INSTALLING REINFORCED CONCRETE PIPE // Residential Excavating // Heavy Equipment Vlog Day 15 Part 2

[@steveg7380]

This is the kind of operator you want. Great work on the learning curve and patience.

[@coltonjohnson9617]

i'm happy to see these young men hard at work and learning a useful trade. I'm going to be starting my apprenticeship really soon as well and i'm excited to get on the field and learn the pipeline.

[@daviddoles9124]

When starting with a short cut piece we'll have a guy hold a cut piece of 4x4 between the pipe and the back structure wall if possible. Just so you can use a little more force to get the second joint home

[@craig7878]

Or you can smash a 4x4 in the pit on a 45 degree angle against the pipe. Like you would when boarding it on for concrete. Or use full length frost and dump sand on top of it too

[@g.prince6265]

Dave knows what's up.🤘

[@craig7878]

And thirdly, all you need to do is measure the length of your run, account for spigot and socket butts, and length of pipe, then simply cut pipe so you aren’t left with a tiny piece at the end. Focus on getting your grade and bedding right first though. Your pipe bedding makes the job ten times harder. Just get sand and a screed and concrete rake and get the bed nicely finished, then dig out for the bell ends

[@littlefinkle7757]

Hot weather makes stress levels rise!

[@dieselandironheavyequipmen6821]

Amen to that. It only adds to the pressure buildup when you have a pain in the ass inspector up your backside.

[@Lubbocksfinest]

@@dieselandironheavyequipmen6821may sound strange but I prefer the difficult ones. Veterans though, they teach you a lot and pretty much force you to get better.

[@dillonhouse696]

As a 15 year pipe man, foreman/operator. This is painful too watch……. Keep at it you’ll get better.

[@alecwinterstein2955]

I guess there is always a method to.the madness .

[@craig7878]

Should use a bedding material, about 100mm thick. Also, if you started with full length pipe and then dumped a bucket of sand over it (but in your case you’d probably be using dirt since you’re half arsing it), then pipe would be weighed down, and then use a shorter pipe as the second pipe in the run, you can easily send it home since you are pushing into a full length pipe weighed down. Use your brains…

[@user-rf7kq8tz6o]

Wouldn’t you cut the rocker for the inlet and outlet of the pit then start with full lengths?

[@daviddoles9124]

Should've waited to comment...lol

[@thatguynamedguygi2074]

See back home …

[@monroelandexcavation]

I recently was asked to bid a small project installing 12" RCP. I've been doing residential for a few years and am lost when it comes to most commercial jobs. This video is a great example for me. Did you learn from working in a larger company or is it something you picked up over time?

[@dieselandironheavyequipmen6821]

Doing any sort of underground is something you'll want to learn before you try doing it. There are a lot of factors that play and a lot of tricks you learn from working with a crew that has experience that will save you a phenomenal amount of time.

[@RisingInTheFlesh]

Civil Design engineer here. Curious, at around 4:45, you had mentioned that the pipe length was short enough that you don't use the pipe laser. At what length do you decide to use a pipe laser? And is that standard practice?

[@davidhalliday616]

Setting up the pipe laser takes time. It’s much quicker to set up the regular laser on slope. So if it’s quicker, that’s how we do it. Always use the pipe laser on sewer but a lot of the time use the slope laser on drain.

[@xwals09]

It’s laziness. It doesn’t take more then 5-10mins to pull line on a long run. Even with a one stick run a laser should be used.

[@aarongordon5571]

Why don’t you guys use a pipe laser?

[@RisingInTheFlesh]

He said in the video, it's because it's a "short enough of a pipe run".