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Unloading from area and loading in another area

Unloading from area and loading in another area

Unloading from area and loading in another area

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We want to move huge amount of soil ( around 2000  cubic m)from over a specific area in a private land and dump those on a different   area within the same region. I really appreciate your geotechnical key points/inputs that should be considered in this operation.  
  

RE: Unloading from area and loading in another area

Not much to go on - what do you want to do with it?  What ramifications would filling "another area" cause?  Soil conditions?  Not only from geotechnical point of view - but what about environmental?  Any contaminants in the soil you are moving?  Etc.  2000 m3 is "not" a huge amount of material.  I was once involved with a million m3 in a 800 m stretch of new highway . . . .  that was fairly large.

RE: Unloading from area and loading in another area

BigH I agree that 2,000m3 is not a huge amount - perhaps 200 trucks. I don't think there are many considerations, just get a machine to push the material up an a backhoe to load onto the trucks. Then at the tipping area another machine is needed to move the tipped heaps into the final stockpile.

RE: Unloading from area and loading in another area

Will the repositioned soil need to be compacted in lifts for some near future use?  A pile of uncompacted soil can cost someone a lot of money in the future.

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