Above 1200 Sq/FT The Salvage Garage

[mybigwarwagon]

I think that a half pound of C4 would have been the best option.

 

[Strouty]

C4 would have been nice. I was trying to get the rebar out of the concrete, I am using the concrete for fill up at the Hill (that rhymed).

I got almost all of it broken up, the rebar has some concrete attached still, so I will have to cut it out in order to scrap the rebar. As for the demo saw, I used to have one, but I haven't had a need in years, I do have a 9" cordless one, but it is cute and not very powerful......

I am looking at the newer Milwaukee cordless cut off saw, they have a 14" one that seems to do really well. The one that I wanted to look at, the seller told me someone else was coming to look at it and I couldn't come get it. Then an hour and a half later he says the guy flaked and I can come and get it, I told him I had already started my day and couldn't escape at that point. Too bad, it looks like a decent deal, but I do not think I am going to need it at this point anyways. On Monday, we will load up all the concrete and rebar, then it will get dumped at the Hill so I can pick the rebar out and use my torch to cut things free.

Tonight I spent a couple hours with my Dad and one of his carpenter buddies trying to iron out how we are rebuilding the office above the shop at the Hill, at least we now have a halfway decent plan. It is really cold and really windy right now, been cold all day, but this is pretty brutal. I am glad I am headed home.

 

[Strouty]

Updated pictures.

 

[rvieceli]

Wow Strouty you got a lot done. Looks good. What's with the "cage" around the other building? Protect it from falling debris or something?

Ron

 

[Strouty]

Yes, falling ice would destroy that particular building, it is a light duty fiberglass structure.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

You know you are cool when your building has a roll cage.

 

[Johanfpa]

Strouty, good work on that demolition, looks like they build that building like a bunker, when was it constructed? I would have thought it was prefab construction but then it would have been easier to remove it or do I have that wrong?

 

[Strouty]

That building is about 30 years old, it was assembled on site in multiple prefabricated sections. Most of them come totally together with all the wiring done, they usually weigh around 20 tons depending on how big they are.

 

[xtremek]

A concrete bunker able to withstand hurricanes and bomb blasts, and a floppy fiberglass shed. There's some irony in there somewhere.

 

[Strouty]

That is why the metal framework is over it, there was heavy duty grating on top of that to protect it from anything falling off the tower, we removed that a while ago.

Today is going to be effed up good, it is super cold and super windy. I am going to break up the rest of the building, but no way am I going to be in the bucket today. I will have to try and get the framework apart on Monday. I guess it will be a short day, not a bad thing on a really cold day after a really long week. So much for having the bucket truck back to the Hill.

 

[Strouty]

Well the weather forecast was a bit off, it isn’t as cold as yesterday and since the sun is out, it is actually not that bad.

Building is all broken up, need to try and get the rebar out of the pile. Still need to break up another slab, then I am going to try and figure out how the building I am keeping is held dow to the slab, according to the manual, it is supposed to be welded to metal tabs imbedded in the concrete, but I can’t find anything like that. I may try and yank it or push it to see if it is just sitting there.

 

[xtremek]

I take it no heat in the bucket truck?

 

[steaks&anvils]

Great progress!

Cold = no mud. That ground looks very frozen.

Cold wind = *****.

 

[Strouty]

Yup, no heat in the bucket.

Ground is pretty frozen, but it just started, so frost is only maybe 8” down.

Got most things done for tomorrow, had to go to the SG to pick up a couple tools, pulling the cables out of the conduits was a no go with what I had.







The people that designed the framework had clearly never built anything before, you can’t dismantle things easily, must have been a PITA to assemble as well. I think if I pull off one end, I may be able to pick the other part without taking it all apart, we will see tomorrow.

 

[rvieceli]

Strouty can you just release the bottom of the framework and lift it intact onto a trailer? Looks like it might make a nice mezzanine or something in one of your shops. Is it sturdy enough?

Ron

 

[walrus]

Bucket heat really only works with tent set up over lines and down over bucket

 

[Strouty]

Ron, the top is all screwy, they made it bolt to the vertical box tube, so you have to pull it all apart. I have a slab next to the house at the Hill and this will be going on that slab, then I will make up a roof and have myself a nice little covered structure.

