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The weather is turning nasty later today. It was cool at 8 am, but not as cold as yesterday started.
The crew arrived with an enormous truck loaded with heavy forms for the concrete walls. The truck is very long. Amazingly, they were able to back it in almost all the way. As it was being backed up the last 30 feet toward the east wall, the slope was too steep and one axle was literally lifted off the gravel, so it had to stop there.
It's huge outriggers, visible in the picture below, were deployed and the truck was leveled side to side.
The forms are stored in large cages each of which weigh about a ton. The truck has a large crane/boom on the back. It can lift the cages up to 70 feet high and about that far away from the truck. As it was unfurled it reminded me of a kid's transformer toy.
It was so dark the camera's flash went off making the machine look like it's all lit up as light reflected from the ladder sides.
As the operator began to unload cages of forms, the rain started slowly. The guys finished marking the footings in preparation for setting up the forms and, as that effort was being finished, decided to call it a day.
They left the truck in place so they can get a running start after the weather improves. The forecast highs and lows from today through Sunday are 43°/32°, 40°/23°, 34°/20°, 38°/22°, and 41°/27°. Rain and snow are both in the forecast, so it's up to the concrete crew to decide when to finish up.
