The Camarata Container Castle: Old Reels

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Even if you've never experienced the serious “Man Crush” that can come along with all the well-deserved Admiration felt by Millions of YT Visitors for Andrew Camarata over at his YT Channel, watching an Early Archive Reel about the fledgling construction efforts of the Camarata Container Castle getting built into the Catskill Mountains is AWESOME!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUujfNBK9uv3cIW-P5PX7vA

But first… from Sid Phillips' “The Proper Job” British Podcast… Andrew was interviewed in 2021 and provided a brief VLOG Retrospective on the backcloth story of WHY he built his unique Combo Home Over A Work Shop-Garage:

Then watch this latest contribution (April 2nd, 2022) with a longer, never before seen film segment regarding what he used for his Steel Construction Segments and showing how he overcame many difficulties at each stage of “Putting The Project Together”.

THIS is ASMR for The Serious 'Metal Junkie' or Any Mechanic at its BEST:

 

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The Melancholy Lyrics, sung so indelibly perfect by Gary Brooker in the Procol Harum’s Classic Song ,“A Whiter Shade of Pale”, always comes to mind whenever I watch Jesse Muller’s contribution video of him helping Andrew Camarata and his Fearless Father performing this Dizzying, Dazzling, Epic Steel Panel Roofing Installation...

In the Rain...When it Snowed ...and at times ...In Near Darkness.

“The Room was Humming Harder,
As the Ceiling Flew Away...”

They used enormous 3/16” Plate Steel Sections, slung aloft by Cable & Crane while working so precariously together and climbing all over the Beveled, Naked Steel Trusses at 45 Feet above the ground.

They did all of this without the benefit or wearing Safety Harnesses as they custom cut and hand-fitted enormous “Steel Jig-Saw Puzzle” pieces together and then Welded them all up atop The Camarata Shipping Container Castle:

Let THIS keep on playing in the Background and you'll get the idea...

“A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Procol Harum