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This is some information on NJDOT's Direct Connect Project http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/commuter/roads/rt295/. The project is broken down into 4 contracts. The timeline is 8-9 years and an approximate pricetag of $900 mil. I am currently doing layout for C. Abbonizio Construction on site. They are doing the utility work, subgrade, and walls. The length of our contract is 2 years. Another bid is due out soon. I have some pictures as soon as I figure how to post I'll put some up.
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Nice shots!
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Good photos thanks for sharing. I did a little surveying this summer. Are you running all GPS control (rover, machine control) on the job? I was just wondering since I saw you or someone with a rover in hand. Where I worked we used GPS for just about everything except for storm and sanitary pipe and asphalt paving. (we do have robotic 3D paving unfortunately I have yet to be on a job with it.)
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They do have a D-5 and D-6 with GPS grade control. I personally don't like using GPS for grading unless there are big cuts or fills. In my experience it's only accurate to about 0.10', good for rough grading but not curb, storm, sanitary, etc. We'll set control with the GPS then adjust grade from a plan benchmark. The person in the picture is my business partner, we've been working a couple days and one night, on average, per week.
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NJ-Surveyor wrote:They do have a D-5 and D-6 with GPS grade control. I personally don't like using GPS for grading unless there are big cuts or fills. In my experience it's only accurate to about 0.10', good for rough grading but not curb, storm, sanitary, etc. We'll set control with the GPS then adjust grade from a plan benchmark. The person in the picture is my business partner, we've been working a couple days and one night, on average, per week. That is what we dealt with as well. We always would bust out the old school auto level for pipe or curb where a couple of hundredths can make or break it.
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Nice pictures thanks for posting. That's good that PKF subcontracted 4 companies to help do the work, keeping other companies busy. What cranes does PKF have on the site? Looks like JPC got #411 there, it must have about 30,000 hours on it by now.
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Nice pitures, I think there is a way you can post the orginal size of them. Thanks for the info, I have a picture of the same drill, it is a Watson 4400. Based on what I am told is a custom built machine, and it has a Caterpillar 345 undercarriage. That particular drill has been really busy of lately, earlier this year it was drilling 24/7 for a couple of months for a skyscraper. http://buildingphilly.com/cira-south-the-grove-march-23/From 2010 drilling solider piles for a 14'x14' cast in place box sewer. 
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That Watson 4400 is sharp lookin ! Pretty sure those cranes are 9299 Americans !
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Found Some pics on Flickr of the Construction Pic 1Pic 2Pic 3Pic 4Drive Trough of the Work I thought I saw a Junttan Pile rig there on the right.
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No problem re-scaling the pictures. I'm still new to photobucket and posting pictures. Most of JPC's stuff is gone except for a bridge demo truck and a light tower. It looks like they are getting ready to do some demo on the Essex Ave bridge. A friend of mine who works for JPC told me that they have the demo and pouring of the bridge decks. If I notice any more of JPC's equipment show up I'll try to get a picture or two. There is a lot of work going on at H&K's site, I think it is getting ready for the shopping center proposed a few years ago or the missing moves project. My money is on the missing moves. By my count Abbo has 3 345's on site. There is also a wheeled excavator with the extra boom floating around, a tracked loader, D8 that I moved the other day in the median of RT295, an articulated dump truck, the GPS equipped D5, and a couple of D3's.
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Can anyone identify the truck (Morbark) in the 10th last photo? I think it is a GMC but which one - is it an ex-military vehicle and identical to the Dinky Toys "Honest John Missile Carrier" (1/50 scale)?
If so the Dinky Toys one, if you can find a damaged played with one would make an excellent custom 6x6 lowboy tractor.
What do you guys think.
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Dolph I think it is a M-52. I think it really looks cool in Morbark Colors. Those old 5 ton military trucks make good trucks for towing around tub grinders, recyclers, and what not, since most of the time they are moved, positioned in rough terrain, and it takes a 6x6 truck to move them.
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Cat345bl wrote:Dolph I think it is a M-52. I think it really looks cool in Morbark Colors. Those old 5 ton military trucks make good trucks for towing around tub grinders, recyclers, and what not, since most of the time they are moved, positioned in rough terrain, and it takes a 6x6 truck to move them. That old 5 ton belongs to Stella Contracting, a land clearing outfit from south jersey. A few of my good friends worked for Eddie Stella for close to 15 years. They used that to move the chippers and grinders around onsite like was mentioned.
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