Tower One
Tower One
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This purely academic.
I watched the Discovery Channel Program on building Tower One at the WTC site where it showed the Iron Working Connector Crews hanging iron for the new building when the question came up about the bolting in specific. The crew on television apparently only sets the steel.
Does other crews come along to do all the bolting as I saw only one connection where there were more that one or two bolts?
What would be the classification of these connection?
I watched the Discovery Channel Program on building Tower One at the WTC site where it showed the Iron Working Connector Crews hanging iron for the new building when the question came up about the bolting in specific. The crew on television apparently only sets the steel.
Does other crews come along to do all the bolting as I saw only one connection where there were more that one or two bolts?
What would be the classification of these connection?






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Michael.
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
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Sometimes stuffers and torquers are the same...
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FWIW on smaller/normal jobs I think its all part of the erection contractor's duties. Man I would hate to be on constant bolt tightening duty. What? AGAIN?? Dangittt....
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What, you get sick of doing the same thing over and over and over. Some people like that sort of work. I bet a union bolting crew gets paid more than the staff engineer who designed the floor system.
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That's more money than I would have thought for round peg goes in round hole. If peg is to big get smaller peg. If peg is to small get larger peg.
Interestingly enough, if you watched the program 1/2 of the building is being put up by local iron workers and the other half is being put up by Mohawk Indians from Canada. You don't even have to live in the city!
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Regretfully for the US economy, the entire WTC project (all towers and the memorial) was awarded to a Canadian steel erector. The intent was that uniformity in the erection and scheduling was most critical. The erector then selected the contractor and fabricator subs. The only exception I am aware of is Building 7 which was replaced rather quickly. It was the building that was allowed to burn until collapse.
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BTW - if they use the reservation as their permanent residence, they're exempt from all Federal tax.
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But connectengr's post was very interesting, that would make a great History/Discovery channel special. What makes one specific tribe/culture excel at a specific and dangerous occupation?
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The Mohawks of Quebec basically built the majority of the high steel of manhattan over the past 100 years. They are closely located, highly skilled, and probably cheaper than most other erectors. And yes they are crazy, I've heard of kids on the reservations scaling 50 foot trees like you climb into bed.
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