What a great day at work!! set off some explosives!
 

we have done it before; but for whatever reason, i am never around when they set off the charges. meetings usually. not today, we set charges, and i made it a priority to hear the "big bang(s)". awesome stuff. we are blasting a tunnel.
blast holes drilled:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1250883387.jpg

stuffing charges:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1250883419.jpg

stuff:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1250883447.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1250883485.jpg


the packed holes and fuse cord:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1250883522.jpg

Awesome. A friend is a CE in KC, one of his career highlights thus far was getting to demo an old bridge with explosives.

Is that Devil's Slide?

we are going to build a plexiglass shield to hide a video camera behind...

sometimes i feel guilty getting paid for my job...today was fun.

yes. are you tunnel trained?

That doesn't look like too much fun.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1250885281.jpg

Yes. I was the lead geologist on the Devil's Slide tunnel back in 1996, and have been working on the project ever since. Right now I just monitor groundwater levels. I don't have a reason to go inside the tunnel.

I've worked on a few other tunnel projects, as well, where I mapped the geology of the tunnel face and did a few other things.

Why do you ask? Do you need people to work inside the tunnel? I've been meaning to ask about that. I know a few of the Kiewit guys.

Oh my gawd... If i could find a job that would let me talk to people all day, work in a beautiful location and BLOW STUFF UP I would be the happiest person on the planet!

I LOVE explosives! They are the coolest thing humans have ever created! (not withstanding worthy medical advances, etc).

angela

thought i could give you a tour......

Pretty cool.. I worked on a job in the mid-east years ago.... we had our own quarry and aggregate plant.. I got to press the button a few times...

Is that a Kiewit job? I'm a CI on a bridge we are building here in NYC and Kiewit is the prime... They are like a cult..Kiewit Kool aid.

yup kiewit is our prime too. we need to talk.......

blowing crap up i always fun!!!!!

If I was God, I'd blow up the Universe just to hear the Big Bang...

i see what you did there......