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Hello, everyone. It's Enta here. I finished it! It's another hopper, though, lol. I'm going to take it to Nagano now to paint it. You can probably tell this hopper has a slightly different shape than usual, right? This is a cement hopper for silos...

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. The other day, I received a photo like this from one of our job sites! They’re drilling right through a tree, lol. This is a real challenge in every aspect—from setting up the equipment to the drilling itself, isn’t it? I’m sure you’ve all encountered situations like this at your own job sites. At times like this…

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. Do you use water meters? Lately, I’ve been seeing them used quite often in ground anchor construction projects and for shotcrete work. I even tried using one at a job site I was working on the other day. The reason is that if the general contractor awards points for innovative ideas, I try to use them as much as possible…

Hello, everyone. It’s Enta here. I ended up buying more lol—four of them, no less lol. We’ll start assembling the formwork next week. I was working on the bottom reinforcement this week, but it went so incredibly fast that I just had to buy more! Ideally, a beginner (using a tie-off machine) and a veteran (…

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. The other day, I was talking with the site manager at one of our locations about possible innovative solutions for the future. One of our Vietnamese employees recently had an accident. Although the injury was classified as a non-lost-time injury, he had a minor cut on his finger, so we reported it and sent him to the hospital. …

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. How do you go about positioning ground anchors during installation? I get asked about this quite often, so I thought I’d write about it this time. The drawings are actually quite vague on this point. That said, when it comes to the design cross-section…

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. Regarding the bolt scale, I’ve actually discovered that it can’t be used with flat caps! It’s basically designed to be inserted into the head of a rebar. That’s the standard setup, but what about flat caps where the rebar isn’t protruding? Like this…

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. You know those rubber sheaths used in rebar insertion work, right? Like this one. Do you use them? I remove them whenever possible when placing an order. Since those things aren’t really necessary anymore, in a way, they’re a waste of taxpayer money, lol. And that brings down the contract price…

Hello, everyone. This is Enta. I took some photos and videos at night of that creative reflective cap I mentioned the other day. (It wasn’t me, though.) Here’s a comparison between daytime and nighttime! This is during the day. And this is at night. What do you think? Isn’t the difference striking?…