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The near miss on a wind farm job outside Abilene that made me recheck my outriggers every single time now
Two years back I was setting steel on a wind farm outside Abilene and the ground looked hard as rock until my front left pad started sinking while I had a load in the air. I got it down safe but my hands shook for an hour after, and come to find out the spot was sitting on an old filled in hole nobody flagged. What is your go to trick for reading soft ground before you commit to a setup?
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quinn3415d ago
Old fill dirt is the worst because it reads hard on top and then the water sits under it and turns the whole layer to mush once you load it. A trick nobody talks about is checking what grew there, since weeds and crops will be stunted or a different color right over a buried hole or trench. Walk the spot before you even pull in and trust the plants over how the ground feels under your boots.
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