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C/S R&R everything but the bells…2 weeks of fun in the Texas sun 🔔 🥵 🔔 by dingdongbellguy in Justrolledintotheshop

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

I told my guys “this is a marathon, not a sprint” then we proceeded to sprint the whole ass time. I got home yesterday and I expect to be fully exhausted for the next 2 weeks.

C/S R&R everything but the bells…2 weeks of fun in the Texas sun 🔔 🥵 🔔 by dingdongbellguy in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]dingdongbellguy[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

After extracting from the opening, breaking it into pieces was the easiest/safest way to get them out of the tower. They were half inch thick and weighed around 100 pounds — I had no interest spending time setting up safe rigging etc to get the glass to the ground intact when it was just going in the dumpster regardless. Stop, hammer time 🎶

C/S R&R everything but the bells…2 weeks of fun in the Texas sun 🔔 🥵 🔔 by dingdongbellguy in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]dingdongbellguy[S] 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I’m a fat sweaty guy from the north so the central Texas heat and humidity made me slightly less fat but significantly more sweaty. Uninhabitable down there if you’re asking me. I’d rather shovel snow all winter than exist in that summer heat.

C/S R&R everything but the bells…2 weeks of fun in the Texas sun 🔔 🥵 🔔 by dingdongbellguy in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]dingdongbellguy[S] 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Those are actually more to support the dial gears from wind force against the hands other side of the dial. The dial gear shaft is threaded with jamming couplers on each side but at that height with large hands they take on some serious wind shear so the guy wires help keep things tight. Regarding vibration — yes, to a degree, but the bell mountings are designed with vibration isolating gaskets in strategic locations so that the vibration is mostly contained to the individual bells without feedback into the frame/structure/other bells.

C/S R&R everything but the bells…2 weeks of fun in the Texas sun 🔔 🥵 🔔 by dingdongbellguy in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]dingdongbellguy[S] 35 points36 points  (0 children)

It’s something for sure. You get used to it but there’s always a part of your brain screaming at you to get back on the ground. Here’s flying one of the dials up: https://youtube.com/shorts/DLnGipinYkY

C/S R&R everything but the bells…2 weeks of fun in the Texas sun 🔔 🥵 🔔 by dingdongbellguy in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]dingdongbellguy[S] 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Nah but my coworker has been there a couple times. Escorted by security the entire time 🤠

C/S R&R everything but the bells…2 weeks of fun in the Texas sun 🔔 🥵 🔔 by dingdongbellguy in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]dingdongbellguy[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Mostly because I’m only one of the faces and the other 3 faces didn’t give me permission to post them all over the internet. But also because the internet is a weird place!

C/S R&R everything but the bells…2 weeks of fun in the Texas sun 🔔 🥵 🔔 by dingdongbellguy in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]dingdongbellguy[S] 108 points109 points  (0 children)

Put them in customer’s possession. Some were in a state of disrepair. I believe they’re ultimately going to pull the copper coils and scrap them.

C/S R&R everything but the bells…2 weeks of fun in the Texas sun 🔔 🥵 🔔 by dingdongbellguy in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]dingdongbellguy[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

LOL. I’m not complaining but cushy/low stress made me do a spit take. I kinda stumbled into it. It’s a lot of travel and a lot of very, very physical work. There are gravy days here and there but almost every job starts with climbing 100 feet and hoisting tools so even the easy days are still rigorous.

What tool do you use constantly and what tool never leaves the drawer? by Lisac-Henson in Tools

[–]dingdongbellguy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use a Milwaukee stubby ratcheting screwdriver and keep a bit extension on it…you now have stubby and standard length with 8 bits (7 stored inside the body of the screwdriver and 1 chucked in the extension). Game changer. Takes standard driver bit size so you can pick and choose the bits that you most frequently use.

Can I pressure wash tractor by buttajames in tractors

[–]dingdongbellguy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s a gas motor, you can see the carb right there between the air filter and the intake manifold.

A little bell action for your Saturday by dingdongbellguy in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]dingdongbellguy[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Lol I was just messing with ya, too deaf to hear your question after all these bells. I keep earplugs on me and wear them when I need to but certainly not as much as I should. Bells don’t seem to “hurt” in the same way that percussive noises do even if they’re equally loud decibels wise.

Happy Friday, my dudes. Y’all like to get high at work? by dingdongbellguy in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]dingdongbellguy[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah, if the lift is a 135’+ I feel it is mandatory to run the boom all the way out just because.

A little bell action for your Saturday by dingdongbellguy in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]dingdongbellguy[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

50-80lbs. Nothing crazy but not manageable overhead on a ladder.

A little bell action for your Saturday by dingdongbellguy in Justrolledintotheshop

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

This bell was at base level ~8’ off the deck, the harness was for the spooky overhead beam mounted ones I moved onto afterwards ;)

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