Curt Fuller
06-17-2007, 10:18 AM
Every now and then in the mundane life of a cement truck driver you get a chance to be part of a building project that really takes you out of the everyday life most people live.
We've started delivering concrete to a house for a fellow named Howard Hawks. I haven't met him but those on the job say he's just a super nice guy. I believe he owns a company called Tenaska Energy and apparently he does a very good job at what he does. The building lot for this house is 200,000 acres, basically the entire mountain. The house sits on the very top at about 8,800 feet in elevation. The driveway is 7 miles long from the gate to the house. They've just started pouring footings so far but at just under 300 cubic yards we've only done the equipment shed and a footing for a retaining wall between the shed and the house.
These first two pictures are the view from where the house sits. The first is looking straight west. The mountain in the distance is Snow Basin ski resort, where most of the downhill events of the 2002 Olympics were held. The second is looking northwest into the Ogden valley at the towns of Huntsville, Eden, Liberty, and Pineview reservoir.
We've started delivering concrete to a house for a fellow named Howard Hawks. I haven't met him but those on the job say he's just a super nice guy. I believe he owns a company called Tenaska Energy and apparently he does a very good job at what he does. The building lot for this house is 200,000 acres, basically the entire mountain. The house sits on the very top at about 8,800 feet in elevation. The driveway is 7 miles long from the gate to the house. They've just started pouring footings so far but at just under 300 cubic yards we've only done the equipment shed and a footing for a retaining wall between the shed and the house.
These first two pictures are the view from where the house sits. The first is looking straight west. The mountain in the distance is Snow Basin ski resort, where most of the downhill events of the 2002 Olympics were held. The second is looking northwest into the Ogden valley at the towns of Huntsville, Eden, Liberty, and Pineview reservoir.