The Week of February 26, 2018 — Wall to Wall Columns Moving East
As the new week begins, The ironworkers are
Left: A SFPH2 –3 Pre-Heat and Post-Heat Torch in its post-heat treatment mode. Note how it spreads the heat evenly across the length of the welded seam.
Sergio, welding foreman, and inventor of the SFPH2 – 3 Torch, shown at the left. He is the only person, I have seen on site that has a photo of his son on his hard hat. Pointing to his son’s photo, Sergio said: “I work for him.”
Once the seam
I love a day after it rains. For yours truly, those are days for reflection. All I need is a small puddle to get some interesting shots.
Even an upside-down heart-shaped puddle makes an excellent reflective surface.
Deep underground (“B” level) welders continue welding the brackets to the damper pedestals. In this photo, two ironworkers, using a swivel-wheeled counterbalanced floor crane with a hook mounted chain hoist, slide another damper into a welded pedestal bracket. Once the two dampers are mounted in the pedestal bracket, they will mount the other ends to the spline beam brackets.
This welder was grinding away the slag from a weld on a damper bracket. The sparks flying off of the grinding wheel caught my eye.
The same welder, a different angle.
Under the decking on “B” level, I came across a scene that was reminiscent of a Star Wars movie. Here a welder, on his knees, was welding a damper bracket to the pedestal plate. Nothing like getting closeup and personal!
A view of the steel structure from the east of the pit at grade. More columns have been set in section 3 at the southeast wall as the steel structure moves east.
On the opposite side of the structure, just above the west moat, an ironworker maneuver on the outside of a column while another ironworker looks on as a safety spotter.
Looking south toward the foundation wall: Down in the western moat, below where the ironworkers were perched on the column in the photo above, I was able to get a real sense of what walking around in the moat is like. To the right, anchored to the western wall, are the mechanical pipes. In the center of the moat is an electrical “war wagon,” which is essentially a step-down transformer that temporarily brings 110-volts of power to the lights and various outlets under the decking.
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