Lol! Cool stuff Bearcat. I don’t imagine everyday is gravy tho.
Never is it gravy. And on a day like today, we are 1 bad moment, rebar, wire break from every thing going south. It will happen, it’s not if it’s when
Cool stuff. Pretty sure I knew one of the guys that sat in that tower crane before it was taken down.
I often hear from concrete guys that engineers “over-reinforce everything”. Seeing how much work goes into demoing this makes me smile. Maybe too much…next time I have a tower base to design, I’ll throw some #18s in there for fun, lol!
That’s cool stuff BC. 
Wish I could see you set that up. 
I often hear from concrete guys that engineers “over-reinforce everything”. Seeing how much work goes into demoing this makes me smile. Maybe too much…next time I have a tower base to design, I’ll throw some #18s in there for fun, lol!
Sounds like something dumb a engineer would do.
This pad could be gone in a day and a half if we could hammer it with a back hoe. But it’s sitting on top of a tunnel and the tunnel walls are connected to the operating room. There is 0 tolerance for vibration. That’s why we have to go this route. But as for 2.25 inch rebar. I cut it often as I’m demoing beams, columns and other such. What’s worse is plate steel. We cut a mri room out on the uofm that was 8 inch solid plate steel no concrete, used this same system only different cable. Took months
That is some sweet stuff Bearcat.
AWESOME!!!
Sounds like something dumb a engineer would do.
Haha…
What’s worse is plate steel. We cut a mri room out on the uofm that was 8 inch solid plate steel no concrete, used this same system only different cable. Took months
Did a similar room at a hospital one time. We discussed what would happen if they ever needed to remove it how it would be done. Now I know what the experts would do to remove it.
Glad you didn’t take that in a bad way jake lol, I battle with you engineers daily. And guys who build the prints. We all have the same end goal, but man do some guys take the hardest route possible.
Glad you didn’t take that in a bad way jake lol, I battle with you engineers daily. And guys who build the prints. We all have the same end goal, but man do some guys take the hardest route possible.
Once upon a time, I may have, but with age comes wisdom or at least more chill… In all honesty, my favorite projects now are working directly with contractors through the design process in a design-build fashion. It is way easier to ask “hey, this is what I’m thinking. You cool with it?” before the information is even put into a drawing set vs. design/bid/build where all the questions come long after you are onto another job.
I think in a lot of industries there is a huge disconnect between engineers and anyone trying to work on what they created. It sure is that way in mine (Automotive).
Love the “69”” blade. 
I often hear from concrete guys that engineers “over-reinforce everything”. Seeing how much work goes into demoing this makes me smile. Maybe too much…next time I have a tower base to design, I’ll throw some #18s in there for fun, lol!
They are 100% responsible! I understand the over engineering.
Most reasonable engineers will take all field advice into consideration because we are there every day and time tested construction matters.
Remember, a 2×4 cannot be engineered but we do know that we can build walls with and set a roof on them.
No wonder the lady friend is jealous of the tan you stole her chair!
BC
Are you with ACS?
Oh goodness. I’m not very techy and have no idea how to do that either
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Don’t sell yourself short, BC. The stuff you do is pretty techy too and I’d guess the ratio of guys who can do that to the guys who can download photos is a good 1 to 100,000. Almost as rare as unicorns. 
BC
Are you with ACS?
Maverick.
I can’t imagine the bill to have equipment & guys on site that long for a project.
There are millions of jobs out there and some real interesting ones at that.
Careful BC, the lady sees how big of a rock you can cut and she will want a monster one on her finger.
What do you do
When the weight of the concrete starts binding the wire blade?
What do you do
When the weight of the concrete starts binding the wire blade?
in the one picture you can see hes got some short pieces of rebar jammed in the crack
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What do you do
When the weight of the concrete starts binding the wire blade?in the one picture you can see hes got some short pieces of rebar jammed in the crack
Correct. Those are 8 ft sticks of 3/8 rebar. We have fed 12 of them in so far. I should finish this pull today and start over tomorrow on the next.
I am pushing the machine to its limits and have this wire running at 22 meters per second. If you can picture that in a constant feed cable.
Ha. Meters. Where is this canada? Stupid metric. Lol
Ha. Meters. Where is this canada? Stupid metric. Lol
It’s a hilti saw, all German
22meters per second?!! That’s incredibly fast. If that blade breaks at that speed, what keeps it from destroying everything around it? These are good posts. Thank you!
22meters per second?!! That’s incredibly fast. If that blade breaks at that speed, what keeps it from destroying everything around it? These are good posts. Thank you!
We have had the cable break at the crimp 2 times. We have ply wood 2 sides of the cut. Shims on the back side. It is violent when it breaks. Very dangerous. Once this machine is on and running we stand away with a speed controller and emergency stop. You cannot be next to it. It blew 2 pieces of 3/4 inch ply wood apart like nothing.
That’s interesting!
I might’ve had you on one of my jobs?
I’m a supt with RJ Ryan
That’s interesting!
I might’ve had you on one of my jobs?
I’m a supt with RJ Ryan
I cut for fabcon alot and vosson and northland so it’s very likely. My main job is running a wall saw, so fabcon keeps us busy
Ive been walking by you guys all week. That sure is a big project youre part of
That’s really cool stuff! Sounds like a fun job most of the time. I probably should have gone into that instead of auto repair, but then I would just have different engineers to curse.
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