The first beams flew last night, and as will be the case from here on out, we will profile them as soon as they are safely in place. A few pics from last night on Bridge 104. It is only two spans, but stradles an on ramp that is live. Because of the low clearance (16.5') we have to close the ramp and do them at night.
Oh, just EFFE that! Give me a river bottom anyday. On the up side, you're working when it's cooler, so maybe it's not that bad of a gig.
I hate construction work and I hate road work. You seem to thrive on the two that I hate the most! 🙂 My hat (hard that is) is off to you BRO!
As well as "coolth" there is likely no idiot telling you to get off his property !
Keep the pics coming please.
Cheers
Derek
I'd be OK with that job. So long as I can't see traffic buzzing below. That would probably give me vertigo. I like construction jobs on account of seeing something being done with your work.
E
gotta love robots for night work.
cool pics-
There will be plenty of operations going above traffic in the near future. The low clearance on this particular bridge poses a hazard if someone were to fall. They would be hanging there like a pinata for an 18 wheelers smoke stack.
> There will be plenty of operations going above traffic in the near future. The low clearance on this particular bridge poses a hazard if someone were to fall. They would be hanging there like a pinata for an 18 wheelers smoke stack.
Ouch. That creates a pretty horrific picture in the mind. A Surveyor pinata...
> > There will be plenty of operations going above traffic in the near future. The low clearance on this particular bridge poses a hazard if someone were to fall. They would be hanging there like a pinata for an 18 wheelers smoke stack.
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> Ouch. That creates a pretty horrific picture in the mind. A Surveyor pinata...
Yeah not too many of us full of candy eh?:-D
Roadhand...
Roadhand, are you up there with anything attached to you so you don't fall??? It looks like your wayyyyy up there like those tightrope guys!! :-O
Do you work when it is raining/storming?? Neat pics, BTW. Thanks for sharing!!
Roadhand...
have you tried a shorter rod height, or putting the prism on the bottom of the pole, closer to the ground?
Roadhand...
Angel,
I'll answer part of your question to Road.
Do you see the cables that run the length of the beams?
The safety belts are hooked to those cables, but if one guy falls all those hooked to that cable fall, unless he is light in the pants.
I worked for a few months with a layout guy that was very large.
It was funny to watch how quickly people switched cables when he walked up on the deck and hooked on.
I worked on a bridge job for a few months, but it really was not for me.
Neither were chemical plants.
Roadhand...
Dan is correct. All of our fall protection is designed by our engineers then sent out to an independant engineer for review. It is installed by competent persons, and we the users have about 8 hours of training on the use. We have retractable lanyards that attach in the middle of the shoulder blades on a body harness. The lanyards will retract and let you move lateraly but if you pull too fast(or fall) they will lock up immediately. There are strict guidelines about how far you can fall that determines where and what you can tie off to. We even have to tie a tool lanyard off to our harness and to the rod so that it wont fall if we drop it. My company goes above and beyond the OSHA regulations which I think is a good thing. I have walked beams in the past not tied off and the other companies way of telling you to be careful was to remind you that if you fall that youre fired right before you hit the ground. It makes me feel old to call it the good old days, because it doesnt really seem that long ago 😉
Mike, we had the rod up and down all night because of the crane operation being inbetween us and the robot. We have several different sized rods. We have the extendable one shown, we also have a one foot seco and one that is more or less just a range pole tip that we use on bearing seats sometimes when there is no fall protection on a cap. I wouldn't think the bosses would like us putting that multi-track on the concrete upside down. The instrument was actually higher than we were elevation wise. It is sitting next to some abutment drilled shafts on the bridge that runs parrallel with the one that we were working on.
In this picture it was set up about 20' to the right of the arrow pointing right. We were working on the other side (span 2) of the crane while they were hanging the beams on span 1. The other lines show the direction of the other bridges that are going on also in that particular area.
Roadhand...
"...if one guy falls all those hooked to that cable fall..."
If this is true it is a safety violation. I would expect it to be fixed.
Roadhand...
I cannot attest either way. I have not heard that was the case, and I have never fallen or been witness to. We go out of the way to ensure that eliminating a hazard does not become a hazard, on everything we do. Falls are one of the 5 "big" risks and a person would think that any and all fall protection gets heavily scrutinized. Maybe its a myth or maybe thats the way it was until someone got injured.
On a side note, did you know that a person suspended from a fall restraint system has 7 minutes before the harness starts damaging the blood vessels? A well prepared rescue plan is part of all fall protection activities and is just as important as a harness or life line.
Roadhand...
"...On a side note, did you know that a person suspended from a fall restraint system has 7 minutes before the harness starts damaging the blood vessels? A well prepared rescue plan is part of all fall protection activities and is just as important as a harness or life line..."
Absolutely. That 7 minutes is for the typical way people wear harnesses. It can be extended if the individual wears the harness properly, which is fairly uncomfortable.
