some pictures from work

didnt work yesterday ,but today I uncoverd the repair that I did wed, I didnt take a before picture, I didnt have my camera that day, Somebody ran into this wall at the university and knocked the coping stone off and one whole end of the wall, I put it back together and coverd it up with an insulating blanket, Then helped pour some conrete for a base for a steam vault addition we will be building. We used the rest of the concrete to cover some electrical conduit for the electricians, When ever they put high voltage conduit in the ground we cover the pipe with 4 in of concrete and throw bright red dye on top

Larry, Looks like that chamber also works as a thrust block. I have been on waterline repair jobs where the blocks didn't hold. Must be a lot more pressure with steam. Were you pouring more concrete to add an extra measure of reinforcement? Nice precise looking repair on the wall. Those concrete blankets and addatives sure come in handy to extend the season, but a bit costly. I had to pay extra for hot water and retarders even though I didn't request them when I poured the wind turbine foundation in early Nov.

Do you have concrete plants out your way? or did you have to order it from out this way?

Looks like a nice size electrical duct bank, not formed just a trench pour ?

Is that actually steam and a valve vault or something, looks to big for a thrust block for that size ductile iron water main. I did miles of that stuff in the early 90's when I worked for a site work company "Tobar" over on John St. in Morristown, our topsoil stockpile and part of our yard was where Morris Cty Jail is now, next to 287. I lived over in Fords/Woodbridge/Hopelawn for several years, prior to leaving the construction industry around '04.

In '93-'94 I worked in what I think was North Brunswick for Caruso Excavating out of Ocean twp running a D8K pushing scrapers on a big residential subdivision job, that red clay soil was awful, looks like what you are in there, even stains your darned clothes.

Speaking of electrical conduit duct banks, I'll bet you remember when they were driving piles for the monorail at Newark International Airport, he drove one right through the main duct bank powering the airport, shut the place down, he survived too, cannot even imagine, I remember the rig was red, forget the outfit now though, what a mess.

Jay; Crete came from Cransville Oneonta plant. I have maintained an account with them for many years. Correction to previous post. ment to say extra for hot water/winter mix with calcium added on site.

I remember the outfit now, Linde-Griffith, must have been one heck of a claim on that one.

Just wanted to say I always enjoy your work pictures Larry.

Nice work on wall, hear too many contractors say "cant be repaired", nice toothting on bricks. Have a good friend who is excellent mason, 52 years old, switched jobs to powerline surveyor after 30 years in masonry. He said back was bothering him too much. Pass your skills on Mark

Nice pics Larry. You do good work. Gerard

the toothing is the hardest part. I did it with a 14 in gas powered cut off saw with a diamond blade, it is heavy to hold sideways and acurate but it makes the toothings come out good and clean so you can put the new brick back in properly. Thanks for noticing that I apppreciate the nice comment, ... Larry

thanks , I might not be sending too many more , it is getting pretty cold here now for masonry.., although my boss did say the college has scheduled a sidewalk repair during Christmas break, it has pipes under it that need to be repaired and they want it all done when the school is closed, I will send pictures if they decide to do it, I sometimes can only get a few shots because I am busy working and I dont have much chance to take pictures during work, not like when I am playing on my tractor and I can get off the tractor and take as many pictures as I feel like lol Thank you for the nice comment, once again Imust say what a great site this is , and Ian very glad to be involved in it.

Most times we form the trench with some plywwod strips ,a few stake and some rocks or dirt behind it , this trench was only 20 ft long, and the electricians just got done doing it, they realized we had some extra concrete, so it was a last minute thing so it went in without any forms ,wich is exceptable if the trench is not too wide , if it is a real long trench and wide we always throw in forms

I have seen Caruso around the area, there is also another big company in the area called K+A When did you move from the area? Are you living in the contry now? Sounds good to me , Iwould like to here more details .... Larry

that is a thrust block, those pipes need to be replaced, so they made a plan to remove those pipes and they want us to elarge the vault that is behind that thrust block, so they will be removing that thrust block, they wanted that floor/footing in there with a sump pit first then they have a lot of work to do, That is done by the utilitys dept in Rutgers, they tell my boss what they want when we work for them, It gives us a lot of work, because a lot of the utilitys are under sidewalks , A lot of the steamlines that heat the buildings are old and are being replaced..... Your pictures of the neighbor with the snow were really beutiful, that is some really pretty area,,,, Larry
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That wall looks good Larry. My first time through the community college I took the masonry program. I just do small jobs on the side now but I do love seeing good brick work.

Hi Larry, I left the NYC/NJ area in '04 well still had my house in '05, so I could kinda enjoy our place here not far from Albany, N.Y. I built my career in construction starting in NJ working as a heavy equipment operator, Caruso was a great outfit, though I had aspired to get into Operating Engineers local #825, even after proving myself at their school of the NJTPKE, could not get a business agent to give me any slack, so I pursued managment and left the industry as a senior level project manager working on high rise buildings, mostly in Manhattan and the other boroughs. I did enjoy running the equipment in those days, worked all over NJ from north jersey to south jersey, so many site jobs, soils, weather. Caruso had 80 pieces of equipment at that time, the very first one I was assigned was Chip Carusos first machine a 955L with a weather cab and no ROPS, clearing easements and right of ways for pipe crews, they were testing me out, never bother me a bit, never mattered how old the machine, all pays the same !

Where you work and where you are in PA I am familiar with so its great to see the photos. I used to deal with a company Eastern Exterior Wall Systems - Schoenersville Rd in Lehigh (sp?) parent company was Dugan and Marcon. Very nice area over there as I have been there many times, as well as ATI, the big architectural testing lab in York PA. Hopefully you get this response being back a few pages already. email is open I think