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Monday, 10 March, 2014 to
Saturday, 15 March, 2014
Blog, Photos and Videos in reverse chronology.
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☆ Video
• Saturday, 15 March, 2014
- Video
- A field trip revealed the secreted Connecticut
Ave project to be a deep hole about 25 yards by
20 yards covered with a rebar grid, resembling a
drainage pit. The drainage hypothesis was
supported by site crew working outside the site
on the curb gutter drain on the south east corner
of Kanawha St and Connecticut Ave. Today was a
earth moving only; there was no work on the
drainage pit. The resident backhoe and dozer dug
down two thirds of the site and loaded backed-up,
dump trucks on the higher, north east third of the
site. (1:29 min}
• Friday, 14 March, 2014
- Video
• Pre-dawn work started promptly with the Hertz
backhoe and crew working on an unseen project
below the Connecticut wall. Occasionally, the
Hertz backhoe could be seen as it lifted high it’s
shovel. After 1:30P the forklift stretched up from
the secreted project to retrieve several buckets
of cement from a cement truck. The resident
backhoe and dozer dug down two thirds of the
site and loaded dump trucks -- that had to back
on the site -- on the higher, north east third of
the site. (The time-lapsed video was slowed; fast
forward with the browser controls. 4:56 min)
• Thursday, 13 March, 2014
Another day of un-inspired construction. Work
started late and slowly. The highest level of the
site, the north east third, looked like a parking lot,
with the work done down another fifteen feet in
the other two thirds of the site. The resident
backhoe worked, too deep to see, on the south
west corner. The Hertz backhoe worked on the
Connecticut Ave side, delivering the first cement
on site to some secreted project.
• Wednesday, 12 March, 2014
Work was very eclectic today, or maybe it was
just scattered. The backhoe started the day
digging further down the Kanawha side retaining
wall, assisting the crew. At 9:30A there was a
small rush of dump trucks. At 10:45 a story-tall
metal container was delivered on site, and the
Hertz backhoe drug it into the northwest corner,
so deep it was out of the view of the webcam.
There was work on the site entrance and a few
more dump trucks.
• Tuesday, 11 March, 2014
☆ Video - Full Dance Floor
Everybody danced today. Work started with a pre-
dawn light dance. All four earth moving machines
were active most of the day -- the little dozer
even grabbed several shovels full of dirt to fix the
entrance ramp. The resident backhoe and
bulldozer were joined by the Hertz backhoe in
digging deeper down the site, from the edges
inward. Any machine digging at the west
Connecticut side (bottom screen) was too low to
be seen from the webcam. The dump trucks
slowed the Military traffic and their own progress
by the need to back onto the site. The crew was
also back at work very deep on the south
retaining wall (screen right), putting in retaining
boards and tie backs (We slowed the time-lapsed
video to enhance the dance; fast forward with the
browser controls. 4:39 min)
• Monday, 10 March, 2014
- Video
- A new, yellow Hertz backhoe started work on
the site, but it’s job was not to assist the resident
backhoe and bull dozer in earth moving but to
asset the forklift in accepting and placing a
flatbed load of wood and another flatbed load of
steel beams. The first modest wave of dump
trucks arrived at 10:30A, then at 12:30P and at
3P for a moderate amount of earth moving today.
(1:14 min)
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