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cybersteffan
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and what exactly is your job?
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Badgermoon
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cyberstefke said:
I'm an Ironworker, a lot of people call us Steelworkers, but thats a different trade. They make steel. We build things. BTW Stefke, this rig came from Holland (German manufactured,) where are you from?
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Badgermoon
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Not real high, probably the one pictured. 250' to the ground from the roof. I have a cool pic from a man basket in a crane about 100' above the roof. Best damn ride I ever had. Especially if you can get the operator to free fall you for a couple hundred feet. They don't do it often though, if you're going too fast and the brakes come on hard it will blast you into the floor of the basket pretty hard. I think I could do the "fear Factor" show OK if it wasn't for having to eat gross shit. Just another day in the life. 
highlandgamer
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That is one ofthe most beautiful things in the entire world Badgermoon. I guess you have to have a construction mind to really appreciate the greatness of that machine.
Been operating equipment since I could reach the pedals, ran a few small off-road type cranes but very little time in them. Mostly forks, loaders, trucks, backhoe/trackhoe, and a few dozers.
How long have you been an ironworker and how did you get started. I have been thinking about a change here recently and ironworkers union has crossed my mind a time or two. What kind of pre-requisites do you need to get into it? I've been in constrcution for 10 years, only 2 of them were as a laborer.
Been operating equipment since I could reach the pedals, ran a few small off-road type cranes but very little time in them. Mostly forks, loaders, trucks, backhoe/trackhoe, and a few dozers.
How long have you been an ironworker and how did you get started. I have been thinking about a change here recently and ironworkers union has crossed my mind a time or two. What kind of pre-requisites do you need to get into it? I've been in constrcution for 10 years, only 2 of them were as a laborer.
highlandgamer
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That's miller stadium in Milwaukee right??
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Badgermoon
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highlandgamer said:
Right you are!
I've been doing this only 10 years now. I was tired of my job (hated?) and wanted to find a new career so I looked in the yellow pages under trade union and saw Ironworkers. Didn't know much about it, but I called and they said to come down and apply. It was the last day they were taking apps. for the next 2 years. (talk about fate).
All you really need is a H.S. diploma to start an apprenticeship. If you want to get in as a trainee (less time to get your book) you need some construction exp. I'd call the local hall where you live and talk to them.
BTW, thats a DeMag 126000, 1800 ton capacity. It was hooked up to a 300 ton load there. We were picking bigger lifts till the other one, a Lampson Transilift, collapsed. We had 580ft. of boom on the Lampson, and the FFA actually revised their flight maps to account for it. The tires on the maximizer behind the crane are taller than me. Glad you enjoyed the pic. Hearing that bad dog rev up and pick a load was awesome.
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very sweet badger I'm a heavy equipment operator but for a highway dept so we do a little of everthing but I love running equipment. Like playing with real life tonka toys.
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Badgermoon
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I didn't know it was on Discovery, but I have a feeling it was the crash?. Something I don't need to see again. Did they have footage of the crash? That was the start of some tough times for me. I got together with someone I still think of as the love of my life that didn't work out, 2 weeks after it happened. I never had a chance to process all the baggage. Felt some responsability just by being there, but had to stuff it all and not mention it. Just couldn't talk about it without her thinking it meant I wanted to return here. (moved to New Mexico to be with her). Anyway, my fucked up life wasn't the point of the post. Just wanted to share something I dig, that I thought you all might like. Theres just something about working with big equipment and "high iron" that turns me on. maybe I forgot to grow up.
cybersteffan
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Badgermoon said:
Belgium. South of Holland and left of Germany
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Badgermoon
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A lot of the steel for the stadium came from Belgium. As I understand, that was where the only mill is located that produces case hardned steel of the grade that was required for the stadium, in structural shapes. Quality stuff.
highlandgamer
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That is cool Badger, that is basically the same boat I am in right now......Not happy with the job at all, after working out in the field for as long as I have working in an office just don't cut it, and I have only been in this position that I am in for about 10 months.....
LOL!!I feel sort of weird though when a crane or piece of equipment can get me going as much or more as the porn pics.
LOL!!I feel sort of weird though when a crane or piece of equipment can get me going as much or more as the porn pics.
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Badgermoon
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"LOL!!I feel sort of weird though when a crane or piece of equipment can get me going as much or more as the porn pics."
Thats just the sort of sick mind that makes you a good candidate for the building trades.
Let me know how it works out for ya. Nothing worse than being in a job you don't like.
Thats just the sort of sick mind that makes you a good candidate for the building trades.
Let me know how it works out for ya. Nothing worse than being in a job you don't like.
I agree about being in a job that you love. I'm in the Air Force and I absolutely love it! I've only been in for 3 years and I've been in Montana the whole time. I'd kinda like to be stationed overseas somewhere, but I don't know if I want to be over there with all this controversy! Might be kinda scary over there! Anyone else in the military, or ever was?
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