Doing an overview at the start is great. And having the map in the lower left, showing the area that each set of images were taken in, makes it concise. Fine work Mr. Tegtmeyer. Thank you.
This new road is going to make it walking distance from the airport,( about 4 miles), depending on the weather I might be inclined to just walk up to the front door and pick up my CT if they so allow, would be fun.
Ya know Joe, I've been watching the " quad squad " since day 1... this may be the best video I have seen out of the ~1400 videos! Good job. Thanks Joe!
Another exciting day of progress. SO many new columns and the roof beams are already connecting them. This week will be as big as any even before you count the massive works underway elsewhere on the site.
I saw a comment that said the communication tower by the old house is a reference point for the surveying, like GPS but extremely accurate. At 5:15 that dam will have to be coated with concrete to prevent it from being washed away. At 14:26 they're probably spare water vaults in case of damaged or flawed ones. I thought I saw at least one more in the east storage yard. At 14:30 what's going on under the two canopies on the left? They're over the foundations. Thanks, Joe. Great coverage of the Starlink area!
The tower near the old house is a COW or Cellsite On Wheels. In other words, a portable cell site. You see these at locations that will have a lot of cell phone users on a temp basis, like say a golf course having a PGA event or a neighborhood where their regular cell tower is being repaired or updated. The GPS enhancement devices are the one that you often see near the old location where the Drone flyers used to park. They are small devices, don't need much power. They just have to be at a known location that doesn't change.
@@Bill_N_ATX We had one of those portable cellsites on a trailer in our parking lot for at least a decade. They didn't want to run cables to it so they set up a microwave dish and pointed it at the one on the building about a hundred feet away. I'd say that that link is absolutely fade proof. 🤣🤣
Thanks Joe. Incredible amount of insulation and membrane materials stacked on the roof. 9:43. Relocating the precast panel brackets. Edit. On the columns. 9:55. Assembling another stair frame work. 9:59. They’ve substituted a ride on troweling machine for the Model Y. Not falling for that! 14:13. Water vaults. No outlet visible. Quite an inconvenience if they were for buffering for rain events. I think there is more to be installed here. The extra excavation work carried out last week didn't seem to be necessary to get the installation of the vaults to this stage. 14:29. Remaining vault sections. These are not as tall as the sections already placed. All sections are open at each end, so they must connect to some other yet to be delivered sections, or possibly butt up against the existing vaults and a new penetration. There are 2 slabs a little shorter than the vaults, so no part of these vaults but maybe for yet to be delivered sections. 23:42. There is quite a variation in the spacing of the columns. Was the same at the stamping plant. Another mystery.
@@greggerypeccary Ooops, I should have time stamped it at 23:28. I meant the spacing of the columns along each north south row. If you look at the complete row on the west side you can see the spacing of middle columns is noticeably shorter than all the others. Some of the other spacings vary a little bit.
@@DessieDoolan Yes, but this is also part of the layout... you have a large spacing where a machine will be, then a narrower spacing for where people move around... they're just making very efficient use of space, rather than building an even-spaced building where the spacing is defined by the size of the biggest machine. This is Elon, so you know there's a good reason behind these kinds of things...
Looks like on the westside that they finish laying and covering the geomats on the road. The scrapers were idie yesterday. Talked to a contractor yesterday he said that office buildings were going to be built there and Starlink factory was going to be built out of town. If true I think Pflugerville.
Wow, if true, that is certainly unexpected news. What's the advantage I wonder? I would have thought closer to the launch site at Boca Chica if not at the Giga Texas property.
@@bitspieces3885 Probably easier to attract engineering talent in Austin than in Boca Chica. Also, isn't Boring Co. in Pflugerville? Starlink too? They are building office/warehouses diagonally across from where Boring Co. offices will be.
I have seen the fusion welded poly pipe be pulled through an existing smaller pipe. If there is an existing pipe under the river, they may use this method. A cable is ran through the existing pipe and attached to a pulling head that connects to the poly pipe. The cable pulls the pulling head through the existing pipe, breaking it up, and displacing it with the new poly pipe.
By using a directional drill bit with drill string a passage is drilled thru the ground and upon reaching the "target" the bit is removed and the flexible poly pipe is pulled back thru the passage via the drill string (shaft). It is really a work saver when running underground utilities without disturbing surface structures, especially buildings and water.
@@trex2092 So the pipe can go where no pipe has gone before. I had always wondered how the conduits for fiber optic were placed into the horizontally drilled passages.
