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Monday, 07 April, 2014 to
Saturday, 12 April, 2014
Blog, Photos and Videos in reverse chronology.
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• Saturday, 12 April, 2014
- Video
- Digging day from the jump -- but too much
glare until 9A when the first dump truck arrived.
There was also work on the southeast retaining
wall and diagonally at the northwest retaining wall.
However, the most visually rewarding activity was
the two comical skidsteers (mini-dozers) feeding
the king-of-the-hill backhoe. (1:15 min)
• Friday, 11 April, 2014
- Video
- Today was much like yesterday. The crew
worked on the footings and columns, the
backhoes and mini-dozers excavated and filled
dump trucks that squeezed on site. Cement
trucks parked on Military Rd. to offloaded their
product to the flying bucket. At 10:30A red
forms, new to the site, were delivered on the
Military side. (1:34 min)
• Thursday, 10 April, 2014
- Video
- Morning started with calisthenics for a larger
crew, who spent the rest of the day working on
the footings. The other backhoes and the two
mini dozers pushed dirt to the stranded orange
backhoe, as it precariously reached down for dirt
to fill the dump trucks that barely fit on the site.
Cement trucks parked on Military Rd. to offloaded
their product to the flying bucket. (The video
starts around 9A because of the morning glare.
2:01 min)
• Wednesday, 09 April, 2014
- Video
- Work on the spread footings (Q9) was much
more visible today (right side of screen). From its
precarious position just inside the gate, the
resident orange backhoe loaded dump trucks,
while the cement trucks parked on Military Road
and the crane bucket distributed the loads (1:31
min)
• Tuesday, 08 April, 2014
Today work was tedious and not visual interesting.
There was little excavation, no dump trucks, and
just a few cement trucks. Most of the work
seemed to involve the Connecticut retaining wall
and the “one sided wall forms called gang forms”
to which the Sr Supervisor referred in last
Thursday’s blog.
• Monday, 07 April, 2014
- Video
- Soggy day at the site. The backhoe worked on
the gate ramp for two hours until the rain made
his work unproductive, however the other
machines, even the other two backhoes, remained
active. Work continued with cement trucks
delivering into the rain. A a dark hole opened at
the bottom of the forty-foot deep site; the Sr.
Supervisor said it was a spread footing but it
looked eerily like a Portal to Hades. (1:36 min)