hi there

hey all. just joined yesterday, ive been working at the BP oil refinery just southeast of chicago for the past 2 years and i got a couple of days off due to a lemon poppysed muffin drug test incident. the most recent scaffod i was working on was a 30'x 50' cuplock hanger that started off of ladder trusses at around 40' up and went up to around 110' with cantilevers on each running side to accomodate the installation of a 96" pipe that connects to the new vacuum distillation tower. dunno why im telling you this, guess its just an introduction..

so im trying to figure out some of your terminology and ive figured out what the dropped cantilever and the flying shore are. we dont have terms for those things in my workgroup. any other structures you can recommend i can read up on? lol.
 

Howdy humongojugomango

Welcome to the forums :) - how is the windy city? Is it just scaffold jargon you're getting to grips with or scaffolders jargon? Cos there's plenty of that here!
 
Hallo mate,nice introduction,there are a few Americans on here, welcome to the forum.

Thats an interesting name you have, bit of a mouthful lol
 
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i guess a little bit of both, im interested in the international terms for stuff, for instance, i know what a grav-lok is because it says it on the bag, but we call em beamers or beam clamps.

i spend way too much time in the refinery to go galavanting around in the windy city.. lol./.. theres a huge ($5-6B) expansion job going on there right now, we get crates of clamps and they're gone within hours.

one thing though, if you'd a told me 3 years ago id be making good money to play on monkey bars and make em up as i go along i would have laughed in your face..
 
Lemon poppies sound interesting , there is a difference in terminology even between the north and south of England , from what you say it wasent a hanger you done it was a "truss out" there are 3 main types of shores , "dead shore" ( supports up floors) " raking shore" ( supports 1 wall ) "flying shore" ( supports 2 walls at height)
 
cashin said:
whats the money like out in the U.S??
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its pretty good where i am, cause we're all in the carpenters union(guess its not so good elsewere)the rate is $34(21.27 GBP)/hour for journeymen and slightly cheaper for apprentices: 4th year gets 85%, 3rd year gets 75%, 2nd year gets 65% and first year gets 55%. im gonna graduate to journeyman in a couple of months, so yay me.. anyway this gig were doing now is like i said, huge, so were all putting in like 60 to 70 hours a week, with time and a half for anything over 8 hours in a regular day, saturdays are time and a half, and sundays are double time.

how does that compare with things elsewhere?

"Lemon poppies sound interesting , there is a difference in terminology even between the north and south of England , from what you say it wasent a hanger you done it was a "truss out" there are 3 main types of shores , "dead shore" ( supports up floors) " raking shore" ( supports 1 wall ) "flying shore" ( supports 2 walls at height)"

good to know, we have different terms for stuff between builders here lol like some of em call a shorty 1 cup standard a grenade or a cutoff .. today we took out a whole mess of cat heads, do you know what those are? lol.

it was just muffins by the way, like a scone or something - lemony batter with poppy seeds in it..

take er easy.
 
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