Lou Hemphill Pavilion - Construction - Day Two

Photos and commentary by Andy Steere.

This is day two of construction. It is October 7th, 2001 and the weather is sunny and pleasant, but a bit windy. A smaller than expected work-crew kept progress a bit behind where we had hoped it would be.

STATIC IMAGES

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By the time I arrived, the auger was rented and the three remaining corner posts had been set.
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The most difficult posts were the two 16' long post on the gable ends. These weighed at least a couple hundred pounds apiece and had to be set down 3-feet into the ground.
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We missed-drilled one of the holes slightly and had to dig out a bit around it. See the video clip below where our Foreman (Robert Perkins) and the Pavilion Committee Chairman (Jeff Buchner) "argued" about it. I stopped the movie just before the words started to become fowl. (smile) While good friends, they like to give each other a hard time.
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This is the auger used to drill the 12"-wide 36"-deep holes for the 6x6" posts. The rental place called this a "one-man" auger. Sure, if that man is a 400lb linebacker! As it stood, it worked very well with three people manhandling it around. One person could have done it if the soil had been very soft... but once we got down to about a foot... very hard clay took over. The "two-man" auger we had originally talked about renting would have probably beat us to death!
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We had to move the Kiosk, which holds the frequency-control-board, first-aid kit, and a bulletin-board. This is a shot from the flightline looking back toward the Pavilion.
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All ten posts are set in concrete, and most of the boards for the concrete are in place (but not yet braced).
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End of day two.

MOVIE CLIPS

(Choose a format to view by clicking on one of the two links provided. The native format for the video camera (Olympus C-700UZ) is Apple Quicktime MOV. This version will produce the best picture and sound possible, but the file sizes are large. The Microsoft AVI files were converted using Lead Multimedia Converter and while much smaller... their image quality suffers (a lot on some movies, very little on others). If you have trouble viewing these by directly clicking on the link, try right-clicking on the link, choose save to disk, and play the video ouside the browser. The MOV files require Apple Quicktime player or plugin, and the AVI files require Microsoft Windows Media Player or similar. The AVI files are converted using an Indeo video codec, if you have trouble viewing the video.)

As mentioned above... the beginning of a "conversation" about the position of one of the posts. It got ugly after the end of this clip. (grin)
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