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  1. jackhewitt

    Suger sand

    Im working on job now thats all sugar sand. Trying to move dump trucks and 6x6 trucks on it. Ive worked with sugar sand before but never had to use it as a temp. road way. Any ideas on how to compact it? Rolling it dosent do much good either. Ive got no other dirt on site or close by to use such...
  2. jackhewitt

    Storm drain % question

    Thanks for your help. I was making it harder than it should be. Just trying to get it right the first time.
  3. jackhewitt

    Storm drain % question

    Sorry I misplaced my decimal point. I meant .5%
  4. jackhewitt

    Storm drain % question

    Hi. Im going to install some storm drain on a job. some is RCP and some plastic ( 18" 15" and 12"). I know how to calculate the pitch from one invert to the other, and pitch per piece of pipe. But this time I going to use a pipe laser witch is new to me. I see on the print it say 0.005% and on...
  5. jackhewitt

    storm drain % and crown of roads

    Im just starting at an excavating co. and would like to know the best way to figure out the % of pitch in a RCP storm drain. I have the two invert elevations and the distance of the run. Also would like to know how to find the crown of a road if I have the edge elevations and the distance frome...

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