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The Gang at the Fort
19. October 2009 by beckster.
The past few days were absolutely wonderful!
Almost perfect weather ( a little dewy) and great friends at Fort McKavett.
Was great to see everyone and visit….see ya’ll next Spring!
BTW- I saw some nice Orionid meteors while there.
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Gotta love Cart away concrete!!!
29. August 2009 by beckster.
I don’t think we could have mixed 45 of the big 80 pound bags of quikrete to pour in the hole for the pier mount…
so we went with the haul away concrete and it worked really well.
Our friend and fellow astro buddy Gordon helped us, which made the job a lot easier even though we were running around like three year olds on too much sugar for a while.
The concrete had the consistency of pancake
batter (with rocks) or a “slump” of about 5. It was veeeery nice!
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After the Pour
28. August 2009 by beckster.
After a hurry, hurry, hurry, and then waiting for the concrete to dry…this is what we wanted this part of the observatory that holds the pier to look like.
There’s a little over a yard of concrete in the sonotube with some wire some re-bar and a few drops of sweat.
The next step is to build forms for the surrounding slab that will support the observatory walls. More to come………………….
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Today we pour!
28. August 2009 by beckster.
In about four hours we will be busy bees pouring concrete in a big hole for the pier for our observatory.
I’m hoping the day remains sunny… ….now off to stock up on beverages!
Wish us luck!
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Dig it, uh oh dig it!
22. August 2009 by beckster.
Shane of the desert digs….
He’s got about another foot to dig and we are ready to put the sono-tube in the hole for the concrete pour.
Good diggin weather. 79 degrees with humidity hanging around 30%
The pour is scheduled for next Friday….anyone want to come help?
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