Re: metal WORKING today

On 5/20/2025 6:14 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:

On 5/20/2025 5:53 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:

"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:100j5gq$2fnms$1@dont-email.me...
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On 5/20/2025 7:13 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:

and you are much too far away to borrow my reject* pipe bollard

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Several people said, "Just throw some pipe under it," including my buddy
who delivered it.  That doesn't really work in sand, and I was a bit
disappointed in him for that.  My method of setting it on square timbers
(reclaimed guard rail posts) as skid surfaces worked.  It was a lot of
work which I expected, but it worked just the way I envisioned.
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Needing timbers or pavement under the pipes seemed so obvious I didn't want to insult you by mentioning it. I've kept the scrap 6x6s and other PT the neighborhood contractor threw into his scrap pile. We saved him several large dumpster loads by burning the untreated wood scrap in big party bonfires, his wife supplying the snacks. The small PT scrap blocked up the pallets I store my firewood on, to slow or prevent their rotting. I had enough 6x6 timbers to support the shed high enough to back the trailer underneath. It's kept logs downed in late fall off the ground over winters.
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Pipes do tend to twist out of parallel and need to be knocked straight again, with chocks handy to block them, they can be as much annoyance as help. The timbers under them should be overlapped at the ends instead of abutted, which may let the pipe force them apart.
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  ... and you actually have to HAVE the pipe for the job, and you have to get everything lined up so the pipes and the timbers line up with the cross beams under the container, because if you don't you can make it worse.
 ...and you have to level the ground where you place the container and the timbers temporarily so it doesn't roll in the wrong direction right into the sand making it worse, not better.
 The clear space where the container is now had a couple tons of steel, fence, aluminum etc setting there when my buddy delivered the container or I would have just had him slide it off the trailer into place.
 I was concerned about catching on the end of the timber in the middle, but only one actually hung and a few cranks with the farm jack allowed me to pull it right past that spot.
 Then when you are finished you have to put the grade back so any rain will drain away from the slab.  Everybody thinks they have a better way, but I think I did it the easiest way for the conditions and what was available.
 When I was contracting each time a client used the word "just" or "only" or the phrase "all you have to do" I would double the price.
 

I could have easily turned a half day (4 hrs more or less) job of moving a container into a two job by trying to make it easier.  Time is the most valuable commodity.  I don't mind hard work.  I hate making a job take longer than it should.
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Bob La Londe
CNC Molds N Stuff
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