Posted on 02/19/2020 8:24:07 AM PST by bitt
Published on Feb 12, 2020
During a trip to Arizona and New Mexico, I filmed the construction of new border wall being built east of Douglas, Arizona. An extremely impressive undertaking.
This video hopes to remind viewers how incredibly innovative & productive our construction industry is. It reminded me of the Alaska Pipeline Project, in which I personally managed a small portion of. After the politics settle, our relationship with Mexico will dramatically improve, the environment will be just fine (as was the environment in Alaska post project), the word "illegal" immigrant will be gone, and in its place increased & rejuvenating legal immigration:
“are the individual sections welded together at the top?”
No. They are aligned with temporary braces until the concrete hardens them in place.
Adding concertina to them is the biggest upgrade against free climbers, and ladder/rope attacks. The Military deployed to the border continue to string concertina - hundreds of miles to be emplaced this fiscal year.
30 footers seriously deter/defeat climbers, just with their height.
Thanks!
Thinden - someone asks on the thread about depth of concrete. I said “10 feet”, is that what you’ve read too?
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this is NOT from an official spec sheet:
One of the CBP contract requests calls for a solid concrete wall, while the other asks for proposals for a see-through structure. Both require the wall to sink at least six feet into the ground and include 25- and 50-foot automated gates for pedestrians and vehicles. The proposed wall must also be built in a such a way that it would take at least an hour to cut through it with a “sledgehammer, car jack, pick axe, chisel, battery operated impact tools, battery operated cutting tools, Oxyacetylene torch or other similar hand-held tools.”
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maybe beaubo can hep us on this???
That quote is from when they were in the prototyping stage - refining requirements and specs.
They they understand the performance characteristics better, after prototype testing.
The bottom Line coming out of prototype testing, is that hey reserve the flexibility to tailor specs on each segment they contract/build. They know the bounds that will meet the kind of functional requirements laid out in the prototype solicitation, and should not approve any design that can’t meet at least those requirements.
Outstanding! Thanks for posting.
Thank you, your knowledge is the best on this topic. I periodically check your comments, always informative (whatever topic).
That quote is from when they were in the prototyping stage - refining requirements and specs.
They they understand the performance characteristics better, after prototype testing.
The bottom Line coming out of prototype testing, is that hey reserve the flexibility to tailor specs on each segment they contract/build. They know the bounds that will meet the kind of functional requirements laid out in the prototype solicitation, and should not approve any design that can’t meet at least those requirements.
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makes sense, beaubo.
pretty much all varies a little?
I guess a lot would depend on substrata where the install it?
how deep would you have to go around tiajuana where they tunnel everywhere?
or, what happens when you hit the water table?
or, in texas, you might hit oil!! lol
“how deep would you have to go around Tijuana where they tunnel everywhere?”
There is a good bit of bedrock around there, so the corridors for tunneling are a minority of the 14 mile span - and they are well known to Border Patrol.
Generally, the soil is deepest there in the lowest elevations.
“what happens when you hit the water table?”
Makes it a lot harder to operate a tunnel - they might need to line the sides and give extra support to the roof, and may have to run pumps. It makes it harder, but not necessarily a showstopper.
Awe-inspiring video that made me proud to be an American. The only problem I had with the video was the videographer’s personal opinion at the end. NO path to citizenship for people who broke our laws to get into the country. NO increase in green cards. There are legal ways to enter the country. USE them.
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