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<blockquote data-quote="backhoeboogie" data-source="post: 1299726" data-attributes="member: 3162"><p>Back in my I & E days, I've been 800 feet up on a boiler stack and that was with an elevator most of the way. Yes TB they do sway and you nailed it. I was told it had a design basis ten foot sway and it felt like it was more than that. Also told that stacks sway more than towers because a tower has guywires. We were putting an electronic eye across the stack and who ever put the flanges on one holed them. We had two holed the flanges onto the receiver and emitter, before going up. We had asked about it before we welded them up. The superintendant looked at us like we were crazy when we asked about the flanges. Carpenters installed the host flanges and they one holed them. So we had to come back down and do it all over. Sort of like dropping the bulb someone mentioned only worse. Never seen any other pipe flanges one holed in my career. But they were one holed on top of that boiler. </p><p></p><p>Heights that extreme definately give you the pucker factor. </p><p></p><p>I have also been on top of the domes on a nuclear power plant but it was not as high as that boiler stack.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="backhoeboogie, post: 1299726, member: 3162"] Back in my I & E days, I've been 800 feet up on a boiler stack and that was with an elevator most of the way. Yes TB they do sway and you nailed it. I was told it had a design basis ten foot sway and it felt like it was more than that. Also told that stacks sway more than towers because a tower has guywires. We were putting an electronic eye across the stack and who ever put the flanges on one holed them. We had two holed the flanges onto the receiver and emitter, before going up. We had asked about it before we welded them up. The superintendant looked at us like we were crazy when we asked about the flanges. Carpenters installed the host flanges and they one holed them. So we had to come back down and do it all over. Sort of like dropping the bulb someone mentioned only worse. Never seen any other pipe flanges one holed in my career. But they were one holed on top of that boiler. Heights that extreme definately give you the pucker factor. I have also been on top of the domes on a nuclear power plant but it was not as high as that boiler stack. [/QUOTE]
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