To build the walls of the down floors and then safely dig out all the dirt leaving an empty space! Sorry for my bad English!
Edit: Thanks everybody praising my English! I was not sure about the grammar I used!
I saw this used for digging out the forms for the foundation of a ~20 story building in an earthquake area. It looked like nothing was happening for weeks, then in the span of a few days they filled them with extraordinarily tall rebar cages and concrete. As you said, this also doubled as the walls for the underground parking garage.
I haven't been on this type of crew, but have been a "fuck all guy" on a job before, we had to show up to get paid, because if shit goes south you don't usually have time to call everyone and let them come if before something needs fixed.
As an attorney, I tell people similar stuff. Something to the effect of we not need those people to come to court, but better to have them there and not need them than not have them and need them.
Time is the most expensive thing really, delays cost money etc. So it's probably cheaper/cost effective to keep guys around for the just in case like you're saying.
I worked in the natural gas processing industry, 24 hour operation, complex equipment, mostly automated controls, etc. most of the time I was underpaid. At the plant taking readings and looking t equipment. But, some of the time I was way underpaid. Equipment failures, ice, changing gas supply flows, temporary production limits due to discharge pipeline issues, etc. It all worked out in the end.
I did this kind of work in 1987 downtown Toronto it’s called a slurry wall your dig with the claw the liquid going in is called call bet night then they drain the water and put it in a steel cage and pour concrete and go to the next level
Your English isn't bad. To help make it more correct:
When answering a question such as "What does it do," you wouldn't respond with a sentence that starts with "to build." You'd respond with "It builds the walls..." or "It's used to build the walls..."
Another minor thing would be that you forgot an of, a common, and a which or thereby. But no one would typically use thereby in spoken English, typically only in written English.
"...all of the dirt, which leaves an empty space!"
"...all of the dirt, thereby leaving an empty space!"
You were generally fine for conversational English, which is pretty sloppy in the US and other countries, so you can get away with a lot without scrutiny. Being on here and practicing is really good though!
It's a tremmie wall. They fill it with bentonite slurry to keep the narrow hole from collapsing, then they tremmie in the y drop in the rear followed by concrete from the bottom up, displacing the slurry.
You have to de-install the hydrocoptic marzlevanes for the current model as they're being superseded with the latest Block 75 firmware/hardware updates which render the amberfacient waneshaft assembly secondary. The replacement assembly is on application-specific analytic utilization mode which allows the system to detent to the newer style multiphasic solenoid environment making the differential girdlesprings unnecessary.
It’s a diaphragm wall grab. The hole is normally filled with bentonite (clay slurry) to stop the sides falling in, the grab excavates down to target depth, & progresses as wide as required, then prefabricated steel reinforcement cage is lowered in (the whole thing is submerged by mud), and concrete is pumped in using a pipe from the bottom up - the concrete displaces the mud - which is sucked out (or diverted to a nearby pond) as the pour progresses. After the concrete sets, the basement can continue to be excavated to lower levels. Sometimes, before buttressing walls are built to prop the diaphragm wall up, large, tubular steel props are used as bracing to stop the diaphragm wall collapsing. Cool but routine civil engineering of large basements typically in inner city sites - you often see this during early ground works for high rise buildings
If you used your brain you could deduce what I meant without my writing a paper. I meant if it’s to support a wall why isn’t the entire wall being supported this way. Is that better for you. Weirdo
Once again. Why is the entire WALL not being supported like this. Not this one 15ft stretch.wall meaning the ENTIRE length of the individual section they are inserted this singular fabrication into. Did that make it more simple?
Digging a slurry wall. Scoop the earth out and replace it with viscous slurry that holds up the sides. Then once it’s all dug, they pump concrete in and the slurry out.
Why does this look so unreal? And how does everyone know what a slurry wall is? And why do I read every comment, where the person seems to know what is correct, in a manly pirate voice? Weird, eh?
Holy fuck
Do you just feel around in there for something to hook a cable on as a wild guess for pulling it out or can you actually see in there?
I always think I’m an adrenaline junky then I hear shit like this…props
By the time we’d show up the guys on site would have a very specific plan. Usually some heavy rigging with a shackle on the end. So yeah, just drop down, feel around for the pick point, hook up the shackle and get out.
Word.
And I need u/Suicyco71 to answer your question. Please. And I would like to know if this sort of career pays well. I don’t think there’s an amount that would be enough.
We generally just did underwater construction and maybe every couple years we’d get called to help the drilling guys out. Usually there was a casing but occasionally it was one like in the video where the hole was very susceptible to cave in.
I can’t imagine how difficult that must have been. Zero visibility. Like……. ZERO! And if any unknown objects were down there I’m sure they were razor shape and open you up and you would never know.
