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Hell yeah baby!!

Thank you bro!!

Hell yeah bro ! I’ll be at that job site today helping out and getting some overtime ! I’m with Shuff steel to man ! I’ll see you there

@@Dirtywhiteboy118 what the heck I didn’t see you haha 😂

@Jose Hernandez I’m only 1st period apprentice so I’m just helping welders set up. It’s going good though!

@@Dirtywhiteboy118 today I was helping Murphy

I was on the roof all day !

When I went through it was 3 years.

Sacramento, first you need to know someone from 118........

@@DG-uw6wx old timer!

@@DG-uw6wxyea it’s about 3 years unlike other trades which takes 5 years

Local 86 always looking for new IW . I'm about to journey out next week .. just be confident and humble and learn something new everyday and you'll be alright brotha

Local 34 piledrivers you will thank me later

Yes there is a bolt up crew who falls behind and stuffs bolts. Then a crew with a tc gun to torque all bolts.

Yeah, bolt up gang, then plumb and impact the building.

Plan the work , work the plan

That’s the difference my man is the area . We’re all ironworkers you just join the local that’s closest to where you live at .

@@svensvrgen6336 I’m not asking how the holes get aligned. I’m asking how they achieve the accuracy during the drilling of the holes.

The shop fabricates the steel, using detailed shop drawings. They have all the holes, clips, copes, etc on there, the diameters and locations, everything. These drawings have already been submitted by an engineer, approved, then a detailer provides a working set of drawings to the shop and erector. It's not like cutting 2"×4"s onsite, each piece is marked and shipped in sequence for it to be set. In dense urban areas, there is very little room for storing materials, including steel, onsite.

@@peteywheatstraws4909 I suppose I’m asking a different question. Let me try again. Suppose you erect two 50’ members vertically, spaced 100’ apart. Then you install a cross member at the top, bridging the two vertical ones. If those vertical members are erected just a fraction of a degree off it will be enough to cause the pre-drilled holes to fall out of alignment. Hell, even changes in temperature (ambient) of the steel cross member could be enough to move the holes out of alignment. So I guess what I’m asking is, how do you erect vertical members at the foundation level to the accuracy required to accept pre-drilled bolts/holes?

@@LSUtiger607 that’s why you plumb your columns. If your columns are plumb they’ll be in line and everything will be square. If temperature moves anything it would have to be the whole building not just one column line

@@LSUtiger607there is a lot of sway and give in 50’ columns that’s why we carry our sleever bars when’s it’s off a little or a lot you use the leverage of your tool or if it’s real bad a tool called a come along (that was the tool that they used on the tube brace) that pulls the structure together if it’s too narrow you pull your bar and pry it out

right after you start they send you to class. if you're union. like a month or two max after you start.

30 starting

Why would a come a long slip?

@@adamv82They just aren't designed to suspend loads. Ment to pull.

You never send a brace header with a chain fall that’s unheard of dude . 3 ton Harrington come alongs. Never once in my career seen a chain fall to send a brace .

The come along is only there to pick up the deflection from the 1/16” slop in the bolt holes. Excellent rigging, have done the same on very similar pieces

We aren’t rats I can guarantee you that

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@@Dirtywhiteboy118 Do you know M. Grecco?

Lol . Yes

@@Dirtywhiteboy118 Omg, he worked for me in the early 90's for Madison Industries....He boomed around with me. Those were the days!

@@bak2812 he’s still around running work grumpy old bastard now days hahaha cool guy tho