You’re telling me they can’t invent a better wrench that actually fits within the space, the acute angle they’re working with, and one that actually ratchets??? Holy smokes I’d lose my mind working so inefficiently like that all day!
You need to smash a carrot in there to get that hole.. hexagon head bolts are the the way forward as well coz you can drive them in with your impact wrench … btw where is your impact driver… I would have had that connection done on my own… trying to spin your spanner’s in the web…
Never seen connecters this slow. Being a retired member of local #7, out of Boston. Never make it a local union, working at that pace. We always knew we got paid for putting up steel, not for it laying on the ground. Absolutely a joke, watching this video.
Your partner is just going to wait for you to get to work, you are phoning and he doesn’t even grab the tag line or piece. What a true joe. Which local is this ?? Loll 🤣 🤦🏽♂️ 🤣
Hey tradesmen you can critisize all day long but these young men are skilled and good at our craft so what if it took them 12 or 14 minutes if it were easy youd still be doing it give em props their not on welfare or stealing honest work honest pay WORK UNION LIVE UNION DIE UNION
Old superintendent. So of course I saw the welder walk right under where you guys were connecting..... At first I laughed. Than it was like guy is a certified welder on a decent project..... Where is his head at he has got to have some experience ? Man impaled through neck with falling spud wrench.
How many times do you gotta boom up? And booming up holding the load while you got your tool stabbed is a good way to part your chokers... i mostly connected in my 19 years as a local 55 ironworker, but im not a connector. I am an ironworker. When ever im flagging a crane in or hanging iron, myself and other good hands flag that iron in with 3 commands to the operator or less. Not boom up 10 feet hold that swing right hold that boom up 5 feet hold that okay its in our hands boom up 3 feet. Your operator has to be pulling his hair out listen to you flagging that iron in. Not only that but you only have an 8 bolt flange splice... you plan on getting a pension credit on setting that column or what?
Think is no way could get worse then it gets worse . Threw me of I remember them days lay out they said once if three red marks on name fired six weeks I walk in office superintendent says something I look at this board seen red marks every day he seen me looking said how bout we just say you come in by at 9 on Saturday you making me look bad I never really anything got what was there to get went to work or for beer or beer at work can't walk on ground hung over have to stay drunk it's a bitch
What a joke connector my ass then again I wore my body out by time I was 27 was so crippled up then it got worse this wear out that wear out think can't hurt anymore is impossible then hurt find a knee ten every way to weekly then it won't kill you just can't move and everything shit you never knew you had like if take to long off the first week will likely kill you everything hurts then find out you never had a clue what hurt was then lived in getting worse every way find out at 27 then at 44 think understand pain and what can live with and it doesn't kill you
I loved connecting iron! You could see that you had done work to make America better every day! Finally got tired of living out of a suitcase a long way from home. Hung up my belt in 1982 making $18.75/hr plus full medical insurance and a buck/hour vacation pay. Went back to ranching with my Dad. Raised my sons to be excellent cowboys and helped feed America! God bless all the excellent guys in Local 10 I had the pleasure to work with!!!
Sleever bars , spoon bar , alignment bar, rude dog, most Union Ironworker term is sleever bar. Wrenches are alignment wrench we commonly call them spud wrenches.
I metal stamped my initials on my spud wrenches and would never use one that had welding on them cause they could break in the extreme cold. We would usually shut down when the wind chill got down to-45 degrees.
I'm a UK steel erector we are way faster but we don't climb the steel nomore.I am intrigued in how you pulled the line to release the attachment from the column to the crane how does that work because we use "pinkys" or similar
When your erecting 80 to 100 pieces a day I don’t think that your doing that in the UK. These guys were not a regular Raising Gang . When the tension comes off your loaf you have a second Wire Rope on a pin that runs though the shackle rope tied to the eyelet. If you don’t know how to rig it your not doing it faster or safer in the UK. I’ve worked in building trades since 1975 served an Apprenticeship in the Ironworkers Union and Retired as a Business Agent. These men are the Hardest Working and Best Train of any Industry.
