Work starts on new section of border wall in Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (Arizona)

Arizona Public Media ^ | 24 July 2020 | Alisa Reznick

[hal ogen]

Doesn’t Dan Millis realize that birds can fly? What a pathetic joke and loser this nitwit is.

[BeauBo]

“IIRC fisher also has a 30 mile run on the other side of TON also. That would be active first and may have led to the higher mileage.”

Let’s hope so. Then this new start might double last week’s jump!

This article was not precise about when work started on this segment, so I am not sure where last week’s jump came from.

We should see more new crews getting to work over the next several months, and the pace keep picking up - there is a flood of money to be put to work.

[BeauBo]

“Doesn’t look high enough.”

That is some 18 footers. They deter/defeat most people, but not the young studs. Most of the new stuff going in nowadays are 30 footers. They are even intimidating to fit teenagers who practice a lot on these bollards.

When they put the anti-climb plates on top of 30 footers, and run a few rolls of concertina along the top, you are getting into the range for circus acrobats, and International jewel thieves.

[waterhill]

So it is a ‘cap’.

Been there bro. Another time, another place. That is all I can say.

Looks like crap anyways.

Steel forms last longer. More bang for the buck.

[SteveH]

interesting, thanks for the update as always

[BeauBo]

Oh, the forms.

I thought you were criticizing the design.

Maybe they just made do with what they could pick up locally, because they were coming from out of State (especially far, when that State is Texas), and wanted to cut costs.

[BeauBo]

"IIRC Fisher also has a 30 mile run on the other side of TON also. That would be active first and may have led to the higher mileage."

I did see some photos of that other Fisher run (West of TON), that showed them under construction when the President visited Yuma, on June 23rd. I did not see any article that announced when they broke ground though. That run is under the earlier awarded ~$400 million dollar contract, where Fisher is a sub-contractor or partner, rather than Prime.

They may have gotten to work as soon as the first folks arrived, but not gotten up to full speed until the main body arrived and got set up.

Also, it has now been about two months since the Government seems to have stopped announcing new contract awards, handling new awards as modifications or task orders under existing contracts. That is long enough that new work could have been awarded, and new crews arrived and started work, without media notice - especially in very rural areas, during a time of pandemic, riots and election season. So whole new segments may be underway, under the radar.

In several cases though, contractor modifications were awarded more miles with this year's money, to contracts from last year. So the same contractors remain in the same area, and just have more miles to do. Even locals might not notice a change, and assume that any activity was still just the original job.

But because of the different periods of performance in the different awards, the contractor might manage them separately (kind of have to), and add additional new crews to start working the new awards, rather than waiting for the existing crews to catch up to the start point of the new run.

Many of the awards from last year had multiple crews working the same contract, at different points anyway, and they keep shifting around, coming and going as they progress. I guess there are about three dozen crews shifting around. New crews could easily be assumed to just be one of the existing ones, jumping to a new location.

It seems to me that there is a clear emphasis in this Program on expediting the work - performance awards for timely delivery and double shifts are the norm. There are billions in play for new awards between now and the end of the year, so I anticipate that contractors will be leaning forward hard to get their numbers up, to compete for those new awards, before the party is over. Based on the amount of new work to be awarded this year (a huge surge), I anticipate a lot of new crews joining effort, like another dozen or two, maybe more. There is a real race vibe nowadays - kind of a boom feel in that business.

[BeauBo]

“And where are the sharks with fricken’ lasers on their heads?”

They get Bull Sharks coming up into the Rio Grande, but so far, only the low tech ones have been spotted.

[Grampa Dave]

BeauBo?

How hard would it be to seal off BLM/Antifa areas in Seattle, Portland, Chicago, ????? with our new wall building skills. Then really make those areas, No Go Areas!

[BeauBo]

Those BLM/Antifa kids just need some tough love to straighten up and fly right.

Like 5-20 years in a Federal Penitentiary.