around here, lately, you can start at 6:00 am and be good.
they're doing construction on my road (installing a new sewer line to the new school they're building at the other end of the street)...and they start at 6:00 am every day (monday through thursday). and they...are...LOUD. they have a huge excavator that they use to dig down to anywhere between 15 to 25 feet. and they have a breaker (think ginormous jackhammer) that they can put on the end of it to break up big rocks. and when they use that thing, it literally shakes my entire house. and i mean "literally".
and what really sux is they have to go all the way down my road...which is about 1/8 of a mile. that may not seem like a long way...but when they move at a pace of about 10 feet a day.....
this is middle of the road where they started digging a couple weeks ago...this is right beside my house (i live on a corner). this road is maybe a 1/2 block long and they have to make the turn onto the road that runs in front of my house. in the second picture here, the bottom looks like it was about 25 feet deep.
this is further down that road (maybe 40 feet, or so. i was standing on my front porch when i took this one.
and this is the ginormous breaker they use to break up big rocks or dig through rocky layers. this part is about 8-9 feet long.
edit: i forgot to mention that these guys are from kentucky. they stop every thursday around noon so they can drive back home...to kentucky...for the weekend. what kind of crazy-ass shit is that? and week before last, they worked longer on thursday than normal. when asked, they said they had to work later than usual 'cause they were behind. well no shit! stop knocking off early on thursday, keep working until friday, and maybe get finished on time...or even a little early.