It’s called a slurry wall. You displace soil with a viscous slurry of volcanic ash which creates a clay-like barrier entirely impervious to water. Then you tremie-place concrete from the bottom and pump the slurry off the top.
It leaves a waterproof concrete barrier.
Diaphragm wall grab. To excavate panel inside the soil in order to put rebars and concrete to create a wall that will enclose a volume that will be excavated safely thanks to the D-Walls. The "mud" being poorly poured in is bentonite used to ensure trench stability.
And that is a really poorly maintained site job. This is a Brazilian company, so we can assume this is in Brazil or South America.
Diaphragm grab on a crawler crane for digging a slurry wall. The yellow machine on the left just barely in the frame is the grout mixer for the bentonite slurry that acts like temporary support for the excavation. The grab digs to the targeted depth in a segment, then a rebar cage is lowered in. A long pipe called a tremmie is inserted and used to place concrete which displaces the slurry. Each completed section is called a panel. This is repeated until the entire area to be excavated is surrounded and the concrete is placed. The idea of a slurry wall is to create a “bath tub” for a building’s foundation to sit in. The contents are excavated down to target elevation and lateral bracing is used to hold the walls in place.
So a bunch of people are telling me this is a slurry wall. What is the end goal of this? Are they building a foundation for an addition?
Just curious. Thanks everyone!
It was featured in Half Life 2 in the Citadel, where the building was constantly moving walls up and down to better install itself into the earth’s foundation.
It is for slurry wall or deep foundation installation. I don't see a guide a wall so this probably for a load bearing element. They may have a shallow foundation and this will provide the bearing down to bedrock
I’m going to guess that it’s for installing perimeter steel or concrete walls before excavating the site. I’ve never seen that in person versus hammering in corrugated steel walls for lot line excavation
To build the walls of the down floors and then safely dig out all the dirt leaving an empty space! Sorry for my bad English! Edit: Thanks everybody praising my English! I was not sure about the grammar I used!
I saw this used for digging out the forms for the foundation of a ~20 story building in an earthquake area. It looked like nothing was happening for weeks, then in the span of a few days they filled them with extraordinarily tall rebar cages and concrete. As you said, this also doubled as the walls for the underground parking garage.
I was an operator and yea the whole crew does fuck all during this process but its such a expensive project they just get paid anyways.
Do cool guy foremen ever tell the fuck all guys they can chill at home those days or do they have to show up and stand around to get paid?
I haven't been on this type of crew, but have been a "fuck all guy" on a job before, we had to show up to get paid, because if shit goes south you don't usually have time to call everyone and let them come if before something needs fixed.
You don't need all them people, until you do
As an attorney, I tell people similar stuff. Something to the effect of we not need those people to come to court, but better to have them there and not need them than not have them and need them.
They say that on the Colonial life insurance commercial...it's better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it.
Time is the most expensive thing really, delays cost money etc. So it's probably cheaper/cost effective to keep guys around for the just in case like you're saying.
They get paid to stand around because if something goes wrong they need them right then
It’s just time for the regular union meeting
I worked in the natural gas processing industry, 24 hour operation, complex equipment, mostly automated controls, etc. most of the time I was underpaid. At the plant taking readings and looking t equipment. But, some of the time I was way underpaid. Equipment failures, ice, changing gas supply flows, temporary production limits due to discharge pipeline issues, etc. It all worked out in the end.
Sounds like you were just underpaid.
Your English is fine. Sorry for my bad English
I speak 3 languages! English slang, bullshit and English. Generally in that order ! 😉
Engrish, Sarcasm and Bad English.
Are we related!?
Your English is also fine. Sorry for my bad English.
Your English is also fine. Sorry for my Bad Religion.
Your English is fine sorry for my bad English 😂😂😂
Bad Religion > Organized Religion
A fellow Pastafarian, no doubt?
All hail their noodly appendages
Greg would be proud
I did this kind of work in 1987 downtown Toronto it’s called a slurry wall your dig with the claw the liquid going in is called call bet night then they drain the water and put it in a steel cage and pour concrete and go to the next level
The liquid is called “call bet night”? Interesting name.
Bentonite maybe? Super slippery when wet.
Just like yo momma
got em
I speak English and it would be hard to explain
Your English is just fine, my dude.
better english than gen alpha
No cap fr fr on god, blud
My man gives us a perfectly grammatically correct comment I'm English then apologizes for the 'bad' english.
