OOPS

[Smiffy]

Thing is i thought gummy buckets were for digging where you think their might be services etc. With teeth and a blade welded on it's too easy to be under something without realising.

Not if your following safe digging procedure on any of the big sites
Maximum 2 inch of material removed at a time preferably 1
Even on a 1.5 the ears on the bucket should be 6 to 8 inches from the top maybe more depending on who welded the blade on
Bucket then angled so the blade almost has a negative camber on it and you are literally scraping the material off rather than digging it
So the blade will glide over anyform of ducting
Each pass scanned with a cat 4+ downloadable scanner so that on the of chance someone has buried the utilities in the tarmac like the phone guys are so good at then you have full proof that all correct measures where taken

 

[Antony Holmes]

how things have changed when i started on the diggers in the 80s you would not think of having a bucket with a blade on the teeth. dig deep and throw well back was the shout, all different now

 

[GazCro]

Not if your following safe digging procedure on any of the big sites
Maximum 2 inch of material removed at a time preferably 1
Even on a 1.5 the ears on the bucket should be 6 to 8 inches from the top maybe more depending on who welded the blade on
Bucket then angled so the blade almost has a negative camber on it and you are literally scraping the material off rather than digging it
So the blade will glide over anyform of ducting
Each pass scanned with a cat 4+ downloadable scanner so that on the of chance someone has buried the utilities in the tarmac like the phone guys are so good at then you have full proof that all correct measures where taken

Yeah and probably doing it with a 20 tonner.

 

[JD450A]

Blade over teeth is far nicer IMHO than a "gummy" learner bucket for digging round cables. But that might just be me.

 

[Quarryop]

Amazing how that landslide area in Norway was deemed a quick clay area and not permitted for development of any type and 3 years later they allowed houses to be built on it. somebody has questions to answer?

 

[Bucket on wheels]

I was digging holes in 2015 for manholes where the pipes were laid by controlled drilling.
This was about 12 kilometers from the landslide.
The ground is much the same in the whole area.
The clay was so soft that sometimes I had to hold the sheet still for a while to let the clay grip it, or it would continue sinking until it was gone

 

[diggerjones]

I was digging holes in 2015 for manholes where the pipes were laid by controlled drilling.
This was about 12 kilometers from the landslide.
The ground is much the same in the whole area.
The clay was so soft that sometimes I had to hold the sheet still for a while to let the clay grip it, or it would continue sinking until it was gone
Amazing. i thinking of all those men you have made redundant

 

[Bucket on wheels]

 

[V8Druid]

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bloody hell .... that's a mess ... how is the missing persons count Frank?

 

[Bucket on wheels]

bloody hell .... that's a mess ... how is the missing persons count Frank?

They have found one Dead.
And 10 people are still Missing
https://translate.google.com/transl...e-savnede-etter-skredet-i-gjerdrum-1.15309985

 

[Quarryop]

Awful nightmare for emergency services trying to get to possible trapped victims or recovery and not being allowed into the search area last i heard

 

[Quarryop]

I used to do sheet piling with both a crane mounted hammer and an auto plumb hammer mounted on a digger. Thats the softest ground ive ever seen other than blue clay and on a sandy beach where we had to weld 6 metre lengths onto 12m sheet piles for a ferry harbour with a cross current on the tide

 

[Bucket on wheels]

The missing persons count off tonight is 4 people found dead.
6 people still Missing

 

[Bucket on wheels]

The missing persons count off tonight is 7 people found dead.
3 people still Missing

Drone video

 

[doobin]

Just passed this in town

 

[pettsy]

 

[V8Druid]

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vicar of Dibley'd be well out o' sight in that bugger

 

[TiltyShaun]

Looks like MJ Church are having a bad day

 

[TiltyShaun]

It got worse but I can’t post the pics

 

[JD450A]

It got worse but I can’t post the pics

Annoys Gatekeep Stumpy.....

Rearrange the letters.