Small Footings....

[fatboy]

Thought I would share some pics of some footings that are being placed at this time. part of a large cheese plant just getting started. The plates, which the rebar is tied to the rods, are welded to 25' driven steel piles. Pretty heavy duty stuff for around here. No seismic to speak of, minimal wind, non-expansive soils.

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[Mule]

How many stories is it? Looks like a hi-rise foundation.

 

[fatboy]

2 stories, there is a 150' drying tower, but this isn't part of that. These are under some tanks..........

 

[Mule]

Looks more like a California foundation...

I had a single story commercial building several years ago. The DP and the corporate offices were in California so the plans were standard for California.

The plans called for six feet wide by six feet deep footings. The location (Fort Worth TX) was on a rock bed that was a couple of feet below the surface. When the contractor ran into rock, and this was actually rock...the contractor wanted to leave the rock in place and pour on top of it.......NOPE.......DP said get it out of there....

They used a six foot diameter diamond cutting wheel, drilled holes in it....put dynamite in the holes and set a bulldozer on top of the charges and blew the rock out...removed the rock and poured concrete back in the hole where the rock was removed....

Didn't make any sense but..............

 

[High Desert]

Mule, where I'm at everything is rock and blasted for foundations. Larger projects bring in rock crusing machines and they make their own 3/4 minus. Almost very subdivision has a major blasting project. No one builds basements here because of the difficulty. It's really something to see when they do that. Everything is a controlled blast and the ground just kind of rises up 4 to 5 feet and then they excavate the rock.

 

[ggmarch]

mule, that DP was very likely, an idiot.