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| De-pitting the hail-pitted pour at Wilhelmina Street, December 2017 |
There was some hail last week,
not huge hail but about the size of small grapes so it was big enough. I was
inside a shopping centre when it fell so I didn’t notice it.
Then I went to the ‘Harbour
View’ site at Wilhelmina Street. They’d certainly noticed the hail. They’d been
finishing up for the day when it hit and it pitted the surface of the freshly
poured concrete so they had to stay an extra hour and smooth the concrete out
again.
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| De-pitting machine up close, December 2017 |
The de-pitting machine up close. I'm told the operator walks behind it, swinging it from side to side as he or she goes.
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| More hail on the way, December 2017 |
I took some photos of their
work re-smoothing the surface of the concrete, took a photo of how black the
sky still was and left for home, just as it started to sprinkle again. I was
just a few minutes from the newly re-smoothed concrete pour when the hail came
again. It came down fast and hard and I thought ‘I hope it doesn’t mark my
car’. Then I realised it would hit that re-smoothed concrete again and those
poor workers back there would be re-re-smoothing concrete for another hour or
two.
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Be nice.