Shield Arc
Super Member
They always tried to make us wear ear plugs, but I never screwed them in tight, you have to listen to the tone of the hammer to know what it is doing. The tone tells you if the hammer is giving all it has to give.
Millermatic 140 for bucket hooks
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brin
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This is what I did most of my life. When you listen to bang, bang, bang all day long it gets old real fast. So now I like it as quite as possible.
Looking at the picture of one of your work sites makes it real easy to understand just how dangerous working on projects like that must have been....sure glad you survived...
Shield Arc
Super Member
Barely! When I was 37-years old the huge marine construction company I was working for got slow. I went to work for a little maw & paw outfit. Making a lift, weld on a pad eye broke. Rigging went right through the safety latch on the hook of the crane. Hit me in the back, drove me face first into the deck of the barge, then into 35-feet of water with the rigging wrapped around me. Crew member jumped in and got me untangled before I drown. Shattered everything in my face except my jaw, I have 7-plates in my forehead! Missed 6-months work, went back to work for the huge marine construction company as a non working foreman, about a year latter they made me a superintendent. Did that for years before my health went south, then I retired.
Here's the marine construction company I worked for web site.
General Construction Company
brin
Super Member
Holy Cow ! --What an experience...very fortunate to have survived that....I can't begin to imagine what must have been going through your mind under water....I'm sure glad you made it...I bet a lot of them didn't ...it sure looks dangerous...
Shield Arc
Super Member
Oh I was out for a week. I don't remember being in the water, I did wake up when the paramedics were cutting my shirt off, then again in the helicopter, then one more time in the emergency room at the trauma center, then it was lights out for a week!
Yes very dangerous work! Guess that's why we make the big bucks.
, then again in the helicopter, then one more time in the emergency room at the trauma center, then it was lights out for a week! Yes very dangerous work! Guess that's why we make the big bucks.
farmer2009
Elite Member
Oh I was out for a week. I don't remember being in the water, I did wake up when the paramedics were cutting my shirt off
Yes very dangerous work! Guess that's why we make the big bucks.
Yea but the sad part is they make you earn every bit of that money. Some pay with their life(like you almost did). Most pay with their health.
Shield Arc
Super Member
The summer before I got hurt I was right on the Canadian border driving 190-feet long concrete piling. Had my nephew, (in his early 20s) by marriage in the crew working for me. It was about 11:00 P.M. We were done for the day. Tying up the pile barge for the night, my nephew wasn't wrapping the 3-inch braided lines on the bit tight enough for me. I pushed him aside re-wrapped the line while doing this I said Steve if you don't get with the f_ _king program I'm going to run your a s s off, I looked up at him, he had tears in his eyes because he was so tired, I said Steve did you think they were just going to give you $30.00 and hour?
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kg7il
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Arc weld
Veteran Member
Wow! That must have been a very traumatic event Shield Arc. What happened to the guy who's welds broke or the inspector that approved them? Did the company and/or workers comp. have to pay you?