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Monday, 17 March, 2014 to
Saturday, 22 March, 2014
Blog, Photos and Videos in reverse chronology.
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• Saturday, 22 March, 2014
There was just a bit of work this morning. The
Hertz backhoe dug around the bottom of the
onsite crane, while the crane hook rose and
lowered a half dozen times, without any apparent
load. The Maxim Mobile Crane gyrated for an hour
then left the site just before 9A. At 9:30A
supplies were delivered; the backhoe unloaded and
the site crane moved the load to the upper, north
side of the site. At 10A the onsite crane operator
climbed down and by 10:30A, the site was closed
for the day.
• Friday, 21 March, 2014
- Video - A BIG Day
Today was a BIG day that made previous days
look dull and previous machines look small. Turns
out the secreted pit was for the foundation of the
permanent construction crane, PCC. The Maxim
Mobile Crane that arrived yesterday hoisted the
parts of the site PCC into place and the crew
bolted the pieces together. The Maxim Mobile
Crane and the new PCC were so tall they reached
off the top of the webcam screen, so still photos
were used to document the work in the clouds. As
a side show almost totally eclipsed by the cranes,
a the backhoe/dozer worked outside the site on
Military Road, digging and filling dump trucks in
preparation for a new manhole vault with manhole
covers, which was delivered webcam front and
center at 10:30A. Work at both places continued
until dusk at 7P. (5:59 min )
• Thursday, 20 March, 2014
- Video
- The two backhoes worked behind the fog until it
cleared at 9A, when the Hertz backhoe moved
the large box “generator” from the entrance way
to the street-level strip of site along Military.
There was just superficial scurrying until a
backhoe/dozer and dump truck started work just
off site (far left screen). At 1P a very large Maxim
mobile crane stole attention, even though a
backhoe was dashing back and forth with buckets
of cement for the pit. Work went on around the
crane until it stood up just before 3P; it reached
over twenty stories tall -- far beyond the upper
limit of the webcam. The crane exercised for
about an hour and then folded as the site closed
at 4P. (2:37 min)
• Wednesday, 19 March, 2014
- Video
- Today was a full-site, three-ring circus with all
machines and all crew performing on all four
retaining walls, on pit work, and on earth moving.
At 9:30A dump trucks started backing into the
small upper workspace as the backhoe moved
away the dirt that shrunk the upper workspace
even further. And around noon it was all done in
the rain. Earth moving stopped within an hour of
the rain, but pit work continued, 2:30P a cement
truck unloaded, and just before 3P a large square
yellow machine was delivered. (1:23 min)
• Tuesday, 18 March, 2014
- Video
- One of two baby bull dozers started the day by
cleaning the snow off the upper portion of the
site. At 8A the crew prepared a white parking mat
for the 9:30A arrival of a new machine that
pumped cement through hoses into the pit. And
to supplement the new machine were a stream of
twenty one cement trucks. The resident backhoe
-- usually the “star of the site” but today a
second look -- dug down further at the north wall.
(Fast forward with the browser controls. 4:56
min)
• Monday, 17 March, 2014
Winter’s last hurrah covered the webcam window
with ice and the construction site with six and a
half inches of snow. And surprisingly, there was
work on the site. At 6:45A the crew was working
on the secreted project; the hertz backhoe lifted
off large plastic sheets used yesterday to cover
secreted drainage pit. The additional work on the
secreted pit was over by 10A.
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