Maker Unknown: October 2020

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Saturday, October 3, 2020

Wrapping it up.

Let's start with the excitement of the week.

SFFD rolls up to the jobsite. That's their very very shiny bell on the front of the engine.

"Man trapped in the elevator!"

One minute later they're back in the truck. Couldn't find nobody stuck on no elevator.

Oh..ok another bit of excitement.

An electrician was standing up his 12' step ladder. I'm watching and see the impending doom. The Big Ass Fan (that's a brand name) was spinning, the ladder and it were coming close. I shout but too late, fan catches the ladder and throws it down here, right after these people had left.

Mike, the foreman asks if anybody got hurt. Nobody did so he says, "This never happened". This is a Union site you know and that wouldn't look good.

And speaking of both of those topics.

Union carpenters hold a meeting. One man reads from an iPad about the latest virus regulations, various safety updates and a general pep talk. Then the iPad gets passed around and each sign that they were present and heard.

At the end of each day, Mike, the foreman of the electricians makes them all line up and hand him a piece of paper that states what they accomplished that day. That's Mike in the yellow shirt.

And if you look closely, construction workers still gawk at passing females.

Let's get back to work.

Ken drilling holes in concrete.

And if he looked up he would've seen the pyramid of light.

John, who in this photo is driving the forklift but is actually a carpenter, picks up my camera and says "You been taking our pictures all week".

Me and Ken.

And see that frame on the wall behind my head. That comes into play eventually. Somebody didn't catch that what we're building is not to be built in front of the fire control access panel. Somebody caught it after we built it though.

Anyway, there's a ten minute break in the action and I stroll around the site.