Excavation & Grading Handbook [Paperback]

Nick Capachi (Author), Nicholas E. Capachi (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Craftsman Book Company; Rev Sub edition (February 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0934041296
• ISBN-13: 978-0934041294
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #447,641 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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60 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent reference, August 6, 2000

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David Owens (La Mirada, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Excavation & Grading Handbook (Paperback)

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.

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Handbook on bread and butter civil engineering, December 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Excavation & Grading Handbook (Paperback)

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.

59 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I was hoping for, August 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Excavation & Grading Handbook (Paperback)

As a homeowner/handyman/farmer I was hoping to find a book on the proper way to grade, dig, and slope using my compact utility tractor with loader and box scraper. In this regard I was disappointed, but a book to find what I am looking for has been impossible to find. I do think the book would be an excellent source of information for someone who is thinking about getting into this area of the construction trade- sort of a primer for the first-time construction (road work) worker.