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CM1995

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Sany excavator not ours!

LOL - I just spit a cold malted beverage on my screen! I was about to give you **** and ask if ya'll have swapped to Sany.:p:D

Man that's some beautiful black gold right there!

Question - Is there any value in the I guess you would call it "2nd" product that appears to be the smaller rocks?
 

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Lol. Sorry about that CM. I didn’t want anyone to think we switched.

As for the small overs I guess you could use it for fill in green spaces and cap it off with clean dirt. It’s mostly little dirt clods, 57 stone and small roots. We could run it again and get a little more dirt out of it but then you get small sticks in the finished product.
 

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LC not sure about the blue concrete but we run into green concrete on older structures (80-100 yrs old) here due to the blast furnace slag they used as aggregate back then. Might have something to do with the salt or the high water table?

The new 200 is sweet! Is the Rockland QC a wedge type or pin grabber?
 

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Hi CM, that is interesting about the slag. I’ve never seen slag in concrete around here.

The coupler on the 220 is a Volvo coupler and it is wedge lock. Volvo did a real good job on the coupler and keeps it real close to where a regular pin on bucket would be and keeping the tip radius as it should be. Sometimes I would like to have a pin grabber though so I could turn the bucket around. Volvo builds a good looking bucket but not a progressive link thumb.
 

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This the next one. The pool is going to stay tearing down the old pool house, removing some walls and elevated slabs. I guess the 750sqft pool house wasn’t big enough. Took 26 tons of debris out one loader bucket at a time not including any concrete. No room at all and an 800 foot driveway. $364 worth of aluminum.

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LC I ran across a piece of the green blast furnace slag concrete on a parking lot project downtown. This chunk is at least 100 years old.

The grey chunks are blast furnace slag and pieces of glass, don't know why the cement and sand are green.

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Thanks Skyking! That’s what we aim for.
I have one to do like that, I am under the gun to remove a big gunite hot tub from the owner's back yard. His very finished back yard, right next to the pool. Lots of plywood, dunnage, some shipping blankets to protect the pool deck, two excavators, a hammer, dump truck, and little old me.
 

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Hey CM. Sure looks like the same color as the stuff we have. I am no expert but I think it might be a chemical reaction from the cement and something else. Our green/blue stuff has limestone rock in it. Does yours turn white or light gray once it exposed to the air? It almost seems like it has not fully cured, again no expert. How hard is it compared to regular concrete?
 

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Hi Skyking. Sounds like the same operation we had except we had a loader to haul the stuff out. Are you using a hammer? If so what size machine?
 

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Here are a few more of the second one we are doing. Lots of equipment in a small area. Also a few pics of the pool that stays and the house.

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I have a rental hammer to put on our 35.
I will toss the material out of the finished yard to the slope into the dry pond, then track it out of there with the 120 to where I can load it in the dump truck.
I'll post up some pictures as it develops.
 

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I mobilized excavators yesterday and loaded dunnage and plywood and picked up the hammer today. I spent half a day getting into place, working by myself. It would have been handy to have someone setting straps and chains, and helping with the plywood and dunnage.
I backfilled the wall, pulled a fence panel, set the steel plate with the big machine and set some working dunnage out ahead of me to step down with. It is an 18" high wall.
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I spun 90 on the steel plate and then set plywood and headed off across the lawn. here I have set the hammer in behind me and I'm grabbing the steel sheet off the lawn before it does any harm.
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I picked the hammer around ahead of me then set it down and bucketed my way up on that curb on the left and a 4x8 on shipping blankets on the pool edge. That curb has a 1/2" colorized gunite skin coat that is fragmenting off, so I don't have to protect it. The hot tub is across the end of the pool there and I have to demo my way into it to make the corner.
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here is the other access to that end of the pool. NOPE!
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I think I found the leak!
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