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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Construction Workers

So our neighbors are construction workers building an add on to the hospital beside us.
This below is outside our window you can see the screen and bars on our window. sorry. And anyway you can see that they have like little push together boxes with a door and window that is where they stay while they work. And then all the re bar on the ground is what they make it from and the sand on the side. From now on out the man who works the re bar machine will fondly be referred to as re bar man as we call him here. And if you can see it the orange sand on the left side and then the bowl thingy above it and you can see the black circle inside that is what they hand put buckets of sand into and buckets of water and then watch it turn and then pull it out into a wheel barrel...

Then with this crane pulley system they pick it up and give it to a guy on top of the roof. where he hand puts it on the bricks and puts spacers then does the next one. I wish you could see it honestly it's such a cool thing how intricate it all is.

This is re bar man they take these long re bar pieces on the left then cut them on the bottom right there and bend them so they look like huge staples and then add to the pile in the middle. Later a guy will come hand pick them up into a wheel barrel and pulley them up to the roof.

3 comments:

Marel & Tom Stock! said...

I'm so excited that you guys have a blog and found us! I'm so jealous of your adventures. It sounds like you're enjoying yourselves (or maybe you just make it sound that way). I would LOVE to live somewhere cool like that. Enjoy!

Kendra said...

YAY!!!!!!!!!! Thanks so much for the email! I thought you might have seen ours on the Stocks so I looked and then I found your blog!YAY! You started one!. I just sent a blog invite so if you don't get it soon, please let me know. We miss you guys too soooo much! I'll have to read and comment more later, but I'm so excited! :) We just got Wii Fit! Check it out on our blog, we love it!!!

angie and bj said...

Ashley! For some reason I had the url to your blog wrong so I am SO GLAD you left a comment on mine so now I can keep up with your adventure. You are a good wife to go to jordan for your honey... I read your first post that said not for mom's to read... ha ha! I'm glad you gave them a warning. I love you girl and am glad all is going well.