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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bobcat_ron" data-source="post: 9124" data-attributes="member: 1066">I recently did a job with my brother who had dug a manure pit in Sumas Prairie, due to a high water table, Canadian Dewatering was in and set up a perimeter vacuum pipeline with constant 24/7 pumping, this enabled us to dig down to the required depth of 54 inches without hitting water.  Only problem was that due to have interior walls to support the pre-cast concrete slotted floors, there needed to be 7 footing trenches dug, measuring 8x32" and the full length, 100 x 250 feet long with perimeter and center footings, this was a problem.  None of our excavators have a 32" bucket, so we needed to rent a very tiny CAT 301.8,  this "thing" was tiny, only 10 feet of reach and all the sand had to be removed as the trenches were dug.  That's where I came in, I used my T190 CTL with a dumping hopper I bought earlier this summer and I spent 3 1/2 days moving massive amounts of sand.  Each trench dug I dumped 4-5 hopper loads, with a heaped capacity of over 90 cubic feet, 7 trenches averaging 11 trips, that's alot of sand.  The hopper performed flawlessly, it sped up the trench digging and worked better than I expected in the loose lake bottom sand.  So with out further adieu, the pics.<img src="http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/rdj07/Pictures038.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/rdj07/Pictures040.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The dewatering pump, one lonely engine:<img src="http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/rdj07/Pictures041.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Half of the material moved, it's just as high as the top of the boom on our 320:<img src="http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/rdj07/Pictures042.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/rdj07/Pictures043.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/rdj07/Pictures045.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />We did the outside trenches with the 60" bucket on the bigger 320, this took even less time and made seriously quick loads:<img src="http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/rdj07/Pictures048.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />The view as the sand shower filled the bucket:<img src="http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/rdj07/Pictures049.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Coffee time:<img src="http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/rdj07/Pictures052.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />BIG DIFFERENCE!!<img src="http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/rdj07/Pictures050.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Man I hope these pics show up, this is one wierd forum board for posting pics.</blockquote>

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