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| Bonython Tower site swarming with workers, December 2017 |
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| Swarming with workers as busy as bees, December 2017 |
Yesterday morning, the Singo site was crawling with workers. It often is, with tradies and contractors coming and going in waves sccording to what stage the construction is at on any given week or day.
There are a lot of photos today and too many good ones to cut the number down so today will be more pictures than words.
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| Crane operator placing drop zone markers, December 2017 |
The crane operator does not spend his whole day away up there in the sky. He gets plenty of exercise climbing down that long ladder to load delivered materials onto the hook part of his crane and then, as you can see below, using his box controller, worn on his body on a harness, to guide the materials safely across the site and into a handy spot for the construction workers to take them off the stack as they need them.
In this photo, the crane operator is placing markers for a drop zone onto which to place his next load of materials.
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| Crane operator controlling and lifting stack of materials, December 2017 |
The crane operator lifting the materials off the back of a delivery truck. You can just see the box controller under his right hand.
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| That same stack of materials travelling slowly and safely across the site, December 2017 |
The materials in motion across the site, guided by the crane operator using the box controller down on the site.
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| Guiding the stack of materials down onto the drop zone he made earlier, December 2017 |
As well as securing the materials onto the hook from the back of the delivery truck and sending them across the site, he has to climb up onto the site itself and guide them down to the drop zone he's made for them.
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| Yellow lifting cages stacked neatly out of the workers' way, December 2017 |
And he has to keep moving his big yellow baskets and other bits of lifting gear to new spots around the site, as the tide of work washes back and forth across the site.
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| Good old-fashioned muscle is still needed for some lifts, December 2017 |
Not everything is lifted by crane of course. Here good old-fashioned hand hoisting is on display in the loading bay.
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| There's always work for good old-fashioned hammers too, December 2017 |
And there's always work on every site for tools that need no re-charging or plugging in.
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| Stairwell on the north-eastern corner of the site, December 2017 |
These stairs at the north-eastern corner of the site keeping pace with the floors as they go up.
Extra
This photo and the ones below were too good to leave out so here they are.
Incidentally, tradies, contractors, site managers and other workers on the sites on my blog, if you want a copy of a photo with you in it, email me and I'll send you a digital copy to print at home or at a photo shop.
Come back next week for more on the big building sites around Gosford and watch your apartment being built or grow green with envy as someone else's does.
