After removing all the cross members from the 53-foot drop deck trailer, Dustin George and the crew installed all new steel cross members. In the photo below, Wade Kephart is welding one of the pieces. Dustin has been away this week caring for his wife and their brand new baby girl, Anna.
Visit our booth on Monday, October 5 at the Greater Buffalo BOMA “Prosperity Buffalo” trade show at the Adams Mark Hotel in Buffalo. We’ll be in booth #17.
Admission is free!
For more info, visit the BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) website at http://www.bomabuffalo.com/index2.html
The first step in repairing the 53-foot drop deck trailer is to remove all the cross members. In the photo below, MGE employee Dustin George is cutting off the cross members with the torch. After all the cross members are removed, the trailer will be ready for sandblasting.
At Maple Grove Enterprises, we love a challenge! It’s a darn good thing, because the 53-foot drop deck trailer that limped into our parking lot today is in the worst shape that we’ve ever seen. Aaron “Reggie” Mayer, whose jobs at Maple Grove Enterprises include outside sales and industrial coating, described what we’ll have to do to resurrect the trailer:
“Initial sandblasting, repair, and then painting. It’ll need custom fabrication of tool boxes and modifications to add a head rack, while at the same time replacing all of the cross members. It also requires a full sandblast and a full 3-coat system paint job.”
We’ll post regular updates on our progress. While our “extreme makeover” will take quite a bit more than a week to accomplish and is unlikely to draw cheering crowds, it will be a thing of beauty when we’re done. Stay posted!
Back in February, we talked in this blog about updating a chemical plant within their budget. Now, all systems are go for August when the plant shuts down for maintenance.
One of the jobs Maple Grove Enterprises will be performing for them is to update their truck loading containment pad. The 1280-square-feet pad not only has to stand up to the acids and other chemicals produced by the plant, but also to heavy tractor-trailer traffic.
Our crew will first remove the failed polyurea liner on the pad and then repair the concrete with an epoxy mortar. Finally, we will apply 80 mils of Premium Liquid Rubber cold-sprayed applied instant-set membrane system that creates a monolithic seamless membrane. We will seed the rubber with roofing granules, which will enable it to hold up to the intense truck traffic.
