Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Layin' down a bed of crushed stone
Double click on this detail to see exactly what we are building here.
Please note that they have laid the perforated pipe in the back "L" part of the basement (I didn’t get any pictures) and are going to install the rest today hopefully. They are right now trying to get all of the stone they are going to need for the main part of the building piled into the center of the basement so that they can return the conveyer, install the remaining perforated pipe, and rake the crushed stone out on top of it. They could not lay all the perforated pipe first because it would get in the way of the wheelborrows needed to get the stone in.
Site Structures first put down a layer of this black, water permeable, geotextile fabric that will keep the crushed stone from getting fouled by the clay below.
They rented a conveyer belt to get the crushed stone into the building. Outside, somebody pushes and shovels crushed stone from the back of a truck or trailer onto the conveyer belt. The conveyer belt then brings the stone into the basement and conveniently drops it in a strategically placed the wheelbarrow. This whole process requires a lot of yelling back and forth to not overload the wheelbarrow.
Once full, whoever is inside would carefully walk the loaded wheelbarrow across the basement planks and dump the stone in a big pile in the center of basement.
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