Official FALMER WEBCAM Merged Threads

[Everest]

Good work and stunning photos NJ.

I've just got in from a 2 hr photographic stint myself.
Been all round the outside (including the north side of the A27), been up the Drove and the top end of Ditchling Rd looking down at the stadium.
Bloody marvellous.

Look out for the photo thread very soon.

 

[Scoffers]

Any likelihood of the middle section going up this week NJ?

thanks!

 

[natterjack]

Any likelihood of the middle section going up this week NJ?

thanks!

Tomorrow

 

[Gritt23]

Marvellous scenes.

 

[Scoffers]

Tomorrow

It's official, I won't get any work done tomorrow !

 

[Hunting 784561]

Tomorrow

I am liking this vey much

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Penny has suddenly dropped for me. Just been looking at Everest's pictures from this morning and I can see how this whole roof thing holds together now (I think).

The arch is exactly that. It's a fancy shape but it's an arch never the less. The roof will hang from under it.

Some of the roof will be back over the main part of the stand (the new steels they have been attaching in the last couple of days. This is anchored at the back of the stand.

The rest of the roof will be sticking out over the seats towards the pitch. The beams for this have yet to be added. This is all part of the same roof, all suspended under the beam. So as this sticks out over the seats/pitch it will be pulling downwards. However, the far end is anchorded onto the stand, so it stops the roof from tipping downward towards the seats. Very clever stuff really.

Imagine a see-saw. One end is anchored down (by a heavy kid say) so the far end is up in the air and stays there as long as the big kid doesn't get off (the equivalent of the anchors all failing on the Falmer roof).

I'm sure everybody else understood this, but until just now I couldn't see how it would work. My technical drawing scanned below - showing cut through stand. Steel beam suspended under the arch; anchored at one end to the stand; hanging out and pulling down over the seats at the other; pivoting on the arch but not moving because it's anchored in place by the stand (the fat kid)!

 

[Martinf]

Penny has suddenly dropped for me. Just been looking at Everest's pictures from this morning and I can see how this whole roof thing holds together now (I think).

The arch is exactly that. It's a fancy shape but it's an arch never the less. The roof will hang from under it.

Some of the roof will be back over the main part of the stand (the new steels they have been attaching in the last couple of days. This is anchored at the back of the stand.

The rest of the roof will be sticking out over the seats towards the pitch. The beams for this have yet to be added. This is all part of the same roof, all suspended under the beam. So as this sticks out over the seats/pitch it will be pulling downwards. However, the far end is anchorded onto the stand, so it stops the roof from tipping downward towards the seats. Very clever stuff really.

Imagine a see-saw. One end is anchored down (by a heavy kid say) so the far end is up in the air and stays there as long as the big kid doesn't get off (the equivalent of the anchors all failing on the Falmer roof).

I'm sure everybody else understood this, but until just now I couldn't see how it would work. My technical drawing scanned below - showing cut through stand. Steel beam suspended under the arch; anchored at one end to the stand; hanging out and pulling down over the seats at the other; pivoting on the arch but not moving because it's anchored in place by the stand (the fat kid)!

Do you know the fat kid? I'd like to shake his flabby hand.

 

[Everest]

You should have been an engineer!

Except the roof goes all the way to the back of the stand otherwise people on the top floor (inside) would get wet.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Do you know the fat kid? I'd like to shake his flabby hand.

Perhaps we can call the East Stand "Jamie" (no, don't go there...)

 

[strings]

Can TRHK's technical drawings become a regular feature? I enjoyed that

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

Can TRHK's technical drawings become a regular feature? I enjoyed that

Alternatively, there's always Martin Perry and his pre-tensioned and stressed banana.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

This is the picture that Everest took that made it clearer to me:

 

[Gritt23]

Do you know the fat kid? I'd like to shake his flabby hand.

You wouldn't! The handshake would turn into a vice-like grip, before he then bends your arm behind your back in the traditional "I'm gonna break it" position, until you give him your dinner money.

How else do you suppose he got so fat that he can hold the whole roof up on a see-saw?

So, don't try shaking his hand, just console yourself that you spent years cheering him on at left back.

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

On another issue entirely, how was the arch 'adjusted' as it remained in situ all along? Surely not by the traditional method, of bashing it with a club hammer? Anyone know?

 

[Martinf]

You wouldn't! The handshake would turn into a vice-like grip, before he then bends your arm behind your back in the traditional "I'm gonna break it" position, until you give him your dinner money.

How else do you suppose he got so fat that he can hold the whole roof up on a see-saw?

So, don't try shaking his hand, just console yourself that you spent years cheering him on at left back.

Thanks for the advice. You're right - the sweaty, lardy-hand with fat, sausage like fingers would best be avoided.

 

[Gazwag]

16:45 the crane is starting to let go

 

[Everest]

This is the picture that Everest took that made it clearer to me:

Glad to be of help. I suppose you want me to post pictures of a penis and a vagina now so you can get that cleared up too?

 

[Gazwag]

Its just gravity now

 

[Martinf]

Its just gravity now

The 5pm photo is superb!