks like galvanized or aluminum corrugated metal culvert pipe
thanks

VADAVE · Jul 25, 2013

I thought the plan was a new bridge. Looks like they're going to put in the tubes and fill in around them which make a solid causeway over the ditch.

retired farmer · Jul 25, 2013

Typical county road engineers. Can't read plans or operate equipment.

onefarmer · Jul 25, 2013

Hope you come out better with your sand then I did! County dug our creek and had a nice base of blue clay. Well they dug so much they broke thru that layer into sand, laid their tube on top of the blue clay on the lower end and onto the sand on the upper end. For a few months it looked ok. By the next spring the upper end sits two feet lower than the low end.

rd 2N in mo · Jul 25, 2013

I thought this was a simple job

tomtirediron · Jul 25, 2013

Geeze in the great over regulated state of Minnesota we would have had to start with 1/4 mile of silt fence both up and down stream from the culvert. Glad to see someone can just go out and DO it!

oldtanker · Jul 25, 2013

You got that right Tom. When they repaved 210 from Battle Lake to the junction with MN 29 a few years ago they did very little to the shoulders or anything other than the road itself. They had miles of silt fence up. On something like that it would take the MN EPA/DNR 10 years to just issue permits.

Rick

randallinMo · Jul 26, 2013

Either they can't read plans, or the plans WERE wrong. There might have been an addendum sent out correcting the original plans that they missed. If so, then they eat the sand so to speak. Usually, the engineers have these things drawn out explicitly and errors are uncommon. On the other hand, "usually" the contractor is always at fault no matter if he did it according to plan or not. I"ve had the engineer try to screw me "after the fact" when even he admitted the plans were wrong. I't ALWAYS stacked against the contractor!

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