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Posted 20 January 2015 - 10:33 AM
Time to resume installation of the large stormwater line.
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One of a dozen or so holes with forms for the lightpoles in the Cabela's lot.
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The scaffolds in use but not high enough yet to use the elevator.
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An office trailer for the W-L and Baker folks.
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Posted 20 January 2015 - 07:54 PM
Decided the vertical towers aren't elevators but are guides or the mechanisms that raise the deck. Pallets of blocks are lifted by the JLG fork lifts into gaps in the hand rails.
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They've drilled for a shot in a cluster of boulders next to the Honda shop, probably tomorrow while the shop is closed.
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Posted 21 January 2015 - 02:46 PM
Instead of the holes next to the Honda shop, decision made to tackle the shot down low near Lee highway, but this time using a whole lot of heavy blast mats to avoid flying debris.
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Posted 21 January 2015 - 02:50 PM
Earlier today it looked like a re-make of the Hitchcock classic...
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Just a rest stop, because there's sure nothing for them to eat or drink!
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Another progress shot on the building late today...
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Posted 22 January 2015 - 02:55 PM
Since this shot is fairly close to the Honda building they covered the charges with several loads of dirt and then covered it with the blast mats...worked well.
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Posted 22 January 2015 - 03:21 PM
A second shot today meant moving all the mats to a line of charged holes from Lee highway up toward the Cabela's building.
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And after 4 days the scaffold is done on the end of the NW corner.
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From the west side of the building.
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And, the next day from the east side of the building.
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Posted 23 January 2015 - 01:03 PM
The scaffolding from the north-west corner has been moved to the south side and it's a miserable rainy day.
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The second shot yesterday must have been for a trench cuz the steel water piping arrived today.
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Posted 26 January 2015 - 09:50 AM
Another shot with mats on top, east of Honda today. Two or three pieces of the tire tread in one mat went up and down safely.
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All the scaffolding has been removed from the front of the building and a few knee braces added.
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Posted 27 January 2015 - 03:34 PM
The Smoky Mountains in the distance with sunshine on a layer of snow!
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Posted 28 January 2015 - 05:52 PM
There has been 1100 feet of Jersey barriers alongside the I-81 freeway just inside the Armco guardrail near where I've been taking pics of the construction of the retaining wall near the future Lowes building from the breakdown lane. I never knew when it went in and learned today that's because 'they' required that work to be done after midnight, even though the Jersey barriers were moved into position from the project side of the fence.
Which makes sense since there was no retaining wall then. There is now. And for whatever reason 'they' decided that 9 am today was the time to close the breakdown lane and 1 lane of the freeway to retrieve the Jersey barriers - all 55 of them.
Nearly a mile of orange cones were positioned to guide traffic away from the work area, old rubber conveyor belts were positioned to protect the pavement from the tracks of the excavator and flatbed trucks moved into position. A large scissor clamp was hung from the bucket and away they went, one barrier at a time, three to a truck and 5 hours later Lewis was back out of the excavator and into his D-8 Cat dozer pushing big boulders down from the future Calhoun's restaurant pad.
Yep, there are pics!
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Posted 28 January 2015 - 06:00 PM
Meanwhile, they're back in the big ditch, cutting a smaller ditch to put in sanitary sewer pipe at a higher elevation.
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This was a big boulder to add to the pile and the pile got bigger before the day ended.
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Drilling nearly done for the next shot...blast pads await.
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The Cabela's south wall continues going up.
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Posted 29 January 2015 - 04:23 PM
Only enough blast mats for the holes down by the highway and it got real busy after the shot making revisions to the roads into the site.
Before and After...
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Nothing like little job security for the hammer operator!
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Posted 30 January 2015 - 03:52 PM
After clearing the rubble humped up by the shot yesterday, the pipe crew has started a ditch for the sanitary sewer line. The citys water and sewer mains are along the other side of Lee Highway and the large steel pipes will be casings for the connections to the project. Much of this work will be done by boring equipment under the road but some small road cuts will be done on a midnight schedule.
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Contouring the bank up to the Calhoun's pad continues.
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Several views of Cabela's building progress, south wall is topped out and scaffolding has been moved to the west wall.
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Looking through the building to the east wall - note the 3 doors for truck delivery of merchandise.
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And the north wall and the main entrance.
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From the road behind the strip mall building toward Cabela's. The screen has been moved near this road and has produced huge stockpiles of 3 sizes of gravel.
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The big ditch is being filled and extensions added for manholes.
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THe road down to the retaining wall has risen almost to the level of the Lowes pad and the wall slowly rises.
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Posted 31 January 2015 - 09:35 AM
Mats are in place and it's time for a mid-Saturday-morning shot.
(Will post Before and After pics after Gmail gets done with all the Caturday traffic and sends them from my Moto X!!)
(Edit: Sheesh, there must be a bunch of ya with new Cat pics!)
Before and After...
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Posted 02 February 2015 - 03:59 PM
Limited activity today with snow/wind/freezing temps but several loads of roof beams arrived.
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Posted 04 February 2015 - 08:28 AM
One column and a bunch of roof beams and trusses...north-east corner roof has begun.
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Posted 04 February 2015 - 06:41 PM
Two shots today, the first was close enough to the freeway that they used the mats.
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The second shot was out away from everything, so no mats.
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Posted 05 February 2015 - 06:15 PM
Since most of the block walls are in place they've begun loading out some of the scaffolds.
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Lots of roof support steelwork in progress from several angles...
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The hillside east of the Honda shop up to the Calhoun's pad is to be a 2 to 1 slope (2 foot rise in 1 foot horizontal) and they started on it today. With all the big rocks and crumbly material, it won't be easy!
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Posted 06 February 2015 - 04:51 PM
More progress around Cabela's...electricians have assembled some of the light poles, more scaffolding loading out and the crane nearing the end of the roof trusses on the west end of the building.
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The more they work over the 2 to 1 contour, the more they find big boulders.
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Excavators working 2 levels on the contour.
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Posted 09 February 2015 - 04:24 PM
Two shots today...the first on the ledges they're building where a short retaining wall is planned.
Before and After (a dozer got there before my After pic).
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The second shot down next to Lee highway was way late in the day after piling dirt and mats on top of the charges, and some rain was coming so it got a little too dark. Slinging mats...
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Before and After...
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Through the front door opening, the last section for roof beams and trusses, note the left side is part-way decked over.
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