concrete drawing 3 - flip and cut

this is the last large concrete drawing, set and ready to flip. john attaches the lifters on the concrete.

it looks like a big zipper, and it locks in to the concrete pin that was cast in place.

 

then the chain hoists are attached to the lifters

 

and then with a quick pull up the concrete panel lifted from the base.

 

then the tricky move of flipping the large 2.4 x 3 m panel. 

the unit is lifted with 4 lifters in place

 

this needed to happen outside for more room.

up

  

up

vertical

 

and back

 

down

 

down

 

and then to work removing the metal frame and revealing the lifters on the top surface.

 

then using slings we moved it to the saw

 

once on the saw table it was a simple process.

 

lining up cutting marks and then letting the saw do the work

 

there were 6 cuts all together, and this took about an hour to cut

 

all the cutting done then each piece needs to be moved to pallets

 

3 fancy new lifters for each tile allows them to be moved easily to the pallets

 

now some final finishing, hand rubbing the surface back to bring out the colour and finish the work off

 

the hardest part is done now, but there is still a lot of work ahead to get this artwork installed.