Just some work pics

[crane operator]

The 3" rain in a hour thursday- got the better of a roof. They built a new building up against the slope of a existing factory, and just installed some drain/gutters. I got the call thursday night and went and looked at it.

Well the big rain shoved a bunch of debris in the drains (plugging them up), and made a pond on the roof. Roofs won't usually hold ponds for long, so down came the roof. There was one guy in the room that collapsed, but he made it out the door before he got smooshed. Workers said the water slid a bridgeport 8' across the floor when the wave hit it. 3' of water in the room below.

Was supposed to go get the hvac unit off the roof friday, but the lawyers and insurance guys got in a tiff about it, and so it got put on hold. More phone calls friday and "safety issue" got things rolling, and we went saturday morning and pulled the unit. 120' away and a 35' sidewall so 90 ton with all the jib on. We had to dodge thunderstorms to get it pulled.

Lawyers and engineers are having a big wheel meeting on tuesday and we'll see what shakes out after that. I think there's going to be a lot of fingerpointing about the design of the new building, attached to the old, and with no where for the water to go if the drains plug. It just makes a lake.

Rained friday, saturday, and sunday in the hole. They've just been pumping the water out.

 

[skyking1]

I have not wrapped my head around why they make these parapeted curbed roofs without a ginourmous overflow slot in them, with the roof sloped that way.
And some kind of self cleaning drain system.
A couple of strategic pieces of, what exactly? and it is game over, man.

 

[CM1995]

Same thing happened on this building a couple of months ago. Got the call from one our GC's to come take a look and give advice on how to build it back.

1/3 of the roof sloped to the front with 2 downspouts and no overflow. The other 2/3 sloped to the rear with no parapet wall just a long gutter.

From downspouts plugged filling that portion of the roof.



Just like that building above there was 12" and higher water marks on the walls in the front.

Best we can figure is when the front roof collapsed it created a gust and a ripple in the roof system itself that blew the back wall out.

 

[savman]

I priced a demo two weeks ago that had a partial roof collapse due to clogged gutters....18k square feet of office....toast b/c of a few clogged gutters. ouch

 

[terex herder]

You could tap them but you risk getting metal cuttings in the tank. Maybe just some pipe plugs would thread right in?

Typical way to avoid shavings inside is to grease the tap well, and withdraw often. Yes, its a bodge, but sometimes its necessary. Repairing blown sparkplugs, any ford owners?

 

[skyking1]

yup I drill holes till almost through and then start greasing the bit too. The other dodge is to pressurize the tank and hopefully blow more debris out than in.
Drilling and tapping for EGT probes on cummins engines.

 

[oarwhat]

Metal shavings in a 100 gallon tank with a filter are not going to be a problem.

 

[Hank R]

When I was working at our schools her one of my jobs was every 2 months I had to clean roof drains and log when and how much.

 

[Natman]

Did a job just yesterday on a shop I did last year. Set the trusses AGAIN...., after our heavy snow year collapsed the roof! The home owners were in Europe, so no one hurt, 75 pound snow load rating originals, new are 150 lb. Bad location, no winter sun, no where for the snow to go on the back side, cut into the hill like it is, plus the winds drift that side, I just hope I don't have to go back next year. ICF walls, is why they didn't get pushed out, that was interesting.

 

[skyking1]

wow. nothing like a level work area.
That is the bomb diddy about ICF, my basement build is ICF. R25 and 8" of reinforced concrete in one package.

 

[crane operator]

Fenced us in. We working in the amusement park, put the crane in late after park closed, they built the fence back around us. Set the new building the next day, and pulled crane out the next night.

 

[crane operator]

 

[crane operator]

Units four days apart, on opposite sides of the same condo/ mall development.

I take another guy with me, because with the trees and light poles, its a pain to put jib on.

 

[crane operator]

Hot tub with a telehandler, generator, and a old emergency box truck that I think they are going to make into a food stand.

The box truck I was totally wrong on the weight, it was over 7,000lbs, and everything I saw was aluminum construction on top of the steel frame, so it must have had a blast proof double wall on the outer skin.

 

[crane operator]

Setting some steel, and a new concrete plant silo.

 

[crane operator]

Repairing a water park by new steel columns through the roof.

 

[crane operator]

Columns all set before lunch, supposed to go set rafters tomorrow, and I hope they get the columns all tied together before the wind blows them down.

Aside from the one lift operator, always pulling between me and the column I'm trying to set, we had a good morning.

 

[crane operator]

My new to us 8640 has a steering column issue. Link belt uses what looks like for all intents and purposes, like a GM steering column from a '89 suburban. Keys look like gm keys too.

My other link belts are tilting but not telescopic, this new one is tilt, but also telescopes, and doesn't lock the telescope. So the whole steering wheel floats in and out about 4" or so.

I remember the old GM columns for being bad about the tilt bushings going bad, but I don't remember them being telescopic columns. Nor do I know what locks the column.

This isn't my actual column, but this is what mine looks like from a same year crane off the web.

It pulls up just behind the spokes, and before the turn signal stalk. The back small lever, behind the turn stalk, is what does the tilt.

 

[crane operator]

Got the rafters all set last week, and a old sand screw we loaded out.

 

[Oxbow]

My new to us 8640 has a steering column issue. Link belt uses what looks like for all intents and purposes, like a GM steering column from a '89 suburban. Keys look like gm keys too.

My other link belts are tilting but not telescopic, this new one is tilt, but also telescopes, and doesn't lock the telescope. So the whole steering wheel floats in and out about 4" or so.

I remember the old GM columns for being bad about the tilt bushings going bad, but I don't remember them being telescopic columns. Nor do I know what locks the column.

This isn't my actual column, but this is what mine looks like from a same year crane off the web.

It pulls up just behind the spokes, and before the turn signal stalk. The back small lever, behind the turn stalk, is what does the tilt.

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Similar on some trucks. Twisting the entire ring around the city horn doesn't work? Might be worth a try. Should be able to tighten like a nut. One of our trucks has that anyway.