Saturday, June 16, 2007

Friday Construction Photo #9

Lots of stuff showing up now! They're diggin' holes and trenches and puttin' rebar in to form footings and there are trucks and barrels and wooden forms and all sorts of things on the site now! The pathways between all the trenches look to be narrowing down to where only the smaller vehicles are going to be able to navigate some parts of the site. The big dump and cement trucks appear to have a path right up the center but it looks like they'll soon be crowded out. I imagine it takes a little while to get the hang of planning the sequence of work and the logistics of vehicle movements to be able to manage a work site like this.

This shot shows one of the things I've been mentioning for a while. This digger has cleared the gravel and dirt from around eight to ten of those pilings that were made with that tall derrick drill. You can see the rebar sticking out of the top of each one. The concrete for these was injected into the ground as the drill was withdrawn. If you've been following along, you know I'm fairly impressed with this approach. It's pretty a pretty slick operation to drill the hole and refill it with concrete with one tool; it's a complex tool but I think they make good use of it.

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