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- - By Cumminsguy71 (*****) Date 10-05-2014 18:39
Was working with a guy awhile back and he snapped a picture of me welding one day. Has to be the single best picture I have up to this date. Just chillaxing, jamming to some tunes and welding away!
Parent - - By Blaster (***) Date 10-05-2014 20:30
Wow! Hope that is a hear resistant rope!!
Parent - - By Cumminsguy71 (*****) Date 10-06-2014 00:13
Arc flash rated rope, arc flash rated harness. Rope is even pretty darn resilient to grinder strikes! Hit it once with a cut off wheel, didn't even leave a mark!
Parent - - By Blaster (***) Date 10-06-2014 00:50
A cut off wheel?!  Well that ought to pucker a guy up!!!
Parent - By Cumminsguy71 (*****) Date 10-06-2014 10:31
Nah, made me mad cause I thought I ruined a very expensive positioning lanyard!
Parent - - By Tyrone (***) Date 10-06-2014 10:30
Nice pic Shawn,
Do you do tower work during the winter?
Tyrone
Parent - - By Cumminsguy71 (*****) Date 10-06-2014 23:02 Edited 10-06-2014 23:15
Tyrone,

I did last year and the beginning of this year. My final straw was in Minneapolis in February with -20 straight temps and -30 to -40's. Project manager said we could go out in the morning when it was cold to cut holes in the tower and then weld in the parts when it warmed up. -2 was warmed up at the "warmest" part of the day. -40 wind chills and you couldn't be on the tower for more than 30 minutes before you were frozen solid. Spent all last winter working from Indianapolis and north of that. Preheat everything, dress like the Michelin Man and try to get a harness over all your cold weather gear then figure out how to climb. Stacked 50 feet on a tower and we were putting on the last section as the sun set. Tightened down the last bolts and it was dark out(last picture). Climbed the tower several times with ice. Slipped and almost fell on one ice covered tower in Missouri, luckily my indoor rock climbing training/playing I like to do gave me the strength to catch myself with my left had on an angle, think I left finger prints in the steel.
Parent - By lo-hi (**) Date 10-07-2014 00:07
Awesome pics, good to see wildlife in its natural habitat. Be safe and take care.
Parent - - By Tyrone (***) Date 10-07-2014 10:44
Yikes!
Final straw?  Does that mean you are out of the game come winter? Don't blame you after your last cliffhanger.
Tyrone
Parent - By Cumminsguy71 (*****) Date 10-07-2014 20:58
Not necessarily out. I want to take December off. That means I will have worked about 9 months this year, works for me. If one of my contacts has something in the south or out west, southwest then I'll go but that stuff up above Kentucky is out. Told all my clients I won't be doing the snow thing, ice on the tower thing and all that jazz, they're fine with it. Ground work I would do it as I could build some sort of shelter but up above, no thank you.
Parent - By Chris2626 (***) Date 10-08-2014 19:32
Nice pictures but no way in hell I want to climb that tower in the winter.
Parent - By bruce69 (*) Date 10-11-2014 03:47
Jesus, now I remember why I'm not an Ironworker anymore!
- By 803056 (*****) Date 10-06-2014 19:30
I like the spats!

Nice view from the upper stories.

Al
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