Extreme Skinning - Whats The Largest Thing You Have Skinned?
Never thought about it before, but my job is basically skinning.
Sunday, July 22, 2007 by Ingui | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Hey Everybody,
Just wanted to share something I am very proud of. I am the senior Project Manager for a Design / Build Firm on Long Island, NY. Our work is creating luxury outdoor living spaces (pools, spas, decks, patios, kitchens, ponds, streams and waterfalls, landscapes, etc.)
We started this project last year on the north shore of Long Island. Nothing but grass and overgrown shrubs overlooking Long Island Sound.
Pretty boring. Until we "skinned" it. 100 Cubic Yards of demolition debris, steel reinforced concrete pool walls, thousands of feet of underground pipe and conduits, 75 tons of moss rock boulders, 150 Cubic Yards of Recycled Concrete Aggregate, Over 4,000 Sq Ft of Brick Pavers, Dozens of Pallets of Masonry materials and 4 Trailers of Landscape materials, Trees, shrubs, sod , compost and mulch.
Everything about this job was extreme: The Pool Design with its built in Bar Stools and Multi level floor, the vanishing edge and spill over spa, the in floor cleaning system with built in leaf traps, color changing lights, heating, salt/chlorine generator and all fully automated and remote controlled.
The site itself, with its steep grade changes and precipitous drop over the sound. And the amount of material I needed to coordinate and move into what is actually not a very large site with limited access.
Anyway, enough trumpet blowing. Here are some pics of the fully "skinned" project. Most of these photos were taken by me messing around with the Panorama Option on my camera so you may notice some seems and a funky looking horizon. But they still present the job very nicely...
And finally, at night, when the landscape lighting comes on, the natural gas campfires are lit, the pool lights are cycling and Connecticut lights up across the Sound.
I am very proud of this project, the time and effort I put into it, and the work all my men and all the subs did on it. The finishing of this project also comes as my season slows for a bit until September. I may now look forward to having the time to get back to Skinning the way we know it here at WC.
So... What's the largest thing you have skinned or what else have you skinned, besides your PC?
Just wanted to share something I am very proud of. I am the senior Project Manager for a Design / Build Firm on Long Island, NY. Our work is creating luxury outdoor living spaces (pools, spas, decks, patios, kitchens, ponds, streams and waterfalls, landscapes, etc.)
We started this project last year on the north shore of Long Island. Nothing but grass and overgrown shrubs overlooking Long Island Sound.
Pretty boring. Until we "skinned" it. 100 Cubic Yards of demolition debris, steel reinforced concrete pool walls, thousands of feet of underground pipe and conduits, 75 tons of moss rock boulders, 150 Cubic Yards of Recycled Concrete Aggregate, Over 4,000 Sq Ft of Brick Pavers, Dozens of Pallets of Masonry materials and 4 Trailers of Landscape materials, Trees, shrubs, sod , compost and mulch.
Everything about this job was extreme: The Pool Design with its built in Bar Stools and Multi level floor, the vanishing edge and spill over spa, the in floor cleaning system with built in leaf traps, color changing lights, heating, salt/chlorine generator and all fully automated and remote controlled.
The site itself, with its steep grade changes and precipitous drop over the sound. And the amount of material I needed to coordinate and move into what is actually not a very large site with limited access.
Anyway, enough trumpet blowing. Here are some pics of the fully "skinned" project. Most of these photos were taken by me messing around with the Panorama Option on my camera so you may notice some seems and a funky looking horizon. But they still present the job very nicely...
And finally, at night, when the landscape lighting comes on, the natural gas campfires are lit, the pool lights are cycling and Connecticut lights up across the Sound.
I am very proud of this project, the time and effort I put into it, and the work all my men and all the subs did on it. The finishing of this project also comes as my season slows for a bit until September. I may now look forward to having the time to get back to Skinning the way we know it here at WC.
So... What's the largest thing you have skinned or what else have you skinned, besides your PC?
vStyler
Reply #2 Sunday, July 22, 2007 7:23 PM
Reply #2 Sunday, July 22, 2007 7:23 PM
Now thats extreme skinning..I'll stick to WB thank you very much!
but wow , what a great job you did , impressive!
but wow , what a great job you did , impressive!
firebrick
Reply #3 Sunday, July 22, 2007 8:04 PM
Reply #3 Sunday, July 22, 2007 8:04 PM
Really nice work! looks like a million bucks!! or it takes that to live there. 
Jafo
Reply #4 Sunday, July 22, 2007 8:48 PM
Reply #4 Sunday, July 22, 2007 8:48 PM
I did a shop drawing for a factory once....that if you laid the purlins end to end they'd have stretched 5 miles....
...but my biggest project was probably the 27 room Motel, restaurant and conference center. [most of what I do is domestic/residential]....
J. Aroche
Reply #5 Sunday, July 22, 2007 9:00 PM
Reply #5 Sunday, July 22, 2007 9:00 PM
Wow, awesome job man! but I don't have that kind of big "skinning" plans for the moment hehe
HG_Eliminator
Reply #6 Sunday, July 22, 2007 9:15 PM
Reply #6 Sunday, July 22, 2007 9:15 PM
My biggest project....WWW Link
heres a couple of pics from my archives.. these are just sites 1 and seven, of 13 total sections we rebuilt ...
heres a couple of pics from my archives.. these are just sites 1 and seven, of 13 total sections we rebuilt ...
elvee
Reply #8 Sunday, July 22, 2007 10:10 PM
Reply #8 Sunday, July 22, 2007 10:10 PM
I skinned a five and a half foot, 86lb Drum Fish. The scales were as big as poker chips and thicker than a guitar pick. I needed a serrated medical knife to skin that baby!
Nice skin job you've done!
starkers
Reply #9 Monday, July 23, 2007 3:28 AM
Reply #9 Monday, July 23, 2007 3:28 AM
First wife asked me to apply some hair removal stuff to her lower belly - supposedly to trim the top of her bikini line.....must've left it on a little long cos when I peeled it off....
Well you get the picture...there was enough skin to cover John Bonham's drum kit once or twice, with enough left over for a medium sized tent.
Nah, wasn't quite that bad....but she sure did yelp when it came off.
Well you get the picture...there was enough skin to cover John Bonham's drum kit once or twice, with enough left over for a medium sized tent.
Nah, wasn't quite that bad....but she sure did yelp when it came off.
Quentin94
Reply #10 Monday, July 23, 2007 3:36 AM
Reply #10 Monday, July 23, 2007 3:36 AM
I skinned my home 
but it's a more little thought
Good job so far
but it's a more little thought Good job so far
2of3
Reply #11 Monday, July 23, 2007 3:38 AM
I once started to pluck a goose that wasn't dead (turned out he was just knocked out) have we gotten off subject?
Reply #11 Monday, July 23, 2007 3:38 AM
wasn't as dead as I thought when I started.
I once started to pluck a goose that wasn't dead (turned out he was just knocked out) have we gotten off subject?
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #12 Monday, July 23, 2007 3:50 AM
Reply #12 Monday, July 23, 2007 3:50 AM
The Cottage Pie I made yesterday had a skin on it
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Reply #1 Sunday, July 22, 2007 6:57 PM
(he was dead by then)
also done two 11 footers and an 8 footer
turns out one of the 11s wasn't as dead as I thought when I started.