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Friday April 12, 2019 subscribe |
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this is a 3/8 inch bolt hole 18 feet above the quonset hut dirt floor. that's cody up above looking in. i worked underneath, he harnessed in to work the top of the arch. we pulled the old rusty fasteners to replace them with long bolts to attach racks for 12 new solar panels. like prisoners in adjacent cells who are forbidden to speak, we developed a code based on knocks--one for tighten, two for loosen, three for done or ready. did this 44 times, poised high atop an A-frame ladder lashed to a truck bed. pretty repetitive but the precarious nature of this balancing act made it compelling throughout. once the bolts were set, i joined cody up top where we figured out how to dial in parallel flat planes on a curved roof. after a couple of false starts, we worked it out, found moments between wrenching nuts to soak up the view. |
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