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North Stand Construction Discussion
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Thanks for this one again - I've cropped 3 shots out of it and annotated it showing where/how the roof trusses will connect to the support at the back - which is already there and has been for weeks if you look!
Mount points on trusses
Mounting points at the back of the stand (been there for a while)
And a simple count of how many there are - only !0 so its possible more to come
Having checked the DAS , so only the centre 10 connections are up already - there's two more to be put up outside of both of the towers yet
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this?
Yep it is that.
And here is the schematic view from the same as DAS - already I'm thinking this looks scarey as sh*t!
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HelloCity
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There is a wee balcony there outside the tv studio rooms, that will probably also be used as a maintenance platform. Seen it before in images, will try dig out.
Edit i see HelloCity has already put the image up.
That's only about two thirds of the full beam btw. At the other end u can see the big cross structure will connect, where the tifo is shown hanging in some of the images. That length of beam looks like it is from the back of the skybar, to that large cross beam in the image below.
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Don’t know if you can see the scale. These are about 4ft off the ground. I reckon 2-3 ft at their widest. Massive
Probably raised 5ft off the ground and c.3ft at their widest
Can’t upload photo but they are massive
Probably raised 5ft off the ground and c.3ft at their widest
Worth noting as well, because of the way the beams are connected between them and the angles of the purlin plates above, although they may look it, no two are the same. Each of the 14 will have it's own place and order. Or technically 7 and those 7 a mirror image, but still means each had to be in its own location.
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thanks
Think it is an empty loading palette, for stacking materials and lifting with a crane. The 4 point are where the 4 cables of the crane connect to, to keep it steady. You see another of them (or possibly the same one) on the ground of the compound next to the tower at 7.50 minutes.
HelloCity
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Cranes have ropes, cables are used for control i.e brake cables. They seem to use a lot polyester round slings on site, which are good because they don't damage the material they are lifting
Sure. Sometimes they have chains too. Think the poster got what I meant.
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It's a big fucker that'll take some filling with the right fans if things on the pitch continue, and if they don't get the prices and conditions right !!
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The view from my season ticket standing place last night. When the observation deck is up there it's going to look immense! Do you think City will let us watch a game from up there? You'd get an amazing view of the tactical battles, much better than being on row L anyway that's for sure!
By the time the actual roof is on, doubt you'd see most of the pitch from up there. There is another central viewing platform right at the edge of the new roof, but doubt that would be anything more than seeing kick-off for a fee.