Nice, big ole civil job, we have retaining walls like that not too far away, cool to see how they were built, I'll bet from the same era. I will say one thing, trench safety has certainly come a long way, I'd not want to be in that one, maybe the soils were stable or hard, but I have dug one person out of a smaller trench collapse, and have been in one trench collapse myself, was holding a rope, that was connected to a phone cable to support it, it fractured behind me, collapsed, I rode it down 20 feet, held on to that rope, and started waving my other hand to the excavator operator, so he would not hit me with the bucket, he set it close to me and I took the elevator up and out. Soon after, boss man had me go with the lowboy and get a trench box, I said to him, "day late and dollar short isn't it ? LOL ! Well better late than never, was in fine sand too, he was well experienced with a large highway contractor, sometimes people do things for odd reasons. That was a miserable 1000' of 8" sewer line, and they had to go back, dig it up again, it sagged.
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