Pops110 Posted March 15, 2015 Posted March 15, 2015 (edited) Been working in the 135 JLG nearly at full stick. Not overly good at heights, so hI'm as been fun.😳 Working on the new children's hospital, replacing damaged vitreous panels and also reglazes. Mostly done by cranes with suckers. The glass can weigh upwards of 300kgs. Check out the boom deflection. Eight stories up . David May be a little scared😠Edited March 15, 2015 by Pops110 3
Pops110 Posted March 15, 2015 Author Posted March 15, 2015 That's a Liebherr 350 t crane with fly jibs etc, pulling down a tower crane. Awesome!!!! Cheers Dave. 3
JukKluk2 Posted March 15, 2015 Posted March 15, 2015 Too high for this little black duck. I'd be crapping my dacks. 1
LunchieTey Posted March 15, 2015 Posted March 15, 2015 That reminds me of the 3 months I worked out of EWP's for Woodside building a 16 module portable acommodation block for an unmanned gas rig overhaul. I had to get the basket right up to where I was working and then STEP OUT OF IT into suspended pipework to weld(harnessed up of course). Nowadays I only have to sign the permits and watch some other poor bugger in a man cage do the same! I dropped a 15kg stainless blind flange 8 stories and it hit the steel superstructure and rang this giant cube like a bell. Thankfully we knew it might happen and no one was anywhere nearby(taped area off) The most amazing part was the sea crane that picked this 600 ton module up in one single lift at sea and plonked it right on top of the gas platform in one lift that seemed all too easy. I guess it was good seeing as the crane is the only one of it's type in the world and literally charges $1m us a day. Shame I'm not allowed cameras at work(explosive environment) as we have some lovely 68m towers with tiny platforms on top that make you feel almost like you're flying(nothing else near them) with amazing views from Mandurah to Scarborough on a clear day. Downside is it's 200 ft of ladders to get there haha! 3
Guest yamaha_man Posted March 15, 2015 Posted March 15, 2015 That reminds me of the 3 months I worked out of EWP's for Woodside building a 16 module portable acommodation block for an unmanned gas rig overhaul. I had to get the basket right up to where I was working and then STEP OUT OF IT into suspended pipework to weld(harnessed up of course). Nowadays I only have to sign the permits and watch some other poor bugger in a man cage do the same! I dropped a 15kg stainless blind flange 8 stories and it hit the steel superstructure and rang this giant cube like a bell. Thankfully we knew it might happen and no one was anywhere nearby(taped area off) The most amazing part was the sea crane that picked this 600 ton module up in one single lift at sea and plonked it right on top of the gas platform in one lift that seemed all too easy. I guess it was good seeing as the crane is the only one of it's type in the world and literally charges $1m us a day. Shame I'm not allowed cameras at work(explosive environment) as we have some lovely 68m towers with tiny platforms on top that make you feel almost like you're flying(nothing else near them) with amazing views from Mandurah to Scarborough on a clear day. Downside is it's 200 ft of ladders to get there haha! What platform was that?
Guest Posted March 15, 2015 Posted March 15, 2015 Eight stories up? :blink: No way. I work on the ground. (Gardening/Landscaping)
emesbee Posted March 15, 2015 Posted March 15, 2015 (edited) I work in an office. I can sometimes get vertigo looking out the window (I'm on the 2nd floor). I need to update this. I moved to a new office in 2016. I'm now on the 6th floor. Edited November 24, 2017 by emesbee 5 1
mondie Posted March 15, 2015 Posted March 15, 2015 Work in the oil industry, the first 12 years on rigs and the last 10 or so office based. Great industry, always interesting and my job afford me a huge variety of work, cultures and travel. Seen and done some amazing things from watching artificial diamonds being made to flying around Australasia in a private jet (Citation X) 2
Guest Posted March 16, 2015 Posted March 16, 2015 I'm working on my first beer for the day. Me too! Just got home.