I just found these and can't stop watching. I have massive respect for this work it takes special kind of person to do this. I'm clenching my legs like I'm up there too 😅 stay safe!
A six pack a burger and uhh a blowjob. Same shit I be thinking at work.
You’re telling me they can’t invent a better wrench that actually fits within the space, the acute angle they’re working with, and one that actually ratchets??? Holy smokes I’d lose my mind working so inefficiently like that all day!
You need to smash a carrot in there to get that hole.. hexagon head bolts are the the way forward as well coz you can drive them in with your impact wrench … btw where is your impact driver… I would have had that connection done on my own… trying to spin your spanner’s in the web…
Looks good from my house 😂
So who does the final tourque on those bolts? Can’t believe they are just hand wrench tight?
Good job brothers
Hi How do you do Pardon you are hammering the bolt the thread of the becom damage Thank you
Easy money😊😊😊
Holy shit that was hard to watch! Where’s your bull pin and sledge hammer? Cordless impact? You guys did not get trained right lol
Guy has the radio. Then there's some dummy walking under the pick. Genius!!!
I work as an Ironworker local 550 for 7 years 1981-1988 I would be run off taking this much time making a splice connection 😬
Never seen connecters this slow. Being a retired member of local #7, out of Boston. Never make it a local union, working at that pace. We always knew we got paid for putting up steel, not for it laying on the ground. Absolutely a joke, watching this video.
Slow as molasses!!! You're fired!!!
Did y'all ever get that fourth bolt in? My heart sank when one of you said, "Well, we got 7 out of 8 of 'em."
How come you use Manual wrenches and not power wrenches?
Почему у вас гаечные ключи не приспособлены для вращения гаек в таких условиях?
Your partner is just going to wait for you to get to work, you are phoning and he doesn’t even grab the tag line or piece. What a true joe. Which local is this ?? Loll 🤣 🤦🏽♂️ 🤣
I’m addicted to work, I would love to come do a couple days doing this, I’m a welder but have done bits of steel work and steel sheeting ,
Hey tradesmen you can critisize all day long but these young men are skilled and good at our craft so what if it took them 12 or 14 minutes if it were easy youd still be doing it give em props their not on welfare or stealing honest work honest pay WORK UNION LIVE UNION DIE UNION
8:05 "A six pack, a burger,.. & a Bl*w J*b ?! 😅🤣
These guys are pro , great job 👍👍👍
Old superintendent. So of course I saw the welder walk right under where you guys were connecting..... At first I laughed. Than it was like guy is a certified welder on a decent project..... Where is his head at he has got to have some experience ? Man impaled through neck with falling spud wrench.
How about boom up and hold the load 😅local 22 here
Hard work
Cable and turnbuckles will be needed for that bad splice.
How many times do you gotta boom up? And booming up holding the load while you got your tool stabbed is a good way to part your chokers... i mostly connected in my 19 years as a local 55 ironworker, but im not a connector. I am an ironworker. When ever im flagging a crane in or hanging iron, myself and other good hands flag that iron in with 3 commands to the operator or less. Not boom up 10 feet hold that swing right hold that boom up 5 feet hold that okay its in our hands boom up 3 feet. Your operator has to be pulling his hair out listen to you flagging that iron in. Not only that but you only have an 8 bolt flange splice... you plan on getting a pension credit on setting that column or what?
