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Good postings Bert .. enjoyed reading that with a coffee
I'm surprised how poor the operators visibility is in the trencher .. must get a bit hot in there too
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Was just thinking Bert that here the road contractor is responsible for putting in the ducting and the electricity company pulls the cable.
On PPP the company then owns the ducting and raises revenue from the companies that use it, on other road jobs it belong to the council or road authority.
All ducting is now colour codes here, red for electricity, black for telecoms, yellow for gas, purple for tv, blue for potable water, black for firemain. brown/pink for foul sewer
Yeah I'm not entirely sure what the rules are here as it sometimes seems like they make them up as they go along at least in this province. And I guess this particular job the General Contractor could of hired a proper utility contractor to do all the installation which probably would of been faster but they for whatever reason decided to take on Hydro's offer. But in the end it meant I got to do some excavator work instead of doing something more mundane like driving a dump truck which I thoroughly hate.
Here I guess if you wanted to put stuff as colour coded orange pipe usually means conduit for power, telephone/fibreoptic, and cable t.v.
New water main installation is usually blue plastic pipe with tees, valves, '90's, and other special fittings being made out of coated cast iron. Sanitary and storm sewer can be made out of a number of different materials such as green plastic, concrete, (old days) cast iron, and clay tile pipe.
Natural gas pipe is always yellow but can be a couple of different materials like yellow coated steel pipe and plastic pipe. Petroleum such as crude oil, diesel, gasoline, and other 'ene's' e.g. benzene is I think always steel pipe and coated usually with a special very thick green paint of course to protect from corrosion. I could probably get more info from a chemical engineer friend of mine that works on the plant side of oil and gas refining.
Good postings Bert .. enjoyed reading that with a coffee
I'm surprised how poor the operators visibility is in the trencher .. must get a bit hot in there too
Glad you liked it Muz, yeah the trencher has a strange cab for sure but it is air conditioned and has a canister style air filter on the outside of it for easier maintenance. I found a link from Vermeer's website that show's that the trencher is also available with a rocksaw instead of the chain. The foreman told me that when they originally bought it cost around $300,000! That's a lot of money for a machine that sits around most of the time and maybe gets used about once a year!
The foreman told me that when they originally bought it cost around $300,000! That's a lot of money for a machine that sits around most of the time and maybe gets used about once a year!
Yaah ...... not half ? when you consider how many tracked excavators you could have bought
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Well not to many tracked excavators can keep up to this thing when it's working in ideal ground conditions, it apparently cuts through frost at an amazing rate which would be nice to see.
I thought I'd update this as I've been working for a place for about 3 weeks now, the money is good and the work seems to be plentiful however they are terribly unorganized and like to lay off labourers and tell the equipment operators they have to do the labour work which is pretty stupid especially when you've got enough work to do as it is. But if all works out it'll get me through the winter without having to work out of province and maybe I can finally buy a diesel pick up truck which will come in handy when I can finally afford a digger.
The work I am doing is called 4 party work as we trench and install power lines, gas lines, telephone, and t.v. the telephone lines are actually fibre optic and every house will have a its own fibreoptic service which means faster internet and all that stuff that's kinda beyond me. lol On these two jobs I've been working on we are also installing conduit for future fibreoptic cables but from a different company I'm not sure why but that's what we are doing and it's a lot of product to install. Also the yellow polyethylene pipe is gas pipe and has to be so many millimeters away from the 'primary' power cable which can be up to 25 KV and is regulated by the Public Utilities Board.
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And I guess this particular job the General Contractor could of hired a proper utility contractor to do all the installation which probably would of been faster but they for whatever reason decided to take on Hydro's offer. But in the end it meant I got to do some excavator work instead of doing something more mundane like driving a dump truck which I thoroughly hate.
...... not half ? when you consider how many tracked excavators you could have bought 
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