Hardhat Monday Surf & Culture Report



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On a personal note I have to admit that I'm a sucker for the use of bamboo in construction.  Of course this has it's genesis in the Tiki Bar, but has grown to embrace the use of bamboo in all manner of building.  #1 demonstrates how it is often employed as scaffolding (or a birdcage, not exactly sure.)  In some ways, stronger than steel of the same size we saw it in use throughout India and Nepal...

Hazy sun this morning with 5 miles visibility.  Winds were calm and the sea surface had a bit of roll to it.  The air temperature was 54.9 and the water is 61.0.  Low tide was at 5:57am +0.1' and high tide will be at 12:09pm +3.6'.  There's a WSW swell out of 257º at 4.3' and it was a fun 3' to 5'...

This Kathmandu construction site (#2) employs a couple of techniques rarely seen here in the US.  The first is the mixing of concrete in the form itself.  Usually there's a mixer and then the wet concrete is pumped into the form.  In this case they put cement and aggregate into the form and then add water and mix.  This is great, except for the fact that it's hard to get everything well mixed when you're standing in it.  It's so heavy you can't mix it.  To that end, they have one guy with a shovel and another guy with a rope tied to the first guy's shovel.  The shoveller, sticks the shovel into the mix and the rope guy helps pull it through.  It looks positively back breaking, but they did it all day long...

If construction itself isn't enough of an adventure, once you've gotten three or four walls up, people want to start moving in.  This project (#3) was still being poured (to their credit they actually had a cement mixer) and people were already moving in!  To be fair, Kathmandu had an horrendous earthquake in 2017 and these people probably lived on the site before they started reconstruction and had no place else to go.  If you're having trouble imagining a world without OSHA, here you go...

Happy hour this week at Laurel Tavern!  5:30 or thereabouts...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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