Lou Hemphill Pavilion - Construction - Day Four - Ready for Concrete

Photos and commentary by Andy Steere.

This is day four of construction... sort of. It is October 14th, 2001 and the weather is windy, but partly-cloudy and a pleasant 65F. This is one day after our annual "Chili Fun Fly" was basically rained out. This was scheduled to be a heavy work day to get everything ready to pour the concrete floor. However, several members did bits and pieces before this date and very little was left to do. With the rebar securely wired, about all that was left was to raise the rebar above the floor. Two thirds of the concrete was supposed to be above the rebar, and one third below it. See the movie clip below where our member Jerry, with obviously lots of experience with rebar, uses bricks to raise it above the gravel. Since the floor will only be four inches thick, the two inch tall brick was set down about an inch into the gravel and the rebar set on top of it.

STATIC IMAGES

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This is a close-up of the concrete reinforcing steel (called "rebar") sitting on the bricks.
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This is a wide-angle shot of the whole structure, all ready for concrete. Next weekend hopefully will bring decent weather and a large work crew to begin building the roof.
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End of day four.

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.)

Club member, and master wire and concrete guy, Jerry Windsor works while our committee chairman Jeff Buchner (aka "BoardHead") assists. The voice in the background is Mike Lyon, vice-president and field-marshal... who, along with president Andy Anderson, foreman Robert Perkins, and myself, watch from the sidelines. Always plenty of people willing to give advice from the sideline.
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