Masonry Magazine May 1970 Page. 34
People & Events...
(Continued from page 8) and letters coming for they help the time go by. It is easy to be critical. The real test is to come up with constructive alternatives.
James G. Gross has been appointed Director of Engineering and Research for Precast Systems, Inc., according to Millard O. Pierce, President. Mr. Gross will direct all technical activities of PSI, which is the national marketing and development arm of forty major producers of prestressed and precast concrete products.
The appointment of John T. Guthrie as Manager of Technical Sales has been announced by James B. Prendergast, President of Material Service Corp., Chicago, a subsidiary of General Dynamics. Bill "Mac" Terry has joined the staff of Region 12, SCPI. in Denver, Colo., as Mason Relations Representative.
Truth is not only stranger than fiction these days it's a lot cleaner, too.
Gert W. Haenzel has been appointed general product manager for MF Industrial and Construction Machinery, Akron, Ohio. The announcement was made by Carrol G. Turk, director marketing. Scott L. Probasco, Jr., Chattanooga, has been elected to the Board of Directors of General Portland Cement Co....Zell Div., Light Weight Aggregates Corp. has appointed Frank E. LaFave as their Chicago Regional Manager.
Wisdom only comes with experience and experience only comes with time.
Richard Sweet has joined the staff of Finan Publishing Co., St. Louis, as Sales Manager. He has been connected with masonry.
MORGEN Scaffolding Saves Contractor $200 Per Day
"The bricklayer's hourly scale is such anymore that it is imperative that his time is properly utilized while he is on the job," says Francis Meyer, who heads Meyer Masonry Construction Co., Leavenworth, Kansas. And Meyer is doing just that with Morgen Scaffolding on the Rosencrans Airport in St. Joseph, Mo.
Meyer says the advantage of the tower type scaffolding is that it brings the platforms to the exact height needed quickly and easily with a foot-operated winch. Consequently, the scaffolding is set only one time and does not have to be reset until the wall is finished. The bricklayer is always working at his most productive height and there is no rehandling of planking or material.
The airport has a 16" wall-a 12" block and brick facing. The job requires laying up the block to full height, and then putting on the face brick. With Morgen, he simply lowered the carriages to the ground for the brick-a much simpler operation than he would have had with frame scaffolding.
Meyer is using 142 feet of Morgen Scaffolding 20'6" high, with ten masons. He feels that the scaffolding has allowed him to reduce his wall cost by about $200 a day.
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