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N Dade 85 over West Prong Sons Creek

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8:15am- crew laying out pile locations.  Bent 2 work pad formed up.  8:56am- pile driving begins on Bent 1.  9:13am- 2nd pile going in.  9:25am- 3rd pile getting set.  9:44am- 4th pile going in. This hole when pre-bored never encountered rock. At 20’ the drilled hit a cavern.  9:57am- 4th pile in for now. A 40’ piece of pile will be here tomorrow and get welded on; pile will be driven then to see if it will hit refusal. First three pile were driven to refusal. Contractor to notify us on driving 4th hole tomorrow.  10:42am- update: pile and welder will be here this afternoon and pile will be driven on 4th hole today yet.  10:45am- cutoffs are now occurring.  12:43pm- the extra 40’ pile just got unloaded.  1:30pm- section is getting welded up to pile in the ground now.  2:31pm- still welding up pile as work pad is getting aet up here on Bent 1 now.  3:29pm- 4th hole now has pile to refusal. Of the 40’ piece welded on today; the c...

N Dade 85 over West Prong sons Creek 9/23/2022

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7:29am pre-boring has begun on on bent 1 hole #4 8:22am Continue with bore hole #4 at bent 1 10:23am moving on to hole #3 at bent 1 11:22am Drilled hole for bent 1 at #1 did not hit rock at 10 foot. Remove drillbit from machine and pushed post down to 45 feet and still never hit rock. Contacted engineer regarding issue

N Dade 85 over West Prong Sons Creek 9-19-2022

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Arrived on site at 7:15am contractor is setting crane to drive pile at bent 1.

N Dade 85 over Prong Sons Creek

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Arrived at 6:55 am, driller arrived shortly after. Started drilling on hole 6 to finish Finished hole 6 at 9:40am, fill hole with sand and move to hole 5 Started drilling hole 5 at 10:00am Finished hole 5 at 12:23pm, getting ready to start driving piling after setup crane. Bent 1 is lay out and ready for piling, going to drive bent 2 first Pile drove bent 2 plan grades, will drive bent 1 Monday. Bent 1 ready for Monday 

N Dade 85 over West Prong Sons Creek

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Arrived onsite at 07:40am- no drill rig here for pre bore. Labor interview done.  9:45am- drill rig now onsite.  Heat numbers as seen on pile: 9:55am- drill rig fires up to begin drilling on Bent 2.  Measurements on offsets are checked for center of bit.  10:12am-Drilling is now underway.  11:24am- checking grade on hole. Still more to go… 1:20pm- Finally to grade. Hole will be cleaned up and filled with belt millings.  1:45pm- 2nd hole now started.  3:55pm- grade check here on 2nd hole; another foot or so to go… 4:28pm- 2nd hole now to depth. Backfill this to move onto #3.  5:05pm- 3rd hole is underway as I will be leaving site now. Hole will not get finished tonight. Crew says they will resume tomorrow.