Yesterday, Mrs Bugs n I spent the day hammering, shaping and digging out a 80’ culvert that has been a problem culvert on the property since we lived here. We live on a hill that seems to grow rocks as you’re watching..[emoji849]
I’ve used industrial jack hammers, a backhoe and other implements to chip away at buried rocks and what we call Placerite. It’s a hardened layer that is more resistant than concrete when breaking it up. It’s so hard that when installing a 12” metal culvert pipe for the driveway, it cracked the boom on a large backhoe. What I actually discovered is that using the Hitachi demolition hammer with the pinpoint tip, I am actually able to chip it away as well as shape the buried boulders. Kinda like an ice pick vs blunt 1” chissel. [emoji2371]
Anyway, spend all day working it and this is the end result after moving 30+ wheelbarrow loads of dirt. Hopefully the water will drain better. A little more slope/grade work and if the flow is adequate, we will line the culvert with a cloth barrier and then place rip rap.
The HD bucket is our anti critter barrier until I can weld up a grate cover. This is the concrete end cap to the pipe to help fix this culvert issue after I extended the wall this past summer. It’s approximately 22” deep so I need to fab up a metal grate to prevent folks from falling into it.
Cheers
Today I get to attempt an AC line and misc component replacement in our 95 K1500. Kinda sucks not having a defroster rolling into winter.
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