kurt Posted September 2, 2006 Report Share Posted September 2, 2006 Cleaning the Bahai Temple..... I watched for a little while yesterday between jobs. This is all cast concrete set w/white marble dust & stones set into the form before the pour. This is, pretty much, as complex a job of formwork as I could ever imagine. Download Attachment: bahai.jpg 42.31 KB Download Attachment: bahaifar.jpg 62.58 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted September 2, 2006 Report Share Posted September 2, 2006 Kewl! I'd never realized that Chicago had anything like that. One of these days I need to do more than change planes at that airport and get out and look around. OT - OF!!! M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlieb Posted September 2, 2006 Report Share Posted September 2, 2006 It's a must do! I try to leave a day to wander when at CLD, or up visiting my sister. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted September 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 Charlie's right; there's a few things to see in this little town. The Bahai is quite a place; I'm not much of a church goer, but when I go in this place, I get real quiet & understand there's higher powers in this universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 Kurt wrote: I'm not much of a church goer, but when I go in this place, I get real quiet & understand there's higher powers in this universe" Oh man, you've got to take a trip down to the forest of the redwoods. I'm absolutely not a religious person, but when I got up in those woods among those huge trees I could feel something working there. No wonder the native americans revered nature so much. OT - OF!!! M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted September 3, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 Yes, big woods is big. Really big. That's where we should go. We don't have the big trees, but we used to; Traverse Bay was surrounded by Eastern White Pines towering to >300'; history books say went >350 and up to 400'. 150' clear stems to the first branches is historically documentd. Of course, it was such a tiny postage stamp of wonder that the white guys cut it all down in about 10 years; the whole state was clearcut in a matter of 30 years, w/a full 2/3 getting slashed & burned to get @ the remaining primo 1/3 of clear "cork" pine. I think the knowledge of the clearcut is part of what makes me get quiet when I get in big woods. It's testament to what can happen when folks aren't thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted September 3, 2006 Report Share Posted September 3, 2006 I have had the privlidge of spending a good deal of time at the Temple and grounds for many decades. I also am from Northern Michigan and have spent countless hours in the forests. To really put this into context; my grandfather cut the virgin timber, my father cut most of the second cutting harvest and there is no harvest for me! There is a single white pine tree near Grayling (Hartwick Pines Park)that is "original" and a couple of nearby ones that are nearly as old. The original lumbermen left the oak and some cedar that are still around. Makes you think when you know where all the virgin timber is in a state the size of Michigan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terence McCann Posted September 4, 2006 Report Share Posted September 4, 2006 Originally posted by kurt Yes, big woods is big. Really big. That's where we should go. We don't have the big trees, but we used to; Traverse Bay was surrounded by Eastern White Pines towering to >300'; history books say went >350 and up to 400'. 150' clear stems to the first branches is historically documentd. Of course, it was such a tiny postage stamp of wonder that the white guys cut it all down in about 10 years; the whole state was clearcut in a matter of 30 years, w/a full 2/3 getting slashed & burned to get @ the remaining primo 1/3 of clear "cork" pine. I think the knowledge of the clearcut is part of what makes me get quiet when I get in big woods. It's testament to what can happen when folks aren't thinking. Very well put Kurt. We happen to be the present keepers. Along with that brings responsibility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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