Took me 8 hours to level a single mobile crane pad today

Honestly I thought I could just rough-grade the spot and throw down some mats. But the ground was way softer than I expected after all that rain last Wednesday. Spent the first three hours digging out mud and hauling in crushed stone from the yard. Then another five hours tamping and rechecking with the transit until it was within a quarter inch. Has anyone else had a simple setup turn into an all-day battle with bad soil?

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spencerfisher1h ago

Bet that rain washed out a spring you didn't know was there lol

spencer40752m ago

Exactly. There's a seep on the backside of my property I forgot about until that downpour. Came gushing out of a patch of ferns I always thought was just wet soil. Ground was so saturated it turned into a legit stream for a solid two days. Bet half the county discovered new drainages they didn't know existed after that storm.