54" Installation

54" PVC Pipe installation in Burley, Idaho

[@DD-nn7vk]

They guy in the pink hard had is a beast. Give him a raise for his energy alone!

[@ralval5376]

I’m on my 5 day pipe laying. Got a huge opportunity to learn the craft and get paid hella good. I’ve had a shovel in my hand almost the whole time lol

[@HeavyMachinesinAction]

Heck yes! Work hard buddy and you will go up fast!

[@SG-pj5zl]

How do you get in?

[@701Gangstatainment]

how is your pipe laying career going buddy

[@bizhewmay5848]

I got lucky, came across a willing to train and certify post on indeed, I searched up "hiring immediately will train " lol and I have no construction experience, just some roofing experience, also helps to be a big guy lol they need the help.

[@stevenkirton6373]

When I was 20 I used to lay 14 foot concrete precast pipes on the shores in Vancouver Canada, now I am in the seat.

[@mikejohnson3601]

C900 pvc pipes one of the best to work with in pipe installation

[@iliketakingshowers]

You know they are hustling for the video lol

[@adamokuhle9753]

Competent 👌

[@g.prince6265]

Tell the pipe man take it home with the pipe bar 😂🤘

[@wileyearly7051]

Laser is priceless doing this.

[@suzannta2827]

Impresive! Wow, if only home owners had this machine in a small size to install underground PVC in the house.

[@willofdodge1]

You can rent mini-x, just google your city/state excavator rental. You should hire out tho unless you are famaliar with this type of work

[@chriskelley5853]

It's called bale it up with your hands

[@cliftonmatchett9426]

A push block would help pushing on one area tend to roll a rubber and only experience will let you know if that happens

[@dlogan3004]

He would have to break to bell to hurt that rubber at all. Bad angles on the bell and spigot is what rolls rubbers.

[@beniciojunior7319]

Operador top! 👏👏👏👏

[@ArquimidesLovoticas]

Hola buenas noches me podrían dar algún número para llamar porque necesito unos tubos

[@brianwalker1386]

When you're laying pipe especially big pipe you want the spicket and a little heavy

[@jeff7764]

*spigot

[@brianwalker1386]

@@jeff7764 yes it has a bevel to Edge the other side is called a bell

[@blutemple9198]

If im not mistaking this is in southern idaho and its a pressure line to use surface water to replace deep wells for irrigation use

[@Enriiquegomez]

You are correct, description says burley Idaho

[@dregs8026]

This is a pressure line? What keeps them from coming apart? No glue or bracket?

[@edwardmccoy274]

Is there a pressure test of any kind?

[@GemmyHeart]

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[@masonbolton5172]

Meanwhile I just finished 200ft of 6in plastic

[@simonmartin4599]

That's a lot of digging.

[@dlogan3004]

@@simonmartin4599 that’s not even half a day, I dug and laid 870 of 8” today, and that’s with 4 tees, 9 valves and 2 hydrants……

[@simonmartin4599]

@@dlogan3004 With a spade or an excavator?

[@dlogan3004]

@@simonmartin4599 Deere 300g with a 30” trench bucket

[@simonmartin4599]

@@dlogan3004 But the joke was that he's done it with a spade.

[@shuhrattashxodjayev1317]

Very good work

[@KL-xx6il]

They know what they were doing

[@Jeus-h3o]

C900 pipe

[@surasakngamla1793]

เยี่ยมมาก🎉🎉🎉

[@dregs8026]

What keeps these lines from coming apart under pressure? No glue or bracket?

[@jory703]

The weight of the compacted material around the pipe and the weight of the pipe itself also they are tight fit

[@GUANACO0377]

Huge pipe by the way. For sewer service pipe? I guess storm pipe.

