The guys who climb these towers have some serious balls, its a nope from me.
It's state owned and taxpayer funded, so all then money in the world!I don't know how much money the power company has but they don't have enough to pay me to do that either.
The precast was all made offsite. Casting on site is the exception here, rather than the norm. There's many precast businesses with heated beds that allow the panel to be pulled the day after pouring. Undercover so they can be cast in all weathers. Purpose-built panel trailers that allow them to be carted upright, or at least on edge for the tall ones. We can then pick them up with 2 hooks and rotate in midair. Placing panels is probably our biggest market.Kiwi tell me about the concrete panel home.
Pre-cast on site or off site and trucked in?
There appears to be anchor bolts so is there structural steel involved as well?
What's the floor, pre-cast concrete or metal deck pan and cast in place?
Sorry for all the questions, that's an interesting concept for a house.
Most of our homes are timber framed. With Forestry being one of our main industries, timber is plentyful. However, every now and then someone with too much money decides to do something different.Thank you for the info. Here in the 'States we build disposable housing constructed of wood for the most part, just ask Digger.
We have the pre-stressed pre-cast flat slab panels that are used a lot in apartments, schools and hotels. CMU walls with the panels for flooring.
Interesting work - keep up the pics and commentary.
I was a little frustrated with the emergency services to be honest. Where it happened is a main arterial route, with extra lanes currently under construction. There was already traffic management there for the construction, they acted quickly to set up a stop/go so the traffic could keep moving. Once the fire brigade showed up, they blocked the highway completely. The police showed up, spent an hour investigating, then since it involved a truck, we needed to wait another hour on CVIU to turn up (the commercial vehicle unit of the police, affectionately known to truckers as the god-squad, or less affectionately as mermaids) to do their own investigation. This led to the road being closed for 6 hours. Luckily, the roading guys were there to help out and provided an excavator and tractor mounted sweeper to clean up the debris that came out of the bin, otherwise that would have been another delay. Don't get me wrong, I understand these guys have a process to follow and I'm not about to blast then for doing their job, but I do think there's sinc streamlining that could be done when it's a minor injury accident and a state highway is blocked.Good job Kiwi on uprighting the dump truck.
Unfortunately with our ambulance chasing lawyers and our commercial insurance policies full of exclusions due to lawsuits, I can't help out like that anymore. Billboards line the highway with a slime ball in a suit and a 1-800 number to call if you've been hurt in an accident. It's a damn shame.
Thanks for posting job site pics, I really enjoy seeing how others do it around the globe.
Middle of winter here. The cool is nice, but I'm pretty sick of mud.Looks like nice cool weather. We could use some of that here right now. Its been hot hot hot. I'm ready for some winter.
Also 6hours to reopen a road doesn't happen here. Maybe if theres multiple fatalities, and a snow/ice event so they can't get it cleared. But certainly not for a no injuries truck roll over. They'd have one or two big wreckers out there and get it drug off the road one way or another.
I don't envy you guys at this time of year trying to move dirt. There is a significant amount of roading happening around the country at the moment, and the sediment controls are works of art in some areas.It's middle of the summer here, hot as hell and wet. It's been raining all week. We got an inch of rain dumped yesterday afternoon at the yard.
The last tally I heard on the radio was 11.5" of rain so far here in July. Our job sites are a mess.