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Very nice and hard work

Nice job. To bad the owner Lee is a reall Asshole.

Too high now it’s going to be a bump they will have to take quite a bit out and put abase for pavement etc🤷🧐

Boy god fofbid they fell in that’s the end for them. Why not get a plank or two under the ladder

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That looks like donkey piss

Different Agitator ..love to see the state of the cab after a blowback from a static concrete pump..

Is the mud supposed to be that wet? Why so on this job? The ladder technique seems a bit sketchy tho

Encasing that main and valve in concrete is probably a mistake. In 20 years if they need to get at it, they're going to have a real problem.

Would love to see it go into the hole

Love to know if you get a dip.😅😅😅

Love to watch men at work 😊I’m retired after 44yrs. 👷🏽God bless. Remind the 2 kids in the video to study 📖 hard this type of work is back breaking.

To bad dumb azz didn't fall in

What's an idiot going to do wait for the cement to dry why didn't they have that all rigged up what's wrong with these idiots

I agree why did they wait to bring the Riser up what a bunch of idiots it's telescoping why did they do that now they got to fight the concrete they could have it right where they wanted before

How did they botch it up what is wrong with it what is wrong with the repair

The duct tape looks official

Flowable Fill, or what we call a piss load.

Could have got away with filling the hole with sand then flooding with water to gain compaction in layers. Then top it off with one foot of concrete to bring the level to underside of asphalt. Maybe a little cheaper, but certainly easier to get to the valve if there becomes problems in the future.

Cuando se averie esa llave de paso no se cómo la van a cambiar

God help anyone who has to do any work to that in the future.

Why on Earth would anybody feel that much cement around a water main if there's ebony repairs ever needing done by the next individual? Do they have any idea how impossible that is gonna be to even get to and make a repair? These are complete idiots who should have no business working for the company that bid this job out.

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At least the comments are on the ball with the exact detail of this method of backfill…sand itself is non compactable and the binder basically keeps it in place for the duration…it can easily be RE excavated if required for future maintenance but it’s quick, almost permanent, and self flowing and leveling…a no brainer…

Unless I’m seeing wrong I believe that is a full sized saddled valve assembly that appears to have to be able to shut off into the bottom of the ductile main. I’ve never seen this before but I’ve been out of this field of work for a few years now.

Always fun pouring flowable fill

That was a biggest mistake putting concrete in that hole what happens if they get a valve broke they got to dig all that concrete out what a waste of taxpayers money

In some localities, the cement mixture is called two sack. It does not encase the valve like regular concrete and can be easily broken apart if necessary. Typically, this mixture is used in electrical work were conduit is laid under a parking lot or driveway with vehicular traffic. It provides good support to keep the conduit from being crushed and the ditch where conduit is set from sinking since the ground will never be compacted to 100% like what nature does.

Definitely needed a longer ladder to properly down the hole.

You have to be kidding me! Really?

It should be filled with dirt.if it brakes.your screwed.⛏⛏

The next worker who has to make a repair on the pipe in the future will be cursing them out.

Good luck if it ever needs repairs again...

Smh…lol..why???

What country?

6 feet of concrete huh for that????

Yeah but what if that stuff brakes down 👇 there???? Duhhh!!!!

Cool video

Russian public utilities are at a loss, why fill the pipe with concrete? after all, you can bury rusty pipes in the ground and dig them out again every year).🤣

My friend taught me about this when we had a water main with a crack in it he just threw a few dry bags of concrete in there and we haven’t had problems since

I'd hate to see the cost of the next main replacement. Who guys could've just used gravel or crushed stone to backfill with.

lmfao omg the ladder setup has portuguesee written all over it. we called this u-fill its pea gravel and concrete sand and i believe ours was 7% portland cement. it gets pretty hard 100% compaction. with saying that it is more money than using a ho-pack, and you can lay ashphalt right away if you wanted to or had to, this stuff takes a while to set up, we would leave over night usually. but most cities prefer this in roads because people suck at packing if they even do it lol. in our town we are required to cover the bolts on the joint restraint so if need to ever take apart you can, you need jack hammer to get the u-fill off. we would this stuff was like small 1/4 inch styrofoam balls and some type of thick paste/clay type mix, would come in kilo block form, than wrap denso tape around the restraint, and weld an anode to the water main connecting both with a tracer wire, and weld another anode to the valve, and just lay the anodes on the ground on edge of trenches backfill around the pipe with clear stone to just over the top of pipe and around the valve cover the top the valve and base of the valve stem with something (garbage aka old portland bags, card board, plastic etc) so u fill doesn't stick to everything and fill her up!! this is ductile iron pipe, cast iron pipe with a cement lining on the inside circumference.

Let me just say, I love me a front loader with an experienced driver. We had a job one time and we harldy had to touch it... leveled it out, pictureframed it and done in record time. I tipped the driver $100 cash. I still dont think it was enough. That driver saved us so much time and work.

I wish const equip and trucks didn't have to make that annoying beeping sound.

Yep. Sometimes repairs don’t work. If you had any experience with water lines, you’d know a repair is more likely to leak than a new install. Sitting at your desk in a nice warm and dry office, it’s easy to point fingers when you have no idea what you’re talking about.

So, just have to ask. What is your level of knowledge of water line and water line repair? Just curious because it’s common practice to dump actual concrete around tees, valves and other connections underground to keep them from twisting and moving sideways and blowing apart. Valve box looked just fine to me. Gets your kids away from the site too. Absolutely ridiculous you think it’s ok to let kids around that active site.

You would have thought that they would have established the finished height of the riser pipe before they started pouring the fill.

Osha would shut the job down for the fool on the ladder

It's called flowfill commonly used filling sink holes to

Jeez... And I thought I do some questionable safety NoNo's!