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Saw the old city hall plaza downtown getting repaved. The crew was using a ride-on trowel on a slab that must have been 80 yards.
Made me think about how we used to do everything by hand with fresnos and jitterbugs on jobs that size. My first foreman, Sal, would have called that machine cheating. But watching them, they had that finish glass-smooth in what, twenty minutes? It was impressive, but part of me misses the quiet of a big, flat pour at dawn with just the sound of a magnesium float. Do you guys ever get that feeling, or is it just me being an old timer?
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wendy1312d ago
Read about that... the quiet is gone now.
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hollyl251d ago
My street used to be silent after 10pm. Now there's always a siren or a car alarm. It really does feel like the quiet got turned off.
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jamie9401d ago
Used to think cities just got louder over time, but @hollyl25 is right about the quiet being turned off. My old apartment had that same dead silence at night, and now it's constant noise. It's not just more people, it feels like the background hum of everything got cranked up. When did you first notice it changing?
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