We’ve got a great start on the main sign for the Hazelnut Inn. The 3D graphic is a hazelnut tree of course. Fabricating the tree meant cutting and welding many hundreds of leaves for the crown. It’s a big job which is made exponentially easier and faster with our MultiCam CNC plasma cutter. I designed the leaves on my computer using EnRoute software, duplicated it enough times to fill a 4’ x 8’ sheet of steel and then let the plasma cutter do it’s work automatically. We’ll repeat the process a whole lot of times to get enough leaves for the job. They need only a little grinding with a sanding disk to make them ready to weld to the top of the tree. Welding the leaves on is taking the longest but we are making quick progress! The double sided sign is going to be a beauty!
Elephant on parade
It’s not every day that we get to roll a gigantic stone elephant head down the main street of Yarrow but today was that day. It was the day to lift three more pieces of the Hazelnut Inn into place. The giant sleeping head was moved to the next door property on the back of the crane truck. The tower roof fit on the sidewalk as the crew wheeled it next door. The elephant head was a slow moving parade pushed by the forklift. :) Thanks to John, from Wishlow Crane Service, a very smooth operator, all three pieces were lifted and placed perfectly. It won’t be long until the next batch of even bigger pieces are ready to go!
Shore enough
The construction crew are busy these days building many strong walls and floors inside the foundations of the Hazelnut Inn suites. These walls and floors are called shoring and are temporary. The 2'“ x 6” walls are only four feet apart and the 2” x 10” joists are 12” on center with 3/4” thick plywood on top. They are designed to hold up the suspended concrete slabs as we cast them and will stay in place for 28 days until the concrete has cured enough to support itself. There is no such thing as too strong in this kind of construction, for not strong enough would be catastrophic.
