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Reply #120 on: January 16, 2017, 07:46:54 AM
when they said "poncho is thick as a brick" I thought they meant something else! :facepalm: :pok:

Beautiful work buddy :cheers: thx for sharing this, now about my future brick/pizza oven! :P :D

Thanks WD  :tu: I have never built a pizza oven but I have studied how to build them and could practice by building myself one then who knows ;) :D

I have a PDF on how to build one but it's too big to attach.


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Reply #121 on: January 16, 2017, 06:39:28 PM
Wow, that's a whole lot of Lego!   :ahhh

Great work!

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When you get a few bricklayers together then the lego's go a whole lot faster :D :like:

I can just see you leaning over the side of the building yelling "I need a Two Piece in red, and a yellow Eight Piece!"

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Reply #122 on: January 16, 2017, 10:45:09 PM
In this one I am the one in green pointing :D

St. Cecilia 002 by Poncho 65, on Flickr

Is that a bricklayer's pun?

I have never seen new brickwork on such a scale as on some of your other pics. Here brick is usually a veneer tied to timber framing with a 40-50mm cavity between. Too earthquakey otherwise.

I guess it was a pun :think: :D We don't get many earthquakes here, I do know there is a major fault line over 100 miles either side of where I work but no major quakes in my lifetime :tu: We stay pretty busy with buildings like this :cheers: Most of them are concrete structures with metal stud framing in between the floors with fiberglass sheathing or they are concrete structures with block walls backing the brick with insulation and either waterproofing for the block or an air/vapor barrier for the metal stud framing :tu:


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Reply #123 on: January 16, 2017, 10:46:53 PM
Wow, that's a whole lot of Lego!   :ahhh

Great work!

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When you get a few bricklayers together then the lego's go a whole lot faster :D :like:

I can just see you leaning over the side of the building yelling "I need a Two Piece in red, and a yellow Eight Piece!"

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 :rofl:

The shims we use for setting stone come in black, red and blue so I could have yelled out something very similar to that :D


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Reply #124 on: January 16, 2017, 10:47:38 PM
when they said "poncho is thick as a brick" I thought they meant something else! :facepalm: :pok:

Beautiful work buddy :cheers: thx for sharing this, now about my future brick/pizza oven! :P :D

Thanks WD  :tu: I have never built a pizza oven but I have studied how to build them and could practice by building myself one then who knows ;) :D

I have a PDF on how to build one but it's too big to attach.

You have a link :dd: :like:


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Reply #125 on: January 16, 2017, 11:36:23 PM
Not a free one.
I can email the PDF though...


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Reply #126 on: January 16, 2017, 11:47:14 PM
Not a free one.
I can email the PDF though...

Cool beans  :like:

My username  at yahoo.com is my email :tu: I appreciate it buddy :like:


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Reply #127 on: January 17, 2017, 12:07:27 AM
If someone wants to email me the file at Grant.Lamontagne@Gmail.Com I'll put it in my Dropbox and share the link for everyone.

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Reply #128 on: January 17, 2017, 12:27:01 AM
Emails sent BUT it is copied from a magazine so I don't want myself or anyone else to get in trouble for distributing it publically....


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Reply #129 on: January 17, 2017, 12:49:42 AM
Emails sent BUT it is copied from a magazine so I don't want myself or anyone else to get in trouble for distributing it publically....

Thank you very much  :tu: :like: :like:


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Reply #130 on: January 17, 2017, 01:31:44 AM
This is the resin mixing room at my company, where we produce commercial and industrial epoxies and coatings. The large plastic tub in the left foreground is on a production table, and holds about 1,000lb of epoxy catalyst. In the left background is a tank on a mixing machine. To give you an idea of how large that tank is, that particular mixer is 12' high......



I don't mean to tell you how to do your job, but shouldn't there be people in there somewhere, doing some work or something?   :pok:

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It was 6:45am. We don't actually start until 7..... ;)
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Reply #131 on: January 18, 2017, 06:15:08 AM
You're getting slack on your own thread Poncho!  :twak:

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Reply #132 on: January 18, 2017, 11:40:13 AM
thanks for pointing that out...  :think: :facepalm:
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Reply #133 on: January 19, 2017, 04:21:20 AM
thanks for pointing that out...  :think: :facepalm:

 :rofl:

Oh and I read the PDF you sent Syncop8r was very informative and interesting :tu: :like: :like:


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Reply #134 on: April 21, 2017, 05:44:29 PM
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Reply #135 on: April 21, 2017, 06:15:12 PM
wow. :o  OK, so I can see how it happens, but getting it just right must have taken some time. :salute:
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Reply #136 on: April 21, 2017, 07:00:49 PM
 :ahhh That was cool looking 8) :like: :like:


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Reply #137 on: April 25, 2017, 05:20:50 PM


Obviously a little less flexible artistically, but takes the boring out of big jobs...
The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.


