Showing posts with label Rear Range Tower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rear Range Tower. Show all posts

Thursday, August 25, 2011

The 25th Day of August 2011

Sunrise on the farm
Rear Range Light Tower
Our newest tower. This is the rear range light tower at Tide Point. It is one of 2 towers that have navigational lights to guide ships into the harbor from the Key bridge. We tore down the old one here and erected this one making it taller and sturdier. The front range tower is located on Fort McHenry.
Ravens Stadium



Touching up the Ravens logo with paint.


Some of our workers getting ready to run cable near the stadium suites.



More artistic paint work.


The surprise in a bag of mulch
This small snake was an unwelcome surprise included in a bag of mulch. My son Mike used a small hole in the bag to open it up to pour on a flowerbed. As soon as he stuck his finger in there and tore the bag open, this snake slithered out with a frog in its mouth. By the time I gave him my camera, it had already swallowed the amphibian whole. The frog is that first bump in the snake's body next to its head.


Shy from all the picture taking, the snake seeks shelter in a nearby boxwood.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Fort McHenry Tower Demo

Rear Range Tower
Fort McHenry Rear Range Tower

An Inside Look
A Long way to the top.

Tower Climber
Buckle up


Hull Street Closed
Street Closed for the crane

 The Crane arrives and sets up.



Tower light is rigged for removal


Tower light will be reused



This light has guided hundreds of thousands of ships
The Guiding Light


Top section of tower is rigged



The final bolts removed
The tricky part

Natty Boh looks on
National Bohemian Beer guy, Natty Boh, in the background.

Liftoff!
1 down 3 to go


Nuts and Bolts
Hardware removed from the tower

Bound for the scrapyard
Remains of the day