(Matt McCarthy/Daily News photos) A look at the progress of the construction at Pine Mountain Ski Jump. The shorter structure in the second photo is where the warming shelter will be, at the top of a newly constructed staircase. At right is the housing unit for a robot that will manually cut the track on the ski jump. There will be another pictorial array of images from this stage of the construction in the coming weeks.

The old wooden scaffold was taken completely off, down to the bare steel frame of the jump itself. The wood was hauled down the hill and torn apart into sections of varying sizes. Nails were pulled out, and many pieces of the historic structure already have been sold to the public.

The Kiwanis Ski Club will also have further sales of the wooden scaffold/jump at the bottom of the hill at the club’s Popple Palace, with dates and times to be announced.

In this pictorial series you will see progress of the work that has been completed thus far, and also how the existing metal infrastructure of the jump was tied into the new scaffold and equipment. There will be two different segments of photos, with one more to follow.

Kiwanis Ski Club spokeswoman Susie Fox would like to emphasize to the public that until all of the construction is complete, there is no access to the top of the hill for the general public.

The steel work was done by Gundlach Champion of Iron Mountain. Everything above the steel work was done by Top Speed, which is a Slovenian-based company. Nine workers from Slovenia came to the area and did all the work installation in about three weeks, working six to seven days a week.

“The fellows from Slovenia worked their tails off while they were here,” said KSC member Lenny Walters. “It was incredible to watch them work, and get as much done as they did within three weeks.”

Top Speed also installed refrigerated cooling lines, which will make slush and snow on the scaffold itself. That will save club members from spending days and weeks on-end, leading up to the weekend of jumps, packing snow into the track.

On the very top of the jump, a box-like structure can be seen. That structure is the housing for a robot that manually cuts the track from the top of the scaffold to the bottom.

“It’s not only where the pigeons live,” said KSC member Bruce Pepin.

“That thing has become the most important element to the jump. The track cutting has to be exact,” said Fox.

A warming shelter at the top of the new stairs structure will be completed prior to the 2021 Continental Cup weekend. An elevator on the back side of the jump, all the way to the top, will be installed in the future.

“Things are really coming to form up here, the construction has gone extremely well,” said KSC Treasurer Paul Bujold. “Top Speed made things look state of the art.”

The only other downhill ski jump like the one at Pine Mountain in North America is located in New York state.

“The ski jump at Lake Placid where the 1980 Winter Olympics were held, has a Top Speed remodel just like here,” said Pepin.

It’s an awesome sight; in the past, the fabled structure could be seen from a long ways, but only during the day. Now, it’s lit up with LED lights — so bright it can be seen from a great distance after dark. There was an incredible buzz in the community about it, especially on social media.

“I like to play with the lights, and leave them on,” Walters said. “I wanted to see how many people would tell me or other club members they saw them from different parts of town.”