Posts Tagged ‘Bolts’

Square Pedestal Formwork at Prominent Hill

Location: Prominent Hill Mining Construction Site South Australia

Four concrete forms held together with Column-Clamps and held down with spaghetti nailed plywood. The 700 mm long bolts took a bit of work to cast in due to the extra reinforcement steel positioned exactly in the center of the pedestal.

Pedestal Formwork Ready For Concrete
Pedestal Formwork Ready For Concrete

This job was not as bad as the nightmare pedestal, but still took extra time because the formworkers had to reposition the steel in order to fit the bolts in.

Concretors Anthony and Nev Vibrating Pedestal Concrete
Concretors Anthony and Nev Vibrating Pedestal Concrete

To ensure the correct heights, the concrete and bolt-top heights were established from a known benchmark with a Laser Level instrument and not by just measuring up from the foundation concrete.

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Nightmare Pedestal At Iron Duke Whyalla

Location: Iron Duke Mining Construction Site Whyalla South Australia

Four Bolts along with plus-shaped (+) blockout.

Pedestal Formwork
Pedestal Formwork

Pedestal Formwork
Pedestal Formwork

Pedestal Reinforcement Steel
Pedestal Reinforcement Steel

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