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Show me a homebuilding article or video that doesn't discuss essential tools - that's kind of my issue with not mentioning Proctor Tests in this context, as the

Show me a homebuilding article or video that doesn't discuss essential tools - that's kind of my issue with not mentioning Proctor Tests in this context, as they are fundamental at the pro geotech level. Its not too much to ask.

jerf 5y ago
How many other equally important things are also not mentioned? I'm going to find "zero" very hard to believe, what with this being a 10 minute general audience video. I seriously doubt I'm just three additional minutes away from being an expert on the topic ready to take on any geoengineering task I could desire. Edit: Let me put it a different way. While I watch and enjoy his video series, I've been showing them to my 10-year-old and 13-year-old kids, and I'm pretty sure they're not that far out of the target audience.
- cf100clunk 5y ago
  Well I won't belabour this, as the definition of "valuable" information can be as amorphous and/or personal as that of "quality". Glad that website and its videos are out there anyways, and glad somebody may have learned about Proctor Testing.
jasode 5y ago
>discuss essential tools - that's kind of my issue with not mentioning Proctor Tests in this context, as they are fundamental at the pro geotech level. The top 2 videos from the following Youtube search results about "retaining walls" do not mention Proctor Tests. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=retaining+wall+design https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=retaining+wall+... And halfway down those search results is a retaining wall video presented by geotechnical engineer Andrew Lees that's longer in duration than Grady's video and he doesn't mention Proctor Test either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGuX7rmzlzA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGuX7rmzlzA And after reading the wikipedia article about Proctor Tests, I think Grady made the right editorial judgement to omit that topic from a 10-minute video targeted at a general audience. Or put another way, if cf100clunk made a video about retaining walls and was constrained to 10-minutes, you would also be forced to leave out some essential topic that other geotechnical engineers would criticize. You can't please everyone when you have time constraints. EDIT add: thanks to other's links, I noticed that Grady already mentioned Proctor test in a previous June 2020 video "Why Does Road Construction Take So Long?"
- cf100clunk 5y ago
  No need to call me out personally for my observations. It isn't an HN thing to do. As I've said in another post, glad the website and video are out there, and glad to inform folks about the Proctor Test.

jerf 5y ago

How many other equally important things are also not mentioned? I'm going to find "zero" very hard to believe, what with this being a 10 minute general audience video. I seriously doubt I'm just three additional minutes away from being an expert on the topic ready to take on any geoengineering task I could desire. Edit: Let me put it a different way. While I watch and enjoy his video series, I've been showing them to my 10-year-old and 13-year-old kids, and I'm pretty sure they're not that far out of the target audience.

cf100clunk 5y ago
Well I won't belabour this, as the definition of "valuable" information can be as amorphous and/or personal as that of "quality". Glad that website and its videos are out there anyways, and glad somebody may have learned about Proctor Testing.

jasode 5y ago

>discuss essential tools - that's kind of my issue with not mentioning Proctor Tests in this context, as they are fundamental at the pro geotech level. The top 2 videos from the following Youtube search results about "retaining walls" do not mention Proctor Tests. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=retaining+wall+design https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=retaining+wall+... And halfway down those search results is a retaining wall video presented by geotechnical engineer Andrew Lees that's longer in duration than Grady's video and he doesn't mention Proctor Test either: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGuX7rmzlzA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGuX7rmzlzA And after reading the wikipedia article about Proctor Tests, I think Grady made the right editorial judgement to omit that topic from a 10-minute video targeted at a general audience. Or put another way, if cf100clunk made a video about retaining walls and was constrained to 10-minutes, you would also be forced to leave out some essential topic that other geotechnical engineers would criticize. You can't please everyone when you have time constraints. EDIT add: thanks to other's links, I noticed that Grady already mentioned Proctor test in a previous June 2020 video "Why Does Road Construction Take So Long?"

cf100clunk 5y ago
No need to call me out personally for my observations. It isn't an HN thing to do. As I've said in another post, glad the website and video are out there, and glad to inform folks about the Proctor Test.