The QBP art wall, log of production phase.

Week 0

Thursday, November 16th

The signing and with materials check in hand. I ordered the ring roller.

Friday, November 17th

Ordered the Copper

Week 1

Tuesday, November 20th

hey enough already
Carey Weisner takes a break from getting us organized (Hey, enough with the camera already) Rich Maslowski texturing copper on the pullmax.

Carey, Rich, and I cleared out the shop and got the materials ordered..Rich got the forklift running , the storage trailer has arrived. Carey started a reference grid on the floor.

Saturday, November 24th

I finished the floor grid and seal coated the floor with acrylic wax so we wouldn't wear it off too fast.

Sunday, November 25th

I assembled storage racks, and resealed the floor.

Week 2

Monday, November 27th

Purchaced consumables, argon, stainless wire, tips
Ordered Stainless tube to be picked up Tuesday; we will need more, this is as much as I could land at the best price.

Tuesday, November 28th

Rich, Carey and I met at the QBP site to take measurements. (in the rain)
After a morning's cold shower, we retired to the shop.
Carey assembled the ring roller while Rich and I went and got the steel tubing.
Carey secured the rack to the wall and we moved the steel inside.

Wednesday, November 29th

Rich and Carey split wood for the furnace.

The copper arrived on two skids. 2300# each.

Carey and Rich built the stainless frames for the pine trees.

I ordered relays for the motor we had found for the ring roller and worked on drawings.
We laid out the outlines for the deciduous trees as well .

Thursday, November 30th

We finished the last pine tree frame and started laying out the big S curve section for the North wall.

Inch to the foot map to one component

I printed out an inch to the foot map and then started full scale patterns which we have laid out and taped together. We are using it like a scoll, unrolling to the section we need and placing it on the floor grid. The S curve is about 136ft end to end. and just over 4 ft wide at the center.
We knew we needed more steel. and today we ordered more, to be delivered on Monday. We started cutting copper and texturing roadbed panels.

Friday, December 1st

Carey lays out the full scale patterns, cuts the copper and then marks the location on the scale drawing.

More full scale printouts created and taped together; more panels cut, and textured.
Ordered 11,000 copper rivets. Started taking pictures.
I finally got the motor to reverse properly after finding out Graingers had sent us a bad part, the coil was DOA in the relay. Ring Roller with the motor installed

Saturday, December 2nd

Started this web log.

Week 3

Monday, December 4th

The rest of the steel arrived and I moved it in onto the rack.

The North wall swoop begins to take shape.

Tuesday, December 5th

We repositioned the roller to work laterally and began bending the North wall S curve.
Rich continues to texture the "roadway" copper.
Working on the plans for the mountings.

Wednesday, December 6th

Week 4

Monday, Dec 11

Meeting with Nordquist about install.

Thrursday, Dec 14th

Started the full scale jig for mounting the sculpture.

Friday, Dec 15th

Drawings to catch up

Week 5

Monday, Dec 17th

Spent working on drawings locating all the mount points on the north wall

Tuesday, Dec 18th

More texturing and jig building, cut and drilled all the mounting plates for the road on the north wall.

Wednesday, Dec 19th

mounted in shop pieces onto the jig

Thursday, Dec 21

Cary asked for an update of the website, and then hides.

Brought in the first pieces and mounted those on the jig.

Friday, Dec 22

the road drilling jig has bridges in it sot it fits over the downspouts

Got the Copper for the first section of road ready

Copper ready to anneal so we can wrap it around the road frames