Pic from the field

"Now there's an application where GPS would not be the best tool".

(I specialize in understatement!)

🙂

N

Are you the one who chipped that giant gouge in the concrete just to keep the leg from slipping?

So how did you bring your control up to the 2nd floor ?

Tom Wilson, post: 433507, member: 247 wrote: So how did you bring your control up to the 2nd floor ?

Resection on control points surrounding and well back from the outside the building (note the lack of walls)

Wellington?

Once upon a time, when I was a LOT younger, I had to go out on the steel girders and beams to punch mark the grid lines. Then we could transfer the marks down to the slab below. Of course that was before robots and resectioning.
Andy

Richard Imrie, post: 433525, member: 11256 wrote: Wellington?

Lyttelton

Lots of earthquakes while you are working?

Andy Bruner, post: 433528, member: 1123 wrote: Once upon a time, when I was a LOT younger, I had to go out on the steel girders and beams to punch mark the grid lines. Then we could transfer the marks down to the slab below. Of course that was before robots and resectioning.
Andy

In my dark-haired days I carried a rod and tippy-toed many a bridge beam for haunch elevations and calcs. I can't clean out the rain gutters nowadays on a step ladder without my knees shaking. Go figger...?!

paden cash, post: 433553, member: 20 wrote: In my dark-haired days I carried a rod and tippy-toed many a bridge beam for haunch elevations and calcs. I can't clean out the rain gutters nowadays on a step ladder without my knees shaking. Go figger...?!

Yeah and I used to climb water towers to inspect the paint too. Now leas than 6 feet for me (OSHA construction rules for fall restraint (grin)).

Still not bad on a flat beam at 25' AGL, but anything that might make me slip or trip makes me say no.

Last week I found myself perched on the top rail of a 6-foot wood fence as I navigated to a corner monument. The thought of losing my balance and having to jump off (barely-controlled fall) made my knees very nervous.

Jim Frame, post: 433578, member: 10 wrote: Last week I found myself perched on the top rail of a 6-foot wood fence as I navigated to a corner monument. The thought of losing my balance and having to jump off (barely-controlled fall) made my knees very nervous.

I'm seeing more survey rigs with ladder racks. The baby boomers can do most anything still but jump fences. 🙂 Jp

That person in the background looks to be dressed for cold weather.

We were loading some cattle to sell on Tuesday. The helper went climbing over a sturdy cattle panel made of about two inch tubing when the excessive quantity of green stuff (semi-fluid smelly matter) on the bottom of his work boot caused his foot to slip off that specific rail leaving him suspended on the top rail by the family jewels. Good thing he isn't planning on having any more children. That really took the wind out of his sails at the very point where he needed all the wind he could get while grabbing the trailer tailgate and getting the hind ends of six 900+ pounders inside the trailer. I was focused on moving those critters forward and allowing no backing up while avoiding flying hooves aimed at my own midsection so was not in position to do his job and mine both at the same time.

[USER=424]@Mark Mayer[/USER]

It's pretty close to the equivalent of Christmas weather way down yonder.

Holy Cow, post: 433592, member: 50 wrote: It's pretty close to the equivalent of Christmas weather way down yonder.

So it is. The lighting has a mid-winter feel about it, also.

Fence jumping in the rain with an oh s*it moment on a job gone wrong. If the company is willing to pay for a ladder rack, so be it, safety first. 🙂

You mean you weren't born that way??:);)