Take a stroll through my world - The world of eternal demolition! 18 months into a 3 year project to make my life hell, and replace some infrastructure for a nearby casino at my block's expense. Joy Joy Joy!
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14 thoughts on “Calling all pile drivers”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jim M says:

    I’m an operator and I don’t miss working in the city.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars shuggy1110 says:

    Well, at least you have a shop. Could always be worse.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Roger Tycholiz says:

    The concrete breaker in the UK is called a pecker and the pile driver is called a piston driver.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars AlanSmitheeman says:

    It's the same reason why I don't like clubs. I find music that loud the equivalent of construction noise.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars scole901 says:

    where is this? are they done?

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Pheorat says:

    It's a wonder that you can get any work done with all of that racket outside. I would not be able to hear myself think with all of that noise.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars seriousorry says:

    Nuprin..Little..Yellow..Different.:)

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars lowell mccormick says:

    Not as loud as a Led Zeppelin concert, but just as annoying.  That's some manly stuff going on there.  Man and machines, and the woman who understands them.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars waldsteiger says:

    i had the somewhat same experience. cracked a wall of the place i was living in. as much as i get that this particular project should better the lives of many, even mine, although i will never use it directly, i wonder why they dont pay for alternative accomodation for the time of working. if the project is so precious, there should be a budget for that.
    on the positive side, it actually made me less crazy, it was a time of deep thoughts about what is necessary.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hannah mich says:

    Are the pile drivers still driving you crazy? The very worst job I ever took was hand driving sheet piling for a dock with a jack hammer. I was cold and wet for weeks. Besides that my ears rang from the noise. The only thing worse was the blast from jet engines.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Buddy Jeans says:

    hahaha, music to my ears. fran your cool.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Idomake says:

    Its ugly, but it won't go on forever.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars old man says:

    They don't care what they put you through. I had a business in a big city. They came through with a new sewer line, had me blocked in on three sides, for months. By time they were done they had wiped me out. That's progress!

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Eliot Brown says:

    "Pardon our dust, but dig we must!" I lived on 7th Ave and 49th Street in Manhattan during the late 1960s. The Gauntlet was walking from 6th to 7th Aves– The McGraw-Hill, Stevens and Time-Life Buildings were all being built at around the same time. Three buildings along three blocks– me right in the middle. The ranked air-compressors were open-air and un-muffled back in the day!

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