What did you do today?

EdFred said:
For the beams or columns? Usually you're gonna run deeper on the beams to carry the spans. I did a lot of W18 x 55 and W21 x 55 beams in my day. Sometimes I miss doing that sort of work.
Click to expand...
Reading these exploits makes me wonder if those items are all magnetic.
 
billsgs126 said:
Reading these exploits makes me wonder if those items are all magnetic.
Click to expand...
Ha. 3/4" A325 bolts spaced 3" vertically and 3-1/2" horizontally. As many pairs as the web of the beam could hold.
 
EdFred said:
For the beams or columns? Usually you're gonna run deeper on the beams to carry the spans. I did a lot of W18 x 55 and W21 x 55 beams in my day. Sometimes I miss doing that sort of work.
Click to expand...
Columns my bad. Wide flange beams as columns. Forklift drivers and apparently semi trucks like to play bumper cars with the structural columns. I don't get into constructing the buildings, just go in and repair afterwards. Some of the repair details I get are pretty wild. Engineers not realizing it's faster to replace a column than to bring the damaged one to full strength. Or that I can pretty easily straighten flanges without heat. Plate over that bent flange. I can't not straighten it. Takes 20 minutes if it's really bad and looks so much better.
 
EdFred said:
Ha. 3/4" A325 bolts spaced 3" vertically and 3-1/2" horizontally. As many pairs as the web of the beam could hold.
Click to expand...
Large warehouse building took out x-bracing and added a second level for offices. Then they decided to demo the second level years later and needed the x bracing put back. Only when they removed it, they rough cut the mount brackets.
IMG_1218.jpeg
 
Racerx said:
Columns my bad. Wide flange beams as columns. Forklift drivers and apparently semi trucks like to play bumper cars with the structural columns. I don't get into constructing the buildings, just go in and repair afterwards. Some of the repair details I get are pretty wild. Engineers not realizing it's faster to replace a column than to bring the damaged one to full strength. Or that I can pretty easily straighten flanges without heat. Plate over that bent flange. I can't not straighten it. Takes 20 minutes if it's really bad and looks so much better.
Click to expand...
Who is finding the business? You or the engineering firm?
 
Old97 said:
Who is finding the business? You or the engineering firm?
Click to expand...
I work for a few different building maintenance companies. There's a few different engineers that get used depending on who the building owner/property manager is. Often times the building owner contracts an engineer who then recommends us. Usually when one tenant leaves or if a building is a new acquisition, that's when things are seen and the engineer gets involved.

I don't seek out work. Don't need to.
 
Went to my mom's to look at her dog and try to convince her to call the cops after her dog was attacked by the neighbors pit bull in their own yard. She wouldn't do it. I called knowing she wouldn't and they told me she had to.

Edit: she called the cops this morning and the dog being a little havanese is a lucky SOB. Scraped up neck, a little sore, and super paranoid. Heard another dog bark and he starts growling
 
Last edited:
I made fig jam from figs I'd grown in 2023. Had 10 pounds of fig goo (scooped guts) in the freezer and I used 2.5 lbs to make 1.5 pints of scrumptious jam.
 
Dropped off plane to have the trim color and color of N-numbers changed.
 
Spent an hour and a half pouring through Google maps debating on a venue for lunch. Ended up spending a minute and a half opening a can of tuna out of the breakroom pantry and turning it in to tuna salad.

And I meant no offence from just saying fush ya.
 
Put in a couple of Volunteer Shifts at the NMUSAF at WPAFB. One as a Gallery Guide and the Second, Helping on a "Introduction to being a Pilot" course for teenage kids using RedBird Sims as well as a discussion on Engineering Careers in Aerospace to a group of High School Students.
 
Yesterday:
1749760805411.png
1749762317013-png.141887


Today:
1749762320685.png


Next week.....PT.!!
 
I mostly dug more holes today, but I also planted sweet corn.

IMG_20250612_172212661.jpg
 

Attachments

  • IMG_20250612_172212661.jpg
    IMG_20250612_172212661.jpg
    2.3 MB · Views: 3
Rode the narrow gauge tourist train from Durango, CO to Silverton. Down here with my retired uncle for a NARCOA rail speeder excursion - we’re setting the Fairmont speeders on the track tomorrow morning and riding that same trip a couple times this weekend, then proceeding down to the Cumbres-Toltec railroad along the CO/NM border. Being away from the farm for ~2 weeks is stressful, I always return to an assload of catch-up work.
 
ColinD said:
Rode the narrow gauge tourist train from Durango, CO to Silverton. Down here with my retired uncle for a NARCOA rail speeder excursion - we’re setting the Fairmont speeders on the track tomorrow morning and riding that same trip a couple times this weekend, then proceeding down to the Cumbres-Toltec railroad along the CO/NM border. Being away from the farm for ~2 weeks is stressful, I always return to an assload of catch-up work.
Click to expand...
Cumbres and Toltec was pretty cool. But that descent into chama has the brakes smoking pretty damn good. Would recommend driving down into Abiquiu. Fantastic scenery and Abiquiu inn has some pretty good food.
 
After a couple stiff old fashioned's (one was more bourbon neat with an orange and cherry garnish) and mushroom and sirloin risotto. A large Dairy Queen Smores blizzard was dessert.
 
Mostly worked on the RV today. I did pick up a keg of Rigg's Citraweizen (yummy!) on the way to retrieve the kids from "ninja camp".
 
Jim K said:
Mostly worked on the RV today. I did pick up a keg of Rigg's Citraweizen (yummy!) on the way to retrieve the kids from "ninja camp".
Click to expand...
What's ninja camp and how do I apply
 
Racerx said:
What's ninja camp and how do I apply
Click to expand...
If I'm honest, I'm not completely sure. It's through their Taekwondo dojo. I know they played dodgeball because the boy came back with the whole side of his face red ;).
 
Did the work thing. Came home with the intention of fixing a garage door opener that went south yesterday. Went to the basement looking for something (now forgotten) and heard an odd noise. Investigated and found a section of cast waste pipe above the drop ceiling had a dime sized hole in it and the sound was water pouring through it. Bad design (IMO) the condensate pump feeds into that section of plumbing probably accelerating rust/wear. The cast pipe is probably 55 years old. Anyway, re-routed the condensate to a bucket for the time being, went upstairs, briefed the family on what plumbing NOT to use, and started reorganizing to create a workspace to fix things. 30 minutes later, it starts raining in the basement again. Son is going to town in the kitchen sink, cleaning a cutting board. So it is raining filth, BBQ, and macaroni and cheese in the basement. F'n awesome.

Of course, there is a set of shelves under the leak. 4 reconditioned A65 cylinders, the wheels for a Champ, the stick built ribs for a Hatz, all the parts for the center section of a Hatz, rolls of polyfiber cloth, and a crapton of other stuff had to be moved, dried, etc. Complete with BBQ and Mac n Cheese. Uggh.

Moved all the stuff, took the very scuzzy and soggy (did I mention BBQ and mac n cheese) covered shelves out of the metal frame. Bagged all of them and the other damaged stuff and set it outside. Cleaned all the splatter off the walls, mopped most of it up from the floor. Put a bucket under the hole in the pipe, just in case someone else in the family has a touch of dumbass. And now I'm trying to figure out how to replace a 3' section of cast pipe with 3 or 4 different Y's and connections. First step, removing it from the flange where it is oakum and leaded in. I'm sure Youtube has suggestons, so that's my next step.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top