"Jcarr" (jcarr)
04/14/2016 at 10:37 • Filed to: None
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"Jcarr" (jcarr)
04/14/2016 at 10:37 • Filed to: None | 4
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Our neighbors had to have a large oak tree cut down after the trunk started to split severely. As fate would have it, the tree service company came to take it down yesterday, which was my day to work from home this week. Needless to say I stood by the window like this for a good while:
EL_ULY
> Jcarr
04/14/2016 at 10:42 |
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did they bring a wood chipper?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!
OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
> Jcarr
04/14/2016 at 10:42 |
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There building a new Student Union at UT and I have spent hours and hours watching the equipment work.
BvdV - The Dutch Engineer
> Jcarr
04/14/2016 at 10:46 |
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I’m a kid too then(or am I really a kid at 20?). I always watch when there is something (de)construction-y being done, I mean those big machines really are fascinating.
CalzoneGolem
> EL_ULY
04/14/2016 at 10:48 |
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Asking the important questions!
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Jcarr
> EL_ULY
04/14/2016 at 10:52 |
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They did, but it was behind a truck and I couldn’t see it. They also had a stump grinder, but they couldn’t fit it between the houses to get to the tree so they didn’t use it.
They did have a sweet old crane truck that they used to lift and stabilize the heavy parts.
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EL_ULY
> CalzoneGolem
04/14/2016 at 10:52 |
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Those things are rad!!! I’m planning on cutting this tree down in the front yard. It WILL be the best day ever!
jvirgs drives a Subaru
> Jcarr
04/14/2016 at 10:54 |
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Same here.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Jcarr
04/14/2016 at 10:57 |
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EL_ULY
> Jcarr
04/14/2016 at 10:58 |
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The radness!!!!
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CalzoneGolem
> EL_ULY
04/14/2016 at 10:59 |
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shop-teacher
> Jcarr
04/14/2016 at 11:00 |
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I would’ve done the same, no doubt about it.
Last year they were tearing down an old hotel near where I work. I ate lunch in the parking lot next door almost every day and watched them work.
Xyl0c41n3
> Jcarr
04/14/2016 at 11:04 |
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Some new super crazy power lines were being installed in the area recently, including a part that had to cross the freeway. A day or so before installing the lines themselves, workers had put up the pulleys (I’m guessing? I dunno... I don’t drive by that area often so I didn’t see, but they looked like pulleys from my vantage point on the freeway) that they’d use to secure the lines and had extended two cranes on either side of the freeway to maneuver them. I got all excited because they also put up a sign announcing that they’d be shutting down the freeway for the install the next day. I knew I was going to be in the area again, so I made plans to come back just to watch. Unfortunately, something came up and I couldn’t make it, but later in the afternoon as I was driving by again, the sunlight was glinting on the shiny new high capacity cables.
I think the coolest construction-y thing I’ve ever seen is the time I was only a couple hundred feet away from a high rise building demolition via controlled implosion. It was a bit more interesting because it was brand new, still-unfinished construction, and due to the very specific environment here, the building had been constructed with concrete built to the same specifications used by nuclear facilities. The demo crew had never demolished such a strong building before, they said. But the building had to come down because its foundation had not been properly constructed and there were already cracks and instabilities running all the way up the structure.
I was so close I felt the blast wave from its collapse. It was pretty fucking cool.
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EL_ULY
> CalzoneGolem
04/14/2016 at 11:05 |
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wow those stripping cutter things are radness!
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Jcarr
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
04/14/2016 at 11:07 |
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Yes, exactly this.
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Jcarr
> shop-teacher
04/14/2016 at 11:08 |
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That sounds amazing. I would have done the same thing.
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Jcarr
> Xyl0c41n3
04/14/2016 at 11:10 |
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That sounds awesome. I would love to see one of those implosions in person someday. Alas, not much of that happening in small-town Iowa.
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shop-teacher
> Jcarr
04/14/2016 at 11:15 |
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It was pretty great. I was going through a rough patch at work at the time, so it was perfect timing. I needed to get out of the building as much as possible.
McMike
> Jcarr
04/14/2016 at 11:18 |
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I believe RamblinRover (in an earlier comment) said it best.
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This was a tree I had taken down like, 7-8 years ago.
Four guys, 15 minutes, $550.
ttyymmnn
> Jcarr
04/14/2016 at 11:35 |
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We had a huge hackberry cut down in our backyard about 8 years ago. It was fascinating to watch the guys bring it down. Watching those men clamber about up in the tree with chainsaws was a big fat “NOPE” for me.