Massey Construction
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Welcome to our future home in Massey Maryland!

Mike Thrift began breaking ground this December for the new plant.  We are setting the stage for a High Tech - High Efficiency - Environmentally Friendly facility.  Mike and his crew has been stabilizing the ground and building the platform for the new facility.

 

 

 

 

 Bob Russell and his survey crew have been working to make sure the site is graded in accordance with the approved plan.  This will direct the facility's rainfall runoff into the storm water management basin and thereby ensure that any waterborne particulates the runoff may pickup will be carried to the basin and accumulate there rather than be carried off-site. 

 

Donald Carlisle in his Volvo A35C off road truck has been bringing in the fill needed to bring the site up to grade.   Bill Crouch on his D6H CAT Hytrak dozer has been pushing the fill into the proper position so Jim Lewis the Ingersoll Rand compactor can make it hard and flat.

 Watch out Mike.  They are on a mission.  Multiple off road trucks make moving the fill an efficient operation.  The dry weather has allowed for the site to be prepared in short order.   
The CAT D30D Off Road Truck is sure to keep up with the Volvo. No egos involved here!  Each off road truck is able to carry almost twice what could be moved in a standard 10 wheeled dump truck.  This means fewer trips and greater efficiency.

Things start taking shape!!!!

 When it was time to start the layout of the equipment, our chief surveyor Bob Russell gave the site a quick blessing.  Roger Lewis posed with a very patriotic hard hat while checking the blocks out for the new laboratory.
 Everyone was working hard to figure out the best configuration of the equipment and wiring.  Gene Ingram and Roger studied the layout of the silo bases over and over.  Mike Thrift and Teddy Kimble of ET Kimble & Co. talk about various options for the power supply and control house.
There seems to be miles of wiring to be done.  Conduits are strategically placed from the control house to all the units of the plant.  Separate ground wires are run to keep the whole site at the same potential.
The containment facility for the liquid asphalt tanks has a lot of steel and concrete in it.  Mike Thrift made a special apparatus to place the 12 pads that hold the 30,000 gal. tank perfectly level and securely. 
Everyone is happy to see the first piece of equipment arrive at the site.  The truck scales are the first to make it.  Mike Thrift Jr. was one of the first to see them. 
The quality control lab is under construction as Rodger Kibler works on removing the spacing apparatus for the asphalt tanks.