What do you do for work?

I’ve been super busy with work lately. It means i don’t have time to play with lights :frowning: but hey, gotta make hay when the sun shines :disguised_face:

Anyway I work in construction. More specifically concrete tilt ups. Here’s a video of a few recent jobs.

What do you do for a crust?

I operate a local community meeting hall. The need to do routine maintenance outside after the last meeting has left for the night is what got me into high performance flashlights.

I went to college 4 years to work in social services but couldn’t find a job in that field, so I ended up working for a medical billing contractor doing back office support for clinics and medical professionals, claims, credentialing, all manner of credentialing, insurance stuff etc.

Ooh, let’s play a game!

Me, I just go checking the timers on the crab-spray.

Retired contractor, oilfield construction and road building. I’m here only because flashlights are a less expensive obsession than boats and airplanes (and my wife is the bookkeeper).

Software developer in the field of vehicle automation (“self driving cars” in industrial environment).

我是中国的手电筒制造商

Aircraft maintenance engineer.

I am re(aly )tired.

Flight Operations.

I work in a powerstation as a trade assistant. I may not be very smart but I can lift very heavy fings, especially with a crane or forklift. :smiley:

Software Dev & DevOps in the field of retrofitting industrial equipment with new technology

Music Producer (formerly an Electronics Design Engineer).

Psychotherapist… But an engineer inside.

Mixing the two I do accurate formulations.

Retired.

Printing industry

Retired Oracle programmer. Now working full-time spoiling grand-daughter :slight_smile:

What flashlights do you produce?

Physicist, technical writer, teacher (math and physics)

That’s a nice video and a very interesting and amazing building technique.

How is vertical alignment and adjustment done for the tilt ups—are any sort of optical tools needed (telescope, theodolite, etc) or can plumb-bobs and carpenter levels meet the task?

What are the dimensions of the concrete sections and how are they transported from the casting site, or are they poured on-site?

cheers :beer:

ps. long-haired beer-drankin’ crust-eatin’ pickup-drivin’ dumpster-divin’ rocket scientist

Thanks kennybobby. Concrete tilt ups have been around for a while. It’s been a popular building method around here for about 30 years or more.

Plastic packers/shims are placed on the footings using a laser level. If the panels are cast straight and square then there’s usually not much to adjust. Before de-rigging i check the edges with a long spirit level (carpenter’s level) and try use that to eyeball the edge right to the top. If needed (often) make adjustments to the packers to try and get it plumb. Not the most scientific way but there are many things at play. The granos can make it a challenge sometimes, the roof steel has a tiny bit of wiggle room for out of square etc… and the company is paying around a $1000(au) per hour for all the machinery and staff on lift day so safety and speed are key.

We have cast off site and had it delivered before but we rarely do it. Nearly all the panels you saw in the video would’ve been too big to transport. Unlike housing no two jobs are the same so the panels for each job are individually detailed. We might get a handful of panels the same size in a given job but it really all depends. There is a couple of standard thickness’ for them which, again, depend on some variables.

Any time :beer: Hope I was concise enough. I could ramble on :laughing: