The Cranesville Guy
Title
The Cranesville Guy
Subject
roseman:visitors_2017
Description
When the guy from Cranesville finally got here and started pouring the concrete, everything went wrong. First, pebbles started coming out, and then overly thick concrete started coming down the chute, which soon got totally stuck at the top of the chute. The Cranesville guy kept hosing water up and into the chute while Charlie used a hoe to try and dig out the concrete. This eventually worked, and the whole time the Cranesville guy was hosing the concrete so what we got was a mix of too dry and too wet. I wasn't impressed with the guy's troubleshooting ability. The next day I checked the concrete and it did have small cracks in it. I am hopeful that when the tree is cable to the loop that it will hold. I think it probably will. Marc Briscoe welded an apparatus with a loop on top to be put in the concrete, which went into the hole that Darren and Jean Jean Dug. To that hook would be attached cable, the other end of which would be put around the trunk of the tree that's crushing my barn studio. The Cranesville kept saying they gave him a crappy truck, and that it wasn't the truck he was used to, and it was making him look like a rookie.
Creator
Roseman, Harry
Publisher
Online collection published by Vassar College Libraries, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Date
2017-09-27
Format
1 photograph
Type
Text
Identifier
roseman_8512
Collection
Citation
Roseman, Harry, “The Cranesville Guy,” Harry Roseman: A Chronicle, accessed October 4, 2026, https://roseman.vassarspaces.net/items/show/18613.