Located at Penitentiary
Glen
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Concrete day! Today we place concrete for the storage shed slab and Dave Foster is operating the powered dump buggy. We have the ramp over the form for access for the buggy and the wire mesh reinforcing is in place. |
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The reinforcing wire is just laying on the polyethylene vapor barrior for now. Frank Foti, George Metts and George Woodling talking about fashion statements with boots as we wait for the cement truck. |
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The Park had the tree by our storage shed removed and a second one about ten feet away that was dead and rotted away at the bottom. The rail got bent so the track crew will work on that today. |
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A nice size log they left to rot away for the animals in the park to use. The log will be in our way as it is now so we will have to move it off to the side. |
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The concrete truck has arrived! Dave has the concrete buggy in position as the concrete starts to ooze down the shute. |
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Farmer boy George waits for the concrete to be dumped. We took the bottom girt back off for Dave to be able to dump the concrete from the side as Frank, Roger Harnish and George watch the first load being dumped. |
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Pushing that concrete from the one side to the other isn't that easy. George and Roger level the concrete across the bottom forms as George moves the concrete to fill in low spots. |
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Decided it's easier if Dave brings the buggy with concrete from the open end of our structure. Dave going for another load as we have almost a third of the concrete down in place. |
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Roger with the bull float leveling the concrete which is setting up fast in this heat as George waits for more concrete. George pushes the concrete around that Dave just dumped. |
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George and Roger watch George pushing the concrete as Dave prepares to dump another load. Frank and Roger level the concrete that has been dumped and we have over 75% of the concrete placed. |
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Roger and Frank level the concrete as George moves the concrete either away because of excess or pushes it to fill a depression under the leveling board. The last of the concrete required is in place. |
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The heat has gotten to George Woodling as he and George Davidson take a breather. George Metts takes over for George as Roger and Frank level the concrete for the last few remaining feet. |
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It turns out that we placed too much in the forms at the very last and now have to remove some. You can see the excess concrete on this side of the form at the end of the structure. |
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Dave Foster starts cleaning up the tools and the buggy as we take a break. A view from the end we started with down the length of the building....Our slab is in place! |
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Roger finishes up the slab at the far end with the bull float as his brother Dave watches. Dave moves the concrete buggy back to the trailer as George watches him drive over the shim boards. |
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Roger starts hand troweling the floor for the finish but with this heat the concrete has just set off too fast. You can see the areas that Roger and I tried to hand trowel but the concrete had just set up too fast. |
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The concrete crew started at 9 am and the track crew started at 11am so we find them working on the damaged rail. Lew Fowler brought his chain saw as they are going to cut the log in smaller pieces. |
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You can see the guys have removed the damaged section of steel rail and the size of the tree that dropped on the track. Don Speidel, George Davidson and Edith Hacker remove the excess concrete before it hardens up. |
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Lew, Dave and George are stripping the end form and stakes from the slab. Dave started cleaning out the groove in the form board as we decided to add another board above the slab. |
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Meanwhile back at the track George and Wally Pausch are fastening the replacement rail to the new ties. We put the bottom set of girts that we removed for placing concrete back on the building along with another bottom board. |
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Ron Trenhaile pounds the board down as Lew looks to see if something is caught between the tongue and groove or if it is tightening up. George was cutting the boards to length required and the boss man is relaxing. |
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