Would you eat here??? :):

[Micheal_R]

I guess going to the bathroom would be problematical...

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Calm seas

Mikie

 

[Larry (IL)]

diner than the piano player.

 

[Royal]

n/t

 

[bdahunter]

I don't consider myself to be afraid of heights but I have been out on the boom of tower cranes while on the job and it gives you a definite and uncomfortable tightening in the crotch.

 

[Royal]

I think ours had a 45 ft boom or so. You boom that sucker out at a maybe 25 or 30 degree angle and then move up or down it bounces like mad and gives you much pucker power for sure. I would get a new apprentice in the thing and have fun.

The worse control on that thing was the bucket tilt. It is used to level the bucket and is just an on off switch, there is no way to ease it one way or the other, you just tap it and level the thing. Well it would just tilt a little but when you are up there and hit that switch by mistake it feels like you are gonna dump right out of the dang thing. It is funny but you actually move little but your brain tricks you.

I had to climb the dang boom once to bring a guy down, he froze. It is silly to iron workers like George but if you don't do it all the time it can be creepy

 

[david(tx)]

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[Rob/Windsor Ont.]

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[bdahunter]

We definitely get to play with a lot of big toys in the construction business. It was a lot easier in Canada where there are safety regulations and ongoing safety maintenance. Bermuda has some safety regs but really nobody to enforces them, as a result you get lots of equipment here that is past it's due date in North America. We had a big zoom boom like the one you mentioned on a site here in Bermuda, Royal. The hydraulics were really bad and the engine kept cycling which only made it worse. If you needed to move the man cage you had to anticipate the movement because the hydraulics were so delayed. Push the joystick the way you wanted to move, wait a bit without any response and then it would lurch forward, the amount it moved was dependent upon how long you had held the joystick in that direction. If you misjudged it would slam you into the wall of the building, not a good thing. I eventually had the rental guy take it back after it trapped two of my men, 3 stories up in the air for a couple of hours. The emergency override wouldn't even work, I had to get a cherry picker truck to pull them out on a sling attached to the murder ball. The tower cranes are in about the same condition. The men watch each others backs and I do my best to watch all of theres. What can I say? Bermuda is another world.

Eric
I've never lost a man in 30 years and I'm not starting now.

 

[WillyP]

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[Royal]

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[Wayne in BC]

Gods way of saying that you have way too much money and not enough brains

 

[George-CT]

wrapped over a spud wrench to stop from sliding down a column. Food is where you find it or in my case, they sent it up to you on the hook. It would take to much time to come down and they were are a roll or a break in the weather so they were setting as much steel as they could. Like most distasteful jobs, you get used to them in due time.