Bmyers
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Equipment
Grand L3560 with LA805 loader, EA 55" Wicked Grapple, SBX72 BB, LP 1272 mower
My wife informed me I was unable to draw a straight line. So, she drew another line. I then decided I would just dig right thru the middle of both of them.What was with the optional passing lane in orange paint in your second pic?
How was it pulling thru the frost?
Excavator did well. It was Yanmar 35 from the local rental company. Didn't have much issue with the frost, it pulled right through it. Thankfully, we have had some recent above normal temps, so most of it was minimal frost. I wasn't sure what type of struggles the ground would provide us due to all the recent snow, then the melt, then the freeze, then the thaw. Made it a little more muddier than I would of liked, but we made it.
We had discussed trenching it in, but was unsure what we might find, which we found an old section of fence, old buried furniture, and a pile of buried bricks (small pile). We made sure the bottom was free from anything shape and placed loose dirt back on top of it all. Had to get a the L3560 out to get a few buckets of dirt to fill in the locations where we had removed debris from to make sure we had a clean hole. I was told dirty holes (rock/sharp debris) can cause you problems and puncture the line.
No leaks and we now have water in the house. I think it went well for the first time of ever attempting anything like this and only the second time I have used an excavator.