From strippers are some of the hardest working and most under appreciated labourers in the construction business today.  Of all the unpleasantness that goes into building a house, form stripping is among the nastiest, hardest, most repetitive and overall toughest jobs a person can have.  

A typical suburban bred, desk dwelling softie would be unlikely to survive a single shift of form stripping.  For this reason alone, we should salute the form strippers, without them the foundation business would not be the efficient machine it is today.  Keep in mind we started from an empty hole in the ground on tuesday, and by saturday all the forms were peeled off and stacked back on the trailer.  

The job is remarkably simple.  Strip the bracing and forms off a newly poured basement, haul the heavy, moisture laden, filthy 9 ft sheets of plywood out of the excavated area up a slippery ramp and drop on the trailer. Do this 100 more times inside and out of the basement and the job is done.  Drive on to the next basement and do it all over again.  Thanks again form strippers for getting our basement done on a saturday morning.  Here is a series of photos showing the essence of form stripping.