The Construction Thread

[thør]

Piss test too.

Study hard.

 

[ecclectic]

The manufacturing is going to happen in Richmond B.C.

Lower mainland workers'll hopefully profit at well.

So the Chinese are going to be building homes for the Japanese?

Good news though, we've had a hell of a time the last couple years with the manufacturing industry here.

Great thread. I'll contribute where I can.

 

[ecclectic]

actually the crash tests on them are pretty impressive. i'm too lazy to google it right now but they bounce like basketballs and don't bend. I saw a test of one crashing into a concrete highway barrier...don't forget the toothpicks for your eyelids in the OSHA course...or do they know enough to supply them as you come in the door

Yeah, they do okay against a stationary object like a barrier, but they get destroyed by a mac truck.

http://www.break.com/usercontent/2007/3/1/smart-car-vs-transport-01-238699

 

[chillywilly2]

Yeah, they do okay against a stationary object like a barrier, but they get destroyed by a mac truck.

http://www.break.com/usercontent/2007/3/1/smart-car-vs-transport-01-238699

What doesn't

 

[ecclectic]

What doesn't

Yeah, okay, fair enough point....

 

[Saint Peter]

What doesn't

An interesting test would be crashing two of those head on.

I think the results would be similar.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Study hard.

It was a hot Russian blonde nurse wearing a lab smock and bitch boots.

She said with an accent "you vill haff to kollect your own zample". I guess she gets a lot of lewd come ons down there by the piss collection station.

I'm 6 hours into this OSHA course which is about 80% padding, boilerplate and a guy reading regulations outloud in a droning Ben Stein voice while powerpoint slides flash on the screen.

Taking a break.

 

[Saint Peter]

It was a hot Russian blonde nurse wearing a lab smock and bitch boots.

She said with an accent "you vill haff to kollect your own zample". I guess she gets a lot of lewd come ons down there by the piss collection station.

I'm 6 hours into this OSHA course which is about 80% padding, boilerplate and a guy reading regulations outloud in a droning Ben Stein voice while powerpoint slides flash on the screen.

Taking a break.

Ask him if the projector has a GFCI.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Ask him if the projector has a GFCI.

It's an online course. The lecturer is a stupid animated figure.

 

[chillywilly2]

An interesting test would be crashing two of those head on.

I think the results would be similar.

Similar to what?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJHpUO-S0i8

 

[Saint Peter]

Similar to what?

To the Mac truck vs Smart car.

Fuck. I hate explaining shit to office pukes.

 

[chillywilly2]

To the Mac truck vs Smart car.

Fuck. I hate explaining shit to office pukes.

I thought you meant similar to each other...but I have fuck all else to do other than pester you


just watch the video....you will see similar


fucking shcool boy engineers

 

[ecclectic]

I was reminded yesterday of why I left my last shop.

The owner of my last shop was quite clueless:

Wouldn't supply safety gear, though he eventually was forced to supply respirators (we were welding Stainless Steel and drilling a lot of concrete)

When we had to lift a 2100lb HVAC unit, he bought vehicle recovery straps to lift it

Wanted to send an untrained, underexperienced pre-apprentice to do welding work 15' off the ground, with no fall restraint

Probably the single worst place I will ever work in my life.

Anyone else have stories about intentionally risky employers?

 

[chillywilly2]

You gotta be kidding....how bout the time we broke the boom off of our boom truck by tripple overloading the capacity...snapped the welds right at the turntable.

Maybe the time we had to install a platform above this duct about 80' up to access a valve.
I told the plants safety guy that if they wanted the platform they had to let us lock the door. When we open it you will have a platform.

My boss believes that cranes only need 2 outriggers on the ground.

I saw a guy at a big industrial plant lifting a load of plywood onto a roof with a boom truck. He didn't quite have the reach to get it far enough onto the roof. He kept booming down till the truck tipped and the boom stopped against the eave. That was far enough to set the load down. He ran the cable down and set the load on the roof. The truck came back to upright and everything was fine. Except the plant safety officer was watching. He asked the operator just what the hell he called that move. The operator smiled and said, That, is what we call a Controlled Tip...That was his last day on that site.

Sometimes you do what you gotta do to get the job done

 

[rosco rathbone]

whoohoo!

They're sending me out on a night bridge job tonight, setting big shit.

On the downside, I won't be sleeping tonight.

Anyway, I'm back!!!

 

[Saint Peter]

You have been booming up and holding the load a long time for this!

 

[rosco rathbone]

4 years! fuck!

 

[Saint Peter]

Remember the young bull/old bull.

Keep you head up.

 

[rosco rathbone]

I don't deal well with sleep loss.

 

[Saint Peter]

I know it has been a long road.

Congratulations.

Keep your fucking head up.

 

[rosco rathbone]

I just finished the 30 hour OSHA course. I'm going to be seeing hazards under every rock.

 

[chillywilly2]

I just finished the 30 hour OSHA course. I'm going to be seeing hazards under every rock.

Quit screwing around and make the connection ffs

 

[rosco rathbone]

Quit screwing around and make the connection ffs

Torch!

 

[Saint Peter]

Do you have your torch card?

 

[rosco rathbone]

AND fireguard.