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Aclone

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I’m curious what they’re doing here. I noticed men working on the other side of the wall right about there yesterday, and the concrete looked wet.

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I’m curious what they’re doing here. I noticed men working on the other side of the wall right about there yesterday, and the concrete looked wet.

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I believe that is from the sprinklers on the field. I noticed the same thing yesterday and during one of the camera pans you could see the sprinklers working on the field.
Edit: Actually, I saw it in your screen shot from yesterday, you can see the sprinklers on the field:
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They're also putting forms up on the south side of the west tunnel entrance. Must be at a point of not needing any bigger equipment to go through there. I imagine with it being that small section that it might get poured today.
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Looks like they're pouring it now. I was confused when I saw a concrete truck but no pump. Then, I thought they were still lifting more forms with the crane. Nope. I rewound a little bit and realized it's a crane hoisted concrete hopper that they're lifting to pour the wall since it's such a small section.
 
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This is fascinating watching workers on the hillside from this far away. Does it appear to anyone else that some of them have been running down the hill and then down the stairs to the field level?
 
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Now I'm really confused.... there are multiple workers running down the hill and off screen and they come running back a minute later. Actually, looking closer they might be pulling some sort of long cable or something. Not sure why'd they need to run though. Must need the momentum to keep it moving. Maybe that's how they pull and lay out the control cable. Or, it could be tubing for that matter. I keep having readjust my perspective on how big/small things are and that the resolution this far up isn't great.
 

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Now I'm really confused.... there are multiple workers running down the hill and off screen and they come running back a minute later. Actually, looking closer they might be pulling some sort of long cable or something. Not sure why'd they need to run though. Must need the momentum to keep it moving. Maybe that's how they pull and lay out the control cable. Or, it could be tubing for that matter. I keep having readjust my perspective on how big/small things are and that the resolution this far up isn't great.

It must have been wire they were pulling up off some reels below. I can see they're rolling out some blue tubing now as well as starting to dig where the heads will be.
 

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It must have been wire they were pulling up off some reels below. I can see they're rolling out some blue tubing now as well as starting to dig where the heads will be.
They are laying the water lines for the sprinklers. The red tractor is the trencher:
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They should be laying that nice lush sod very soon! :cool:
 
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Now I'm really confused.... there are multiple workers running down the hill and off screen and they come running back a minute later. Actually, looking closer they might be pulling some sort of long cable or something. Not sure why'd they need to run though. Must need the momentum to keep it moving. Maybe that's how they pull and lay out the control cable. Or, it could be tubing for that matter. I keep having readjust my perspective on how big/small things are and that the resolution this far up isn't great.
When I lay cable, I normally sitting on the throne.
 
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Looks like they're done forming up the last bit of wall on top of the west tunnel entrance. They were using a crane to lift the forms this morning and it's moved now. I Imagine they'll pour that shortly.

I would also guess they won't lay the sod today. Maybe tomorrow? They probably would have started first thing this morning if they were going to do it today.
 

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Looks like they're done forming up the last bit of wall on top of the west tunnel entrance. They were using a crane to lift the forms this morning and it's moved now. I Imagine they'll pour that shortly.

I would also guess they won't lay the sod today. Maybe tomorrow? They probably would have started first thing this morning if they were going to do it today.
Some days it seems like everything will be done in a couple of days with all the activity around the project site and then other days like today it seems like there's little to nothing going on. Clearly there are steps to things like this but I can only imagine what types of emails/calls/questions this creates for people in charge of similar projects when others are just looking thru a construction camera...
 
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