Workers Grouting and Finishing the Hokie Stones
The two workers on the left in the photo were grouting the hokie stones. The little red and blue tubes beside them was where the grout was. The other black tub on wheel was a dumpster. The men split the work into sections, each taking a small section to do at a time.
The two workers in the photo on the left side were also grouting the hokie stone. These two men were working along side the two in the photo above. They were doing the same thing. In this photo, the man in blue is using a higher level on the scalping to grout higher, while there is another man sitting down under the window, grouting.
In the photo to the left, there are three workers. The one standing up was the boss. I knew this because he was moving around the site to make sure that everything was going smoothly. The guy in blue was the fastest grouter out of all the workers. In the prior photo, he was one window over, while in this photo, he continues to move left. The third guy kneeling on the left side of the photo is also grouting.
There are three workers in the photo to the left. All these workers continue to move to the left. The height of the grouting that they would do would be the height of the scalping on each level. They would do an entire level and then move on to the next level. All three workers were grouting the whole time when I was at the construction site.
This photo to the left shows the workers getting ready to finish up that specific level of grouting. The men worked for an hour straight without stopping when I was there at the site. The two men walking around in this photo were packing up their tools to move onto the next level. The third guy was finishing up grouting on that level of scalping.
Taking out the Trash
The photo to the left shows a fork lift getting a dumpster off the top level of scalping. Right next to the dumpster, it's hard to see, but there is a worker up there. I found out that he was cleaning up the excess hokie stone that being put into place. The wind tarps were up so it was hard to see the workers actually putting the hokie stone into place.
The photo to the left is just another action shot of the fork lift lowering the full dumpster off the top level of the scalping so that it could be dumped and be replaced on the top level of scalping.
Placing Gypsum Board into Place
The worker in the photo to the left is placing gypsum board on the exterior wall of the new dorm. He is having to only put small pieces up at a time because of the confined area that he has to work in. This is the only photo that I have of this job task because it was hard to see him and it began to rain the time I came back around the dorm to see how he was progressing, so he stopped working.
Chipping the Stone
The worker in the photo to the left is one of two men that I saw chipping the hokie stone. He was preparing the stone to be set into place by the mason. He was quickening up the process so that the mason would not have to do all this himself. The tools that this man was using were a hammer and a chisel.
In this photo are the two men that I saw chipping the hokie stone to size to prepare it for being placed properly into place. The man bending over worked in that tent behind him. He used a wet saw to cut the hokie stone to the proper size that it had to be. The other man would then take the sawed stone, and chip all the awkward pieces until he thought that it would fit properly into position along the exterior wall of the new dorm.
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