How'd it go today?

[pantheraba]

Or maybe in the lift...retching....

Sorry...can't get that sight out of my mind yet.....

I'm sure your compadres loved it.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Dayum! All these members online this late!

 

[FireFighterZero]

100 proof Hot Damn, a rain storm and employee problems.

I got nowhere else to be.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Bass practice time!!!

 

[Burnham]

Party hardy . M'lady is away, helping her best girl friend for several days, who has just had a knee replacement. I'm bachin' it for a bit .

 

[FireFighterZero]

Youse guys have been a stable, accepting location during my time here.

Been a lot more accommodating towards me than I deserved.


I will forever be grateful for the opportunity to converse with you folks.

 

[MasterBlaster]

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[Tree09]

Lol Gary, I actually called it due to wind already this year. I'm not a fan of lifts to this day hahahaha. Kinda why i started climbing in the first place

 

[MasterBlaster]

You don't feel the movement so much when you're in the tree... you just ride!

 

[Burnham]

Youse guys have been a stable, accepting location during my time here.

Been a lot more accommodating towards me than I deserved.


I will forever be grateful for the opportunity to converse with you folks.

Jim, you have been a first rate contributor from day one of your joining. Thanks for being in the crew.

 

[Tree09]

Or in construction, no one has ever heard of the steel tipping over! I'm curious on how I'll do on this 450 foot tower job, that's a whole nother level of up there. I'm sure the wind is something else. And i hope to God i won't have to take the stairs hahahahaha. Welding at 400 foot will be something else. I start hiring in on Monday, weld test Tuesday.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Nothing to it! Just get your mind Right!!!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Good fugging luck!

Frog snacks!

I wonder what the voltage drop is at 400 feet?

 

[Tree09]

Oh I'm sure I'll forget I'm up there once i start work, it's just gonna be a new experience. I'm more worried about shielding the wind for tig roots, we're gonna have to basically completely enclose the weld area with tarps or something... and trying to use a hardhat hood in that wind....grrrrrrrr

Edit: Jim I'm sure it's a ton, thankfully there will likely be no 6010.

 

[FireFighterZero]

What will you fill and cap with?

Low hydrogen?

Sounds like an adventure!

You will be flowing a pile of gas!

 

[Burnham]

You don't feel the movement so much when you're in the tree... you just ride!

Suuure, riiiight.

Hell, I remember well lying in bed at night after a windy day picking cones...the bed would NOT stay still

 

[FireFighterZero]

Thanks for the kind words earlier Burnham.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Just sway with it...

 

[Burnham]

No worries, Jim. Got your back, brother.

 

[Tree09]

Yup, low hy cap out

 

[SeanKroll]

Average low 40f, average high 60f, teens and 90s every year, side of Seasonal Affective Disorder (not me).

 

[Ryan]

Kyle, it throws me off when you call yourself a fitter and a welder. I know a welder can do a fitters job but around they're pretty particular about separation between the two, title- wise at least.

I have hung many a tarp to shield wind for tig welding. And if the weld fails we come back to "seal it better." Good luck on the new gig. Sounds like one of those jobs you'll always look back on. Hopefully with pride.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Which pays the best? A Fitter?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I had an aunt and uncle that lived in Olympia for a time Sean. Always told me it was some of the best climate in WA.

 

[Tree09]

In my local, they are paid the same, others pay welders more. The only distinction is qualifications they have, and yes some welders get bent out of shape if you call them fitters. I will take any dispatch call i get, welder or fitter, they are both essential parts of the trade. Often they bump me to a welder anyways lol. Pipeline the distinction is huge, and welders get all proud of the fact they pass xray every day to keep a job, which is why they act like they do. I'm from a building trades hall, so the distinction really doesn't exist, welding is just another skill that just about everyone has, so we are all steamfitters together. In fact, in my hall they make the apprentices weld on everything they can, they are younger and need the hours under the hood while the grownups work out in front of them with the critical layout and rigging work. We also make them help with the rigging so they learn that too.