What's up at welding web?

[Rustyiron]

Thanks!
I worked on both of those floating bridges. Little over 4-years. That picture is the LVM replacement bridge. I was the rigging foreman setting the anchors. The square anchors weighed 300-tons. We stacked them 5-high on the lake bottom. The wing anchors, jetted 18-feet in to the lake bottom. They weighed 90-tons.

Now those are some big "strings" on that lifting block!

I'm guessing your didn't swim down to the bottom to release them being the rigging foreman. :laughing:

 

[rhunt]

Currently still down - Friday the 16th @ 0624. Bob

 

[MinnesotaDaveChalmers]

Head weldingweb moderator posted this today:

Got it from a insider..
ALL WEBSITES ASSOCIATED WITH PENTON MEDIA HAVE CRASHED.
MAIN HOST SERVER IS DOWN..
DATA RECOVERY IS IN PROGRESS BUT...

IT DONT LOOK GOOD.

ALL INFO WILL BE PASSED ON AS I GET IT.

THAT IS ALL

 

[Shield Arc]

Now those are some big "strings" on that lifting block!
I'm guessing your didn't swim down to the bottom to release them being the rigging foreman. :laughing:

They are 4-inch in diameter. The black frame weighted 25-tons. Our engineers said we needed that weight so the wire rope would wrap correctly on the winch drum, coming back up empty. It was 24-parts. The load block weighed 5-tons. We had hydraulic cylinders on the black frame, we controlled the cylinders from the deck of the derrick.
The State DOT gave our surveyor the wrong coordinates! We set a lot of the anchors in the wrong place! Had to have divers go down and reconnect the picking frame, so we could put the anchors in the correct place.

 

[Rustyiron]

The scale of.... everything fascinates me in heavy const. I'd love to have a (few) cups of coffee (or beers) with you and your photo album & stories.

 

[Shield Arc]

I've worked on some very interesting projects. I worked in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, and Nevada. In the local Navy ship yards we did some interesting projects, but no cameras allowed in the Navy shipyards. Same as in the Boeing plants.

 

[California]

Head weldingweb moderator posted this today:

Got it from a insider..
ALL WEBSITES ASSOCIATED WITH PENTON MEDIA HAVE CRASHED.
MAIN HOST SERVER IS DOWN..
DATA RECOVERY IS IN PROGRESS BUT...

IT DONT LOOK GOOD.

ALL INFO WILL BE PASSED ON AS I GET IT.

THAT IS ALL

Wow. If it's that bad then the corporation as a whole may have taken a severe body blow. Isn't Penton largely a media, advertising, specialist? If they've lost all their current ads, creative work in progress, and even worse, all orders, transactions, even client lists, they're screwed.

Taking this long to get just the forums back up is a bad sign. It says they lacked a workable backup strategy.

I hope their financial databases - sales, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, and also employee roster, retirement contributions, internal phone/email directory, etc - were better supported. Lose all that and you no longer have a business.


Since WW isn't up I'll post a longwinded rant here for everyone's entertainment.


I saw a simple example of a mess like Penton's, first hand. I phoned my optometrist when I hadn't received notice my glasses were ready. He answered the phone himself and said his secretary stole his records to conceal theft so calls like mine were his only way to rebuild his customer list. He would have to rebuild his financial records from scratch. He also said please pay for the glasses I ordered. I told him sorry, I have my Mastercard statement showing I paid the day of the exam so if they aren't on order then please order them for me. He did but I'm sure he ate the cost. Poor guy. Sitting alone in his office day after day waiting for the phone to ring ...

And -

As an Internal Auditor for the state DOT we mostly verified contractors' Change Order claims on big projects by visiting the contractors and going through their payroll and accounts payable records. We seldom found a problem but this kept them honest, they couldn't bill for imaginary costs. Another responsibility - what I initially had been hired for - was to examine the State's internal processes such as adequate documentation of project records, and including appraising whether adequate backup processes were in place to recover from a mess like Penton has. For DOT in an earthquake region, disaster recovery including restoring communication and project documents - in a time of crisis - is critically important to get things working again. Running all those backups for years seems pointless ... until you need to rebuild all your records from your backup.

 

[dstig1]

Oooo. That's gonna hurt bigtime. Still down as of now...

 

[MinnesotaDaveChalmers]

** update **
I've been told progress is being made on the website issues

 

[pgk]

Good to hear Dave, I guess I never realized how much I logged onto weldingweb for info. or just to see what was happening..


Pete