 

[Strouty]

I hate it when I can’t find something, I know I have an I-beam clamp, but I can’t find it. Wondering if I loaned it out, would be really helpful with that frame work.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

I hate it when I can’t find something, I know I have an I-beam clamp, but I can’t find it. Wondering if I loaned it out, would be really helpful with that frame work.

I have one. Wanna borrow it?

 

[Strouty]

Probably won’t help for tomorrow.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

If you leave now you can make it back for work.

 

[Strouty]

If I come down, it will be to get a suburban.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

If I come down, it will be to get a suburban.

You can have Moby. Or what is left of him.

 

[Strouty]

The last building is heavier than anticipated or it is attached to the slab another way. I may have to destroy it to get it gone or spend a bunch of money to get it moved.

I pulled out the underground power cables, wasn’t too bad to do.

 

[slik560]

You've probably already thought of this, but communication towers have huge grounding "rings" - heavy copper cable buried underground that circle the base of the tower and connected to the legs or base of said tower.

With my old company we'd have people actually dig up the copper ground rings - back when copper was crazy expensive. We also had two idiots go after the bus bars in the power cabinet of an active cell site. We gave them each a posthumous Darwin Award nomination. It was....gruesome.

 

[ttpete]

You've probably already thought of this, but communication towers have huge grounding "rings" - heavy copper cable buried underground that circle the base of the tower and connected to the legs or base of said tower.

With my old company we'd have people actually dig up the copper ground rings - back when copper was crazy expensive. We also had two idiots go after the bus bars in the power cabinet of an active cell site. We gave them each a posthumous Darwin Award nomination. It was....gruesome.

"Crispy Critters"?

 

[Strouty]

There were some guys that were stealing copper from the local power company sub stations, people are really dumb.

This has a few buried wires, but not really worth the effort. Now AM radio towers, those have serious ground rings, miles of buried cables.

I have started deconstructing the frame work, going to have fellow GJ guru Jackstand help me tomorrow. Today is getting too cold to want to work in the bucket all by my lonesome.

 

[slik560]

There were a few guys that would steal manhole covers; clearly stamped as "KCMO" [Kansas City MO public works]. Yet, there are a couple of scrap metal yards in the area that would take them. I decline to name them for obvious reasons.

 

[Strouty]

With a little help, got the framework down, then we brought Buck back to the Hill. Later, I loaded up some of the renaming junk and am now headed out. Place looks better than these pictures show, I took them before it got too dark.









I need a larger trailer to get the remaining steel taken away. I am not sure what will happen with the tower legs yet.

 

[xtremek]

Looks like you were very busy. Almost done? Wait, don't answer that. Don't want to jinx it.

 

[Richard Cranium]

site looks great now

 

[Strouty]

Will need to do final cleanup later this year, will be planting some grass in the area where the tower was.

I did get a bit ambitious.....





Made it back just in time, snowing pretty good now.

 

[slik560]

I wonder how deep those pilings for the tower leg foundations go? We used to have to find bedrock, which in our part of the midwest was about 25'. Most of our land leases provided that if we left the site, the foundations would be removed "to plow depth"; more of an agricultural benchmark.

 

[Strouty]

They aren’t that far down, the rock bolts were capped right at the ground level. I was 12 when we built it, so I don’t remember exactly.

 

[xtremek]

Looks like you got the max use out of yesterday.

 

[Strouty]

I agree, today is going to be my “Sunday”, I am doing laundry and catching up on things that I didn’t have time to do this weekend because I was working on the tower project.

 

[xtremek]

Did you get much snow? We got about 4"-6" ish. My tractor is stuck on the other side of the state, so I borrowed the neighbor's. My 194x Ford 8n, versus in Kubota with an insulated cab, wipers, front bucket mounted blade, heat, AM/FM/Blutooth. I really had to suffer through it.

 

[Strouty]

We got enough so that things are covered, but not really enough to worry about plowing. Sorry you had to endure all that.......

 

[mybigwarwagon]

Did you get much snow? We got about 4"-6" ish. My tractor is stuck on the other side of the state, so I borrowed the neighbor's. My 194x Ford 8n, versus in Kubota with an insulated cab, wipers, front bucket mounted blade, heat, AM/FM/Blutooth. I really had to suffer through it.

Such trials and tribulations I don't know how you survived.

 

[kaymccampbell]

Strouty, did you figure out the little shed?