A little bit of structural steel

[Welderpaul]

Nice little job for the fire service - training tower. 8 tonnes, 14m long, 3.6m high, 2.5m wide. Fabbed up as maximum 7m long x 3m wide bits to fit in the galv bath, then all preassembled on the ground in two halves, lifted on to a stretched lowloader, bolted together, infill the bits across the splice and off it goes. 50T mobile to stand it up tomorrow morning.

Includes floors, ladders/hoops/rails/self-closing gates, durbar cills and removable handrails, personnel restraint eyes, vertical durbar panels to 3 sides, gates and all infilled with mesh panels. Structure is easy enough but a few fiddly bits in there. EXC Class 3 job.

Next job is its big brother for the same site; 30 tonnes.

 

[Robotstar5]

Next job is its big brother for the same site; 30 tonnes.

But is your unit door big enough?

 

[Welderpaul]

We can't pre-assemble much of the next job but there are some big box trusses that will need greasing to get them out!

 

[sparkysy]

That is a good size tower fair play! It would be cool to absail off of that but much more fun from the top of your next one

 

[CRB]

I bet you are glad I got you the extra space, taking those offcuts

I love seeing big jobs from 'little' units.

?What is 'EXC Class 3 job'?

?Are you installing too?

 

[BrokenBiker]

nice work, would like to see the next one too, and how you get it out the door

 

[Hitch]

Ex3? Is that not a bit over the top?

 

[Welderpaul]

EXC 3 (Execution class 3) under BS1090, or CE Marking. Yeah, we're installing tomorrow.

Structural Engineer tells us EXC 3. Queried it, but no, he knows best.

 

[CRB]

Yeah, we're installing tomorrow.

Better get your waterproofs and divers' boots on then.

 

[DEANO3528]

They just put one of those up at our fire station in town