North Stand Construction Discussion

You can see they have removed that area they needed to, where the bridging element between the old and new will go. The big hole you see behind the last existing row of seats in the flyover, and highlighted in blue below.

You can also see the shuttering formed for the new upstand beam that forms the new edge of the old slab.

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I mentioned the bracing before (sorry, I know) but to be clearer what I am pointing to, the specific pieces added in red below.

The whole area highlighted in green is shown as a fully open double height fan space at the main entrance.

The bracing between the back and front at each bay, at that scale is not the end of the world. Would still be better without it. It is however the central cross-bracing that takes out that whole bay where the main doors are.

Could be temporary of course (not quite convinced), but as I keep coming back to it thought I'd highlight what I was referring to.

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Brightwell Bros. said:
That's the one! Every time I walk past it I think a) what a shame b) how ace it would be to do up as a pub for the new arena and match days and c) how much money you'd have to sink in it to get it back up and running.
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I think it already got someone doing it up, very slowly, but it is being done up. I don't think as a pub though.
 
CP, thank you for that, for spending the time on the guys working and coming back to them a few times. I know parts of it don't make the best viewing when they are chatting, and measuring things, but it is pure odds and luck whether you catch an interesting moment or not. I was getting worried, whether others might watch it and not be bothered, but I think it was handled really well, and the end bit of him putting on his weld mask made it a bit worthwhile and built the suspense.

I could see the weld torch next to his feet in the first few goes, when he was marking locations. They are welding on hook plates. So a hook/crane has something to lift the piece by. You can see them here on the other side, those definitely weren't there before. So now we know they'll be craning it out. As I said appreciated that you'd do that on request and also the loom st the new compound. One day, that'll pay off hopefully.

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Coatigan said:
You can see they have removed that area they needed to, where the bridging element between the old and new will go. The big hole you see behind the last existing row of seats in the flyover, and highlighted in blue below.

You can also see the shuttering formed for the new upstand beam that forms the new edge of the old slab.

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Tell you what they formed that pretty quickly, that's the upstand beam pretty much fully built and shuttering removed.
 
Imagine they'll beed a smaller piling rig than that to finish the back of the towers, due to the limited head room of the cantilevered parts.
 
Coatigan said:
CP, thank you for that, for spending the time on the guys working and coming back to them a few times. I know parts of it don't make the best viewing when they are chatting, and measuring things, but it is pure odds and luck whether you catch an interesting moment or not. I was getting worried, whether others might watch it and not be bothered, but I think it was handled really well, and the end bit of him putting on his weld mask made it a bit worthwhile and built the suspense.

I could see the weld torch next to his feet in the first few goes, when he was marking locations. They are welding on hook plates. So a hook/crane has something to lift the piece by. You can see them here on the other side, those definitely weren't there before. So now we know they'll be craning it out. As I said appreciated that you'd do that on request and also the loom st the new compound. One day, that'll pay off hopefully.

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I was more concerned about the guy working alongside him having a crafty cig near the end of the video and his Bosses seeing this ;)
 
Coatigan said:
CP, thank you for that, for spending the time on the guys working and coming back to them a few times. I know parts of it don't make the best viewing when they are chatting, and measuring things, but it is pure odds and luck whether you catch an interesting moment or not. I was getting worried, whether others might watch it and not be bothered, but I think it was handled really well, and the end bit of him putting on his weld mask made it a bit worthwhile and built the suspense.

I could see the weld torch next to his feet in the first few goes, when he was marking locations. They are welding on hook plates. So a hook/crane has something to lift the piece by. You can see them here on the other side, those definitely weren't there before. So now we know they'll be craning it out. As I said appreciated that you'd do that on request and also the loom st the new compound. One day, that'll pay off hopefully.

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I actually zoomed out when I see him take his safety helmet off and didn’t want him to be in trouble and was a bit of a sigh of relief when he replaced it with the welding mask. It will pay off eventually and you capture something good, Anfield kick started my YouTube channel all because I captured a crane lifting a large section of terracing.
At Everton I caught the first piece of the barrel shaped roofing being fitted, so at some point I will get some things here.
 
cpoverview said:
I actually zoomed out when I see him take his safety helmet off and didn’t want him to be in trouble and was a bit of a sigh of relief when he replaced it with the welding mask. It will pay off eventually and you capture something good, Anfield kick started my YouTube channel all because I captured a crane lifting a large section of terracing.
At Everton I caught the first piece of the barrel shaped roofing being fitted, so at some point I will get some things here.
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A part of me thought the same.

I think that is a bit of an iconic shot though. The one from the other side, the guy sitting up on the very top of the old pier, on the new clamp, welding away at the head of it. Today's equivalent of the old photos you see of the shipyards and high cranes, in museums and books.
 
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