petersonra
Senior Member
- Location
- Northern illinois
- Occupation
- Semi-retired engineer
I have been on several job sites where the EC had brought a trailer with him that had all the tools needed to fabricate just about anything. usually there was a guy in the trailer, sometimes two, just making stuff the guys doing the actual install needed.
They would bring a sketch of what they needed and the guys in the trailer would make it up for them.
There was almost an assembly line of a guy in the field measuring and sketching, the guy(s) making up the pipe in the trailer, and the guys coming along behind installing it. I doubt there was more than an hour from the time the sketch was delivered before it was installed.
It was well choreographed. Pretty impressive.
They also made up a lot of boxes and stuff with fittings already in place so the guys installing them just set the box in place and it was ready to pipe. Most of that kind of stuff was EMT. It kind of amazed me how a box can get made up by someone 100 yards away and have all the fittings in the right spots every time. Sometimes they didn't even sketch it up. just called on the radio.
The guys on the platforms almost never had to even come down. They had people who were moving scaffolding around so the guys 15 feet up in the air did not have to come down to get to the next location. Mostly they just walked to a new section of platform that had only been installed a few minutes before it was needed.
They would bring a sketch of what they needed and the guys in the trailer would make it up for them.
There was almost an assembly line of a guy in the field measuring and sketching, the guy(s) making up the pipe in the trailer, and the guys coming along behind installing it. I doubt there was more than an hour from the time the sketch was delivered before it was installed.
It was well choreographed. Pretty impressive.
They also made up a lot of boxes and stuff with fittings already in place so the guys installing them just set the box in place and it was ready to pipe. Most of that kind of stuff was EMT. It kind of amazed me how a box can get made up by someone 100 yards away and have all the fittings in the right spots every time. Sometimes they didn't even sketch it up. just called on the radio.
The guys on the platforms almost never had to even come down. They had people who were moving scaffolding around so the guys 15 feet up in the air did not have to come down to get to the next location. Mostly they just walked to a new section of platform that had only been installed a few minutes before it was needed.
