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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3336565, member: 27"] I don’t see a collar on the one spiral out in the open near Walt. Am not optimistic we will see anything go up o the west side today. The next piece to go up on the west side should be a long diagonal spiral to complete the first of the 3 ‘arrow heads’ for the southwest diagonal wall. I suspect it is the spiral that is out in the open. My guess is that the winds are a little too high for them to attempt any changes to the crown truss today. On the east side, the next thing due to go up is a vertical spiral. That could go up at any time. Might wait until tomottow morning, when the winds are supposed to be calmer. The old roof, including the old cables, was supposed to be completely removed by tomorrow. I don’t know what the problem is here but there is clearly something holding things up. I would guess when they take the old cables off, they will do this by first attaching an end to a new cable, so when the old cable is detached from the wall, it will not just crash into the concrete seating below, but can rather be lowered, probably by Walt or Skylar, in a slow and controlled fashion, down to the plywood sheets laid out on the lower section of concrete, so the concrete is not damaged by these huge cables. If memory serves, the biggest ones weight 90 tons. If they aren’t using a cable, maybe they have a couple of special fixtures they can attach to the old cable and a big crane, pull on the old cable to take weight off it, and then release it from the wall and lower it gently to the ground? Whatever gear they are using to do the detachment/placement of the old cables, I wonder if it got held up because of carona and still hasn’t arrived? I know an Italian company is making the new cables. Maybe they made the detachment equipment as well? It is disheartening to see deadline after deadline missed by large margins. I believe Pete just said the old roof would be removed within a week a couple of days before deflation. What else could have scuttled things so badly they are not even trying to get the cables down, except delays related to corona? [/QUOTE]

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