My Construction Photos > Suction pump and hand pumper manufactured by Rodgers of Baltimore in 1851 and owned by the Friendship Fire Company. It is pumped by several people at either end standing on the ground, facing the machine and by several other people standing on the wood planks on top of the pumper facing outward. The groups at the two ends alternate pushing down and pulling up. Friendship Firehouse Museum, Alexandria, Virginia, November 2006.
My Construction Photos > Railroad construction/ maintenance: Rairoad hand car used by 1 to 4 people to propell themselves along rails to inspect and repair small problems. Columbia Gorge Discovery Center, The Dalles, Oregon, 2005.
My Construction Photos > Construction cranes: Mobile Crane Hand Signals.
My Construction Photos > Landscape construction: Laborer uses hand rake to smooth sloped wall of runoff water catchment. Sams Club, Ann Arbor, 2003.
My Construction Photos > Landscape construction: Laborer uses hand rake to smooth sloped wall of runoff water catchment. Sams Club, Ann Arbor, 2003.
My Construction Photos > Stadium construction: Reconstruction of spectator seating. Upper portion is new seating.  Left middle is demolished old concrete, waiting for removal.  Workers at mid-right are hand grading soil base for new concrete seating base. Formwork for new concrete base is being erected in lower section of seating area. The Big House, Michigan Stadium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004.
My Construction Photos > Stihl TS400 gasoline engine powered masonry cut-off saw with diamond cutting wheel (circular saw blade) to cut units and small segments of concrete, asphalt, and masonry. Depot Street, Ann Arbor, 2004.
Suction pump and hand pumper manufactured by Rodgers of Baltimore in 1851 and owned by the Friendship Fire Company. It is pumped by several people at either end standing on the ground, facing the machine and by several other people standing on the wood planks on top of the pumper facing outward. The groups at the two ends alternate pushing down and pulling up. Friendship Firehouse Museum, Alexandria, Virginia, November 2006.
My Construction Photos > Suction pump and hand pumper manufactured by Rodgers of Baltimore in 1851 and owned by the Friendship Fire Company. It is pumped by several people at either end standing on the ground, facing the machine and by several other people standing on the wood planks on top of the pumper facing outward. The groups at the two ends alternate pushing down and pulling up. Friendship Firehouse Museum, Alexandria, Virginia, November 2006.
Suction pump and hand pumper manufactured by Rodgers of Baltimore in 1851 and owned by the Friendship Fire Company. It is pumped by several people at either end standing on the ground, facing the machine and by several other people standing on the wood planks on top of the pumper facing outward. The groups at the two ends alternate pushing down and pulling up. Friendship Firehouse Museum, Alexandria, Virginia, November 2006.
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