Cleaning Belled Piers
Cleaning Belled Piers
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How are the bells in belled piers cleaned out? I saw a patent for a belling tool that collects and removes the dirt as it drills. Is this typical? Or is the loose dirt removed by hand? (people and buckets?) I'm new to belled piers and want to learn what the typical practice is.





RE: Cleaning Belled Piers
The best person to learn from is Clyde Baker who wrote this manual:
http://www.browntechnical.org/products/Drilled-Sha...
RE: Cleaning Belled Piers
The leftover scrap soil at the bottom gets "tamped" by the weight of the wet concrete eventually to some extent.
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On a side note, the largest bell I every inspected was 12.5 feet off a 6 foot shaft in shale.
Mike Lambert
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