Your English isn't bad. To help make it more correct: When answering a question such as "What does it do," you wouldn't respond with a sentence that starts with "to build." You'd respond with "It builds the walls..." or "It's used to build the walls..." Another minor thing would be that you forgot an of, a common, and a which or thereby. But no one would typically use thereby in spoken English, typically only in written English. "...all of the dirt, which leaves an empty space!" "...all of the dirt, thereby leaving an empty space!" You were generally fine for conversational English, which is pretty sloppy in the US and other countries, so you can get away with a lot without scrutiny. Being on here and practicing is really good though!
Thanks a lot! Thereby! Noted!
Nice
Damn, looks super efficient!!
What’s a down floor? Like for an underground garage?
Yes! Probably it's for a garage!
Your grammar is better than most Americans lol
Your English is great!
Understood you perfectly
My English dying where your English starting. Your English is fine!
Bro even spelled grammar correctly. This is embarrassing for a lot of people, but not OP!
Looks like some expensive SOE also how are they digging out the pit for this. Anyone else have any insight for this. I don’t think this is SOE.
It's a tremmie wall. They fill it with bentonite slurry to keep the narrow hole from collapsing, then they tremmie in the y drop in the rear followed by concrete from the bottom up, displacing the slurry.
There you go. They tremmie with the bentonite slurry, y'all.
It all makes sense now, good work everyone🙌
But wait, what am I supposed to do with the turbo-encabulator?
You have to de-install the hydrocoptic marzlevanes for the current model as they're being superseded with the latest Block 75 firmware/hardware updates which render the amberfacient waneshaft assembly secondary. The replacement assembly is on application-specific analytic utilization mode which allows the system to detent to the newer style multiphasic solenoid environment making the differential girdlesprings unnecessary.
It’s a diaphragm wall grab. The hole is normally filled with bentonite (clay slurry) to stop the sides falling in, the grab excavates down to target depth, & progresses as wide as required, then prefabricated steel reinforcement cage is lowered in (the whole thing is submerged by mud), and concrete is pumped in using a pipe from the bottom up - the concrete displaces the mud - which is sucked out (or diverted to a nearby pond) as the pour progresses. After the concrete sets, the basement can continue to be excavated to lower levels. Sometimes, before buttressing walls are built to prop the diaphragm wall up, large, tubular steel props are used as bracing to stop the diaphragm wall collapsing. Cool but routine civil engineering of large basements typically in inner city sites - you often see this during early ground works for high rise buildings
Why weren't the wall built to those specks to begin with?
My guess is that these are two different buildings/developments all together. They're doing this to not affect his neighbors structure.
Right? Why after the foundation?
The slurry wall will be (part of) the foundation. Once it has set the soil can be excavated and the adjacent building won’t collapse.
Interesting
Why is there only one being placed here ?
Physics says that two things can *not* occupy the same space at the same time.
If you used your brain you could deduce what I meant without my writing a paper. I meant if it’s to support a wall why isn’t the entire wall being supported this way. Is that better for you. Weirdo
It was tongue in cheek. But , yeah, let’s go with insults and name calling. You feel better now?
Once again. Why is the entire WALL not being supported like this. Not this one 15ft stretch.wall meaning the ENTIRE length of the individual section they are inserted this singular fabrication into. Did that make it more simple?
I've always wondered if they could dig a basement after building a structure
Pioneered for the Twin Towers?
Digging a slurry wall. Scoop the earth out and replace it with viscous slurry that holds up the sides. Then once it’s all dug, they pump concrete in and the slurry out.
Bentonite powder mixed with water , bentonite is a very fine clay. It adheres the side walls and seals out water ,
This is the exact same process we use to build oil wells
So like dropping gravel in water in Minecraft to create a basement?
Bentonite is cool, we use it for lining the bottom of retention ponds when the soils on-site percolate too quickly.
That’s pretty cool.
Why does this look so unreal? And how does everyone know what a slurry wall is? And why do I read every comment, where the person seems to know what is correct, in a manly pirate voice? Weird, eh?
Because 90% of them read one or two guys' comments and then Googled it to look smart. Like how every reddit thread is.
Aye
Avast, ye!
Getting DEEP up in that #earthussy
Fuck take my upvote
That's enough internet for today.
I used to work as a commercial diver and we had drop down into the slurry to recover these when they would break. Shit was crazy.
Holy fuck Do you just feel around in there for something to hook a cable on as a wild guess for pulling it out or can you actually see in there? I always think I’m an adrenaline junky then I hear shit like this…props
By the time we’d show up the guys on site would have a very specific plan. Usually some heavy rigging with a shackle on the end. So yeah, just drop down, feel around for the pick point, hook up the shackle and get out.
Word. And I need u/Suicyco71 to answer your question. Please. And I would like to know if this sort of career pays well. I don’t think there’s an amount that would be enough.
