The Construction Thread

[chillywilly2]

You have never lived until you do a job by a civil engineering crew. All the prints overlay perfectly. Plumbing, Structural, Electrical all overlay perfectly..... Down the same tunnel! At one Monday morning meeting i advised that i could save them tons of money if I could just change the beams to square tubes, run the wiring thru them and hook them up to the water and sewer ! OK so I didnt make any friends there.

you lost me on this one

 

[toys_em_us]

you lost me on this one

All the electrical, plumbing and structure were placed in the same place. They wanted to run conduit, water, sewer in areas where there were structural beams.

 

[rosco rathbone]

The boots on the left were right out of the box...on the right, 4 months (one job) old.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/rosco_rathbone/scan0016.jpg

 

[thør]

The boots on the left were right out of the box...on the right, 4 months (one job) old.

Nice boots but they look a little airy and might be chilly in the sloppy stuff.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Nice boots but they look a little airy and might be chilly in the sloppy stuff.

We don't work in the slop anyway, most of the time.

Those are redwing 875s, best boot for walking iron. Like moccassins. Not cheap.

 

[Hester]

The boots on the left were right out of the box...on the right, 4 months (one job) old.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/rosco_rathbone/scan0016.jpg

i love old boots. i'm the antithesis of a packrat, but i save boots until they've completely fallen apart, and even then sometime a little longer.

 

[Saint Peter]

We don't work in the slop anyway, most of the time.

Those are redwing 875s, best boot for walking iron. Like moccassins. Not cheap.

A dab of ShoeGoo on the toe and those bad boys are good for another 10,000 miles.

 

[Saint Peter]

i love old boots. i'm the antithesis of a packrat, but i save boots until they've completely fallen apart, and even then sometime a little longer.

In the good old days, I would only wear a pair of boots until the radiological technicians wrapped 'em in plastic and tossed them in a coffin.

I miss the good old days.
*sniff*

 

[rosco rathbone]

A dab of ShoeGoo on the toe and those bad boys are good for another 10,000 miles.

I resole them for 70$. Shoegoo can't fix that hole though.

It comes from kicking deck, a bad habit of mine.

 

[Saint Peter]

I resole them for 70$. Shoegoo can't fix that hole though.

It comes from kicking deck, a bad habit of mine.

I bet the other reindeer would tease you if you put those plastic toe savers on when the boots are fresh.

Never underestimate The Goo.

 

[rosco rathbone]

I bet the other reindeer would tease you if you put those plastic toe savers on when the boots are fresh.

Never underestimate The Goo.

Toe savers? I'd do it if they fit the moc toe. I bet the corner of a sheet of deck goes through a toe saver about as fast as it goes through a couple plies of cowhide.

This is cool: I hung those cable scaffolds (well, me and a bunch of other people) and then worked off them for months. You can see the fall exposure. 150 feet down to the temp working floor and another 150 to the river.

Right above the orange netting you can see one of the air tuggers bolted to the tower. Those were used to bring the big reinforcement panels up. They also used them for moving materials, running through about 6 or 8 snatch blocks, all over the place.

I also spent August 2004 inside the tower legs. The entry hatch is right around the corner from the orange netting.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/rosco_rathbone/scan0013.jpg

 

[daylightwarrior]

I wanted to post a picture of one of the jobs I'm working on.
We have to use ABS and copper pipe. I'm open to comments. There is a shower, toilet, lavi and kitchenette.

 

[rosco rathbone]

This is a test of our plumbing knowledge, right?

I'm clueless, but I bet Xander would have something to say about it.

 

[rosco rathbone]

All the electrical, plumbing and structure were placed in the same place. They wanted to run conduit, water, sewer in areas where there were structural beams.

The answer to this is obviously to use load bearing copper pipe in place of all structural elements. Insulate it well and it will carry electrical current as well.

 

[Xander]

I wanted to post a picture of one of the jobs I'm working on.
We have to use ABS and copper pipe. I'm open to comments. There is a shower, toilet, lavi and kitchenette.

Erm, not entirely sure what you want comments on and about what there buddy.
Except that ABS scks ass.

 

[thør]

Erm, not entirely sure what you want comments on and about what there buddy.
Except that ABS scks ass.

So, make sure your legs are not together when you flush? If plumbed with ABS drainage?

 

[daylightwarrior]

Erm, not entirely sure what you want comments on and about what there buddy.
Except that ABS scks ass.

No comments really, just wanted to show what we had to work with. I was going to take a series from start to finish.

No choice about ABS. I can use CI, copper or Abs.

It's going to be a studio apartment.

 

[rosco rathbone]

You've got to lean your head to the right to see this one properly. I scanned it lying on its side.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/rosco_rathbone/scan0006.jpg

This was directly over 4 lanes of traffic: "You fuckos better catch all them rivets!"

I kept wondering what the excuse was going to be when we missed one and it went into someone's sun roof. (you catch them in a sawed-off traffic cone). Nets cost too much to put up?

 

[Saint Peter]

You've got to lean your head to the right to see this one properly. I scanned it lying on its side.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii152/rosco_rathbone/scan0006.jpg

This was directly over 4 lanes of traffic: "You fuckos better catch all them rivets!"

I kept wondering what the excuse was going to be when we missed one and it went into someone's sun roof. (you catch them in a sawed-off traffic cone). Nets cost too much to put up?

At least give the man a first baseman's glove.

 

[Xander]

No comments really, just wanted to show what we had to work with. I was going to take a series from start to finish.

No choice about ABS. I can use CI, copper or Abs.

It's going to be a studio apartment.

Looks like you got it all under control buddy. I am still not all too fond of ABS, but sometimes you dont have a choice, and this I do understand.

I'll be looking forward to seeing the progress.

Though it's too bad that people are weary about using PEX out in your area.

 

[Xander]

So, make sure your legs are not together when you flush? If plumbed with ABS drainage?

Nah, you'll be fine, for the first couple of years at least.

 

[daylightwarrior]

Looks like you got it all under control buddy. I am still not all too fond of ABS, but sometimes you dont have a choice, and this I do understand.

I'll be looking forward to seeing the progress.

Though it's too bad that people are weary about using PEX out in your area.

I really like pex. The problem is that the state is thinking about approving cpvc. I'll stick with copper.

They started cutting a hole in the wall so I left early. Talk about noise!!

 

[rosco rathbone]

At least give the man a first baseman's glove.

Why didn't we think of that?

Fuck.

 

[Xander]

I really like pex. The problem is that the state is thinking about approving cpvc. I'll stick with copper.

They started cutting a hole in the wall so I left early. Talk about noise!!

Why in the sam hell are they approving cpvc? Both you and I know how that stuff reacts, and there are more breaks in cpvc over time, than there has been cocks in Britney Spears.

Copper is way better than that. But way more expensive too. I highly advocate for Pex.

 

[daylightwarrior]

Why in the sam hell are they approving cpvc? Both you and I know how that stuff reacts, and there are more breaks in cpvc over time, than there has been cocks in Britney Spears.

Copper is way better than that. But way more expensive too. I highly advocate for Pex.

It's been approved for fire sprinklers for years. I make good coin repairing all the pipe splits on these one or two day per year freezes.

Today 3/4" type L was $2.09 a foot. Pex is about $ .45.

Interesting analogy re: ms spears.