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True. My saying- Proper prior planning prevents piss poor performance.
My only fear would be doing it over the weekend, when stores (not places like Lowe's or Home Depot) aren't open.
This is some heavy metal
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My only fear would be doing it over the weekend, when stores (not places like Lowe's or Home Depot) aren't open.
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Towers are off the roof!
The initial plan was to keep them suspended while the work was taking place, but the wind was picking up and we have to coordinate all this with the airport across the street since the planes take off over our buildings, it was just easier to put them down.
Only one small patch of rain so far, thankfully it sprinkled then stopped. The majority of my stress period is over, after seeing how well they got the towers down without even coming close to touching the buildings I’ve got enough faith to relax a bit.
The initial plan was to keep them suspended while the work was taking place, but the wind was picking up and we have to coordinate all this with the airport across the street since the planes take off over our buildings, it was just easier to put them down.
Only one small patch of rain so far, thankfully it sprinkled then stopped. The majority of my stress period is over, after seeing how well they got the towers down without even coming close to touching the buildings I’ve got enough faith to relax a bit.
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This is impressive to witness I bet!
TSJMajesty
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Why do all the cranes seem to have that same flag on the end of their boom?
Is it their union flag or something?
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Not sure about the day but it’s usually $2K to get them here just to pull a unit off the roof and place another one down, then you got permit fees. I’ll probably see the breakdown of it when I approve the invoices for this job.
Depending on what the job is, I don’t even look at certain costs. In this case, I was focused on the cost of the steel and chiller repairs and the crane wasn’t important. When we do smaller split system installs I’ll get picky about the crane stuff. If I can save $2K on a $12K AC install by carrying a condenser unit to the roof instead of hiring a crane, I’m definitely taking that option.
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For aircrafts. While the likeliness of a plane hitting a crane in the middle of the city is pretty slim, it’s a legit concern here because the runway is about 1000ft from the top of that roof. I’ve probably said it before, but that’s the airport the 9/11 terrorists learned to fly at.
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Looks like you got this buddy!
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98% success yesterday!
With everything off the roof-
Working on new fittings in the alley while the crew reassembles the new frame- (TSJ and la szu, the roll up doors on the right in this pic are the doors to the infamous ‘loading dick’)
This was pretty impressive to watch; getting the crane operator to move the cooling tower a half-inch at a time until they dry fit the fittings and set it down-
Both towers back on-
We had one 12” fitting that feeds water back into the building not fit, it most likely got damaged over the last couple days because all of this was dry fit before it left the shop. No biggie, they have an extra ready to go.
Today is all rebuilding the frame/grates while the insulation adhesive dries on the chiller, tomorrow we re-attach power and start filling the system up with water again. Everything is right on schedule to start up Tuesday!
With everything off the roof-
Working on new fittings in the alley while the crew reassembles the new frame- (TSJ and la szu, the roll up doors on the right in this pic are the doors to the infamous ‘loading dick’)
This was pretty impressive to watch; getting the crane operator to move the cooling tower a half-inch at a time until they dry fit the fittings and set it down-
Both towers back on-
We had one 12” fitting that feeds water back into the building not fit, it most likely got damaged over the last couple days because all of this was dry fit before it left the shop. No biggie, they have an extra ready to go.
Today is all rebuilding the frame/grates while the insulation adhesive dries on the chiller, tomorrow we re-attach power and start filling the system up with water again. Everything is right on schedule to start up Tuesday!
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And each one was put into its final resting position by one dude with a 24” 2x4 while 4 other guys pointed out his inability to do it empty handed and without the crane keeping it suspended.
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Great Satan! My job consists of teaching children how to write their names and potty training.
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I love crane day, but in my business, so few people know how to keep things moving along, and keep that $250/hr. crane DOING SOMETHING!And each one was put into its final resting position by one dude with a 24” 2x4 while 4 other guys pointed out his inability to do it empty handed and without the crane keeping it suspended.
I've had a few houses where I've pre-built all the walls, and just getting people to understand they need to have the next wall ready to be lifted as soon as the crane lifts the previous one, is a challenge. (That's why we have multiple slings, guys!)
And we always use one for setting trusses, unless the job is small enough to just use a telehandler. Fun stuff!!
All about the planning.
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Congrats @DrewJD82, hope this is a milestone project with some serious coin attached to a project perfectly executed
which would be the worthy equivalent of a victory pick toss
Oh, there was serious coin involved, but it was us paying.
The payoff is coordinating/pulling this off knowing I started this job plunging toilets 6 years ago for $13.50 an hour as an entry level maintenance tech. When we started bidding this out we were trying to get one company to handle every aspect, it led to a lot of frustration and once I identified the scope of work I just hired everyone out myself. We saved a ton of money and as long as the chiller is turned on at 7AM Tuesday, did it in half as much time as anyone was quoting us for.
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Oh, there was serious coin involved, but it was us paying.
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And today was the big day when we turned everything back on!
We could have turned it on yesterday but I made the call to allow for the full 72 hours for the adhesive to dry on the chiller insulation, no point in ruining a $15K insulation job over 8 hours time difference.
Cooling towers fired right up, no leaks in any piping! Chiller fired right up, ran for 5 minutes then shut down and the guys I use proved themselves once more, there was one loose connection somewhere along the way, dude found it in seconds, but the chiller has a an automated shut down procedure you can’t abort, so we had to wait 45 minutes to turn it back on and thats when all hell broke loose with a particular tenant who believes the sun revolves around them.
Now it’s all up and running, took a whopping 13 minutes to bring 84 degree water down to 44 degrees!
Pretty damn badass, all that work that went on and the only hitch was a valve that wasn’t the right size and a loose connection with some wiring! I’d love to be able to enjoy it but it looks like I’ll be having a meeting with an angry tenant instead.
We could have turned it on yesterday but I made the call to allow for the full 72 hours for the adhesive to dry on the chiller insulation, no point in ruining a $15K insulation job over 8 hours time difference.
Cooling towers fired right up, no leaks in any piping! Chiller fired right up, ran for 5 minutes then shut down and the guys I use proved themselves once more, there was one loose connection somewhere along the way, dude found it in seconds, but the chiller has a an automated shut down procedure you can’t abort, so we had to wait 45 minutes to turn it back on and thats when all hell broke loose with a particular tenant who believes the sun revolves around them.
Now it’s all up and running, took a whopping 13 minutes to bring 84 degree water down to 44 degrees!
Pretty damn badass, all that work that went on and the only hitch was a valve that wasn’t the right size and a loose connection with some wiring! I’d love to be able to enjoy it but it looks like I’ll be having a meeting with an angry tenant instead.
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Excellent on everything but the meeting. I bet that was pretty satisfying to fire it all back up!And today was the big day when we turned everything back on!
We could have turned it on yesterday but I made the call to allow for the full 72 hours for the adhesive to dry on the chiller insulation, no point in ruining a $15K insulation job over 8 hours time difference.
Cooling towers fired right up, no leaks in any piping! Chiller fired right up, ran for 5 minutes then shut down and the guys I use proved themselves once more, there was one loose connection somewhere along the way, dude found it in seconds, but the chiller has a an automated shut down procedure you can’t abort, so we had to wait 45 minutes to turn it back on and thats when all hell broke loose with a particular tenant who believes the sun revolves around them.
Now it’s all up and running, took a whopping 13 minutes to bring 84 degree water down to 44 degrees!
Pretty damn badass, all that work that went on and the only hitch was a valve that wasn’t the right size and a loose connection with some wiring! I’d love to be able to enjoy it but it looks like I’ll be having a meeting with an angry tenant instead.
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