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Location: Road Bridge – Port Adelaide South Australia

Concrete pump operator places the concrete into these bridge column forms, the concretor vibrates while the formwork carpenter stands by to secure the Bearer Pad Template.

Pumping Concrete into Bridge Column Formwork

Once the concrete is pumped almost to the top, a formwork carpenter secures the Bearer Pad Template on top of the column forms. The concrete is then topped up.

Concretor Vibrating Concrete

Due to space restrictions, the Bearer Pad Template was made strong enough to stand on so that the concretors could hand-trowel the entire surface without stepping on the concrete.

Location: Road Bridge – Port Adelaide South Australia

Formwork carpenter Ray goes inside these bridge column concrete forms to ensure that the reinforcement steel has the correct cover by positioning small concrete blocks (aspros) in between the formwork and the reinforcement steel.

Formworker Ray at the Port River Expressway Job

Example of no cover on a Gold Coast high-rise apartment building.

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

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

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.

Location: Prominent Hill Mining Construction Site South Australia

Formworkers Ed and Rami at Prominent Hill Mine. 99% of the formwork construction jobs are now complete so Ed and Rami will fly-out today. A couple of formwork carpenters remain to do “shits and bits”, odd jobs etc.

Ed and Rami at Prominent Hill

Construction workers whistling at women get a surprise after whistling at a tranny.

Video length: 2:06 mins

Location: Prominent Hill Mining Construction Site South Australia

Concrete pump operator Mitch has finished the last concrete pumping job here at Prominent Hill Mine. Mitch packed up the concrete pump yesterday afternoon and has headed back to Adelaide. Mitch will probably team up again with Frank, so see you around the traps Mate.

Concrete Pump Operator Mitch

See more photos of Mitch at Kane’s Birthday BBQ.

Location: Prominent Hill Mining Construction Camp – Bus Shelter

Today is Kane’s birthday, so most of the lads got together for a birthday BBQ and drinks here at Prominent Hill construction camp bus shelter. See more photos from Kane’s birthday BBQ.

Happy Birthday Kane

Golf-Driving Target and Kane

If anyone has more photos to add to Kane’s Birthday BBQ Slide Show, please contact me.

Location: Prominent Hill Mining Construction Site South Australia

Concrete pump operator Frank saying goodbye to the blokes at Prominent Hill construction site. Frank is going for good, so see you around the traps mate.

Concrete Pump Operator Frank

Location: Prominent Hill Mining Construction Site South Australia

Nev the concretor catches me taking a quick photo of this concrete slab pour at the weigh bridge section of Prominent Hill Mining Construction site.

Concretors at Prominent Hill Weigh Bridge

Location: Prominent Hill Mining Construction Camp South Australia

Rusty (backhoe operator), Hanu (formworker), Pothole (safety advisor) and Peter (surveyor) having a quiet drink after work. All lit up with no place to go.

Rusty, Hanu, Pothole and Peter at Prominent Hill Camp