Bucket Man in Kempsey, New South Wales | Construction company

Bucket Man

Locality: Kempsey, New South Wales

Phone: +61 407 700 792

Address: Pacific Highway 2440 Kempsey, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.bigditch.com.au

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23.01.2022 100 years ago, this is how they dug dams. With lots of horsepower. And also, these days - compaction rollers are known as 'Sheepfoot rollers'. That's because,... back in the day, they dug the dam and herded sheep into the dam to pack it down. The weight on a small hoof area compacts the soil very effectively. Hats off to these pioneers. They were hard men who did hard work in hard conditions (with thanks to Darren Henry for the photo and information)

16.01.2022 The Razorback Project | Day 2 | Building a bridge & getting over it. Prepping the wedge wall through the middle of the existing dam. This wall will then be roll...ed back in layers onto the existing leaking dam wall, while being mixed with water from the upside of the dam. Each layer will be infused with Bentonite when rolled back to create a 4 layer Bentonite sandwich that will stop all leaks. Big Ditch apprentice Kaleb Bakker stylin-out in the 23 ton Kobelco Geospec zero swing excavator

12.01.2022 The Razorback Project. Day 3. Shake & bake. The false land bridge is rolled back on the leaking wall and Bentonite layers 1 & 2 go in. A total of 4 tonnes of ...Bentonite is applied to the new dam wall material with the excavator being used like Mum's old mix master to create a gooey sticky dam sealing amalgam. The weather is starting to roll in on top of Razorback mountain and the clouds are looking ominous. Day 4 is looking challenging. Day 5 weather forecast looks bad Things could go sideways if we get too much rain from this point on

01.01.2022 Day 5 of The Razorback Project. Razorback Mountain. 1 hr south of Sydney The final 4 tonnes of Bentonite gets worked into the leaking dam wall. On Day 4, the we...ather wasn't kind to us, so today was slippery and sticky. We had been 2 days ahead of schedule, but the rain reduced progress by about 75%. This resulted in Day 5 starting at 7am - and finishing at 1.15am. Working a single machine at night with a single source of light is not my favourite thing. That's because you enter a surreal 2D world without colour, and have a very narrow field of view that is about 4 metres wide and 5 metres deep. And there's complete black on either side and in front. Plus, reversing cameras don't work at night because the dust flying of the tracks at the back of the machine into in the rear facing machine lights make the reverse camera look like trying to peer through a windscreen during a torrential downpour. It's just thousands of fire-fly like specks flying past the camera screen. If you're working near edges with substantial drop-off - it certainly makes sure you're on your game. But, in the end, what had to get done, got done