This was that project at work I'd been meaning to get to for a while as I had many complaints about it and had to really think it through to make it work. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, (Or in my case maybe a million!), so here's the play by play. All of my thinking and construction skill with a good deal of help from my summer High School and College students which I could not possibly have done without. Enjoy!
Ed
Hi Ed. Can you hear the well deserved round of applause I'm sending your way? You and the crew did a spectacular job on the conversion/demolition project. Lots of planning and skill required to bring that off so nicely. I really enjoyed the step by step documentation, very professional. Maybe you could print and frame those pics and display them at the facility or even on the panel wall so that users could see just how their new construction came to be. Hope TPTB didn't interfere too much---bureaucracy can be hard to stomach at times.
(07-08-2018 10:54 AM)shadeseeker Wrote: [ -> ]Hi Ed. Can you hear the well deserved round of applause I'm sending your way? You and the crew did a spectacular job on the conversion/demolition project. Lots of planning and skill required to bring that off so nicely. I really enjoyed the step by step documentation, very professional. Maybe you could print and frame those pics and display them at the facility or even on the panel wall so that users could see just how their new construction came to be. Hope TPTB didn't interfere too much---bureaucracy can be hard to stomach at times.
Thanks Shade! It was an eyesore for all the Ohio State PTB board members with MBA's who just wanted to tear it down without knowing the repercussions of exactly what was involved and how much it would cost. I did an estimate 2 years ago of moving the irrigation control and breaker box to another location (which was about a $2,000.00 job) and they all turned and ran for the door. So after taking some more insinuations and sarcasm about what to do with the old Ticket Booth, (aka: Outhouse), I just got fed up and pulled a conversion in for ~$200.00. Hopefully the cackling will stop and I can get on with the business of running the fields. Although they have now been hinting at revamping the display boards for the team photos and lineup. Which is also a refurbish nightmare but just a matter of what to do and how to do it. I already have the city making me a display board for advertising above the new LED remote controlled scoreboard, which I was the super on for its installation and electric last Fall. I designed a new ad board for it and the city revamped from a metal one to a treated lumber one, which is more logical considering the time constraints I gave them. They only have one guy that's a PRIMO welder and he's too busy fixing plows and truck bodies to make the deadline. If they farmed the welding out for my design it would have cost a bundle and there was no way to guarantee the deadline, which is July 19th. And when I got this job, 6 years ago, they told me, "Hey, all you got to do is make sure the fields are traced and ready.". I think it's time I ask for a raise!
Ed
Those people are lucky to have you on the team. By all means you should have a raise, and when you ask, remind them of the Bible verse that says "the laborer is worthy of his reward".
Ed, you really did a terrific job on that project. That really came out looking amazing!
Those pictures will hold very good memories for you and others who view them in the future, as you look back and see what actually went into making that possible.
You should be commended by the city for a job very well done.
Take a few days off - you earned it!
Tony
(07-09-2018 08:01 AM)Bigtony Wrote: [ -> ]Ed, you really did a terrific job on that project. That really came out looking amazing!
Those pictures will hold very good memories for you and others who view them in the future, as you look back and see what actually went into making that possible.
You should be commended by the city for a job very well done.
Take a few days off - you earned it!
Tony
Thanks Big T! I have many photograph albums of my work as a masonry restoration specialist. Even the Engineers/Architects on the projects I worked on couldn't believe some of the work me, and the crews I had, did. They were literally stunned. But my crews and myself had a longstanding motto, "Repair it to original condition so when we leave it looks just like the original.". And we did. I wish I could go back and do that again. It's bone crushing and laborious work. But we did it. I still have people come up to me at the gas pump and remind me of who they were and what project we worked on and shake my hand. We left a mark. I don't know if that kind of real tough and honest repair stuff is going on now, but if it isn't, well, that's sad. We were a real team hell bent on being the best masonry restoration tradesmen in the business. Just 2 weeks ago, an old customer of mine wanted a reference for a carpenter. We completely revamped his entire brick and stone house, overlooking the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, over a four season period. He told me the place is as good as I left it. And we finished it in 1998.
Ed
Ed, you are truly a terrific stone mason/carpenter and having folks remember those things you did is icing on the cake.
Tony