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What are some of the craziest things that have happened to you on a job site?

A few years back I went to finish up a few small things on a cage we fab'd & installed for a club/bar in downtown ABQ. Their trash cans were in a small alcove in the rear of the building in an alley and they were having a problem with vagrants sleeping in there and vandalizing, etc. Anyway, as I drove down the alleyway I saw this very beautiful woman, naked :shock: , behind another trash can just down the way from where I was going to work! She was changing outfits when I saw her and thought to myself, "you don't see that every day!" I then noticed a photographer nearby and realized very quickly that she wasn't a prostitute as I first thought! She is a fitness model & was doing a professional photo shoot for her husband. Cool right?!...
As I was unloading some gear they approached me and asked if they could do some shots with some of my equipment. All I had to do were some small welds on some of the tubing, 16 ga., so I just brought along my little Hobart AutoArc.
The photographer is awesome and I have since looked at his stuff; he's pretty good. She was a sweet gal and I'm sure her husband loved the shoot!

Here is one of the better shots he sent me after he edited them.
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Craziest? I was on a site to do some welding of roof and floor supports before the crane crew lifted the preform walls that way we didn't need to use the lul to weld 4 stories up and eliminated all overhead 7018, and also so we could get the roof on right away. Come back the following day, and the crane crew went around and cut off all the supports (somewhere around 300), put the welder and the trailer up in the air on the crane, and had placed pannels upside down and had the other welding crew, of whom we were not affiliated with, start welding the pannels together using angle and plate to make up for the 1" offset from poor placement.

Never went back to that job site and still don't think the building is standing, and this was last November.

The job super was only 3 days into the job too.

I went back to doing jewelry for a bit after that, lol.
"Your welds should sound like bacon. If your welds smell like bacon, you're on fire." - Uncle Bumblefuck (AvE)
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