The Construction Thread

[Saint Peter]

Repaired your post.........

Is that a robot in your pocket or are you just glad to be here?

 

[thør]

Is that a robot in your pocket or are you just glad to be here?

The Swagelok dealer always throws a couple rolls of Life Savers in the box with the order.

 

[chillywilly2]

The young bull says, "Let's run down the hill and fuck some of those cows!"

The old bull replys, "Let's walk down and fuck them all."

The youngsters can put on a good show though.

I love hearing them brag about their workplace accomplishments.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Repaired your post.........

If I said "semi automatic" they'd look at me like I was speaking in an English accent with my little pinkie crooked around a teacup.

 

[rosco rathbone]

The young bull says, "Let's run down the hill and fuck some of those cows!"

The old bull replys, "Let's walk down and fuck them all."

True. There's also a difference between clean, dry,indoors, fresh, unencumbered, hi-grip mechanic's gloves and nothing to do at the top, and dirty, muddy, exhausted, hot sun, 30 lbs of tools, slippery gloves and trying to hang on at the top to accomplish something.

 

[thør]

If I said "semi automatic" they'd look at me like I was speaking in an English accent with my little pinkie crooked around a teacup.

It's the difference between welder and welding operator.....

 

[Saint Peter]

"Let's run down there and fuck a cow!"

Maybe the Old Bulls should have been building this one.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/09/21/india.bridge.collapse/t1larg.bridge.afp.gi.jpg

 

[rosco rathbone]

"Let's run down there and fuck a cow!"

Maybe the Old Bulls should have been building this one.

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/09/21/india.bridge.collapse/t1larg.bridge.afp.gi.jpg

India huh.

When I was on the bridges, ALL the inspector-engineers were INdian and Pakistani.

Kinda scary.

 

[thør]

India huh.

When I was on the bridges, ALL the inspector-engineers were INdian and Pakistani.

Kinda scary.

They prolly went to school in the USA and didn't want to go "home".

 

[chillywilly2]

Sweet

I just picked up some work on the Freedom Tower

 

[rosco rathbone]

I just picked up some work on the Freedom Tower

Nice.

 

[Saint Peter]

I just picked up some work on the Freedom Tower

Do you need a shop rocket?

 

[rosco rathbone]

I can't get to this article because it's behind a paywall, but I've been saying this for years.

Big, federally funded concrete seawalls to be built around NYC at Davis Bacon rates.

Whole lotta rebar work.


http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/magazine/77388/waterworld

 

[rosco rathbone]

These guys'll be sitting pretty:

http://www.dockbuilderslu1456.org/

 

[chillywilly2]

Do you need a shop rocket?

with this schedule, we will need a few

 

[chillywilly2]

These guys'll be sitting pretty:

http://www.dockbuilderslu1456.org/

They should update the website...resumes will be a bit late now

 

[rosco rathbone]

Lots of goings-on up in thor's neck of the woods:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11381773

 

[thør]

Lots of goings-on up in thor's neck of the woods:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11381773

Not quite in my 'hood, but I can see it from my house!

On a similar subject, the Coast Guard has been preparing to patrol out of Barrow. They are planning infrastructure and have been testing watercraft. I imagine that they'll establish a seasonal air station up there, soon.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Not quite in my 'hood, but I can see it from my house!

On a similar subject, the Coast Guard has been preparing to patrol out of Barrow. They are planning infrastructure and have been testing watercraft. I imagine that they'll establish a seasonal air station up there, soon.

This would all seem to tie into my seawall post above.

 

[Saint Peter]

These guys'll be sitting pretty:

http://www.dockbuilderslu1456.org/

Get your fins!

 

[thør]

This would all seem to tie into my seawall post above.

Prior planning prevents piss poor performance!

 

[rosco rathbone]

Get your fins!

I was once going to go to commercial diving school in Philly, but I decided not to.

 

[Saint Peter]

Prior planning prevents piss poor performance!

I was once going to go to commercial diving school in Philly, but I decided not to.

I think it looks better on paper than it does on the boat.

 

[thør]

I was once going to go to commercial diving school in Philly, but I decided not to.

My great uncle needed a job once and just went to work as a commercial diver on a bridge construction project. His previous experience underwater was just while swimming.

 

[rosco rathbone]

yikes!

A California start-up is even working on building houses. Its printer, which would fit on a tractor-trailer, would use patterns delivered by computer, squirt out layers of special concrete and build entire walls that could be connected to form the basis of a house.

It is manufacturing with a mouse click instead of hammers, nails and, well, workers. Advocates of the technology say that by doing away with manual labor, 3-D printing could revamp the economics of manufacturing and revive American industry as creativity and ingenuity replace labor costs as the main concern around a variety of goods.

3-D Printing Spurs A Manufacturing Revolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_printing