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Reply #138 on: April 27, 2017, 02:43:26 PM
That's a nice take on the robot arm. The issue with that is as height increases the workspace(free area) of the manipulator gets smaller. It needs to avoid the bricks already put to the ground or else jenga! Also for bigger areas the vehicle needs to move around the perimeter. The manipulator then needs to recalibrate its coordinates, not that hard since the math is easy the problem lies with how will they calibrate? Will they use a drone to take a picture from above, which needs to be processed to filter out noise, shadows, etc. or make stations to put around the work area and use gps + other forms of localization to map  the location of the manipulator.

Another approach to this is using a cartesian robot, it's like a printer with another coordinate. Like the one you see in 3d printers nowaday. It should solve the problem of recalibration when the manipulator moves but the downside is the setup time will be longer and it's gonna be a problem if there are nearby houses.

Also, the power consumption is gonna be heavy. Like it will hurt your wallet.
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Reply #139 on: February 20, 2018, 10:26:37 PM

It seems like an awful lot of bricks to get such big uninterrupted expanses of baked clay.  How long does it take to do one of these buildings?
Guess it depends some on the size of your crew...

Anyway, some pretty impressive work.    :tu:

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I have worked on most of these projects for anywhere from 1 year to 2 for 1 project (except for the first project which was only over a week long ;) ) but at Belmont University we spent over 4 years building a few different buildings :cheers: Our company gets many jobs like this and we run anywhere from around a 15 person (small crew) to well over 70 on some of these :o around 25 or so bricklayers and 45 labors :tu: The next project we are working on will be at Vanderbilt University and is a 20 million dollar masonry job for us and will have a crew bigger than 70 maybe :ahhh We have a very tight schedule on it and it will be the most complicated building our company has ever worked on :dd:

Time to bump this thread :D We are now on this $20 million plus building (closer to $23 million for the masonry right now) We have several different crews working on it in different spots on the building and it is going farely well :salute: I need to put some pics of this project up now that we are a good ways into it :tu:

Any of our new members (or older members for that matter) want to put what they do for a living in here is most definitely welcomed as well :tu: :like:


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Reply #140 on: February 20, 2018, 10:42:03 PM
Basically this:


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Reply #141 on: February 20, 2018, 11:23:58 PM
 :rofl:

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Reply #142 on: February 21, 2018, 01:49:24 AM
Some pics I have taken over the last month or so :cheers:

Inside one of the courtyards :tu:

0220181410_HDR by Poncho 65, on Flickr

Around the outside of the building :cheers:
0220180831 by Poncho 65, on Flickr

0220180830 by Poncho 65, on Flickr

0214180649c by Poncho 65, on Flickr

0214180649b by Poncho 65, on Flickr

0212181317c by Poncho 65, on Flickr

0209180852c by Poncho 65, on Flickr

0209180852b by Poncho 65, on Flickr

0207181313 by Poncho 65, on Flickr

0207181313a by Poncho 65, on Flickr

0109181425b by Poncho 65, on Flickr


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Reply #143 on: February 21, 2018, 01:52:22 AM
Wow !    How many people on your crews ?


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Reply #144 on: February 21, 2018, 02:00:45 AM
Wow !    How many people on your crews ?

I think I am keeping time for around 30 :think: we have a few smaller crews from some of the other foremans as well :cheers: All together probably 80 or so on this one :o :D Most of our company is on this project and this is my Dad's project (he is the main foreman on the job) I help him as much as I can and do whatever he needs me to do :cheers: so I am keeping the time, keeping up with all the materials and sending all the stone to their respective areas and when I have time I make sure that all the flashing and such is going in correctly :cheers: We have a lot of good masons and laborers, so it is going together as well as can be expected for a job like this :tu:


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Reply #145 on: February 21, 2018, 02:13:00 AM
0219181423a by Poncho 65, on Flickr
Are the numbers dimensions or type of brick?

It is (Indiana) limestone setting drawings :cheers: Each page has a letter and then all the pieces are individually numbered :tu: We get different sections sent out as we need them and then they get put in the wall at that spot :salute:
I might need some pics for clarification...  :pok:
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Reply #146 on: February 21, 2018, 03:36:58 AM
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0219181423a by Poncho 65, on Flickr
Are the numbers dimensions or type of brick?

It is (Indiana) limestone setting drawings :cheers: Each page has a letter and then all the pieces are individually numbered :tu: We get different sections sent out as we need them and then they get put in the wall at that spot :salute:
I might need some pics for clarification...  :pok:

The page that the :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh !!!MINI!!! :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh is on hasn't been started yet :whistle: I will try and take a pic of one of the walls that is finished with a pic of the setting drawing and let you look at it like that ;)


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Reply #147 on: February 21, 2018, 03:39:45 AM
We also have a different set of drawing that tell us where to put the rock that is mixed with the brick :tu: Some of the rock is laid in a random ashlar pattern but some of it is laid according to a drawing, dictating length and height :ahhh talk about a headache to get use to when we first started :facepalm: :D


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Reply #148 on: February 21, 2018, 09:27:04 PM
Here is a comparison with The limestone drawings :tu:

The drawing :D

0221180829 by Poncho 65, on Flickr

The actual :tu:

0221180828 by Poncho 65, on Flickr


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Reply #149 on: February 21, 2018, 09:31:13 PM
I've only just noticed this thread Poncho - this is excellent... good stuff!  :cheers:


 

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