Thursday, July 23, 2009

I'm puzzled

I sent this email to three friends that are somewhat involved in the world of construction as a whole.

I have a question i hope you can answer. 

there's big field next to my house (20 acres or so) that they are prepping for development. 
5 caterpillar scoopers and other big caterpillar machines are incessantly moving dirt, flattening dirt, tearing up that flattened area, moving dirt again, flattening the dirt, moving it again, making a giant pile of dirt with moved dirt that used to be part of the flat stuff they created etc etc. 
it's never ending.
this morning, everything looked fine in some areas, but apparently it required yet another giant tiller action, then bulldozer scooping and moving of dirt into a new pile, and now, one scooper is yet again flattening the dirt. I can't help but think that the next step will be to drive with the flattening one (kind of a giant roller with knobs) only to tear it all back up tomorrow again. 
what is the purpose of this process?
any idea?  or any idea who can explain it to me?
thanks for your help!
Mike

1 comment:

Sadie J said...

They are tilling the soil to plant a giant beanstalk that will grow way up into the clouds.

I am the wife of a commercial general contractor, therefore my explanation can be considered reasonable and fact.

:)