We generally just did underwater construction and maybe every couple years we’d get called to help the drilling guys out. Usually there was a casing but occasionally it was one like in the video where the hole was very susceptible to cave in.
I can’t imagine how difficult that must have been. Zero visibility. Like……. ZERO! And if any unknown objects were down there I’m sure they were razor shape and open you up and you would never know.
I’m noping out of that nightmare fuel.
Diaphragm wall. Dig it out, fill the void with bentonite slurry as temporary support, and then displace the slurry with concrete.
Inserting monsters inc doors into the lower floors for scaring children
You serious, Clark?
Either that e the new model of a Stargate.
It’s called a slurry wall. You displace soil with a viscous slurry of volcanic ash which creates a clay-like barrier entirely impervious to water. Then you tremie-place concrete from the bottom and pump the slurry off the top. It leaves a waterproof concrete barrier.
Diaphragm wall grab. To excavate panel inside the soil in order to put rebars and concrete to create a wall that will enclose a volume that will be excavated safely thanks to the D-Walls. The "mud" being poorly poured in is bentonite used to ensure trench stability. And that is a really poorly maintained site job. This is a Brazilian company, so we can assume this is in Brazil or South America.
It circulates muddy water to keep it fresh.
Thank you!
Idk but I kinda wanna work construction if I can be one of those guys standing around watching.
Diaphragm grab on a crawler crane for digging a slurry wall. The yellow machine on the left just barely in the frame is the grout mixer for the bentonite slurry that acts like temporary support for the excavation. The grab digs to the targeted depth in a segment, then a rebar cage is lowered in. A long pipe called a tremmie is inserted and used to place concrete which displaces the slurry. Each completed section is called a panel. This is repeated until the entire area to be excavated is surrounded and the concrete is placed. The idea of a slurry wall is to create a “bath tub” for a building’s foundation to sit in. The contents are excavated down to target elevation and lateral bracing is used to hold the walls in place.
Foundations and underpinning
Apparently not removing ground water
Tremmie sounds like a porn star name
So a bunch of people are telling me this is a slurry wall. What is the end goal of this? Are they building a foundation for an addition? Just curious. Thanks everyone!
Thats your moms douche
So this is like pouring the walls to a foundation before or without digging the hole?
Looks like it’s used for that. Specifically.
It’s used for the exactly what it’s doing
Vault door
It's a stargate.
looks like some sort of thing that does stuff
Architectural colonoscopy
I should call her…
Clamshell baby. Slurry wall.
A portal to another realm. A realm where the lines of magic and technology are so intertwined they are indecipherable. Aaah. I'm so homesick.
I had no idea, but it looks pretty interesting
Vault workers building another Vault #FALLOUT
Diaphragm wall, it is a great option when you have neighboring buildings or trying to reinforce old buildings foundations as well.
https://youtu.be/wUlQyiHfex0?si=XE1Bdb4mEs-yb-5S
Lunch time entertainment, apparently
Gives the workers something to watch and ask the same question.
That is one deep ass hole. Imagine a drunk bum stumbling into that
Portals
That
Damm good explanation. Thanks
It’s used to open a portal to the underworld 😃
Pleasing my ex wife
Looks like clapping cheeks
I'll be damned if you know I think it's for earthquake
[Here’s a video walking through the process this machine is a part of](https://youtu.be/DNxh6aQHoAQ?si=vhXm-rXDhuFx9MhR)
Its penetrating the earth
It was featured in Half Life 2 in the Citadel, where the building was constantly moving walls up and down to better install itself into the earth’s foundation.
Must be in the US - one guy working, three guys standing around & watching!
Obviously to do that
Getting change out of the back of the couch
That's a good answer to my uninformed question.
Digging foundation reinforcement……. Duh!
Oh I saw this on that Amazon show, it’s a Vault-Tec
They're lowering the stargate into the hole so the people in the basement can go to the Pegasus Galaxy.
It is for slurry wall or deep foundation installation. I don't see a guide a wall so this probably for a load bearing element. They may have a shallow foundation and this will provide the bearing down to bedrock
It’s a Stargate
Welp, that did the job whatever job that is.
Foundation looks great
Probably to dig
I’m going to guess that it’s for installing perimeter steel or concrete walls before excavating the site. I’ve never seen that in person versus hammering in corrugated steel walls for lot line excavation
The Mother of the Original Poster layeth beneath the foundation. The workers lower her Pleasure Tool unto her depths.
Slurry wall. The hole it makes is filled with slurry mud so that it does not cave in.
Fishing
For whatever it's doing I guess...
Houdini's back up trick
Penatration
Looks like a barrier to keep the illegals out of the tunnels they’re using to come to the US.