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Imperial Community => Imperial Break Room => Topic started by: Clonehead on July 20, 2009, 02:49:10 PM
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Here is a place where I can post some random pics from the jobsites that I am working on.
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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.
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Wow - that's some great articulation you've managed!!
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That is 15 feet too high for me!
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Oh Shawn, their tied off, not to worry. It's gotta be easier than taming a classroom full of kids.
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i hear you tamer im scared shitless of heights
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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.
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yikes! i get giddy on a stepladder
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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
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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!
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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.
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Wow, that is a ton of rebar!
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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.
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Seems somehow familiar, similar things happening on our street: buildings raising, streets being torn apart and piping introduced. ;D
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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.
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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.
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I'd rather roll a bucket around than try to mix it by hand with a shovel in a bucket or wheelbarrel!
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Hmm...might have to try the bucket approach. I have a little heavy duty plastic tub designed for the sixty lb. bags. Hard work concrete is.
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Here are some shots I took this week of what will be the pool area of the KC zoo polar bear exhibit that we are working on. These beams are sitting on top of a network of piers that are sunk into the ground underneith and will support the slab and walls that will contain the pool area.
In the second two shots, we are working on the first of two layers of steel that will connect through these beams and form the reinforcement for the slab. Before they pour this slab, there should be about 25 tons of steel installed.
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I can see someone was burnign the midnight oil. Wow that is a ton of rebar! Literally, well 25 tons I guess.
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Looks huge!
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The day that we were putting that bottom layer of the slab iron in was a hard day. About two weeks straight of days like that and I would be well on my way to being a body builder.
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Cools pics, I am a fan of seeing building pics of any kind, My only rebar laying experience was when I laid it for my old shops foundation, that was small potatoes. I like to see the "behind the scenes" of how some of these structures are built, and as an added per do you get free zoo passes :)
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LOL, I had pondered that same question just the other day, Wayne. I somewhat doubt it but will want to tie the wifey to see the polar bears when the area is open to the public.
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Here are a couple shots I had taken today, of myself tying up piers at the KCPL substation that we are working on in Liberty Mo.
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They don' make you guys wear hard-hats??!??
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Not on this job. It's kinda out in the middle of nowhere.
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Looks like someone is getting some sun.
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Mine's in the middle of a dairy farm (seriously - 3/4 mile from the road) and Regency *still* expects us to wear them.
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I've been getting spoiled not having to wear mine. Come time for the heat of the summer, I will have to wear it. Set and poured 9 piers today. Worked 9 1/2 hrs and had a pretty good day. Cloudy in the morning and sunny in the afternoon. High in the 70s. Two more days and the weekend is upon me.
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Looks like you're "job problems" you had awhile back have dissentegrated! Great work shots, Clint.
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It does indeed appear that the sky could be the limit as far as working for this company goes, Dan.
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Would you believe we have a concrete crew from Tennessee down here in Louisiana pouring our piers and footers??!??
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Here is a shot of me on what is the highest profile job in KC right now. About three weeks ago, there was a landslide-type collapse under the main interchange of highways 470-435 in KC and part of the highway collapsed causing the closure of that part of the interchange. Well, my company has been contracted to erect and place the reinforcing steel to replace the ruined section and get the interchange open again. The job was to take 5 months worth of work and roughly 5 million dollars to replace and was contracted to happen in a month and a half. That means round the clock work for some of em. It is my understanding that the general contractor that won the contract will get a $40,000 bonus per day that the work is completed prior to the contracted date. If they are late, it is a $40k per day fine.
The skeleton of a pier that is next to me will be 75 foot long and weigh approx 5 tonnes or 10,000 lbs. Most of that will go into the ground into a drilled hole and help support the cap beam that will support the deck that we will build later.
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That's a hell of a project, my man. Good to see you're working again, though I'd almost rather you didn't start til the end of August so we could snatch you away to FL!
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LOL, I had a hell of a first week back, that's for sure. I ended up working 40 hours regular and 13 overtime in the heat of the summer. By yesterday's quitting time, I felt like hell. My feet were sore from standing on concrete all day, I had blisters on my blisters, and the sun burnt thru my sunscreen enough to form blisters on my nose, forehead, and arms. I get my first paycheck on Tuesday and it should be massive. This company is the biggest rebar placement outfit in the City and they have loads of work going right now including two hospital expansions, two hospital parking garages, the bridge of death "pictured above" , a water treatment plant, a soccer stadium, and some retaining wall work down at brush creek. We have a sizable job coming up which is a new casino up by the Nascar track. I believe it is to be the new Hard Rock Cafe casino.
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Good to see you have plenty of work ahead of you Clint. I know how you feel about all the free tanning...
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Since I posted that last pic, I moved back to the company that I have worked for the last three years f or the most part.
