Wew Lads! JRE + AJ

[TheReal_ND]

Hey Nuke, is it okay for Mexican brick layers to get drunk as shit at ten in the morning, and then proceed to hurl bricks up three stories to the guy on the scaffolding who's laying them down as fast as the guy at the bottom can throw them up?

They were cutting the bricks with a machete.

I mean if you want shitty, cheap and fast ok. It's not like Houston doesn't have a brick laying union though.

[Okeefenokee]

Hey Nuke, is it okay for Mexican brick layers to get drunk as shit at ten in the morning, and then proceed to hurl bricks up three stories to the guy on the scaffolding who's laying them down as fast as the guy at the bottom can throw them up?

They were cutting the bricks with a machete.

I mean if you want shitty, cheap and fast ok. It's not like Houston doesn't have a brick laying union though.

Do they have a roof tar layer union?

[TheReal_ND]

Nah. Mexicans and squatamalens got that monopolized. The people hiring illegals need their shit pushed in or we can go without roofs until we get it sorted out.

[Okeefenokee]

Nah. Mexicans and squatamalens got that monopolized. The people hiring illegals need their shit pushed in or we can go without roofs until we get it sorted out.

It was rhetorical, but the others know something new now.



Shittiest of shitty jobs.

[TheReal_ND]

Plenty of people waiting in line at the border for a job if we can't find enough people here, I say.

[C-Mag]

He's not tied off. Even if he wasn't already violating OSHA regs with the ladder stunt. Ladders aren't made to take side loads either.

It's not a side load. It's maybe (at most) ten degrees off the angle at which it was designed to be used. The force vector from the stand side of the ladder is pretty much the same as it would be if used on a level ground as well. The only real safety issue is whether the main ladder leg is securely fixed to the ledge.

It's irrelevant.
OSHA standard 1926 requires ladders not me used outside of manufacturers design.
This is a step ladder, requiring all 4 legs set on a firm surface. Workers need fall protection during construction when working over 4 feet in ht, and over 6 ft for maintenance. In this case it would require a full fitted harness, the worker competent in the wear and use of fall equipment and appropriate lanyards. To include a fall arrest system attached to a 5000 pound rated anchor. Plus there must be a plan to rescue a worker that falls. Workers must be monitored when working at heights.

There's your nerd answer.
I'm a certified structure climber and trainer.

That being said, done that shit in my past. It works.

[SuburbanFarmer]

He's not tied off. Even if he wasn't already violating OSHA regs with the ladder stunt. Ladders aren't made to take side loads either.

It's not a side load. It's maybe (at most) ten degrees off the angle at which it was designed to be used. The force vector from the stand side of the ladder is pretty much the same as it would be if used on a level ground as well. The only real safety issue is whether the main ladder leg is securely fixed to the ledge.

It's irrelevant.
OSHA standard 1926 requires ladders not me used outside of manufacturers design.
This is a step ladder, requiring all 4 legs set on a firm surface. Workers need fall protection during construction when working over 4 feet in ht, and over 6 ft for maintenance. In this case it would require a full fitted harness, the worker competent in the wear and use of fall equipment and appropriate lanyards. To include a fall arrest system attached to a 5000 pound rated anchor. Plus there must be a plan to rescue a worker that falls. Workers must be monitored when working at heights.

There's your nerd answer.
I'm a certified structure climber and trainer.

That being said, done that shit in my past. It works.

There goes most of the Floridian building industry.