Topic: Clonehead's Jobsite Pics

[Clonehead]

Here is a place where I can post some random pics from the jobsites that I am working on.







First 5 shots are from a parking garage in downtown KC that we are working on.
Last shot are of a couple of co-workers setting  column bars with a crane. They are only about 15 foot in the air.

[DocOutlands]

Wow - that's some great articulation you've managed!! 


  

[Tamer]

That is 15 feet too high for me!

[Clonehead]

Oh Shawn, their tied off, not to worry. It's gotta be easier than taming a classroom full of kids.

[wraithnine]

i hear you tamer im scared shitless of heights

[Clonehead]

There is nothing to the heights that I have to deal with. Imagine the structural ironworkers in Las Vegas or New York, working 40+ stories up.

[wraithnine]

yikes! i get giddy on a stepladder

[Darth Aussie]

i've been shooting out of choppers higher than that yet i still get a little funny up high on skyscrapers or tall building.....lol

[Tamer]

Oh Shawn, their tied off, not to worry. It's gotta be easier than taming a classroom full of kids.

I will just have to take your word on that!

[Clonehead]

These pics were taken at a baptist church expansion project in Raytown mo, today.
  That foundation behind me has a column with 20 #14 dowels sticking out of it. each one of those bars weighs around 80 lbs each.

[Tamer]

Wow, that is a ton of rebar!

[Clonehead]

My company has a yard where we store all of the leftover rebar from jobs and then use it to supply rebar to little pick-up jobs that we get, thereby saving the cost of the rebar's fabrication. The yard is usually a mess as is shown by the first two pics.

the next two pics show a part of a huge column that we are pre-building on that Church expansion jobsite. This one member will weigh about 4800 lbs, more than my car.

[jkno]

Seems somehow familiar,  similar things happening on our street: buildings raising, streets being torn apart and piping introduced. 

[spudafett]

man I have a newfound respect for you clint.  I am not one that is fit for hard labor...  Iz lazy.... (dawn will be the first to agree!)

I've done some small jobs helping my dad with building their house, and odd jobs in the past when I used to live with them and a few interesting projectswhen I was doing mission work with my church in high school...  but I couldn't do it for a living.

My favorite experience with concrete was learning how to mix contrete the Costa Rican way.   Essentially you empty a few bags of instant concrete mix on the ground and use a shovel to make a mound of it... Then you make a hole in the center and essentially make a mock volcano with it's own little crater at the top.  Then you pour in water into the hole and QUICKLY use a shovel to mix the water into the mound of concrete.  Then it's mixed and you just smooth it out.  IT's best to do this in the spot that the concrete is needed too, no transport required! lol...   Basically we had to do it this way because there wasn't any wheelbarrels to use.

[Clonehead]

LOL, I have never heard of that technique, spud.
One time I was putting in ornimental fence for a guy and to mix the concrete for setting the posts we used this bucket with a screw on lid and vanes on the inside. You poured the bag in, threw in the right amount of water, screw the lid on, and roll the bucket around the yard untill it's mixed.
Kind of a pain in the butt.