Job
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American
Excavating Services |
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Job:
Demolish swimming pool |
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up the concrete decking and the side walls, ripped the
entire bottom out, crushed it all up into small pieces
and put it back into the hole. It was all crushed into
the ground with fill dirt, backfilled and covered with
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trees, roots and shrubs and re-graded the area behind the
pool. |
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brought in two loads of quality screened topsoil, re-graded
the entire back yard, hand raked it and applied grass
seed |
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What
an amazing transformation! (His Golden Retriever is SO
happy now!) |
Job:
Total house demolition and removal. |
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Job:
Land Clearing |
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We took out some pretty big
trees, lots of downed limbs and 20 TONS of brush and debris
along this busy road. At least a dozen motorists stopped to
tell us how great it looked! |
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Job: Another play area built
into a hill waiting
for mulch and a play set.
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Job: Demolish house, dig out & backfill basement. |
Front of house. Notice how close the surrounding homes are. Extreme care and patience made this a safe job with a successful outcome. |
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Let the games begin! |
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With the houses on both side so close, we carefully picked the house apart piece by piece. |
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The last of the debris is loaded into a dumpster.
What house???
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Lot seeded and covered with straw.
Another VERY satisfied client!!
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Job:
Demolish House |
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work begins... |
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began to demolish the house by taking the roof off first,
then the walls, and worked our way down to the foundation. |
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debris (approx. 55 tons) was
loaded into dumpsters and
hauled away.
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Several
truckloads of clean fill dirt were brought in to backfill
the old basement. |
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We
brought in a dozer to regrade
the site after the basement
was backfilled. |
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While
to dozer pushed and compacted the site the rubber track
loader started the fine grading. |
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About
40 yards of screened topsoil were brought in for the fine
grading. The entire site was hand raked. |
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site was seeded and covered with straw to finish the project. |
Job:
Resurface Driveway |
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The old
driveway was cracking,
the edges were falling apart and
there were several depressions
where water collected and sat
after it rained. |
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entrance was widened quite
a bit to so delivery trucks (and
bad drivers) would stay out of
the mud and ON the driveway
when coming in and out. |
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A
full width “berm” was created
to help keep the water from the
street from flowing onto
the driveway. |
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The
view from the top, next to
the house, looking toward the
street. What an improvement!!! |
Job:
Install underground propane tank |
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We dug
an 18 long 6’ deep hole
in the ground to install the tank in
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Lowering
the tank into the ground. |
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We dug
a trench from the
house to the tank to run the gas line |
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tank was surrounded and covered with screenings (stone dust)
and then the hole was backfilled with soil and the area re-graded.
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Demolish swimming pool |
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Job:
Install seepage bed |
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PVC pipe was used to carry the water from the downspouts
(from the roof runoff) away from the foundation. |
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“seepage bed” was excavated, filled with ¾’
clean stone and backfilled after the system was installed. |
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Job:
Repair Sink Hole |
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Didn’t
look like much from the surface. The homeowners had
these small holes filled in with dirt on several occasions.
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It’s what’s
UNDER the surface that counts. We found two “tunnels” going
in opposite directions, running horizontally, about 4’ below
the surface. One was about 5’ long and the other one
was at least 10’ long and big enough for an adult to
crawl into. Amazing!
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We
dug a trench 40’ long,
8’ wide and about 8’ deep, digging more than 15’ farther
than the “tunnels” extended. As we added the
soil back into the trench we compacted it with a 4,000 lb.
remote controlled vibratory trench roller. We finished with
hand raked screened topsoil, grass seed and straw. Looked
great!
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Job:
Create Play Area |
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We
excavated into the hill to create a 30’ x 24’ play
area. A large swing set with slide, rock climbing wall,
etc. is being built in it. It’s bordered with landscape
timbers which are secured to the ground with rebar. It’s
filled with 8” of playground mulch.
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Job:
Dig 3,000 square foot basement |
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This was a HUGE basement
for a new two million dollar home
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We were challenged with 5” of snow, 2” of
rain and then ice
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But we overcame all the obstacles
with a great outcome |
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We
used “slinger trucks” to “shoot” the
stone in. They can shoot the stone about 100’.
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We spent 2 days hand raking the stone to get
it perfectly level
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Job:
Lovin’ Life! |
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What
little boy doesn’t love
playing in mud?!?! |
Job:
Demolish house |
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The
old basement walls were 12” poured
concrete. Some of the concrete
was even thicker than that
and presented quite a challenge to break up
and remove.
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No more house! Just a cleared
lot, re-graded
and ready for the builder's next project
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After: Job complete. |
Job: Demolish
house |
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Nice
house up on a hill |
Rear of house |
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…Side
of house |
”Let
the games begin!” |
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Progress! |
”A
room with a view!” |
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Side of house |
Rear of house |
All demolition
up to this point was done with our compact rubber track
loader!
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a 38,000lb. excavator. |
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The
debris, including the entire foundation and all concrete
slabs, was crushed and loaded into dumpsters.We hauled away
340 TONS of debris!
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Silt fence was installed around
the entire worksite to prevent any runoff of soil erosion
in the event of a hard rain.
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This
tree stump and roots weighed about 10,000lbs. We dug
out and removed four of them. |
A dozer and the rubber track loader were used to completely
re-grade the property.
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We put a new driveway in. Here, the stone has been laid
and compacted and is ready for asphalt.
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Here
it is after the asphalt has been added. |
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The entire site was seeded and covered with straw.
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Job:
Dig basement / foundation for new addition. |
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This
foundation was excavated into their back yard for an addition
to be built onto their house.
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deeper we dug (It was 8’ deep) the more rock we encountered
in the ground.… |
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Considering all the rock we hit, the walls came out nice and smooth.
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Job:
Repair retention basin |
This large retention basin and its 2 forebays were graded
incorrectly when built. The basin collects water from a large
subdivision, including many of the streets
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It’s
a very large, deep basin.
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I built a “road” so
I could safely travel up and down with many tons of stone
and topsoil.
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It's
steeper than it looks!
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We installed new stone and an underground drain pipe
in the forebays
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Smoothing
out the (3’ deep)
mud and adding topsoil.
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Job:
Enhance “curb appeal” |
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| Using four hand picked boulders,
some black dyed mulch and colorful flowers, we turned an
otherwise dull driveway entrance into a beautiful sight
for guests and passer-bys as well. |
Job: Create driveway & parking
area
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Before…
Old entryway into the barnyard.
(Soon to be the parking area) |
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We made the entryway a “tad” wider. |
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A mess!
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New driveway & parking area |
We compacted the soil with a 5 ton
roller before laying the stone down. |
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New parking area |
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New parking area |
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Soon to be garages
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After…
We created a ramp into the soon to be renovated barn
(Garage) |
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