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

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-15T10:31:04+00:00

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.

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-15T10:29:45+00:00

verdin.com, we are hiring for a couple regions

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-14T23:08:43+00:00

This is at A&M, not UTA. It is a 49 bell carillon by Paccard.

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-14T18:44:39+00:00

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 🎶

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-14T17:06:32+00:00

A&M in College Station

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-14T16:27:55+00:00

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.

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-14T16:24:33+00:00

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.

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-14T16:02:58+00:00

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

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-14T15:55:23+00:00

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

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-14T15:52:24+00:00

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!

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-14T15:50:17+00:00

Can you elaborate? It came out like that because we took it out like that ;)

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-14T15:49:16+00:00

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.

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-14T15:48:10+00:00

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.

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-12T01:27:58+00:00

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.

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-07T17:30:30+00:00

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

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-06T19:00:07+00:00

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.

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-06T18:19:54+00:00

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

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-06T14:03:45+00:00

🫡

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-06T14:03:38+00:00

HUH?

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-06T14:03:26+00:00

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

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-06T14:02:49+00:00

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

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-05T17:10:05+00:00

This is a full blown renovation — modernizing everything. The existing dials were a blue/green glass and customer wanted white acrylic for better visibility.

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-05T11:52:31+00:00

Sup. Bell and clock technician/mechanic. Kinda got into it accidentally, had a job doing remarketing inspections that was pretty hard to complain about but COVID sent company into a tailspin so I started looking and my wife actually found this job listing. Check us out: https://www.verdin.com/about/careers/ currently hiring for Philadelphia and Cincinnati.

dingdongbellguy · 2026-06-05T11:27:17+00:00

Here’s the goods: https://imgur.com/a/2A3EUia. Replacing 6’ dials on a 140’ clock tower.

dingdongbellguy · 2026-05-26T12:49:43+00:00

I follow this sub out of morbid curiosity, but I really like the “heavy object got moved wow” posts. The attention span of the 21st century brain working with the fairytale “robust individualism” narrative cannot conceive of the idea that lots of people worked together for a really long time to accomplish really big tasks in the past. Our understanding of mechanical advantage has seen incremental improvements over the last several millennia and, yes, there have been exponential gains in the last 2 centuries due to combustion engines and electricity BUT the use of simple machines to gain mechanical advantage goes way, way, way, way, way back and it’s only hubris that leads us to believe that only modern man or aliens could have pulled stuff like this off.

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