2006年9月2日 · For underground cable or light pipe use sand for water lines use sand then the dirt dug out of the hole over top the sand. The sand is only maybe 12"s above the pipe. The …

2008年4月1日 · If I need 1' of bedding material and I need to come up the pipe 1/3 of the diameter for chinking, I will figure my volume as follows I figure the ditch length x width x depth x 10 > …

2008年7月29日 · For ADS piping I like to use #57 stone as bedding and either #57 or #8910 as side and top backfill. The smaller #8910 seems to seat well around the spring line of the pipe …

2012年9月29日 · Gents, I've seen you guys in the USA use pipe bedding skips on pipelines, i assume to stop wasting materials. We have been using skips for concrete however are …

2010年9月24日 · I am installing a 48" galvanized pipe for a residential driveway crossing a creek. Right now the creek is dry but there is evidence of erosion on the upstream side. My question …

2011年7月5日 · The other members have provided excellent, sound advice. As CM1995 points out, one thing I see commonly overlooked is the pipe size. The maximum flow volume capacity …

2007年6月1日 · The loader with operator and 2 men ran bedding, usually sand, laid pipe, ran sand cover over pipe, usually 6" to 12" and moved on. The 2nd excavator was doing backfill in …

2004年11月29日 · Some authorities require sand bedding, others don't. Ductile iron is pretty tough stuff. Certainly you wouldn't put any big rocks around it, and you'd try to be sure it's bedded …

2024年2月21日 · I beveled it and welded it with 7018 and it seems fine. It's only a 14" so I won't use a snipe on it. It broke because I didn't have a bigger pipe wrench and I pushed on it with …

2022年8月3日 · They are mostly ductile iron pipe installs about 4 to 5 feet deep. I’m not sure where it went sideways if we didn’t use enough water or too much bedding rock or too big of …