Masonry Magazine February 1965 Page. 20
Above: A twenty-five ton truck crane was used to hoist the granite on the first sight floors of the structure. Note the scaffold and how it provides the bricklayers with a safe, efficient working platform.
Right: Close up view of the scaffold especially designed and fabricated by the Herman L. May Co. for this project. This scaffold was moved from floor to floor by the crane as the crew completed the anchoring of the granite.
Unique port of the granite installation on the Albuquerque project came after the eighth floor when hoisting the panels became a critical problem. Turner Smith, Vice President, Herman L. May Co. designed an unusual base section, and Jim Moeller, project superintendent, with Paul Stone, Mobile Steel Co. collaborating finalized the design. Stone than fabricated the base in his Albuquerque shop. The unit has four clusters of 16 wheels each. Each cluster of wheels is connected to a single hydraulic jack. To move the unit, it is raised up until the weight is on the wheels. To make the unit self-propelled a piece of drive chain was anchored to each end of the building. On the base unit a 1/3 h.p. motor was installed with a reduction gear and sprocket drive chain. To move the unit then was simple-the hydraulic jack was used to put the weight of the unit on the wheels and the electrical motor then pulled the unit along the drive chain. Unit moved at the speed of three feet per minute.
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MASONRY
February, 1965