05Drainage
Storm mains and manholes
Concrete manhole sections and a sewer main being set into an open trench.
Projects
12 photos / 8 kinds of work
Every photo hereis real work on this island
No stock photography and no borrowed work. These are Charlie's own machines on Salt Spring properties, in every season the island has.
- /Retaining walls
- /Septic
- /Excavation
- /Rock breaking
- /Drainage
- /Driveways
- /Land clearing
- /Site preparation
01 / Retaining walls
Salt Spring Island
Armour rock stacked to hold the bank, with a level bench cut in above it.
More from the island
06Driveways
Forest driveway, cut and rolled
A gravel driveway cut through standing timber, with the compactor still on it.
07Land clearing
Clearing and road building
Timber felled and decked beside a freshly cut road under light snow.
08Site preparation
Wall, pad and haul
A finished rock wall and graded pad, with the excavator loaded on the low-bed.
09Drainage
Culvert and cut bank drainage
Water running out of a cut bank, with a concrete chamber being set to take it.
10Rock breaking
Rock broken at dusk
Two machines on the same broken rock at dusk, one running a hammer.
11Land clearing
Winter access
The excavator on a snow-covered forest road in the middle of a snowfall.
12Excavation
Pad marked out
Survey paint marking out a building pad on freshly cut ground.
This page keeps growing
New work gets added as it finishes, so it is worth looking again. If you want to see something closer to your own property, ask and there is probably a photo of it.
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Tell Charlie's what the ground is doing and there is probably a photo above of the same problem, already solved.