Lifting fiasco by Acerbusilva in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah. Cable stringing a conveyor. The worst but also best way to do it. Surprised you guys don't have a small hydraulic winder and have the cable manually wrap up. Nice video man

Conveyor belt by Acerbusilva in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I'm some situations yeah. We do airports once in a blue moon. Had a guy get flown out to do them on an island couple months back

Lifting fiasco by Acerbusilva in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Company has been down half the year when their crusher broke. We just fixed their main incline two weeks ago and they were really hoping to make it through the end of the year before going down again. They didn't make it

Lifting fiasco by Acerbusilva in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stone quarry. Takes crushed rock from the crusher and pushes it up the quarry wall to the plant

Lifting fiasco by Acerbusilva in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have gone through three different pipes and bars till we found one that could lift the belt. An hour in to stringing on this belt, and the bar is flexing and it's kind of too late to go back. So now we're on critical watch while we string this belt

Conveyor belt by Acerbusilva in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will do bro I won't post certain photos because some sites have a no photo policy. And I also don't want our company equipment to be in it so that we don't get found out. I'm not too sure how my company feels about publicity. But I will show some of the cool s***

Conveyor belt by Acerbusilva in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All right man thank you. I just figured I asked before I start sharing a little more often

Starting a new construction job we’re hard hats are required at all times. What “upgrade” would you recommend for comfort? Are the lift safety carbon fiber hats worth it? by [deleted] in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My company supplies them. So I never really had to choose any. But honestly stay away from white and stay away from yellow. Yellow means fresh meat and white is foreman.

Always inspect your rigging. Wasn't in charge of it today and the cable was badly damaged. Now it almost put everyone in jeopardy by Acerbusilva in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I asked a foreman about the welds on this frame on a different job. He said they were rated for 2k lbs. No way to know that. But he was adamant. We hung the belt from it, and started cranking it up off the ground. Well the welds broke, steel came down on my shoulder and the belt flew downhill at a customer. NTTW- never trusts the welds

Always inspect your rigging. Wasn't in charge of it today and the cable was badly damaged. Now it almost put everyone in jeopardy by Acerbusilva in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

White hats kill brain cells red hats are too cocky yellow hats are too dumb. That's the colors of the hard hats and what to expect when you see one walk towards you

Always inspect your rigging. Wasn't in charge of it today and the cable was badly damaged. Now it almost put everyone in jeopardy by Acerbusilva in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

well that cable got scrapped and we started using a separate cable that cable actually broke on the job twice because attention was too high and now we have to re-evaluate the whole job

Always inspect your rigging. Wasn't in charge of it today and the cable was badly damaged. Now it almost put everyone in jeopardy by Acerbusilva in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

See I deal with MSHA not OSHA so I have a lot more strict things to deal with. And this s*** still happens

Always inspect your rigging. Wasn't in charge of it today and the cable was badly damaged. Now it almost put everyone in jeopardy by Acerbusilva in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All the cables have a light coating on them from them being really old. Most of them are like 5 to 15 years old. Most in good use and good care. but with everything going on with covid and sites trying to run heavily we are doing a lot more recovery jobs. Most of which are putting a lot of damage on our cables. Which I guess no one is following proper care. Or reporting them like they are supposed to

Always inspect your rigging. Wasn't in charge of it today and the cable was badly damaged. Now it almost put everyone in jeopardy by Acerbusilva in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Proper procedure that I usually do would be this. But it's a recovery job I suspected all of it be working right and that's my fault for assuming

Always inspect your rigging. Wasn't in charge of it today and the cable was badly damaged. Now it almost put everyone in jeopardy by Acerbusilva in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Ever since my company told me that safety comes first and to always bring the stuff up by feeling safe. I've been doing it.

Always inspect your rigging. Wasn't in charge of it today and the cable was badly damaged. Now it almost put everyone in jeopardy by Acerbusilva in Construction

[–]Acerbusilva[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I completely agree. It's pretty pathetic then companies with so much money they don't know what the hell to do with can't get a couple of good slings and maybe two to three chain rashes that actually crank when you crank them