North Stand Construction Discussion

[Coatigan]

Is there any particular reason that the fishplate(s) towards the top of the skybar framework seem to have multi-coloured bolts connecting them? I thought it may have been an artifact of the camera processing at first but it only seems to be there?

Good spot. They look like hand grip toppers, presumably to get them started by hand for speed, before the cap is removed to tighten with a tool. If so, they'd use whatever colour they come in from whatever they have lying about. Or the ebay order didn't match the description :).

I would like to think there was something more technical to it like the force on each bolt (which they Will know btw), or the order the tune needs played in etc, but think it is something as basic as seeing different coloured scaffolding node covers.

If anyone else knows or guesses otherwise please chip in.

 

[spiny]

Like I said yesterday, the last set of pictures are mostly construction workers in the cherry pickers working on the steel structure. The pictures include the ends of the steel structure joining the stand.

My next set of pictures will be in 4 weeks time when the construction site closes for Christmas. Hopefully there will be a few changes by then, like glazing going in on the hotel, etc.

The cherry picker pictures are in no particular order.

Vertigo inducing. How do people even go up on those cherry pickers? What did they do before they existed when erecting steel at heights? There are Empire State Building clips of erecting steel that I cannot watch. Not the same scale or scenario but equally as unwatchable.

The scale of the whole North Stand development is something to behold.

 

[eastmanc]

Vertigo inducing. How do people even go up on those cherry pickers? What did they do before they existed when erecting steel at heights? There are Empire State Building clips of erecting steel that I cannot watch. Not the same scale or scenario but equally as unwatchable.

The scale of the whole North Stand development is something to behold.

They went up on rope chairs and pulled themselves up.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Vertigo inducing. How do people even go up on those cherry pickers? What did they do before they existed when erecting steel at heights? There are Empire State Building clips of erecting steel that I cannot watch. Not the same scale or scenario but equally as unwatchable.

The scale of the whole North Stand development is something to behold.

 

[spiny]

Not for me. How did Fred Dibnah survive let alone prosper?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Not for me. How did Fred Dibnah survive?

Nor me! Decent balance, I guess.

 

[eastmanc]

Not for me. How did Fred Dibnah survive let alone prosper?

Remember the advert with Fred Dibnah when he says "went down great guns". What was it advertising?

 

[Gordyola]

Remember the advert with Fred Dibnah when he says "went down great guns". What was it advertising?

Stones bitter slogan not sure that Fred was involved

 

[Auden night mail]

Total respect after watching, not a chance I'd be up for that.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

I couldn’t go up that ladder for a bread van cram-packed full of £50 notes