Good pull!!!!! I forgot about the plywood on the dam.....
Ok, it was more like concrete forms. And yes it happened. I was there. There is video of the whole ordeal floating around I'll find it. It shows the forms leaking but doing the job.
Is that the same year Parker and the lower river flooded?
yes.
These were on the gates and the dam crest. Still looking for the other pics.
Your going to be looking a long time ,because they never put plywood on that damn to hold back more water. Those spillways are way before the damn and lower.
Looks like wood , no
Super Intertesting.I'm the same way.
I first visited Hoover Dam in 1970, when I was thirteen. I've been back a half dozen times, and read every book and watched every video I could find. It fascinates me to this day.
In the 70s and 80s, the tour lasted well over an hour. They would take you into the 50' diameter penstock tunnels to see the giant pipes carrying the water as the ground vibrated from the flow, and a couple dozen other places that are off limits now.
Those 30' diameter penstock sections were built in a fab shop located on the Nevada side from 2 ¾" steel plate that was rolled, riveted, welded, machined, and heat treated. The edges were end milled to true them up, then cut to 1⅜" thickness with an enormous external radius lathe and punched with rivet holes to make male and female connection surfaces. The heat treating facility was a natural gas fired giant insulated sheet steel box where each piece of the penstocks were heated to 1,700° for stress relief.
They were then hauled up a road on the first hydraullically steered multiple wheel trailers that are common today, with two Cat bulldozers pushing and pulling. When they reached the canyon edge, the huge 150 ton capacity cableway lowered them to the canyon floor, where they were wrestled into the penstock tunnels. I posted a photo below of the general arrangement of the penstock system.
After completing the dam over two years ahead of schedule, Six Companies' General Superintendent Frank Crowe was paid a $300,000 bonus, equivalent to $5.5 million in 2019 dollars. After completing Hoover Dam, he continued to oversee other dam projects across the West, including Parker Dam and Shasta Dam.
Hoover Dam is indeed the Eighth Wonder of the World.
Wow...great read. Thanks.....
That would be cool to see Morris. I did a job for a guy that worked there years ago with the navy had some cool stories. But did say the fishing was really good too.
HELL NO.