my first was the demolition of a bridge over a major highway leading into Pittsburgh we were removing the sidewalks and one of my co workers asked me how high we were i said don't have a clue but i would say at least a 150' or better he agreed and i said lets throw that 100' tape over and see if we can judge the distance below it. we both agreed with thinking like this we would be running the company by the end of summer. when we threw the tape over it landed in the center of a live lane of traffic and you really don't realize how long it takes to pull thirty feet of tape out thats still left. Mean while my father and the inspector can over and asked what we were doing and as we explained all they could say was these guys are college students and the furture. the bridge was only 70' off the roadway......
My first job in or near the industry was maintenance on the rail and truck scales on the family's scrap yard.
Pumping out rain water, rat pee and poop, cleaning and greasing the scale joints, while fighting off mosquitos the size of small housecats. That's character building right there!
My first actual demo job off the yard was an old asphalt batch plant. Precut the legs gave it a yank with the excavator and when it hit the ground, I knew i was hooked.
Manual demo summer job some years back, after a year with studies the shape wasnt the best for manual demo work. Exhausted after a hard day's work. The second day I got the message from the foreman to improve. After ome weeks later I was really pleased with the work, so was my managers. I enjoyed it so much that I wanted to work in the industry when gratuated. :spinningsmile:
Since we were talking about Travis (The Greenhorn) on the show The Imploders the other day, got me thinking about my first day on the job in the industry.
I'll admit mine.
I showed up for work, it was a complete roof removal on a huge condo project and I was told to be careful when walking along the beams, they didn't want to see me falling through the ceiling, if you did you had to buy the entire crew lunch the next day.
Buying lunch everyone the next day cost me a pretty penny, yep I fell through, lucky I caught myself before going all the way through, but my feet were dangling.
The funny thing that I remember is that when went we to check on the unit, the lady had the door wide open, just cooking away like nothing had happened.
But it was alright, 2 days later, the superintendent did the same thing.
So what was your first day in the demolition industry like?
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