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Just some work pics

Welder Dave

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I worked at an oilfield tank manufacturer. They had a 750 barrel tank all set up with studs to add insulation after hydro testing. The foreman forgot to let the air pressure off before letting the water out and it sucked the top of the tank in. Expensive mistake. Even on a 400 barrel tank they test with 1 1/2-2 PSI air pressure. You wouldn't think it's very much pressure but when you let it out through a 1" fitting, you'd swear it was 120 PSI coming out of a compressor tank. Almost blows you over.

Crane operator I really feel for you with that electrical mess. I think I'm like most and dread trying to solve electrical problems. I had some sparks in the wiring on my Cat and of course it was under the floor board. I opened everything up and couldn't see a thing except 1 ground wire was a little fried where it was bolted on. Everything seemed to work OK so I figured it was just a freak thing. A couple weeks later a friend who's a mechanic took a look. He giggled the wiring in the loom and got a spark right away. Of course the loom was melted but it was right at the very bottom and there was no way to see or feel it without taking a couple mounts off. He brought a special Motorcraft wire splicing kit and fixed it for me. It had metal sleeves and a pliers like crimper that double crimped the sleeves. Kind of like a crimper they use to put TV cables ends on.
 
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Put together a barge and launched a dredge Thursday. Flexi floats and spuds, and a old tugger on the barge. The dredge was self contained. They're going upstream to clean up around the city water intakes.

Dredge had a 6-71, so he was thrilled with the old 35. Their last install of barges they used a 350 ton to set it, so I'm not quite in the same size.

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I told them to watch the spud height on the bridges. We were still tearing down when they took off upstream, and sure enough they nailed the railroad bridge. They had enough water depth to drop the spuds a little more and sneak under.

The dredge itself was over 25,000, and I was afraid the water level wouldn't be high enough for me to float it, I had a buddy bring his big boat launching trailer, and we just picked it off their delivery trailer, and put it on his trailer and backed it into the lake. If the water is down too far I was afraid it would be on the rocks before I got it floated.

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I think junkyard had one of their guys in my neighborhood friday. They drilled the hole for this power pole. The power line guys said the drillers weren't there for more than a hour. We actually got this Friday afternoon, otherwise I would have been setting it this morning.


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Truss job I did friday morning before the power pole. Just laid them all down on the roof for these guys, 3 at a time. I dropped the 35 off here on my way home from doing barges, they had scheduled the 25, but the truss pile was way out in the parking lot, I was glad I had the 35, especially 3 at a time. 65' trusses, I had them move the dumpster so I could set in the middle, between the stack and the building, and I was still 90' or so with the first one.

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crane operator

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The elec company foreman said Joplin drilling outfit, but he didn't remember the name of the outfit. It was probably 4-5' wide, 14' deep. They were just thrilled they didn't hit rock.

They were actually replacing a pole in the background that is kind of in the middle of a driveway/ parking lot. Its been hit a bunch of times, but the pole swap was probably pushed because one of the guys to hit it was a line truck of the power company.
 

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It could have been us. I've only been in the shop 3 days in 9 weeks so I'm not up on the day to day lol. I've become my own little Oklahoma satellite operation!
 

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Nice looking job with the sectional barge. I dont like being that near to power lines even when working with the line crews,but they seem pretty comfortable with that stuff.Each to his own trade i guess.
 

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IMG_2724.JPG Around the first of the year I was driving piles around this pump station and the killed the power lines and I pushed them out of the way with the pile because one had to be driven directly under the line. Then afterwards I clamshelled the pond out around it was a 1 1/2 yard bucket IMG_2678.JPG IMG_2700.JPG
 

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Are you running a Round sling on the vibro?Always wanted to try that instead of cable when your unhooking and hooking the hammer a lot ,But tradition says use cable.
 

ryanmueller

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Good to know ,thanks gonna be brave and try one ,the sling on the 150 we are using is toast now.
I just finished up using a nylon endless on a ape 200-6 and we use them on 150s all the time. I've actually never used a wire sling on a vibro. I am only 20 years old though so I haven't seen a lot of things
 

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Couple beams with the galion this morning. Could have got it all from the top with the 25 ton, but it would have been a big pain to put in jib. Just used the galion and moved around a couple times. Got a new operator, so I've been having him come with me last week and had him run it for this job. He's been doing refinery work down south, and this is a bit different.

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A little work from this week. Crusher at a quarry. Was a little foggy/ rainy. Had to build a custom lift bracket for getting the cone up. The crusher expert from california (he drove here), had a lifting eye for it, but his was the wrong size. I've got a pretty good selection, but this machine is metric and he thought he could just run someplace in town and get one.

No one here has anything like that, so I had him steal a bolt from the crusher that fit it, and had jim run me a piece of 4x4 tubing. A little torch work and we had a lifting rig. The guy from calif. got a little smart about it, and I told him I could just sit there while he waited two days to get a picking eye shipped in if he wanted.

Last picture is on the hill out of the quarry.

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Been setting a little steel also. Had to haul in some mats for the Rt. The 70 ton wanted to slide down the hill when getting it up on jacks, it slid about a foot and a half when I tried to put down the rears to get some more wood under the front. Ended up having to boom down over the rear to get set up.

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