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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Matteson" data-source="post: 2596680" data-attributes="member: 101791"><p>My last 20 years was in installing Operable walls. The men I worked with are very good at getting things about as accurate as possible. Changes were slow, but improved. In standing the walls a crew of 7 men, we could stand about 20 to 25 panels per day. I remember at LA convention center there was a glass cart the window men were using. It sat most of the time chained or lock up . We always had a 3' key to undo locks. We borrow the cart, and modified it some and used it.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😅" title="Grinning face with sweat :sweat_smile:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f605.png" data-shortname=":sweat_smile:" /> We didn't gain any more panels stood each day, but it was a hell of a lot easier on us. Less men to move the panel into position to stand. I was overseeing a crew in L. Vegas, and that part of the company also got a glass cart. So we didn't need the cart in Mexico-North, so I brought it along, figuring it would speed things up. It did and we double the amount of panels stood each, but moved into the 50 panels a day. So I got 2 more carts for the Mexico-north crew for a total of 3. That increased the production to 60+ panels a day.</p><p>My foreman before me used a mag-base dill to drill the steel beams. I carried that on. I know that other operable wall crews in other companies, are still using hand drills to drill those holes, and including Iron workers. Some never learn. Anyway we got in a new General Manger about 1 1/2 before I was sent down the road. He came from manufacturing and not construction based. He would tell me that the General Contractors schedule were gold, and we should be there installing those schedule dates. We use to drive around 2 to 3 days a week looking at job that were not ready yet. I stop that all most on the spot after taking over. Well the GM went back to what was done 10 years before that. Put in a kid that didn't know his butt to a hole in the ground. They lost Hundreds of Thousands in about 1 1/2 yrs. They went broke. My last full year there, we were ahead by $281,000.00. 7 men including me. I retired that same day. 14 yrs ago. <strong>LEADERSHIP IS THE NAME OF THE GAME! </strong>Sometime it takes a bit of time to figure who can and who can't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike Matteson, post: 2596680, member: 101791"] My last 20 years was in installing Operable walls. The men I worked with are very good at getting things about as accurate as possible. Changes were slow, but improved. In standing the walls a crew of 7 men, we could stand about 20 to 25 panels per day. I remember at LA convention center there was a glass cart the window men were using. It sat most of the time chained or lock up . We always had a 3' key to undo locks. We borrow the cart, and modified it some and used it.😅 We didn't gain any more panels stood each day, but it was a hell of a lot easier on us. Less men to move the panel into position to stand. I was overseeing a crew in L. Vegas, and that part of the company also got a glass cart. So we didn't need the cart in Mexico-North, so I brought it along, figuring it would speed things up. It did and we double the amount of panels stood each, but moved into the 50 panels a day. So I got 2 more carts for the Mexico-north crew for a total of 3. That increased the production to 60+ panels a day. My foreman before me used a mag-base dill to drill the steel beams. I carried that on. I know that other operable wall crews in other companies, are still using hand drills to drill those holes, and including Iron workers. Some never learn. Anyway we got in a new General Manger about 1 1/2 before I was sent down the road. He came from manufacturing and not construction based. He would tell me that the General Contractors schedule were gold, and we should be there installing those schedule dates. We use to drive around 2 to 3 days a week looking at job that were not ready yet. I stop that all most on the spot after taking over. Well the GM went back to what was done 10 years before that. Put in a kid that didn't know his butt to a hole in the ground. They lost Hundreds of Thousands in about 1 1/2 yrs. They went broke. My last full year there, we were ahead by $281,000.00. 7 men including me. I retired that same day. 14 yrs ago. [B]LEADERSHIP IS THE NAME OF THE GAME! [/B]Sometime it takes a bit of time to figure who can and who can't. [/QUOTE]
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