10 inches
thursday i pulled 250 feet of pipe at work (we're putting a pull pipe in place and then pulling fiber optics in place). I heard 2k or 3k $ for someone to do it and i volunteered. it'll take me about 10 hours of work, but that is just crazy. 3k?
well, while in the ceiling/floor (it's between floors) i really only have about 18 inches to crawl through, and you have the floor bracing every 2 feet, insulation, pipes, HVAC, ect - and i found out I can skinny THROUGH a space about 10" high by 18 inches wide. is that crazy or what?
today i was volunteering for some HVAC work at the new chuch addition, and we were in a tight spot so the leader dude looked at me and asked me if I wanted to crawl INSIDE the hvac system to put calking on a few holes we could not get to from the outside. this tin tube was BALANCED on an 18"-on-center floor beam, less then the lenght of my foot high (about 9 inches high), and about 2 feet wide - i crawled in. awesome. i'm a snake.
well, while in the ceiling/floor (it's between floors) i really only have about 18 inches to crawl through, and you have the floor bracing every 2 feet, insulation, pipes, HVAC, ect - and i found out I can skinny THROUGH a space about 10" high by 18 inches wide. is that crazy or what?
today i was volunteering for some HVAC work at the new chuch addition, and we were in a tight spot so the leader dude looked at me and asked me if I wanted to crawl INSIDE the hvac system to put calking on a few holes we could not get to from the outside. this tin tube was BALANCED on an 18"-on-center floor beam, less then the lenght of my foot high (about 9 inches high), and about 2 feet wide - i crawled in. awesome. i'm a snake.
posted by forkev at 7/17/2005 06:00:00 PM
2 Comments:
thats disturbing. I guess all those years in hazmat removal payed off. they taught you to not only go after things no one else will touch for anything less than a decent paycheck, (and you'll do it for nothing) but also how to put your self in a very hazardous situation (confined space) and think its fun. I hope they had a rope on you and if they didn't, I hope they were willing to cut the HVAC out if you got stuck.
actually they just sent me in with some costic goo in a calk gun and walked away. man that stuff stank.
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