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When the blue barrel is on the ground, it will be filled with gray blocks and sent up.
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Loading the gray bricks into the bucket which the crane will lift.
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Watching the blue bucket being lifted.
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Gray blocks which will become interior walls on the residential floors. The pipe is attached to the pump which pushes the concrete slurry to the current top floor of the building.
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Hooking the bucket to pull it over to the floor.
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The load begins it's ascent from ground level.
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Time for a drink before the daily game of "chase me" begins.
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Ready to send the empty blue bucket down.
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A fresh load on the floor where the gray block walls are being built.
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Hooking up the bucket.
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Loading the bucket and the barrel.
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Empty bucket begins it's descent.
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He lives on the site. Sleeps in the parking garage with the crew at night.
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Might be looking for his playmate.
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Empty bucket again.
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Rain cover over the engine for the crane.
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Second crane to appear on the site.
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Skidded building materials arrive on a flatbed truck.
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Planning committe. One would think by the looks of this that it's a union job.
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Aha! A fork lift is now on the scene.
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Three stages of progress in one photo.
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Early in the work day. This is where the fork lift parks at night.
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The dog sleeps inside at night and is set loose to scout the neighborhood at 7:00 A.M. daily.
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Watch this!
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Finishing folding the tarp.
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The workers straddle the low walls in order to bend over and nail those boards at an angle. No safety belts.
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There's the blue power crane.
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New floor prior to 7:00 A.M. when the 12 hour workday starts, six days a week.
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Notice the blocks on the flatbed. The keep the skids angled toward the center of the trailer. No need for expensive chains or belts here.
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There's nothing in the world like driving a forklift on wet clay.