Here is a shot of me on the roof of the Warrensburg Hospital expansion wondering how I am going to be able to efficiently move with all of those clothes on.
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Looks kinda cold out there Clint! Good to see you still working!
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i feel your pain clint i have dabbled in that kind torture on the body but great money be careful out there
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Oh yeah, I am careful. I am just thankful that we are still working. Winter is usually a slow time for us and I don't expect it to be any different this year so I am a practiced nervous about the aspects for work this winter but make the best of any time off that I get.
We are still at that hospital job for as ling as it lasts.
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got a new pic here of me hanging on a wall that I had just set a rebar curtain in at Warrensburg's hospital.
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You need to go to work with a Stormtrooper/Fett/Clone trooper helmet on one day ;D
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There Clint is, hanging off of something.
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Clin't that looks like fun but I know is some hard work!
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got some pics for you guys of the new stamping plant project for Ford that we started this week.
the base slab with walls for this pit that will sit below the building will hold over 120 tonnes of steel reinforcement and just the slab below the walls will take 150 concrete trucks worth to pour.
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Wow! been a while. Here are a couple of shots from one of two fema shelters next to elementary schools that I am running rod buster crews on.
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Ah the joy of working up high. Not for me! Good to see you around bud.
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Not a good shot but here is the company truck I was issued back in October. 06, high miles, 2nd motor, 4x4,a/c and heat work well,radio sounds good. Can’t beat it.
I have never owned a truck, Shawn. When I was a kid, they all rode like lumber wagons.
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Nice Clint! I know I love my Tacoma. Drives better than the car we have!
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I am surprised at how much I like it.
Should have bought one years ago
Had that since October, this is what it replaced as my daily driver.
I had traded in the loaded up on miles black car about a year ago.
While not good shots of the car, You can see how this one does or does not fit into the job site surroundings.
This hole was the start of a basement gym for a mansion in the roanoak hills area of kck
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Is that a new Dodge I see? Looks like its gonna be one huge place.
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I’ll have to find my car pics thread to post pics of the orange car.
Here is a shot inside that gym after the walls are poured.
Not regulation basketball sized but it does sport 20 foot walls.
This room does go under the main floor of the house. The rest of the basement attaches/surrounds this room.
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Looks like a lot of concrete. I guess that sets up ok in colder temps? Or these pics are from a few months ago?
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It does, probably takes some more time to cure. Heck, it will set up under water also.
Going to liberty today, to start an addition to a high school.
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This is me in independence, where we were installing rebar for a concrete roof. Zoom in for the icicles. We have had some freezing rain.
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That looks slick. Bet it was a slidey type day.
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Pretty dusty around here
We are working at a place that does some metal work and some printing for signage and other 3D pieces that other businesses contract them to make. This place, dimensional innovations, had bought a warehouse next door, that we are joining to their main building for foot and forklift traffic.
The bought warehouse is clean, large, and empty for the most part. There is a crew working on a giant horse in one corner. I think it’s high density foam and fiber glass.
The only other thing in the opposite corner is this large metal sheer cutting machine that has a couple of large shots of Arnie and the words “get to the choppa”
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Wow, that is some neat stuff.
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"The Choppa" I love that. ;D
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In the main building at that place, you can find the largest operating 3-d printer in the Midwest
Larger than my living room, this beast was producing pieces over 4 feet long and hundreds of pounds. Thats my booted foot in that shot next to a printed piece that was lying on the ground.
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Wow, that's quite a machine! Very impressive! You got a job that certainly never gets boring!
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Wow, thats one huge printer. Man, can't you imagine getting a Star Wars Print out of that bad boy. A true to scale Walker or Star Destroyer.
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You could (but won't) print large scale 3.75 star wars cities/settlements! Damn that would be cool.
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You could (but won't) print large scale 3.75 star wars cities/settlements! Damn that would be cool.
Now that would be nice. True to scale for action figures.
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Here are a couple of full scale football player statues that were contracted by the army/navy that I believe were carved from high density foam but I’m not sure. The one was dressed later in an army football uniform. High dollar shoes and gloves, that navy guy had an airbrushed aircraft carrier that wrapped around his helmet.
That large guitar does work, it’s hooked up to a little amp.
There were some crates on the floor with a Raiders logo that must have been something the team contracted them to make.
Here is a shot looking through that big printer window
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Man, it would be cool to have a full size manequin like that for my Driver Costume.
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Shawn, be honest: you wear that costume once your family goes to bed!
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Shawn, be honest: you wear that costume once your family goes to bed!
late at night, Pat, it would be his ATAT Driver Pajamas.
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Shawn, be honest: you wear that costume once your family goes to bed!
Heck, I don't care if they see me. All the time man! LOL!