Looking from front to back
What a mess the excavator makes
Building a wooden Stonehenge...
This is the covered boat slip...needs some piling work
The Brooks bridge is just about 1.5 miles East.
The 30' pilings are about halfway in the ground. When they are finally set, the tops will be 10' above grade. This part of the job should be finished Friday, 03.29.02. Only 3 days longer than we planned!
All 23 primary pilings have been stood up in their holes! Thursday will see the pile driver brought in and the pilings will be driven about another 4-6 feet into the ground and straightened.
But it can't be helped. The concrete slab which we thought had been broken up and removed from the previous house was down there. About 6 feet below grade, it had to be removed to allow full depth setting of the pilings.
The skies were low and the 'forest' looked rather eerie.
You can see the fog better in this shot and the next one.
It looks kinda like that, doesn't it?
After setting five poles, we hit concrete. The old house slab had not been broken up as we had thought. Had to bring in the excavator to dig down to the old concrete, break it up and dig it out of the ground...more expense.
One of the 30 footers being lifted by the boom truck.
We're at just about the working limits of this crane!
Donny is the equipment operator. He runs both the crane and the excavator.
Frank does most of the grunt work. He's hooking up the chain to a piling here.
Here, Frank guides the piling into the caison. The auger hits water at about 8 feet. The caison keeps the hole from collapsing when the auger is removed and the piling is put in. It is then removed and the water and sand form almost a suction fitting around the piling.