[@datBRICK22]

Well typically You have a depth of how deep your pipe needs to be and then you keep it at that depth. If you need to be 6 ft below your grade keep it at 6 ft blow your grade and you're always going to be straight typically give or take

[@nikitachrenowski168]

That's bionax, it's a watermain pipe

[@lilcourtny08]

Sewer is green pipe

[@luperodriguez5320]

Tu no sabes,,that's water main

[@GUANACO0377]

Lupe Rodriguez pero que bueno que tu estas acá para hacerlo saber. Vaya forma de contestar. Nunca dije que sabía. Por eso formulé la pregunta. (?) es el signo de interrogación utilizado en Español al funal de una pregunta. Gracias por su información

[@aspen8517]

Good god 54 I hate doing 30 inch I can’t imagine how heavy one of those things is I bet it would smash a person flat like a pancake u wouldn’t think pvc would have weight like that

[@Emezepe3]

We doing 96 inch fiberglass pipe

[@quackassassin2146]

I have done this it requires a well-oiled machine of a team for no one man to work xtra hard.

[@raymond5180]

Been there done that ..that picture pipe when you lube it up ..just slides right in ..put in 100s of feet a day with no problem.

[@kylepeak7033]

I doubt it first of all. It doesn't just slide right in, they are using a 45 thousand pound (probably more) excavator to stab it. If you tried to push that with a rock bar you would bounce back. Idiots. Been there done that lol, I've done it for years and there is always more to learn.

[@raymond5180]

@@kylepeak7033 don't know what crew you work or was working with but if you was killing yourself to put that pipe inn your crew was some shit ..yea..

[@raymond5180]

@@kylepeak7033 I think my crew was just a little more experienced than yours

[@raymond5180]

I bet your crew was using jumping jacks to compact too..lmmfao ..fuckin dummy

[@kylepeak7033]

@@raymond5180 Lol, we're the #1 Utility contractor in arkansas. I will work laps around you in a ditch, and push mountains around in a dozer or trackhoe. Ain't my first rodeo cowboy. That is C-900 pipe, and there are a million different manufacturers and gasket types, and every pipe stabs different. Sewer PVC or SDR26 you can stab my hand up to about 48". C-900 GOOD LUCK LOL! Why do you think they're stabbing it with a 25ton machine? Maybe you would know these things if you ever had to order material or run an entire jobsite with 6 crews doing STORM drain, water main, gravity sewer, electrical conduit, road, and dirt. Not all C-900 is the same goofball, and if you ever want to be something besides a ditch bitch, you might start doing your homework.

[@themilfologist]

LOTS OF JUMPING JACKS BOYSSSSS

[@datBRICK22]

I wish I had some competent labors like that

[@jeff7764]

Reuben H maybe if they had a good foreman, everything is always the laborers fault huh??

[@datBRICK22]

@@jeff7764 In my case its definitely the Labor's fault, I'm just the operator who has to get off the equipment to show them how to do it

[@mikeyfelley]

Are you kidding ? there is a number of faults. firstly the bandsman shouldn't be near the load as it starts to lift. secondly the slings are in the wrong position, The choke on the slings should be back to back to avoid spin although this never happenrd. thirdly the bandsman slipped on the mud, had the crane driver not seen him this could be fatal

[@gdigaditch]

Reuben H that’s a joke wright ?

[@TheCrustyFry]

Reuben H I hear you man if my guys spent as much time working as they did trying to get out of work the job would have been done in half the time. Bosses don’t want to hear it they need the bodies because we are busy and my job is profitable so I’ve been riding their asses so hard the last month the one guy changed his tune and the other is probably going to quit.

[@chrisladelfa3613]

Do you use the entire gallon of pipe lube for each stick of pipe?! That's insane, I thought installing 12" main was a PITA I cant imagine 54"!

[@jalopysocks]

Forbidden caramel

[@wileyearly7051]

Where’s a rigger when you need one. Wow!

[@bradley5185]

Let’s see an MJ connection, I bet the bolt count is crazy

[@Emezepe3]

Torqueingwould be fun

[@krishanson5503]

Yo, where is the tracer wire at boys? You will never find this pipe again.

