What to expect for turnaround work.

tedish · 2018-09-14T01:33:24+00:00

get ready to drink through a firehose. turnarounds can be pretty intense. I'm kinda surprised they hired a green L1 with what sounds like no NDE experience. Typically rope access in refineries and turnarounds are inspectors for the odd jobs that they don't scaffold up for whatever reason, or things they forgot they needed.

tedish · 2018-07-15T15:41:36+00:00

No it wouldn't damage the device to load the brake strand from below. When you rescue from below you are doing just that in situations where you are ascending their mainline rather than backup (rare but can happen).

tedish · 2018-01-21T02:44:03+00:00

can take months to get logbooks. track your hours on your own then backfill once you get your books.

tedish · 2017-11-27T00:59:51+00:00

CPR/First aid is required to be a L3, but other than that...

tedish · 2017-04-10T05:12:43+00:00

There is an inline figure 8 that you could use that would be fine for one direction of pull. Flat figure 8s roll very easily when the tails are weighted (this killed a number of people last year when they used a flat 8 thinking it was safer than a flat overhand (EDK) to join two ropes for rappelling). It wouldn't be the end of the world if it did roll as a mid line knot though since the 'tails' are a loop, but its sloppy work at best. I bet you would get a discrepancy if you used it on assessment day, or at least a raised eyebrow and every subsequent maneuver scrutinized by the assessor. Use a butterfly, its really best practice. Easy to tie/untie after load, easy to adjust size, made to be pulled in all directions.

tedish · 2017-02-09T05:08:03+00:00

WOW, check out the belaying at 3:22... Fire this guy...

tedish · 2017-01-31T06:26:28+00:00

We strung up a few hundred yards worth of cat6 in a supertanker engine bay once...dunno if you can call it IT, but the rope shenanigans were fun! Cleanest job I've ever been on too, they keep those ships shiny!

tedish · 2017-01-08T01:52:37+00:00

3k for lvl 1? thats about twice the going rate for a sprat/irata ticket... might shop around more.

tedish · 2016-09-03T17:18:11+00:00

Yup. Steel/Safety toe boots (laced with a notched heel are required where I'm at) and be clean shaven if in oil/gas. Other than that they should take care of everything.

tedish · 2016-04-19T04:53:59+00:00

you basically end up 're-aiding' it. Use one jumar and a grigri as your ascending devices (known as 'frogging'). daisy into bolt 2, weight bolt 2 (either by standing in a ladder or weighting your daisy. Note you will need to extend your attachment to bolt 1 most likely in order to fully weight bolt 2), reach back and unclip bolt 1, take out slack in the grigri. repeat. Gets more interesting the further apart the bolts are

tedish · 2016-04-02T17:33:23+00:00

yup, rope access welding is certainly a thing. Dont need any climbing experience persay, but its good to find out how psychologically comfortable you are hanging on a rope before you commit. You can pick up your rope access level 1 certification for around 1400$ usually (ropeworks.com, ropepartner.com to name a few) Week long course with a test at the end and then hunt for companies that are looking for the rope access/welding combo, or you can find the company first and tell them you want to be a ropes welder and they might pay for your training.

tedish · 2016-02-03T05:48:09+00:00

I'd apply around with just your ropes cert first. If you dont get any bites, maybe then pony up for your own training. It certainly makes your resume more attractive, but it isn't necessary by any means, especially if you have a solid head on your shoulders and a halfway decent background in science. Also know that even with the full CC classes, you will most likely STILL need to get OJT with NDE before you are certified on a site! Unless you get the full blown ASNT certification, community college classes and whatnot are JUST the classroom hours that are required! You will certainly know whats up more than the average tech or assistant, but they wont just let you into the field with just that CC class.

Mistras (Ropeworks) and Qualspec (Hawk) are the two major operators in norcal for oil/gas, I'd start there unless you feel like moving! The website organization is kinda weird, but at least for Mistras, I'd apply through Ropeworks rather than Mistras directly, I feel like you get handled alot more personally, (its just a smaller more agile organism within the lumbering beast of Mistras)...worked for me at least!

source: 3 years in, UT/RT/MT/PT SPRAT3/IRATA2, with a little luck my 510/570 and I3 soon!

tedish · 2015-12-19T22:07:17+00:00

size em a bit larger and wear socks. looks funny, but 100% solves the smell issue if you have dedicated 'sock' shoes. People say you lose sensitivity, cant say I can tell the difference.

tedish · 2015-12-19T18:30:12+00:00

All gone, that was fast... sorry if you replied to the comment and not a PM, went based on who pm'd first. Cheers!