LunchieTey Posted March 16, 2015 Posted March 16, 2015 What platform was that? I really don't remember the name of it now , It was around 8 years ago! It was sent to the northwest shelf but that's all I remember. That was way back when I was a tradesman/plumber still haha! I installed all of the water, drainage and chilled water/hvac lines which were all handmade copper including hand made copper junctions for the sewer system. Apparently it had a design life of only 6 months before being stripped, rebuilt and sent out all over again. I had a google for a similar design but can't find anything like it. I had some good pics on my 'old' phone but I had already showed everyone who was interested back then and the phone is long since landfill. they did a full test on it while it was on land by firing up the kitchen and cooking us all a huge seafood/champagne lunch of an impressive calibre It was quite an interesting design, basically 16 specially converted sea containers(from Scotland) strapped in a 4x4 cube which was then built into a lifting frame(like a giant exoskeleton) with various water tanks etc on the roof. The whole thing was supported one story off the ground so by the time you got to the top, you were probably 8 stories up. The whole exoskeleton had a huge single lift point in the centre at the top and once on the giant crane looked like a little Christmas decoration. Engineering sure can be fun
Pops110 Posted March 16, 2015 Author Posted March 16, 2015 As I said, I'm not really keen on heights. But you do get used to it, has taken a little while but I'm getting better. The controls on the booms are pretty touchy and not overly smooth, so trying to position yourself up against the building 8 stories up can be a little hairy. The movement in the basket takes a bit of getting used to. You got off at the end of the day and you feel like you have been on a boat, close your eyes and start swaying. It's all fun though, I'm enjoying it. Working up and on the rigs would be a good experience, thinking about doing my rope courses and headin out there one of these days. Cheers Dave.
LunchieTey Posted March 16, 2015 Posted March 16, 2015 Thats the worst thing about the bigger cherry pickers and scissor lifts, that wierd perspective you get looking back down the boom to what looks like a tiny little base. Seems like it should just tip straight over! I have a funny memory of workinh with a big burly south african fella who was petrified of heights. He was almost crying when i had the mother of all scissor lifts cranked to max height (about 7 stories) and then extended the platform making it wobble and then once i had climbed out, asked him to pass me the oxy. Poor bugger could barely move along the handrail to pass it to me while muttering all kinds of curse words in afrikaans haha. 1
Guest Posted March 16, 2015 Posted March 16, 2015 I worked in Israel in the 90's on a Kibbutz. One of the jobs was pollinating the date palms... They had a crusty old Manitou machine similar to this but a bit bigger. It extended to a bit over 12m but they'd drive it at about 6m height to line it up with the trees. It had a U-shaped platform with a rickety fence around the outside. And a home made control system somthe driver controlled it from up top. It would drop one person off in a tree, no safety gear, we'd climb around on the bottom row of fronds, cut open the flower pods, thin them out, tie a string around and dust them with pollen. By the time the driver had dropped the last person off he'd come back around, pick everyone up and move on to the next lot of trees. I never got used to being on that machine (Imagine how much it swayed when you're 6m up in the air driving through a bumpy orchard) but after a few days I'd be swinging around the palm trees like a monkey, no worries. All in all it was a cool job being up in the tree tops, but the machine....not so much.
Pops110 Posted May 18, 2017 Author Posted May 18, 2017 Couple more pics. Doing reglaze' of the curved glass with custom built vacuum lifter, Z135 boom, rope access and an 80t crane. Glass weighs just under a tonne. 4
Upfront Posted May 18, 2017 Posted May 18, 2017 Something different! Sent from my SM-G900I using Tapatalk
Grumpy Posted May 18, 2017 Posted May 18, 2017 Many many years a go l worked on a building site , well, under it actually, preparing the underground carpark and got paid height money. Why? because there were other on site laborers way up on the top getting the heigth bonus so we all had to get it . Silly 70s union stuff 1
Grumpy Posted May 18, 2017 Posted May 18, 2017 1 minute ago, mrbuzzardstubble said: I'm working undercover. ls that you on the right ? 6
blybo Posted May 18, 2017 Posted May 18, 2017 (edited) I'll be working here in a couple of weeks another angle Edited May 18, 2017 by blybo 8
mrbuzzardstubble Posted May 18, 2017 Posted May 18, 2017 3 hours ago, Grumpy said: ls that you on the right ? Damn!! Tiara and a dry martini. A dead giveaway. 3
Pops110 Posted May 18, 2017 Author Posted May 18, 2017 3 hours ago, blybo said: I'll be working here in a couple of weeks another angle Very nice, look like holidays not working.
blybo Posted May 18, 2017 Posted May 18, 2017 Very nice, look like holidays not working. It is an Italian holiday destination but also have 6 monthly trade fair. Looks a bit different in January It's at the southern end of Lake Garda Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 3
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