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Vent: That Tuesday in July where we hit solid rock for 20 straight post holes with a 2-man auger.
We had to switch to a rock bar and a demo hammer for the whole 150-foot cedar run, which added 8 hours and a ton of cussing to the job, so has anyone else had a stretch of ground that bad and how did you price it after the fact?
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lee_ward541d ago
Honestly, that just sounds like a normal Tuesday in this line of work (you know what I mean). We've all hit patches of rock, but pricing it after the fact is a tough sell unless it was a truly crazy, unseen condition. Maybe the bid should have had a rock clause or something, because clients never want to hear "it got hard so pay me more.
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the_river1d ago
Tell me about it, we hit a seam of solid limestone last fall that bent every post hole digger on the truck. Ended up renting a mini-ex with a hammer attachment for two days, which completely blew the budget. You just eat that cost sometimes because trying to explain "bad dirt" to a client is impossible.
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