What Comes Down Must Go Up…………WAY up!
(Part 2 – APRIL 2025)
Since I’m still way behind and it’s the middle of May, I’m going to go by month, so this will be the best of April.
April 3 – You’d better be a pretty good driver to maneuver something like this vehicle in a lot like this:
April 4 – I won’t tell you what I first thought when I saw this:
April 14 – Two views of a heavy-duty crane:
See what it’s carrying? It looks like a concrete room:
April 15 – At the crew’s Tax Day party, the DJ holds up his favorite record:
This looks like the guy we saw on April 4 with the pipes………
“Gotta keep those local photographers from seein’ what we’re doin’ in here.”
A pretty tree sprouts from an excavator:
April 17 – Two views of the man on the corner of Main and Passaic streets:
Yet a third view of the same man, PLUS…….two cement mixers, a cement pumper AND my apartment (on top, way in the back):
A very similar view to the shot I ended my previous post with, but this one is closer and excludes the cement pumper:
April 19 – A grave for the world’s tallest person? Actually, I have to pair this shot with one I took 6 days earlier (top image):
Some rebar:
(In case you get thirsty lugging all that iron around…….)
April 22 – Another truck I can’t imagine having to back into this lot with such precision:
A little more rebar:
April 23 – Here’s a white cement pumper that appears to be taller than the buildings on the horizon, which are (upper left): St. Joseph’s Church on Palisade Avenue in Bogota…….and behind that are hi-rises that sit on the Palisades in Fort Lee and Cliffside Park overlooking the Hudson River (there’s an entire valley between the church and those hi-rises):
April 24 – The Rebar Family poses for the tripoded camera:
Someone’s trying to move in already? (BTW – the moving company is called “Piece of Cake”):
The reason I took this picture of the orange crane that’s attached to nothing is because of the blue crane, which belongs to an entirely different project: that black-and-white building that’s on Passaic St between Main St and River St:
It advertises itself as a luxury building……………how many of those have you ever seen located right next to a McDonald’s?
Meanwhile, back at our project, up pops a stairway to……..Komat’su?
April 25 – Doesn’t this cement pumper seem to be taking two wildly different routes to get to the same place?
Meanwhile, the mighty cement mixer’s connection to the huge cement pumper doesn’t seem to be “chute”-ing very much (third pic…………little blue pill time?).
Looks like they got things going…………
The …um, “receptacle” gets a needed shower…………..and look at all that “spillage” on the ground!
April 26 – Headless/handless worker still gets the job done:
I thought this was just an odd-lookiing gas pipe, but it was a concrete pipe used for storm water that has since been removed and replaced with a plastic pipe (good thing I asked). Thanks, Chris.
The right-to-left movement of this dark form was way too slow for video, so I hope these 3 stills suffice (click to enlarge):
I think this was the same piece’s final destination:
or maybe it was here (they all look the same to me):
I happened to be on the site recently when it was pointed out to me that this was a container of fuel for all the site vehicles, so they wouldn’t have to drive an excavator around town to look for a gas station:
I really liked the light and shadows on this one (though the sky’s color is a little weird):
April 28 – Peekaboo!
That looks comfy……..
April 30 – This shot of the rebar section was taken from the State St perimeter:
And this one was taken from a few feet north of that location:
This was taken from the northernmost corner of the site, right next to the businesses on Main St (you can see the wall of one of them on the right):
APRIL’S GRAND FINALE
Top half: Orange Jacket and Green Vest are having an animated discussion about who’s king of this hill:
Bottom half: Green Vest retreats to his excavator while Orange Jacket struts around his kingdom, not noticing that Green Vest is about to grab a chunk of mountaintop that’ll send Orange Jacket to Kingdom Come:
(Hey – When you really have no idea what’s going on, you have to make up stories to fit the pictures – and to keep yourself amused.)
Next up: May in June
I have a feeling that there may be less to see in upcoming months as verticality increases, but stay tuned…………you never know.
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