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[Master Yoda]

OK, so keeping things in terms of what one would see around WDW....are monorail pylons 4K? or just the legendary footings? What of the legs holding up SSE, I know I saw some pic where they appeared to be steel skeletons, but were they wrapped in concrete later? What attraction around the property has the deepest poured support?

I believe that the monorail beams were a custom concrete, but @Tom would know for sure.

If I am not mistaken, the legs that you see on spaceship earth are concrete encased steel girders attached to friction piles.

I am also pretty sure that SSE has the record for the deepest foundation at 189' +/- (@marni1971 will know the exact number right off the top of his head)

 

[ABQ]

Dang, that's pretty deep, but not surprising in the swamp. Nice picture too, even during construction always having a toilet within short walking distance.

 

[danlb_2000]

I believe that the monorail beams were a custom concrete, but @Tom would know for sure.

If I am not mistaken, the legs that you see on spaceship earth are concrete encased steel girders attached to friction piles.

I am also pretty sure that SSE has the record for the deepest foundation at 189' +/- (@marni1971 will know the exact number right off the top of his head)

Is that a photo of the SSE construction? Pretty cool if it is, I haven't seen that one before.

 

[Master Yoda]

Is that a photo of the SSE construction? Pretty cool if it is, I haven't seen that one before.

I am honestly not sure if it is. The site claimed it was, but it looks a bit off to me.

edit: Here is a picture that I am sure is SSE and it does seem to match up.

 

[ABQ]

I think it may be. Found this similar one as well.

And if you compare to this one, it seems to match up.

Sorry, not trying to hijack the thread, but until @photoflight or @Scuttle get their wings off the ground again, what else can we do?

 

[jdmdisney99]

Also, notice the monorail tracks in the left background of the photo.

I believe that the monorail beams were a custom concrete, but @Tom would know for sure.

If I am not mistaken, the legs that you see on spaceship earth are concrete encased steel girders attached to friction piles.

I am also pretty sure that SSE has the record for the deepest foundation at 189' +/- (@marni1971 will know the exact number right off the top of his head)

 

[FLFQTR]

pour did not happen today inspection issues it's scheduled for tomorrow

 

[twebber55]

pour did not happen today inspection issues it's scheduled for tomorrow

thanks for your updates

 

[marni1971]

Yep, they're all pics of SSE in early 1980

SSE... I'm not sure if American Adventures war wagon beat it. I want to say the latter goes 200+. SSE is about 180ft down as well as up.

 

[FLFQTR]

we are rolling

 

[George]

I am honestly not sure if it is. The site claimed it was, but it looks a bit off to me.

edit: Here is a picture that I am sure is SSE and it does seem to match up.

Ummm....I'm pretty sure that is If You Had Wings......

 

[dstrawn9889]

the table picture well above is he load structure for SSE, viewed from the communicore side. you can see the monorail beamway in background, where the living seas would be. form this picture then, the upper 70% geodesic will sit on top of the 'table' and the lower 30% geodesic will hang from it.

 

[twebber55]

we are rolling

could you tell us where

 

[dstrawn9889]

on the floor

 

[JEANYLASER]

 

[RSoxNo1]

4,000 seems to be the norm, but he'll have a heck of a slump since that first truck will be the one who sits and waits, and waits, and waits, all while hydrating the load until it's soup.

When do the pretty floating rocks show up?

 

[unkadug]

When do the pretty floating rocks show up?

The floating rocks will have nets and support poles. Can't have anything that may look like it may fall on a guest.

 

[Hakunamatata]

The floating rocks will have nets and support poles. Can't have anything that may look like it may fall on a guest.

My guess is that the vast majority of the "perspectives" will make them look like they float, but there will be a small area of perspective that it will be evident that they don't, that they will try to hide by foliage, water falls, etc?
***and let me qualify "guess" to mean, I think I read that somewhere.....

 

[AndyMagic]

we are rolling

Yeah this baby is rolling alright. It's rolling like a Ford Pinto in neutral being pushed by an 80-year old grandfather with osteoporosis down I-95 from Maine down to Florida. By the time it finishes rolling and comes to a stop in 2017 we'll all get to marvel at its old technology borrowed from a Disney's California Adventure ride from 2001! Whoohooo!!!!

 

[Bolt]

My guess is that the vast majority of the "perspectives" will make them look like they float, but there will be a small area of perspective that it will be evident that they don't, that they will try to hide by foliage, water falls, etc?
***and let me qualify "guess" to mean, I think I read that somewhere.....

Wait - so this stuff won't actually float...?