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| Sept 2007---Our Link-Belt 22 ton crane was purchased in northern Alabama and trucked down here. We purchased this 1979 crane and plan to sell it at the end of the job. This should be considerable less expensive than renting one. Of course, had we rented, we could have started out with smaller piece of equipment, but at the end, to lift the huge cornice blocks, we'd have needed something with the reach and strength of this fine crane. It is very likely that someone building with DAC-ART will be eager to buy our rough-terrain 4-wheel drive crane to build their project. It has a 360 degree swivel and a 75 ft reach, so it is perfect for this type of construction. | |
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Our crane will be able to basically stay in one place and swing around to lift the blocks and place them with out much moving around on the property. The four automatic outriggers are lowered and the crane is lifted up off the tires during working hours. Mike of New Stone Age Builders is the operator and his men on the ground assist in placement of the blocks by hand signals and the use of walkie-talkies. |
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This was the first block set and it the photo shows the proximity of the new main house to the original small guest house. The cut opening that you see is so that the internal back-fill poured concrete and rebar will flow thru the blocks and around the corner for very strong construction. |
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| The first course of blocks is
placed on the floor of what will be the above ground basement. The
hollow blocks have openings on both ends for the flow of backfill
concrete and running rebar. This is why this method of construction has
proven so strong in the face of tremendous wind and water pressure from
the recent storms.
We used a bit of concrete acid stain to do a waterproof free-hand whimsical design on the diagonal across the slab just for fun. |
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| You can see the insulating foam in the hollow opening in the DAC-ART man-made stone blocks. | |
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To the north, on the street side of the lot, the wall on wither side of the garage opening has a double stone off-set. The closed end on these DAC-ART blocks is there because this where there will be an opening (garage) in the wall. |
| We are using blocks that were originally cast for a project in Mississippi that did not get built, so in order to minimize the ordering of custom blocks for this job, we are cutting some of the blocks we have already bought into the necessary sizes |  |
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