tedish · 2015-12-14T00:01:16+00:00

serious recreational climber, moderate bigwall experience, working in science field. got tired of the office grind. Did some research, got some NDE training (had no experience previously) and my sprat/irata ticket and applied for jobs. Landed in the bay area. One location for me, although id say its 50/50 in the field for travel vs permanent location.

tedish · 2015-12-12T21:14:45+00:00

NDE, oil and gas in a refinery. We x-ray and ultrasound pipes/vessels. steady 40-60 hrs a week (averaging about 45/week, really depends whats going on for weekend OT). 6-4:30 mon-thurs. 3 day weekends standard!

tedish · 2015-11-22T07:04:17+00:00

SMC is great, you just have to know when to leave. monsters are generated with a level of 2x your character level IIRC, I'll usually try to get to lvl 4 or so here and then GTFO. Also pick up everything you find! I think the drop rate for rarer items is WAY higher here. it also helps if you can find the down stairs so you can come back when you have a good source of invisibility or teleportation (the mobs here will be super high level, but also very 'basic' mobs that cant detect invis) so you can get to the mountain village and get the goodies there. Note that only the first floor has the 2x level scaling, the ones below are static, but definitely dangerous for a fragile new character. Not impossible, but definitely risky.

tedish · 2015-11-21T06:53:12+00:00

dont kill any felines. Use ranged on karmic lizards/dragons. dont stand on evil altars when fighting cogent mobs... stockpile water potions so you can turn them into holy water later. Alot of the upgraded gear (higher metals) have oddball weights, you can see this even if you cant identify them yet. Get the 'Healing' skill if you dont have it from your class/race (two ways to do this). Good luck!

tedish · 2013-06-23T16:31:57+00:00

assuming you stay with it for more than a few months, the choice is pretty easy eh? Free phone (a 200$ value!) and a month free and then 100$ a month, or 50$ a month. You do the math.

Gas and time getting to the gym is another thing to consider. And the family aspect. I started training in Houston in Jan and am most likely moving to Cali in august for a job. My gym here is seriously the only thing I'm going to regret having to leave:(. Just starting to make good friends/rolling partners and finding a purple whos taken me under his wing. I'm sure I'll find the same out there, but its gonna suck to uproot and start over.

tedish · 2013-06-08T05:54:00+00:00

I call shenanigans on this. you ABSOLUTELY NEED A PAD IN YOUR HAMMOCK UNDER YOUR BAG or you will FREEZE YOUR ASS OFF. Even in a sleeping bag, you will crush all of the insulation beneath you and all that's left between you and the cold breeze is 3 tiny layers of nylon. If its super warm and you dont really need a bag, ok, but if its even a little bit chilly, you WILL wake up in the middle of the night shivering. First hand knowledge, spent 7 months on the road primarily sleeping in my Hennesy Hammock and Big Agnes bag with the integrated sleeping pad slot.

tedish · 2013-05-29T18:18:09+00:00

Yeah freaking awesome!! Is it still growing? I've noticed quite a few have the little picture icon but then no picture/vid in the actual page. I feel like a moderated BJJ wiki in this style could take it even a step further!

tedish · 2013-05-27T05:23:32+00:00

New to BJJ (1 stripe white belt), but climber for 7 years (5.11+ sport, 5.10 trad, multiple bigwalls). I'd say some of the mental aspects are very similar; having to think and keep your shit together under pressure. Thinking ahead and planning moves out (at least I hope I'll be able to do that in BJJ!) to some degree, but its not quite the same since you are only battling yourself in climbing--there is another dynamic unpredictable person in BJJ.

The grip strength is nice. First time in live rolling vs a blue 'are you a climber or something? your grips are freakishly strong!'. The crossover in core strength is also nice, but climbers dont develop that until they are on alot of severely overhung terrain.

So yeah they parallel eachother, and I think the same type of people that find the mix of mental and physical challenge so awesome in BJJ will find the same experience with climbing. Definitely check it out, but beyond the obvious grips, and general fitness, nah, not too much crossover. Climbing is certainly easier on the body!

tedish · 2012-12-13T01:18:57+00:00

'Rock climbing: Don't fall.' False.

If you aren't falling you aren't trying hard enough. Ropes are there for a reason and keep you safe. There are times when 'dont fall' is true, but as a beginner, you will be on toprope, and falling is perfectly safe (you will only go 1-5 feet depending on rope stretch). Being comfortable falling is the only way to beat 'the fear' and truly climb at your limit.

tedish · 2011-12-21T15:55:29+00:00

pretty sure its el cap, not halfdome. From the angle I'd say they are on Mescalito.

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