> When I was younger I worked as a rod-buster on a nuclear plant. Mark!
What a guy! > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of John Sessoms > Sent: 14 July 2009 23:40 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Construction III > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 08:04:19PM -0500, Christine Aguila > scripsit: > >> > Hi Everyone: > >> > > >> > Construction on the superstructure has finally > begun--permits all sorted! > >> > One of those rods weighs nearly a quarter of a ton, and > the whole cage > >> > weighs about 1500 pounds. I have to say, I'm rather > proud of #2--and > >> > check out that tattoo! Any boo-boos let me know ;-) . > > Christine, someone's pulling your leg. > > The verticals for the column look like 20 foot sections of #11 rebar > which would make them almost 110 lbs each. (5.313 pounds/foot) > > The bands are #4 rebar - I'd guess 9 - 10 foot length bent > into 2 foot > squares - roughly 6.6 pounds each. (.668 pound/foot) > > The first four bands near the end are set on 4 inch centers, but it > looks like it changes to 6" centers after that. I make it > about 30 bands > altogether. > > 4 x 110 = 440 > 30 x 6.6 = 198 > > The whole column assembly is no more than 650 pounds. It might be 800 > pounds if the verticals are #14 rebar, but I don't think so. > > When I was younger I worked as a rod-buster on a nuclear plant. We > schlepped around 60 foot #18 bars (2.25" diameter - 13.6 > pounds/foot)all > day with a crew of 8 men. > > I started the job as a trainee when it was a hole 200 feet into the > ground and was laid off as a journeyman just after we reached > 350 feet > above ground level. > > From there I went to a job building a prison and then to building a > research facility that now houses CREE Inc, the LED people ... > > My last job as a rod-buster was building the dam for the lake to hold > the cooling water for the nuclear plant I started out on. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