Wicked funky music Joe. Love it. You are the king of the quad squad no doubt. Great information always. Question: there are many ponds all over the site where the water has been standing for years. Do they stink? Stagnant water can smell pretty bad sometimes especially in warm weather. I am just wondering if some of the ponds might be incorporated into an attractive landscaping scheme as long as they do not have an objectionable smell.
I'm thinking retention pond for the parking lot area, maybe the bobcat area, but I'd expect another pond closer by for that. The clearing I thought might be for storage/staging or more workers trailers or parking. With the aggregate on it now, maybe some sort of structure.
I've yet to watch the more recent quad squad videos, but can't help but wonder if they'll simply move the house to the newly prepared 'house sized' foundation. It would allow them to continue to use the house without too much disruption.
There is a round hole in the water vault, in the top of NW section. Looks like a storm mgmt water vault. Please include a complete list of songs, it´s a very good selection!
Will this new road be a public one or a "Tesla road"? If it will be public, it would make sense to extend it around the eastern part of the property to meet with Harold Green Road somewhere.
Im intererested in the castings being produced. It seems that we are seeing a higher volume of castings being put into dumpsters than we saw since the beginning. Have you seen any loaded up on flatbeds anymore? Are are they just making them and scrapping them now?
Unfortunately as the days progress, it's getting harder to see any big changes now. However, it looks like the Austin complex will finish before the Berlin complex.
I can mathematically disagree, since even with my tracker only focusing on the main building, I can assure you that every single day it remains on pace to finish up this year. ;)
I am curious, on every update you fly right by and over the power generation plant and refuse to simply turn and look at it. Instead you get to the power section location, turn and look at some dirt. Why is this?
The Giga Texas complex is the ultimate smack-down to ICE vehicle dominance. Along with Berlin and Shanghai, it will do to the ICE factories what Model S plaid is doing to the performance car market. I never believed I would ever have $$ to own a vehicle better than the million-dollar hypercar segment stars (Bugatti, Lambos, McLaren, etc). And I'll bet Toyota/Honda/VW/Ford/etc. never thought (at least until a couple years ago) they would be in the position they're (Apparently) about to be in.
Tbh this factory really is ugly AF to watch, hope it will be better when 100% complet. I don't understand why they are doing this super weird shape, instead of a monobloc building. Thanks for the video Joe.
Why would they do a boring factory that looks like everything else. I’m not someone that tries to stand out particularly, but why does everything have to look a certain way?
@@duncanadams2531 Yeah your also right, but this building doesn't look efficient at all, that's my point, and that's why I don't understand them doing that, since Tesla is obsessed (and it's a good thing) with efficiency. I mean, what's the point of wasting space with those two huge area without roof going alfway through this building ? It looks like these "cuts" don't even have windows to let the light go inside.
@@WlerickBigotOfficial The 'cuts' have been left to allow access for construction of the thermal oxidizer and the water vaults. They also made concreting the floors very easy.
Joe Tegtmeyer, you demplished it!... especially at 21:19! :)
Doing an overview at the start is great. And having the map in the lower left, showing the area that each set of images were taken in, makes it concise. Fine work Mr. Tegtmeyer. Thank you.
Joe, I really like, that you also cover the not-main construction areas in such detail 👍
I love your videos
Thanks!
Thanks again, you set the bar for Giga Texas videos!!
This new road is going to make it walking distance from the airport,( about 4 miles), depending on the weather I might be inclined to just walk up to the front door and pick up my CT if they so allow, would be fun.
Not allowed in Texas. Time to change the silly laws.
Ya know Joe, I've been watching the " quad squad " since day 1... this may be the best video I have seen out of the ~1400 videos!
Good job. Thanks Joe!
Another exciting day of progress. SO many new columns and the roof beams are already connecting them. This week will be as big as any even before you count the massive works underway elsewhere on the site.
😎👍
I like that you try different music in your videos and not reusing the same every time, thanks for that too!
agreed !
But always the same song at the end 😁
I saw a comment that said the communication tower by the old house is a reference point for the surveying, like GPS but extremely accurate.
At 5:15 that dam will have to be coated with concrete to prevent it from being washed away.
At 14:26 they're probably spare water vaults in case of damaged or flawed ones. I thought I saw at least one more in the east storage yard.
At 14:30 what's going on under the two canopies on the left? They're over the foundations.
Thanks, Joe. Great coverage of the Starlink area!
The tower near the old house is a COW or Cellsite On Wheels. In other words, a portable cell site. You see these at locations that will have a lot of cell phone users on a temp basis, like say a golf course having a PGA event or a neighborhood where their regular cell tower is being repaired or updated. The GPS enhancement devices are the one that you often see near the old location where the Drone flyers used to park. They are small devices, don't need much power. They just have to be at a known location that doesn't change.
