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Actually it can be quite a bit more difficult.
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Actually it can be quite a bit more difficult.
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Workmen's comp. is killing us. The bastards. We're paying 51% on the dollar. How the holy hell are we supposed to make a living.
DAMN.......are you in the pool?
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Fast food places are kinda funny. I've never built one but the ones I've seen are all over the place in terms of materials. Some are almost totally wood and others are filled with metal. I don't know enough about their standards to know if there is a reason for that.
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True because you have to use to use the precut holes.
But I meant there is no drilling like with wood studs.
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rosco rathbone
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I'm proud of this job. It looks beautiful with the new cedar shakes,
The St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church was built in 1894.
I looked at the first pic and was going to ask you "so did you scaffold out the whole thing or work out of manlifts"?
Two ladders and a pick!
Rock on.
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The guys really don't like wearing harnesses. They say that the tie-off ropes get in the way and are more dangerous than not wearing the gear at all.
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No, I'm not.
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Sure enough, this was a remodel job and they tore out all the old wood wall studs and replaced it with metal.
The plumbers had the worst job and had to tear up most of the concrete floor and replace all the underground PVC drain pipes that the acid soda had completely disintegrated over the decades the place was around.
Makes you think about Soda.
lol
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When they build the apartment complexes here, a couple of years ago. there were 3 roofers that broke bones because of the harnesses. All because they were tripping in them.
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Hilti Gun!
I have to look at things before they are built so I try not to think in terms of what can be done and instead look at what's best.
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The only time I've ever worn a harness was up in a genie lift bucket.
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That is not an uncommon complaint about fall protection, but I have worked under very tight safety regulations where it was required and the job went just fine. Falls can be nasty.
That is a wonderful building in your pics. I love the copper.
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I've actually been a welder on a job for NYC Public Housing where they had some new system. "Structural track and stud" I guess you could call it. Prefabricated sections of load-bearing wall, all sheetmetal but a little heavier than usual, shop-welded, all around the outer perimeter. Regular concrete plank on top. Very fast, very cheap way to build an apartment building. I wouldn't want to live in the thing. Punch a wall trying to hit your wife and bring down the whole thing on your fucking head.
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I do
currently working on the one in the background
at about 40 stories now
next one is in front
Freedom Tower
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Nods. But if you want to put wooden studwork on a concrete wall, you can't beat one of those fuckers. They'll also punch a four inch nail through a steel beam.
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These were different. No welds at all. Not prefabbed. Stick built and actually screwed together. Then usually screwed directly to the structural steel or attached to the masonry with heavy metal plates bolted down.
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Hilti Gun!
That thing is a baby.
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So, a guy doesn't put on his safety gear and takes a bad fall, losing the use of an arm, or his left nut or something, the NHS takes care of him and family for the rest of his life?
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I do
currently working on the one in the background
at about 40 stories now
next one is in front
Freedom Tower
I got fucked up in that hole last summer.
Great pic.
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I know, I used to use one when I was doing loft conversions that was about the size of a briefcase. But I couldn't be arsed searching for a pic.
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I've seen this. It should be structurally sound and looks good on paper but I'm with you on not wanting to live in one.
There is a stadium (Illinois I think) that has no interior support. It works, it's never had a problem and is near-genius but fuck if I'm gonna spend any time in there.
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His medical is free. If he is disabled, he will get disability or invalidity benefit until he can work again. Not NHS, but the govt pays, yeah.
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