Posted by PA on February 24, 2009
I’ve been doing construction for a long time. I started working summers during high school when I turned sixteen, and I’ve been working in the industry ever since. Construction is as tough as it looks physically, but it actually gets even harder as you work your way up through the ranks and the mental aspects come into play. Time, though, is the biggest challenge throughout, whether you’re a worker or a foreman.
As a worker, one of my least favorite and most time consuming tasks was prepping a dirt or gravel screener for transport. To move one, it had to be loaded onto a trailer and secured using hooks and chains. It seems like an ordinary job until you take into account that these things weigh over five thousand lbs.
When I became a foreman at one construction company, I remember I started looking into more efficient screening machines almost immediately. It took a month of lobbying, but eventually I got the company to purchase a couple EZ Screen portable screening machines as an experiment. In the first month, we got more work done and had less accidents than any previous month that year. From that point on, we started using the portable machines whenever possible.
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Posted by PA on January 25, 2009
It is known to probably almost everyone that crowd control barricades and traffic cones are a fact of life, on the road and on the streets. Songwriter’s can find inspiration in almost anything. Traffic cones aren’t really that inspiring, or are they? They can be found nearly anywhere, and not only to block off lanes and cause traffic tie-ups on the highway. A traffic cone can be used to cover a pot hole, so nobody steps in it or cars blow a tire, or even to block a flooded room. School gymnasiums also use them. This important piece of crowd control also is the inspiration for a local singer/songwriter in New York City.
With the premise that nearly anyone can own a traffic cone if they want to, this song outlines the many ways they can be used. There are many places they can be obtained, but most of all, can be purchased on the Internet. This is true, since companies sell many of these as well as jersey barrier and other equipment, through its network of websites. This new tune is also a catchy one. You just never know; you may even here it played in a club near you sometime soon.
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