Today’s task, is one I don’t see everyday.

I am cutting off a tower crane pad at Abbott hospital.
Pad is 30ft x 28 ft 8 ft deep. I have to cut it horizontally every 2 feet and then cross cutting in 6 ft increments one way and 8 ft the opposite. Ending with 2ft tall 8 ft wide and 6ft deep chunks of concrete.
The wire saw is the only tool for this that’ll work and it’s pretty cool so I though I would share. Inside the concrete is extreme amounts of rebar, the bottom steel section of the tower crane, 18 vertical helicoils. Very hard stuff. This should take a while.

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Pictures some time work and some times don’t

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How long do you think the whole job will take?

fishthumper wrote:

How long do you think the whole job will take?

A week and a half to 2 weeks cut and removed

Are the 2×4’s to help guide the blade ? Very cool

That is pretty cool! What’s one of those wire saw bands cost? I gotta thing it’s like a giant diamond blade in reverse?

That’s cool BC. Never would have guessed that is how you cut giant slabs apart.

pretty cool….. thanks for posting that bearcat!!!!! and thats some pretty heavy duty wire. many moons ago i worked for the cold spring granite company, wire saws are what they used to cut the really big chunks of granite to the sizes they wanted!!!

big_g wrote:

Are the 2×4’s to help guide the blade ? Very cool

The 2×4 help guide the wire. The concrete has less resistance then wood so with out the wood the wire would go where ever.

ThunderLund78 wrote:

That is pretty cool! What’s one of those wire saw bands cost? I gotta thing it’s like a giant diamond blade in reverse?

It’s 3/8s cable with diamond heads every inch and a half. I have 120 ft of wire spinning at the moment. That’s ball park 8k in wire

John Rasmussen wrote:

That’s cool BC. Never would have guessed that is how you cut giant slabs apart.

Slabs like this have to be wire cut. The wall mount saw I run every day has a max depth of 28 inches. This wire cutting is unlimited as long as you can feed it around. This is how we cut bridges down as well

glenn57 wrote:

pretty cool….. thanks for posting that bearcat!!!!! and thats some pretty heavy duty wire. many moons ago i worked for the cold spring granite company, wire saws are what they used to cut the really big chunks of granite to the sizes they wanted!!!

We do that for those guys as well. And lots of mines up north

This is a 69 inch blade. Can only cut a little over 2ft

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My oldest boy(16) is trying to get into the concrete trade and I keep telling him about all the cool stuff you post. I think he has found a company to work for this summer but still waiting on some details that he should hopefully know today.

That is very cool Bearcat. Any chance you have or can get video?

mojo wrote:

That is very cool Bearcat. Any chance you have or can get video?

I can, but I do not know how to post videos here. If some one could walk me through it, I’ll post one

Bearcat89 wrote:

This is a 69 inch blade. Can only cut a little over 2ft

Holy cow, that thing is huge!!

Thanks Bearcat, very interesting.

Thanks for posting the pictures. Fascinating stuff!

Bearcat89 wrote:

I can, but I do not know how to post videos here. If some one could walk me through it, I’ll post one

You can upload videos to YouTube and then post the link here. That’s all I know how to do it.

Sharon wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Bearcat89 wrote:</div>
I can, but I do not know how to post videos here. If some one could walk me through it, I’ll post one

You can upload videos to YouTube and then post the link here. That’s all I know how to do it.

Oh goodness. I’m not very techy and have no idea how to do that either

Bearcat89 wrote:

Oh goodness. I’m not very techy and have no idea how to do that either

Oh goodness is right! Okay, I’ll be your tech support. Ill send you a text!

Cool man!

The saw is eating so well right now, I Uber ordered us some new lawn chairs to enjoy the sun and baby sit until something breaks.

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How much you getting paid right now to work on you tan?

Some of the stuff you do is really cool!

Sharon wrote:

Holy cow, that thing is huge!!

That’s what she said. In this case, literally.

C’mon. Somebody had to.

John Rasmussen wrote:

How much you getting paid right now to work on you tan?

Some of the stuff you do is really cool!

Lol they treat me real well, we will just leave it at that. I get to do lots of cool stuff at work. That’s what keeps me going. Today I’m doing this, in a couple weeks I’m cutting and dropping full bridge beams and the week after I’m cutting a building to collapse its self in on its self at the u of m. It’s always a new challenge

Working w my favorite wood this week, u guys can have the heavy stuff!

Lol! Cool stuff Bearcat. I don’t imagine everyday is gravy tho.