@@Bill_N_ATX
We had one of those portable cellsites on a trailer in our parking lot for at least a decade. They didn't want to run cables to it so they set up a microwave dish and pointed it at the one on the building about a hundred feet away. I'd say that that link is absolutely fade proof. 🤣🤣
@@acmefixer1 Canopies at 14:30 in Randy's video from yesterday, rebar workers were under them. Randy shoots at 5PM, its blazing hot sun by then.
Thanks Joe. Incredible amount of insulation and membrane materials stacked on the roof.
9:43. Relocating the precast panel brackets. Edit. On the columns.
9:55. Assembling another stair frame work.
9:59. They’ve substituted a ride on troweling machine for the Model Y. Not falling for that!
14:13. Water vaults. No outlet visible. Quite an inconvenience if they were for buffering for rain events. I think there is more to be installed here. The extra excavation work carried out last week didn't seem to be necessary to get the installation of the vaults to this stage.
14:29. Remaining vault sections. These are not as tall as the sections already placed. All sections are open at each end, so they must connect to some other yet to be delivered sections, or possibly butt up against the existing vaults and a new penetration. There are 2 slabs a little shorter than the vaults, so no part of these vaults but maybe for yet to be delivered sections.
23:42. There is quite a variation in the spacing of the columns. Was the same at the stamping plant. Another mystery.
23:42: the narrower spacing is the "alley" between the two rows of stamping machines.
@@greggerypeccary Ooops, I should have time stamped it at 23:28. I meant the spacing of the columns along each north south row. If you look at the complete row on the west side you can see the spacing of middle columns is noticeably shorter than all the others. Some of the other spacings vary a little bit.
@@DessieDoolan Yes, but this is also part of the layout... you have a large spacing where a machine will be, then a narrower spacing for where people move around... they're just making very efficient use of space, rather than building an even-spaced building where the spacing is defined by the size of the biggest machine. This is Elon, so you know there's a good reason behind these kinds of things...
@@greggerypeccary No doubt there is a good reason, but I like to try and find the reason. Unsuccessful thus far.
@@DessieDoolan Just look at the previous structure -- as far as I recall it was done exactly the same way.
Excellent narration and video, Joe. Progress at Giga Texas is impressive.
Good "close and personal' perspective today. Thanks
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Your the best of all the videos! thanks!
Looks like on the westside that they finish laying and covering the geomats on the road. The scrapers were idie yesterday. Talked to a contractor yesterday he said that office buildings were going to be built there and Starlink factory was going to be built out of town. If true I think Pflugerville.
Wow, if true, that is certainly unexpected news. What's the advantage I wonder? I would have thought closer to the launch site at Boca Chica if not at the Giga Texas property.
@@bitspieces3885 Probably easier to attract engineering talent in Austin than in Boca Chica. Also, isn't Boring Co. in Pflugerville? Starlink too? They are building office/warehouses diagonally across from where Boring Co. offices will be.
I have seen the fusion welded poly pipe be pulled through an existing smaller pipe. If there is an existing pipe under the river, they may use this method. A cable is ran through the existing pipe and attached to a pulling head that connects to the poly pipe. The cable pulls the pulling head through the existing pipe, breaking it up, and displacing it with the new poly pipe.
By using a directional drill bit with drill string a passage is drilled thru the ground and upon reaching the "target" the bit is removed and the flexible poly pipe is pulled back thru the passage via the drill string (shaft). It is really a work saver when running underground utilities without disturbing surface structures, especially buildings and water.
ua-cam.com/video/mdLCD6t6C-w/v-deo.html HDD - Horizontal Directional Drilling
@@trex2092 So the pipe can go where no pipe has gone before.
I had always wondered how the conduits for fiber optic were placed into the horizontally drilled passages.
Some of that dirt has been dug, loded and dumped a bunch of times...got some miles on it!
You did it again..wish you look right into the battery area at 13:20
Thank you!
That new excavation has sloped sides--another retention pond?
Seems that all the excavations have sloped sides to prevent a cave-in from killing workers.
Wicked funky music Joe. Love it. You are the king of the quad squad no doubt. Great information always. Question: there are many ponds all over the site where the water has been standing for years. Do they stink? Stagnant water can smell pretty bad sometimes especially in warm weather. I am just wondering if some of the ponds might be incorporated into an attractive landscaping scheme as long as they do not have an objectionable smell.
I'm thinking retention pond for the parking lot area, maybe the bobcat area, but I'd expect another pond closer by for that. The clearing I thought might be for storage/staging or more workers trailers or parking. With the aggregate on it now, maybe some sort of structure.
