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  1. FerrissWheel

    FerrissWheel Road Train Member

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    Ill be pulling a spandrel tommorow. I havent seen one put into position before. That looks like an exterior wall. I just know we call them spandrel trailers because they are always set up with those nifty support frames that way. Ive seen them. But ive never figured out where in the puzzle they fit. Its fun watching a parking garage getting built. Ill see if i can get an answer from the driver in charge of the site. If either of us has a minute.

    Ive been hauling identical double ts so i haven't bothered posting yet another.
     
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  3. FerrissWheel

    FerrissWheel Road Train Member

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    Nvm... Think ive found a clue. At least in relation to double ts. Apparently spandrel means many things depending on the form of construction. (Ive only got half a day tomorrow, i i got restless) 2-Figure1-1.png
     
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  4. booley

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    IDK, we usually just refer to them as a vertical wall (as opposed to a leaning wall). When they told me spandrel, I was like, "OK"... I do know that with these 1 piece loads, they pretty much have to go in order, they might be able to jump around a little, but if your piece doesn't show...they could be dead in the water...and they hate paying a raising gang/crane to stand around doing nothing...
    My "super T" load the other day required 2 escorts, so naturally, 1 of my escorts showed up 45 minutes late. Which means the jobsite foreman is calling me every 5 minutes for half of our trip...
    My second load yesterday was just stair risers, now these things just go in the corner of the building and can pretty much be installed at anytime... Well, I got in and out with the spandrel no problem(actually early). Hurried back to the precast place, and couldn't find my second load in any of the usual spots...Wasted probably a half hour before finding it still up by the batch plant (where I thought we weren't supposed to be). I imagine they didn't want to move it down to the yard unsecured (I should know that?)
    So naturally, the foreman is calling me again, asking where I am! He was running ahead of schedule yesterday, had run out of structural pieces and was looking for my stairs...
    You just can't win, it's OK when they make you sit 4 hours waiting for them but don't you dare arrive 5 minutes late... IMG_2881.JPG
     
  5. LoneCowboy

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    What's a Super T?
     
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  6. LoneCowboy

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    so they send me to do rebar. bah. easy but boring.
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    It took them 4 hours to unload that. had to move 3 times (it's a bridge, so some here, some in the middle of the freeway, some on the other side).

    Call Dispatch to say what's next and the guy (who still drives when needed) says "I'm doing your job" Sends me pic that looks just like the ones up above with Double T's at that site.
    I'm like YOU ARE DISPATCH, YOU SENT ME ON THIS DUMB JOB

    not
    my
    fault

    Then they sent me to take this widget downtown right across from the baseball stadium (and i'm sure there's a baseball game today, there was yesterday) but i call the guy halfway there
    "oh, we postponed until Monday"

    well sweet
     
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  7. FerrissWheel

    FerrissWheel Road Train Member

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    Spandrels-legal load, rest of week was all double ts. Site driver pointed right at them, sure enough the diagram was right. The double ts rest on those little feet/ squares protruding from the bottom. This is two smaller ones back to back.

    Started out in wickenburg yesterday, ran straight to vegas, now im home. Easy as pie. No equipmemt BS this time.

    Company who owns these trailers has in the last 2 and 1/2 weeks replaced 100 tires already. Normally these trailers don't get very far from Phoenix. Like tempe or casa grande far as they get. So the tires never heat up good. So go to vegas, and every one be having tire issues.

    So far no one winding up with the OW loads have made it without losing a tire.


    @LoneCowboy from my understanding, a super T is like a bridge beam. But you know, that's what im familure with.

    @booley love those days. Kinda spoiled here, we have a driver in charge of the site, we deal with him and never talk to the construction crew. I called em walls till they got all technical.
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  8. booley

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    @LoneCowboy my understanding was it's just a BIG double T. Usually, the T's are less than 12 ft wide (no escorts) But the super T's are about 15 ft wide. Mine was only about 40 ft long, so it was loaded flat. The 60 footers, I guess they load them tipped at an angle (almost like they load the leaning walls) and they are also pretty heavy (40 ton)
     
  9. LoneCowboy

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    so, 13.25 hours of training yesterday. 13 hours. for a simple BS common sense crap. we all about lost our poo. even if we did get paid for it. Totally not helpful either. sure hope everyone got paid for it, cuz it was useless.

    So today they say go here and pick up a loaded trailer from them and take it to the construction site at the airport. So i get there and they say take this one, this is the right one. Now, i want you all to be sitting down and even those heavy haul guys like Rontonio and such are just going to be amazed at the size of this trailer.

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    hahahahahahhahahaahah
    i cannot stop laughing
    My freaking tractor is almost longer than that. (it was seriously old too, no spring brakes).


    then a crane move
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  10. booley

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    Hope you didn't have to do any backing...those freakin' things will follow you anywhere, but you can't follow them to save your life...
    I took my road test with one similar behind a tractor with no power steering... I must've got lucky, cuz I passed...

    *edit* I'm correcting myself, we had a few of those pups that we dragged around for peddling, but now that I think about it, I used a BIG trailer (40 ft) for my road test... For the simple reason of not looking like an idiot when backing...
     
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  11. starmac

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    I pulled a 20 ft container chassis from Las Vegas to Atlanta, with my 310 in KW, the truck was longer than the trailer, and yes it was a trip the first night when I started backing in a hole at the truckstop. lol
     
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