The Construction Thread

[rosco rathbone]

Watching this Extreme Engineering on Netflix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRsp6DhxLDU

It's fucked up! The Japs built this new humanoid construction droid. At one point, they show it helping a guy carry a stack of sheetrock. Fucking thing even walks like one of those scurrying submissive villagers in a Kurosawa flick.

If these things catch on, the working man is doomed.

 

[tortoise]

The robotic kowtow.

 

[Saint Peter]

Watching this Extreme Engineering on Netflix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRsp6DhxLDU

It's fucked up! The Japs built this new humanoid construction droid. At one point, they show it helping a guy carry a stack of sheetrock. Fucking thing even walks like one of those scurrying submissive villagers in a Kurosawa flick.

If these things catch on, the working man is doomed.

"Asimo wants ice cream!"

 

[Saint Peter]

The robotic kowtow.

Hey fucker!!

 

[tortoise]

Hey fucker!!

Fuckin' A!

 

[thør]

Time for rock-em sock-em robots!

 

[rosco rathbone]

Watch the thing before you all commence to break balls.

 

[thør]

Watch the thing before you all commence to break balls.

You know that ain't how it works.

 

[rosco rathbone]

You know that ain't how it works.

Hey, if you know any cool large-scale construction projects visible from space, post em in my Google Sat thread.

 

[TikkaT3]

The detailers lot is not an 'appy one.

We complain about you guys all the time "who is the moron who designed this connection so that you can't get the gun on half the bolts" etc.

I've seen what you guys go through---you can keep that job!

Thanks but don’t think we don’t do our share of bitching. The most used phrase in my office is….”…..fucking engineers/architects…”. Oh well, it pays the bills and every so often a job comes in that gets you excited to be in the game.

 

[TikkaT3]

I've had to fabricate a wrench on the spot to fit some of those places. No one else would let me cut their spud up. Looks like Fred Flintstone tools.

My hats off to the guys that get dirty. I am lucky enough to be the new guy so I get to do the checking for the fabricators and get to see first hand what they do. I don’t know why the old hands would rather spread lead than go to the shop. The welders and rebar guys in my shop are a good bunch of guys.

 

[rosco rathbone]

My hats off to the guys that get dirty. I am lucky enough to be the new guy so I get to do the checking for the fabricators and get to see first hand what they do. I don’t know why the old hands would rather spread lead than go to the shop. The welders and rebar guys in my shop are a good bunch of guys.

welders rule

 

[thør]

Thanks but don’t think we don’t do our share of bitching. The most used phrase in my office is….”…..fucking engineers/architects…”. Oh well, it pays the bills and every so often a job comes in that gets you excited to be in the game.

Even I used the term "fucking engineers".......

 

[chillywilly2]

There's a whole pile of guys from Detroit who know how to wrench, looking for work.....

but they only know one wrench, and one bolt...every once in a while maybe a smart one gets to do "opposite hand"

Even I used the term "fucking engineers".......

I have been known to use that myself...generally only to a few because of arrogance though...not cause they don't know what they are doing

 

[chillywilly2]

welders rule

what do you say to a guy with an IQ of 5?

 

[Saint Peter]

TIG welders rule

fyp

yw

 

[rosco rathbone]

fyp

yw

I was just over at the Army-Navy store down the block from my old trade school. I saw a bunch of young dudes with snoop-doggy-dogg braids and brand-new leathers eating pizza on the sidewalk. I engaged them in conversation and steered them away from MIG and TIG into good structural stick welding.

No work for tiggers about here unless you have a hook with the boilermakers.

 

[Saint Peter]

I was just over at the Army-Navy store down the block from my old trade school. I saw a bunch of young dudes with snoop-doggy-dogg braids and brand-new leathers eating pizza on the sidewalk. I engaged them in conversation and steered them away from MIG and TIG into good structural stick welding.

No work for tiggers about here unless you have a hook with the boilermakers.

There is not much TIG in typical commercial construction. Labs, nukes, some pipe come to mind. It is much more common in fabrication than in the field.

I would have never survived the skinny times with only one procedure under my belt. The sheet metal workers that only weld and do not hang duct are the first to go when the welding is finished.

I would encourage the punks to be well rounded in their trade.

And get a fucking hair cut.

 

[rosco rathbone]

There is not much TIG in typical commercial construction. Labs, nukes, some pipe come to mind. It is much more common in fabrication than in the field.

I would have never survived the skinny times with only one procedure under my belt. The sheet metal workers that only weld and do not hang duct are the first to go when the welding is finished.

I would encourage the punks to be well rounded in their trade.

And get a fucking hair cut.

This is a 6-month program, not a real trade school like the one you went to. If you have 2 years, by all means be well rounded.

There's little to no shop work in this area, and what there is, is welding dumpsters and shit like that.

 

[Saint Peter]

This is a 6-month program, not a real trade school like the one you went to. If you have 2 years, by all means be well rounded.

There's little to no shop work in this area, and what there is, is welding dumpsters and shit like that.

Some guys are willing to watch and learn on the job and some just want 40 and the weekend off. I know welders that only weld and if there is not welding are happy to go home. I liked having the variety of moving from one classification to another.

I still wore the welder's cap just to make it clear where I came from.


Great news! I am looking forward to it.

 

[TikkaT3]

I played around in the shop today. I just learned how to weld, if you can call what I do welding. I really had to use the old imagination on how to explain what I was making. I don’t think they guys would have understood a spreader bar. Did not do too bad of a job if I do say so myself.

 

[rosco rathbone]

I played around in the shop today. I just learned how to weld, if you can call what I do welding. I really had to use the old imagination on how to explain what I was making. I don’t think they guys would have understood a spreader bar. Did not do too bad of a job if I do say so myself.

Great. Spreader bar welded by rookie. "Don't stand under the load".

 

[Saint Peter]

Great. Spreader bar welded by rookie. "Don't stand under the load".

"Fuck! I burned a hole in my Polo shirt."

 

[rosco rathbone]

"Fuck! I burned a hole in my Polo shirt."

LOL totally.

 

[TikkaT3]

Hey no fair picking on the new guy!

And for your information I did not burn a hole in my polo shirt………………the hole is in my kakies and I scuffed my loafers. Fucking things were brand new. I ask you who the fuck leaves angle iron laying around on the floor of a fab shop? Don’t you welders know us well dressed office pukes have to cross the shop floor from time to time?