[@chrisladelfa3613]

Just get a tie off from the corner of the excavator track and that rock on the other side of the trench!

[@GUANACO0377]

How they check the right grade to set the pipe, How they know pipe it set on right grade?

[@arranconstant3091]

If they are using a laser a target you set for grade u want.

[@anthonybarrios1989]

Its pressurized you dont need a laser you just need a competent pipe layer and operator to maintain the line and the grade .. it looks like their in an open field so keeping it to detail is no challenge

[@inconspicuous_024]

I do 8" Waterline. This is nothing compared to what I do. One day, I will.

[@jeremyjennings1875]

Honestly in my system anything 16 inch or larger we don't use pvc. When that pipe fails it is going to split longitudinally and they are going to lose so much water.

[@dlogan3004]

Why would it fail? It’s not deep….

[@jeremyjennings1875]

@@dlogan3004 it just does for various reasons. Maybe it was not bedded properly, maybe they over bell'ed the pipe. Maybe they deflected too much at the joint or maybe the pipe had some kind of strike trauma during transit or installation. Ground shifting. Alot of these can be prevented by having good inspections. In our system our inspections may not be the best but we also have pretty high pressures in some areas around 130 psi max. But even at those pressure we would be well within the class rating for the pipe.

[@jeremyjennings1875]

@@dlogan3004 still we think it is better not you use PVC for very large mains because of the way they fail which is typically a longitudinal crack along the pipe sometimes the entire stick. In those cases you will lose alot more water as opposed to a ductile iron or steel cylinder bar wrapped pipe.

[@dlogan3004]

@@jeremyjennings1875 I understand but all of those are installation errors, by our specs in South Al every 16ft or deeper has to be ductile but I have laid sch 26 pvc sewer 21ft deep and it’s never had a problem. Laid a lot of C900 water main 8-10ft deep and never had a problem with the pipe holding up. But I’ll lay whatever the engineer’s want lol

[@dlogan3004]

@@jeremyjennings1875 maybe so, where I’m from water is 3 1/2ft deep and we put valves everywhere lol

[@sef2273]

Some heavy pipe

[@artyberrones9383]

Where's the tag line ?

[@israelvega1174]

Job done and so eficient but a few Health & Safety issues

[@coedeekash]

Fuck yea

[@salvadormendez9861]

To high dig for the bell

[@arose6408]

with heavy ridged pipe like this, I never dig out the bell, why when you push them home they set a lot easier picking them up a little and shoveling that bell out than trying to pick them up from being low.

[@salvadormendez9861]

A Rose there’s no reason for it to be low or high if u did your grade good trust me dig the bell a little is going to help a lot . Stay safe guys

[@waterlineharyana5922]

Good

[@timz7171]

that's all they have for a push block. WTF

[@kalenanewman4225]

This is the only time they move fast cause of the video taping😂

[@raymond5180]

Pvc

[@richardgauthier2155]

Too much hurry.

[@brandonspence2189]

Laborers lol

[@anabiasheikh4310]

🤔😀😛😝

[@stephenbernsen169]

poor rigging

[@SM-1-6]

Ho lee fuk

[@domesticcat5069]

🗨️😽

[@julianreverse]

Pushing the pipes together with the excavator is allways a bad idea ;-)

[@arose6408]

try getting 6'x8' pipe home that weight 22,000 lbs a piece without pushing them home with the excavator, I've pushed 24-inch c900 pipe home with a 750 Komatsu dozen of times I prefer pulling them home with a chain strap combo but thats not always an option when you're 25 feet deep 3 boxes stack leading into a manhole box.

[@datBRICK22]

No issues with that size pipe

[@joshuaworley9698]

We did that with 48 inch concrete , one our bells shattered like glass.

[@zankki90]

basic day

[@youngnutsack17]

either shit operators or shit labors. I push any c900 over 8" with a excavator and get between 300-1200 feet a day and no damaged pipe, always passing my hydro test at 200psi.

[@juanjosereveles9809]

No good never push with excavator