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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Paul Taylor on February 11, 2008, 11:52:20 AM
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I got on our job site today and they were not letting anyone in the building until this guy got done.
So we sat in the truck and watch an air show for about an hour.
Man this guy was good. Smooth as silk.
Paul H^^
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Are we twins? LL~ LL~
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Not sure about that Bob.
That picture you have of Mr. Bean looks more like Richard M. Nixon. LL~
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Where I work is just off the end of the runway at Auburn Municipal. Stuff flies over all the time. What's the big deal with the antique heli? No way they'd keep us out of the building for that sort of nonsense. Nose to the grindstone. We did vacate during the big earthquake we had about 6 years ago, but the power was out, so we went home. y1 Steve
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I remember a building repair going on across the street from a place I worked. An S-58 also lifted four heavy air conditioners to the roof. Took them less than 2 hours.
The straw boss on the site was using our phone until utilities had been restore. That afternoon, he had just finished using the phone when a couple mini-hitlers from his corporate HQ showed up wanting to know why he had hired the heli for something like $600/hr instead of a hi lift crane for about $250. As normal with corporate bean counters, they had trouble with the concept that in 2 hours, the heli delivered about 48000 pounds of equipment and dropped it accurately onto the mounting pads. The cranes would have needed a couple days, and at least one of the units would have had to be lifted to the roof, then moved into place. The Helicopter had a much higher cost per hour, but the job was done for less than a quarter of the price of using a crane, and in maybe 20% of the time, cutting a couple days off the job, which was eventually recorded in the local paper as unbelievably coming in several days ahead of schedule and under budget.
The two corporate goofballs were MBAs. The site boss was proud of his almost 30 years with the company, 20 of them as a site foreman, without ever earned more than a GED. And having gotten over 300 hours of engineering accounting and business administration college courses.
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That is what I really like about our country. They think if it was in the book it is the correct way to do it. Doesn't matter if it can cost several more times than if it had been done according to on job experience. Working the main frame in a telephone office in which I had 3 years of service on it. New hire frame boss comes by and tells me there is not enough solder on a connection. I asked him in no uncertain terms to go get the book and prove to me I had been doing it wrong for three years. Then I continued on with my orders. Less than a year later the new frame boss with a history major from college was let loose. DOC Holliday
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Helicopters vs cranes.
We used both on GM construction jobs.
Bascially 'choppers are more productive. However, there is one big downside.
We were required to TOTALLY VACATE the building for a 'chopper lift. For a CRANE lift, we only had to clear the immediate work area.
So, to the casual observer, the decision seemed wrong, but sometimes you just can't send everybody home, so you have to make do with old technology.