Geez Tom... I never realized so much is involved in building a tower. Your exposé is spectacular.
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Cell Tower Saga
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Posted 09 April 2014 - 05:12 AM
Geez Tom... I never realized so much is involved in building a tower. Your exposé is spectacular.
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And that's why cell service costs so much! Ha
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Posted 09 April 2014 - 05:23 PM
Geez Tom... I never realized so much is involved in building a tower. Your exposé is spectacular.
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Well, I guess we're a long ways past tower-building, but I became fascinated with the whole project and keep going back every day. The hill is nearly gone so 'building-building' should get started soon!
And that's why cell service costs so much! Ha
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Naww...that's just AT&T and VZW! I just wish T-Mo had taken the opportunity to discover SW Virginia when the new tower went up.
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Posted 09 April 2014 - 06:46 PM
Almost didn't hear that different style siren, hence out of focus and no time to describe anything.
Before and part of the After...
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And tomorrow will be the end of the haul road along the top of the rock wall near the Cabela's pad.
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Posted 10 April 2014 - 07:04 PM
Well, today was s'posed to be the end of the haul road...'cept the powder truck hsd 'issues' and the charges these guys placed had to be pulled. Maybe tomorrow.
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And the dozer engine with the spun bearing departs...
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Posted 12 April 2014 - 06:19 AM
THe shot Friday was set in two areas, the haul road over the rock wall and on the top on the north end...couldn't cover both but panned over to see all the dust from the second area.
Before and After for both areas and looking from inside near the Cabela's pad.
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Posted 12 April 2014 - 07:06 AM
Remember this pic from back on Oct. 4th last year?
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That huge foundation slab from under one of the old tower legs has been tipped, tumbled, beat up by hammers at different times and places, tipped and tumbled some more and is now down to the final level of the project site and it STILL hasn't been totally destroyed. As the various hammers move from one boulder pile to another they pause here and beat on it some more, but it is stubborn!
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Edit: The next day a dozer laid another lift over the slab...
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and then ran over it to beat down all the re-bar...prolly be buried with the next lift.
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Posted 15 April 2014 - 09:01 AM
There was no good angle to video the shot along the top of the rock wall so just an After shot...
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I've been seeing the water truck head down a side road lately and decided to take a look during lunch today...there's even a stop sign before crossing the tracks!
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Directly under the freeway...
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The pump...
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And the fill pipe, just like in the old western movies...
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A glimpse of Beaver Creek down below looking east.
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Posted 15 April 2014 - 09:26 AM
Working at getting the access road area from Lee highway cleared for future Cabela's construction, the 3-wall foundation is coming down and the road through the gate has been re-surfaced with small aggregate crushed rock from the screening plant.
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Some activity on the Cabela's pad...
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Seems there's an "Event" being planned!
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Hope it's not planned for later today, 'cuz it's SNOWING...again! (A lot of that on the car and driveway is tree blossom petals, but there's flakes in the air!)
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Posted 15 April 2014 - 09:37 AM
Wish it was snowing here.....
Naww, ya don't!
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Posted 15 April 2014 - 10:00 AM
Now I really, really wonder "Where is johngalt?"!
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Posted 15 April 2014 - 10:10 AM
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The recent line of storms and subsequent high winds have brought the temps down today to about 57 °F (around 14 °C) but that is simply not cold enough for me. lol.
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Posted 15 April 2014 - 10:13 AM
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The recent line of storms and subsequent high winds have brought the temps down today to about 57 °F (around 14 °C) but that is simply not cold enough for me. lol.
I'm in middle GA right now..... Phooey on rain and high wind...... Especially with my empty trailer......:/
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Posted 15 April 2014 - 10:20 AM
Wait, what? You're in my neck o' the woods?
Oh, OTR lol - took me a second to remember....
Feel like making a pit stop? I need to get out to the VZW store today anyway....
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Posted 15 April 2014 - 11:23 AM
Im in cartersville now....(just north of Atlanta )....... Have a terminal there...... I'm not going anywhere till morning now (well, the truck ain't going anywhere)......:/Wait, what? You're in my neck o' the woods?
Oh, OTR lol - took me a second to remember....
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Posted 15 April 2014 - 06:49 PM
I guess johngalt wanting snow in GA isn't so strange...wish he could have ours!
And johnthe hillbilly, ya oughtta get yerself home for tomorrow...found out that the 'Event' for that tent up on the Cabela's pad is for the Governor to be here for a 'ceremonial signing' of the Bill that enabled the project to proceed after the legal shenanigans by a competing developer.
It's scheduled for 10AM and the public is welcome! (But they better plan on muddy boots after the weather today...and the forecast low in the morning is 26F...ugh!)
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Posted 16 April 2014 - 05:32 PM
And so...we have a Special Event!
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Contractors signage...
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To the tent...
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With equipment on display...
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And dignitaries all lined up...
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First Bristol, VA Mayor Guy Odom...
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And now VA Governor Terry McAuliffe speaking...
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And now the Governor signs (ceremonially) the legislation...
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The Commonwealth and City Seals...
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And there were Goodies!
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By the way, the 'Facilities' were a bit more elaborate than those for the working crews.
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Posted 16 April 2014 - 06:03 PM
After the Special Event was concluded, Austin Powder finished charging the shot on the former haul road on the east face of the hill, but it ended up being two shots.
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