"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 21:15:38 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

As someone who has been involved with 'Civil' Engineering in the past I
can
tell you (from memory) the 'Angle Of Repose' for topsoil and spoil is 55
degrees (from the horizontal, of course), I have *no idea* what it is for
bull****.....

Funny, I thought you would have intimate knowledge of that figure.....

BTW, shouldn't that depend on soil composition and water content?


You would think so, but it's just one figure I remember from some Soil
Mechanics tables - you know, those that Victorians compiled from scratch and
'engineers' have been using ever since....

Try he

http://fbe.uwe.ac.uk/public/geocal/S...on/default.htm

....but I couldn't find it....


Also, why is that 'civil' engineers never are? Hairy-arsed brickies by
nature, all the ones I've ever met! Universally known in colleges as
'thick civs'..........................


I think you're confusing CEs with 'navvies'....

OK Pinky, nice to end on a mellow note - I've got to let you go now, it's
taking too much of my 'keyboard time' responding to your posts and I'm
getting arsed off with being the only one here the 'nice people' can see
when we have a bit of argy bargy. (Apparently....???)

My 'career' in audio is about as long as I've been posting here - I
subscribed here to learn and have got bogged down in time-wasting slanging
matches. I need to get back to the good stuff and there's some interesting
posts from Iain Churches and Andy Evans I should have been reading today.

No hard feelings - if there's any itches you need to scratch, contact me by
email, otherwise I'm sure I'll spot anything of 'real interest' looking over
people's shoulders....