What do you do for work?

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:

M&M hired gun.
marketing and merchandising.

Unilever.
Procter & Gamble.
Warner-Lambert (now Pfizer).

right now, Honeywell.

Commercial fire alarm systems.

Retired theft investigator for large municipal utility. Largest recovery was $1.64M. No I won’t tell you how to beat your meters. :stuck_out_tongue:

Service Manager for a national automotive chain. Basically run the shop and sell service repairs on customers vehicles.

WTH! Was that from one customer—how long was that happening to rack up a bill like that?

Heavy equipment product support.

For Australians here (pinkpanda3310 , grin) ; do you recognize WARATAH ?

Do you know Simon Mao ?

How does our addiction to lights rate ?? :laughing: :laughing:

The roof steel - cross bracing, parallel chord trusses. The panel eventually gets tied into the floor slab as well. I only say that because i’ve seen pics of a building that had a fire which collapsed some of the roof steel and all of the panels ( a couple of which were only connected at floor level, remained standing. The surrounding buildings blocked a lot of wind so they didn’t get blown over but still… 125mm thick, 7m tall and weighing 15-20 tons each….

We don’t need to worry about earthquakes. The Meckering Fault Line is a little ways out of Perth and is not very active. The vast majority of sites we work on are sand. We only encounter problems when we dig up stuff that was buried by man.

Waratah is a plant. Pretty sure it’s an aboriginal word.

Something to do with mining? Or waratah the suburb, port waratah, the flower, company

It was one company, much heavy equipt drilling a big 22ft dia tunnel.

Inventor—with the capability to screw up many cheap flashlights.

Before I got re-tired I was a glorified maintenance tech with certifications in HVAC and welding.

Worked a 2nd job as a residential training instructor.

Worked a 3rd job in armed security. (insurance ornament)

Kids are expensive.

Different cooked, tasting the same. We had a large industrial user on 3 fase high tension.
Visited by very specialised (high paid) metering guys. Suddenly the consumption is down by 33%.
Meter guy thinks( ? ): Okay. Meter dept thinks: Okay. Billing dept thinks: Okay.
Apparently nobody notices. Forrest Gump would have noticed, or Lassie, or Flipper, or Mr.Ed.

Untill Sourcing dept. (we) analysed sales (Peter Tosh: a man without a past is a man without a future).
The culprit was in the meters. A three fase system has three meters, and one meter was out of action.
Month after month the meter guy rapported: meter 1: nnnn MWh, meter 2: nnnn MWh, meter 3: 0 MWh.
There was no foul play (only lazy colleagues) but still we had a very hard time getting our money.
The client tried the oldest trick in the book: so sorry, but the books on that year are closed.
The following months were filled with happy days …… if you were a lawyer.
Fortunately our legal dept. reacted very swift …. and hired an outside man to handle the mess.

Much the same here. Meter reader looked at the meter, looked at the huge hole in the ground, many floodlights indicating 24hr use, winches operating, dirt conveyor filling trucks yet no consumption. He should have gotten the credit.

Construction IT grunt, hobby farmer.

I’m an aviation fire fighter :slight_smile: