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fandomhigh2018-06-01 05:30 am
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Construction 101; First Period, Friday [06/01].
Apologies to the neighbors; it was concrete day for construction class, meaning Amaya had somehow found the time to rig the Crumbler up as a cement mixer and one thing the Crumbler always managed to do was was be loud.
"Morning, crew!" Amaya greeted the students, voice rising above the tumbling concrete mixing in the clanking machine. She grinned a little as she handed them each a copy of a lay-out plan, then gestured to the boards and rods of rebar and pipes set off to the side. "Big day today, it's time to lay the foundation, but before that, we've got to set the base. I'd like you all to work together on this, since it's just easier, and I'll be overseeing, of course, hopefully to catch anything before it goes too far off."
So she went over the basics: how to set up the forms with the wood boards and stakes, screwing them in, trimming them off, and using the plans she'd given them to lay the rebar and pipe grid. "Now, all the rebar we'll need, I've bent and cut already, but if anyone wants to take a few moments to use the machine to try a few themselves, I highly recommend it. Working with this rebar is where your gloves and your goggles are going to be particularly important; it's steel, it's strong, so it can cut you up if you're not careful, so please be careful, 'specially if you know you're a bit...erm," Beaker, "accident-prone."
Hopefully the others could manage themselves fairly well, because Amaya was pretty sure all her attention would be focused on wringing her hands around Beaker.
Once that was finished and Amaya checked the level on the forms, she nodded approvingly. "Not bad! Now the fun part, the concrete! Everyone grab a bag of gravel, dump it in, and level it with your shovels, then we're going to give it a good spray. And then in goes the concrete! I've rigged the Crumbler here," she gave it a fond little pat in one of the few spots without any moving parts to the moment, "to keep it good and mixed and to pour it for us, so you're job's just to smooth her out. Once we've got a good layer spread out, we'll smooth it further with boards, and get started on water-curing it, which takes a few days, which'll work fine to get us to our next step next week."
"And when you're done with that," she added, "I've got a little slab set aside over here that I'd really appreciate if you all took a second to leave a little something, a name or a mark or a signature, to commemorate you guys for all your hard work. But for now, let's get to work!"
"Morning, crew!" Amaya greeted the students, voice rising above the tumbling concrete mixing in the clanking machine. She grinned a little as she handed them each a copy of a lay-out plan, then gestured to the boards and rods of rebar and pipes set off to the side. "Big day today, it's time to lay the foundation, but before that, we've got to set the base. I'd like you all to work together on this, since it's just easier, and I'll be overseeing, of course, hopefully to catch anything before it goes too far off."
So she went over the basics: how to set up the forms with the wood boards and stakes, screwing them in, trimming them off, and using the plans she'd given them to lay the rebar and pipe grid. "Now, all the rebar we'll need, I've bent and cut already, but if anyone wants to take a few moments to use the machine to try a few themselves, I highly recommend it. Working with this rebar is where your gloves and your goggles are going to be particularly important; it's steel, it's strong, so it can cut you up if you're not careful, so please be careful, 'specially if you know you're a bit...erm," Beaker, "accident-prone."
Hopefully the others could manage themselves fairly well, because Amaya was pretty sure all her attention would be focused on wringing her hands around Beaker.
Once that was finished and Amaya checked the level on the forms, she nodded approvingly. "Not bad! Now the fun part, the concrete! Everyone grab a bag of gravel, dump it in, and level it with your shovels, then we're going to give it a good spray. And then in goes the concrete! I've rigged the Crumbler here," she gave it a fond little pat in one of the few spots without any moving parts to the moment, "to keep it good and mixed and to pour it for us, so you're job's just to smooth her out. Once we've got a good layer spread out, we'll smooth it further with boards, and get started on water-curing it, which takes a few days, which'll work fine to get us to our next step next week."
"And when you're done with that," she added, "I've got a little slab set aside over here that I'd really appreciate if you all took a second to leave a little something, a name or a mark or a signature, to commemorate you guys for all your hard work. But for now, let's get to work!"