Think is no way could get worse then it gets worse . Threw me of I remember them days lay out they said once if three red marks on name fired six weeks I walk in office superintendent says something I look at this board seen red marks every day he seen me looking said how bout we just say you come in by at 9 on Saturday you making me look bad I never really anything got what was there to get went to work or for beer or beer at work can't walk on ground hung over have to stay drunk it's a bitch
What a joke connector my ass then again I wore my body out by time I was 27 was so crippled up then it got worse this wear out that wear out think can't hurt anymore is impossible then hurt find a knee ten every way to weekly then it won't kill you just can't move and everything shit you never knew you had like if take to long off the first week will likely kill you everything hurts then find out you never had a clue what hurt was then lived in getting worse every way find out at 27 then at 44 think understand pain and what can live with and it doesn't kill you
Other than the poor flagging and being slow as fuck they did ok
That’s got to be the biggest Joe OTC bar I’ve ever seen in my 40 years, way to go on new yorking those bolts…
nicest structural guy i have ever heard a gentleman... nice guys like that on the job site make my day better
VERY BAD JOB💩👺👹👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎
I loved connecting iron! You could see that you had done work to make America better every day! Finally got tired of living out of a suitcase a long way from home. Hung up my belt in 1982 making $18.75/hr plus full medical insurance and a buck/hour vacation pay. Went back to ranching with my Dad. Raised my sons to be excellent cowboys and helped feed America! God bless all the excellent guys in Local 10 I had the pleasure to work with!!!
Sounds like a good life to me brother 🇺🇸
Respect old Local 401 Out of Philadelphia,Pa,
Are there not tourqe specifications for bolts just curious?
The bolts are A 425 and are torqued with a specific tool and it twists off the end of live end of bolt when it reaches spec
Bad signals an slow
GerrrYyyy. My man. Ding fkn ding. Cut it LOOOOoOose brOoo.
Talk about making a job alot harder then its supposed to be
Meanwhile crazy leftists are screaming, "WE DON'T NEED MEN!" build your own fuckin industrial building then 😐😑😐
What are those bars called that are temporally inserted into holes to hold the element for bolts to be placed?
oh, it must be a structural wrench
Sleever bars , spoon bar , alignment bar, rude dog, most Union Ironworker term is sleever bar. Wrenches are alignment wrench we commonly call them spud wrenches.
I metal stamped my initials on my spud wrenches and would never use one that had welding on them cause they could break in the extreme cold. We would usually shut down when the wind chill got down to-45 degrees.
"Sleever bar " sounds like the name of a pub .@@1Chuck4U2C
I'm a UK steel erector we are way faster but we don't climb the steel nomore.I am intrigued in how you pulled the line to release the attachment from the column to the crane how does that work because we use "pinkys" or similar
When your erecting 80 to 100 pieces a day I don’t think that your doing that in the UK. These guys were not a regular Raising Gang . When the tension comes off your loaf you have a second Wire Rope on a pin that runs though the shackle rope tied to the eyelet. If you don’t know how to rig it your not doing it faster or safer in the UK. I’ve worked in building trades since 1975 served an Apprenticeship in the Ironworkers Union and Retired as a Business Agent. These men are the Hardest Working and Best Train of any Industry.
@@1Chuck4U2C. 100 percent correct!
10:41 "We got 7 out of 8 of them...". And this is why I don't do things like the rides on top of the space needle in Vegas.
That would have been fixed later mate, put it on the snagging list .. you need to keep the crane moving…
Hey Charlie what’s this extra screw?
Are the bolts tightened to a specific specification or just sort of hand tightened and hope you don't have wimps tightening them?
After the adjoining beams are installed plumb up cables are installed, and since these are TS bolts they will be torqued until the bolt tabs snap off.
@@1Chuck4U2C thank you
Why don’t they just have light weight m12 stubby to snug those up or something instead of the wrenches. Takes longer and wrenches are annoying
I just found these and can't stop watching. I have massive respect for this work it takes special kind of person to do this. I'm clenching my legs like I'm up there too 😅 stay safe!
This is the worst signal person I ever seen....got the audacity to make a video 😂😂😂
why aren't there any women doing steel beam connecting work lol
Every tool doubles as a hammer
Why is that all rosty? Shouldn't be blasted and painted first?
Everybody's favorite, BOOM DOWN, HOLD THE LOAD. PIN THAT MOTHERFUCKER!