Some photos to go with Working

 This is a photo from the Clarion Hotel job in Millbrae. It shows the yellow counterweights for the tower crane behind it. The 'railroad tracks' are for the crane to move on, This was a very special crane; it was designed to move to a spot where it folds itself down to a near horizontal position. This was needed because of FAA rules concerning height when close to an operating runway. When the wind blew from the south or north, the runway close to the project would become operational and the crane had to come down. The prevailing wind was from the east...I could be wrong, but the premise was still the same. The crane had to come down in a hurry.
Also in the photo are the steel studs that make up the walls between units. Also shown are some of the premade exterior panels. Our panel shop in Reno would make them from structural (16 ga)
steel studs, cover them with gypsum sheathing and polystyrene foam, then glass netting and synthetic plaster compound. Then they were trucked to the jobsite where we would use the crane to hoist them into place and we would then weld them to the building; creating the exterior wall seen in the second photo. In this photo you can see the crane tracks more clearly.
I'm sorry about the poor quality of the photos. I was working with a cheap camera and just making progress photos for the record.


One additional shot showing the panel construction.

For future posts, I think I have marginally better quality photos to show you.

Ooops! I have missed quite a few opportunities to post things here. Close to 2 years have gone by. Well, I was pretty sure that no one was reading it so it wasn't much of a guilt trip when I realized how long it had been. As you can see, it's 2019 and that idiot is still the President.

This is supposed to be about my working career and I was scanning some old photos and they were of some part of the MGM Grand Hotel, the Sierra Power office Building and the Clarion Hotel in Millbrae. I also realized that I missed far too many opportunities to photograph some of the work we had done. I will try and put the photos I scanned into this blog along with an explanation.