R1117 - Cat work, (miscellaneous) snow removal, parking lot maintenance, sanding, scarifying, acrylic painting of roads and parking lots, horizontal/ augering services, boring services, sodium sulphate harvesting, ground fire crew

Operational Details
Snow removal involves the use of heavy (ride-on or ride-in) equipment to remove snow from driveways, roads and parking lots. This equipment can include snow ploughs, front end loaders, skid steers and bobcats. Snow plough may be mounted on ATVs or vehicles and used to clear snow.

Parking lot construction involves removal of obstructions such as trees, shrubbery, and rock, but not structures. The surface is either gravelled or paved, using smaller sized paving equipment and rollers. Concrete barricades may be put in place, or parking lot lines painted on the paved surface of the lot.

Sanding is undertaken by excavating companies and by contractors who use gravel trucks to haul their equipment. When sand is hauled, as a business, for the municipality, city or others, the activity belongs in this subcode.

Scarification refers to the process of breaking up the soil surface of a logged out site in preparation for planting. A heavy disk or toothed tool is drug over the site, usually by a crawler tractor (caterpillar), breaking up the ground and any underbrush or slash left behind. Scarification referred to in this subcode normally refers to breaking up ground in parkland and wooded areas for purposes other than logging.

Painting of lines on parking lots or highways is accomplished using acrylic paint that is mechanically applied. A small painting machine is placed behind a truck or tractor and it dispenses paint out of a filler box, or the marking may also be hand painted, using a can of paint and a brush.

Horizontal boring and boring services in general are used in the drilling holes under roadbeds, railway tracks, airstrips, sidewalks, lawns or buildings, for the purpose of building lines such as sewers, telephone and power lines, etc.

The most common boring method is horizontal, which uses a large screw type auger that is operated hydraulically from the back of a truck. It can also be used free standing. When a trench is excavated near a rail line the boring machine is placed in the trench and a hole is bored using extensions on the auger. The diameter of the hole can be as large as 40 inches.

Another method of boring is using an underground piercing tool that operates, using compressed air. This unit is approximately 4 feet long with a large chisel head that vibrates and inches its way through the soil leaving a 4" diameter hole.

SIC Codes
000000645 - Cat work
000000647 - Parking lot maintenance
000000943 - Painting roads & parking lots
000000930 - Ground firecrew
000000649 - Sodium sulphate harvesting
000000650 - Horizontal /augering services
000000651 - Boring services
000000648 - Sanding, scarifying
000000646 - Snow removal