Excavation and Grading Handbook

By Nick Capachi

Book Overview

It includes hundreds of tips, pictures, diagrams and tables that every excavation contractor and supervisor can use This revised edition explains how to handle all types of excavation, grading,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0934041296
• ISBN13: 9780934041294
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Craftsman Book Co
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

good book for construction dirt crews

This book will help answer questions you might have about about survey stakes ane plan reading. I reccommended to every operator outthere.

Great for first timers.

A great book for those who are new to site work on construction sites. Some things are outdated, esp. pictures, but it is a must have. Look for a survey 101 book as well.

An excellent reference

This is a book written for apprentice operating engineers. As such, it teaches the basics of road survey, grading, compaction, pipe laying, stakeout, drainage. It goes into detail on how to read survey stakes, mark and read witness lath, calculate differences in height, read and use a hand level, stake slopes, layout a subdivison, find the bottom elevation of pipelines, proper compaction of road base, and just about anything else a road worker could think of. This is an easy to use paperback book with many drawings which help explain the text. I can't tell you how useful this book has been to me.For those readers that are involved with excavation, survey, inspection (me), contracting, this book IS MUST HAVE.

Excellent Handbook on bread and butter civil engineering

I have read the first edition of this book and it answered all my questions and then some. This book is ideal for young engineers who don't have field experience. It covers survey staking, grading, excavation, drainage, paving, water and sewer pipes from a contractor's perspective. I am going to buy the revised edition.

A good book for anyone involved in excavation

Prior to becoming a civil engineer I operated heavy equipment. I am currently empolyed by a excavating contractor. I find the book very useful in answering questions that some experience equipment operators can't answer. The book does not teach one how to operate equipment. It describes methods of performing specific tasks(laying pipe, paving roads). It also tells how to deal with unsuitable soil, working with rock, working in mud, etc. I recommend this book to anyone involved in excavation work.