Thursday, August 30, 2007

End of August

One of these days I will figure out that this program adds pictures from the bottom up, and I always put them on in chrono order--which essentially makes everything in backwards chrono order by posting--Oh well, things could be worse.
This here is this gigantic cutting wheel that cut cleanly through two stories of brick and block clean through to the inside. The cutting is all about removing a HUGE portion of the front of the building to start the structural work for the steel and glass vestibule. That will make a HUGE difference in the look of the building and the feel up on second floor. You will see ow the floor is shored up getting ready to cut the hole out of the floor in next few days.
The same little turds that shot out our glass window shot out this Tetrex Lull TH644C--This is the machine that has that blade used for cutting a piece of the building. It is an awesome tool. I wish I had one.
Here's the boyz chipping away block from the brick to ensure that when they topple the wall that was just cut it drops nice and smooth without taking out any brick that is going to stay on the facade.
Here is painter Paul, wrapping up his high pressure hose after a tough day power washing the exterior which he will start to paint after Labor Day
This huge piece of cast iron with 4 gigantic bolts are the toilet mount and drains that feed directly into floor drains. These are for those wall mounted toilets. Nothing gets under-engineered at Green Duck. these puppies are just huge and heavy. They should hold just about anything up, except maybe a couple of Senators from Idaho. Tap tap, anyone home?
Here's those turds again that pellet gunned our rear window, and I'm not talking about the Hitchcock version either.
Here's Superman cutting out my new office window. Look how careful they are. No nasty chunks like what happened in Burbank when they cut from the inside instead of the outside.
Here's that cool building cutting machine. They put up a guide rail and the machine just goes up and down on this lift, computer controlled and cuts perfectly straight vertical cuts. Look at the cut on right. Seems as though they are doing this in sections since that window on the right will disappear with the new vestibule.
Today we moved into a NEW conference room because they need to cut the hole near the big conference room. We now use Realtime office. Look how big the office is. 12 of us fit comfortably in there
Here's how they shore up the floor, so that when they cut the perimeter of the atrium, the floor won't just drop out in one big boom, but rather several smaller boomlets.





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