Isn't it located next to where they buried the old smoke stack?
Wasn't that more of a temporary drainage ditch?
Me too! Joe, could you do a flyby showing the beam that the steel workers signed?
way kool go big red
Thanks Joe.
I've yet to watch the more recent quad squad videos, but can't help but wonder if they'll simply move the house to the newly prepared 'house sized' foundation. It would allow them to continue to use the house without too much disruption.
whats your best guess of when the plant will be ready for production?
There is a round hole in the water vault, in the top of NW section. Looks like a storm mgmt water vault. Please include a complete list of songs, it´s a very good selection!
I am curious as to the type of "celars" they will have in the "celaring" area. Storm, root, or wine?.....Texas!.....It will be a beer "celar".
Will this new road be a public one or a "Tesla road"?
If it will be public, it would make sense to extend it around the eastern part of the property to meet with Harold Green Road somewhere.
Im intererested in the castings being produced. It seems that we are seeing a higher volume of castings being put into dumpsters than we saw since the beginning. Have you seen any loaded up on flatbeds anymore? Are are they just making them and scrapping them now?
There is a regular test/pilot production, is said more than 1000 pieces have being dispatched om flatbeds.
Yay TEXLA **Joe**
Zone 1 (yellow) is not for SpaceX Starlink.
This is what I've been hearing as well, and the fact that the corners are angled at a 45-degree further supports this theory.
A 200 THUMBS UP
Unfortunately as the days progress, it's getting harder to see any big changes now. However, it looks like the Austin complex will finish before the Berlin complex.
Are you kidding? There are huge changes that are very visible happening all over the site!
So have you been watching the Berlin drone flights much, how do you measure the data in order to come up with that deduction?
Somewhat, but 2 new very large buildings just getting started and still lots of exterior work on the huge main structure.
I can mathematically disagree, since even with my tracker only focusing on the main building, I can assure you that every single day it remains on pace to finish up this year. ;)
Did the recent rains cause any design changes that could make the plant more durable, than otherwise?
I’d love to see a starship standing next to the Gigafactory!
What was being mined in the areas of the hills and ponds?
I believe just gravel.
Have the people on the ground been told not to wave at you (or throw things at you!) as you hover nearby, or do they simply not notice you?
I searched giga Chad.
Do I regret watching this? No, no I don't
Anyways who's joe?
I am curious, on every update you fly right by and over the power generation plant and refuse to simply turn and look at it. Instead you get to the power section location, turn and look at some dirt. Why is this?
Do you have a Part 107?
At 18:30 anybody have a clue about the little white frames sitting on top of the connex boxes in the supply yard?
I think they are parts to the various conveyor systems they are installing in the GA structure
Joe is right. They are prefabricated frames for production lines.
The Giga Texas complex is the ultimate smack-down to ICE vehicle dominance. Along with Berlin and Shanghai, it will do to the ICE factories what Model S plaid is doing to the performance car market. I never believed I would ever have $$ to own a vehicle better than the million-dollar hypercar segment stars (Bugatti, Lambos, McLaren, etc). And I'll bet Toyota/Honda/VW/Ford/etc. never thought (at least until a couple years ago) they would be in the position they're (Apparently) about to be in.
$299 bucks for a DJI Mavik Pro mini is quite the sudden price decline.
Long EHang
Strong buy
I think Elon should have his own landing strip at the factory.
There is room on the roof.
I have been fantasizing about that since they started covering it.
20:16, might this be for Elon’s rumored BOXABL tiny house? Since it appears they’re sheltering this plot it a bit off the beaten path…🤔
Tbh this factory really is ugly AF to watch, hope it will be better when 100% complet. I don't understand why they are doing this super weird shape, instead of a monobloc building.
Thanks for the video Joe.
Why would they do a boring factory that looks like everything else. I’m not someone that tries to stand out particularly, but why does everything have to look a certain way?
@@duncanadams2531 Yeah your also right, but this building doesn't look efficient at all, that's my point, and that's why I don't understand them doing that, since Tesla is obsessed (and it's a good thing) with efficiency.
I mean, what's the point of wasting space with those two huge area without roof going alfway through this building ? It looks like these "cuts" don't even have windows to let the light go inside.
@@WlerickBigotOfficial The 'cuts' have been left to allow access for construction of the thermal oxidizer and the water vaults. They also made concreting the floors very easy.
The cuts will be filled in soon enough. They've already laid some of the foundations in them.
@@LinasVepstas thanks for the answers guys, it's pretty good to know.