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| Thread ID: 87128 | 2008-02-09 08:09:00 | A day at the Office | Metla (12) | PC World Chat |
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| 638856 | 2008-02-11 04:53:00 | 10 years experience will just about cut it, provided your competent, can handle extrem stress, don't make rash decisions, and can demonstate understanding of what happens to a building when placed under the stress and forces of a big digger yanking on it. The biggest digger in thos pics costs well over 500 grand... The rotating shear on the other machine cost 200 grand alone.... So, It takes more then a course could ever teach, You need to be experienced enough (start small, hand tools, and work up, 5T diggers, 15T diggers, 22t Diggers) so that your working on intuition (of course everything is planned before hand and modified as we go) by the time you get to the big gear. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 638857 | 2008-02-11 07:21:00 | Hi arnie... re: This same company got the 6 month contract for the Haast Pass Road in South Westland and completed it in 6 weeks. Did they build the bridge at the Gates of Haast? The one that got washed away shortly after the road was opened? I thought the Meehan brothers (Martin, Laurie & Tony) were known as "the Haast bridge builders." But whether that was washed away, or its replacement, I have no idea. It's just my recollection of family talk from years back. They were relatives of relatives... P.S. What is/was the building, Metla? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 638858 | 2008-02-12 09:05:00 | Hi Metla, guy I was in the Air Force with was a Jurgens from Wanganui, Steve I think his name is, haven't heard of him for years | Whenu (9358) | ||
| 638859 | 2008-02-12 18:03:00 | In movies of the old days, and in comic books, there are those big wrecking balls that swing from cranes. Are these still in use? | Morpheus1 (186) | ||
| 638860 | 2008-02-12 18:53:00 | Last time I saw one in use was about 14 years ago, The wire rope holding the ball can (does) snap, and it wears through the ball itself, either way the end result is a heavy as hell wrecking ball in uncontrolled flight, Not a good look. The demolition itself with a demolition ball is also pretty random and uncontrolled, no matter how skilled the operator. Having said that, 99.9 percent of the time the ball is dropped straight down onto the structure, not swung into it as seems many people think. Are they still used? I haven't heard of them being outlawed, But seeing as everything now has to be submitted in a methodology I would say you would have a hard time getting a contract if that was your only method of attack. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 638861 | 2008-02-13 20:27:00 | I liked the last pic of the tagged wall all craked and smashed. Maybe we should used the machines on taggers!!:badpc: |
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