Hoover Dam

[bindernut]

I had the privledge of doing some work on the Hoover Dam yesterday replacing some near 80 yr old piping. had near free run of the river level and snapped a few pic's. hard to believe work they did in the 30's. I piss and moan about how hard my job is sometimes but looking at what they had to do and how well they did it pretty much tells me I don't have it all that bad. Awesome place to see/work.
took us 17 hrs to run the pipe (90ft was straight down a vertical shaft in the rock!) for their main service water. I should have took pic's of that shaft but only had two hands.

[robroy]

Good morning BinderNut,

That's incredible! It must be really neat to know that now, you've had a hand in that famous site as well. That's about like doing some foundation work on an Egyptian pyramid!

Robroy

[Ranchero50]

Very cool, I've been in some unusual places and heard stories of others locally. There's an active AT+T bunker over in Frederick County MD that is two 300x300x100' buildings four stories underground, been in that one and it's protected by a vault door that's four feet thick. I have friend who have done work at the underground pentagon, it's pretty interesting as well.

Jamie

[stephen44]

I'd tell you where I've worked ....but then I would have to kill you !

Very neat to see those pictures!

[fireguywtc]

cool stuff!

[FLASH 1]

about 30 years ago we took a tour with our 2 kids down inside the dam.. ++ 2nd picture down I have someplace here that same shot but do not know if they still do that

[bindernut]

Good morning BinderNut,

That's incredible! It must be really neat to know that now, you've had a hand in that famous site as well. That's about like doing some foundation work on an Egyptian pyramid!

Robroy

it is, my has been added to what all those did before me

about 30 years ago we took a tour with our 2 kids down inside the dam.. ++ 2nd picture down I have someplace here that same shot but do not know if they still do that

They do still do a tour, but it's pretty generic....and expensive from what I understand. I did see them running folks through but they didn't come all the way down to the deck where I took that 2nd pic. The tours take you to the generators, but you're on a 2nd level and you don't get really close. I was standing next to them and was able to walk all around them. The smallest HP rating on those was 55,000hp.... the biggest was 70,000 hp. The shafts are 480ft tall!! took a look at their overhead crane too.... 350ton! and the whole place is clean as a whistle. amazing stuff

[bindernut]

Lucky they let us take all the pic's we wanted!

[Mancar1]

Great pics.

[67mann]

Awesome pic's....Heading to Vegas next yr and plan on making a trip to see it with my own two eyes

[champdog]

I went to the damn befor and after 911. befor you could go down and stand next to the turbins like Bindernut said. really cool. Now to get in there, you half to go threw as much security as an airport and as said, your a long ways from the really cool stuff. It is hard to really get the scale of the big stuff. Still really cool and I think worth the cash to get in. When i was there they were building the new bridge. Watching that construction was cool also. Champdog

[bindernut]

I went to the damn befor and after 911. befor you could go down and stand next to the turbins like Bindernut said. really cool. Now to get in there, you half to go threw as much security as an airport and as said, your a long ways from the really cool stuff. It is hard to really get the scale of the big stuff. Still really cool and I think worth the cash to get in. When i was there they were building the new bridge. Watching that construction was cool also. Champdog

Hey Champdog, I'm from Bako!
I live only about 80 miles from the dam....always going up to vegas for work and what not, pretty much saw all phases of the bridge being built. Very awesome in itself. And going to Vegas is so much easier now. My wife and I once sat for 4 hrs trying to get through the dam because of traffic. Even in the dead of night, with no traffic, it took nearly 1/2 hr . Now you cover the same ground in 5 mins all day long.

[dolinick]

About ten years ago in 2001 we took a trip to vegas and went and saw the dam. we took the "hardhat" tour and got to see the turbines and stuff. Back in the nineties when I got my CDL I had to plan a route from Phoenix up to Nevada and didn't realize I was about to drive over the dam. It was really cool driving an 18 wheeler through there. Very tight curves. I didn't know the Hoover Dam was on my route till I got up to it.

[rjewkes]

Did they have a Damn tour, and damn bate and dam...At Nauseum?

[champdog]

Cool Bindernut I seen from a different post that your also from the dale. I lived there too. My parents moved us there in 80 and still have the same house i grew up in. Went to north in 88. Now I'm in the SW.We probably walked the same ground Champdog