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Saturday, 01 March, 2014

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☆ Video

• Saturday, 01 March, 2014

☆ Video - An Earth Moving Day

- The day started with a queue of dump trucks

that filled the site and extended down Military

Road facing west; the queue continued for an hour

with the backhoe and dozer both filling forty

trucks. The two machines worked on the

Connecticut Ave side of the site, but so deep in

the ground it was often hard to see the machines,

only their scoops as they reached up  to fill the

trucks. In between waves, even the baby dozer

joined the big dozer and the even bigger backhoe

to dig deeper and pile higher in preparation for the

next wave of dump trucks; unfortunately most of

this earth moving was too deep behind the

Connecticut Ave retaining wall for the webcam to

see. Working from 7A to 4P, today was a record

day; 177 dump truck loads of dirt left the site. We

slowed the time-lapsed video to deepen the

appreciation of the deepening construction site.

(5:28 min)

• Friday, 28 February, 2014

- Video - Good Construction Watching

- This morning was a good time to watch earth

moving. There was no work on the retaining wall,

just the bull dozer and backhoe piling dirt and

then filling three waves of a total of 57 dump

trucks that were queued on site several times.

We slow the time-lapse to enjoy the waves at

9:30A, 11:30A and 2P. Still, there was too much

down-time to be a Top Ten Video. (1:47 min)

• Thursday, 27 February, 2014

- Video

- The crew arrived early at 6:30A. The machines

started at 7:15A and their first task was to clear

the site of snow. The first dump truck arrived at

9:30A and trucks trickled in the rest of the day

with no great sense of urgency. (1:28 min)

• Wednesday, 26 February, 2014

Snow Day

• Tuesday, 25 February, 2014

- Video

- Today was a typical dump day until snow

precipitated a halt in work at 11A (1:08 min)

• Monday, 24 February, 2014

- Video

- The backhoe started the day digging down at

the northwest corner retaining wall. At 9:45A the

first wave of dump trucks arrived. At 11A the

yellow forklift was replaced by a larger blue

forklift. The dump trucks trickled in the rest of the

day, with no sense of urgency.

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