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NEW CONTEST!!!

CHECK OUT THE LAST BLOG POST FOR THE CONTEST INSTRUCTIONS. FIND YOUR BEST "WHAT NOT TO DO" PICS AND GET TO POSTING!!!

CHEERS,

Added by Justin T. Wittwer on March 23, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Happy Shamrocks and Shenaniagns!!!!!!!!!!!!!! New Contest

Well kiss my Blarney Stone its St. Pats day again. Welcome to the green and remember everyone is Irish today.

Happy St. Patricks day !!!

Check out the new shirst for members only at the store. Order yours today. Tell your friends.

This month I think we should have a contest for the worst " What not to do" picture. I found one where they decided to put Quickcrete bags under the…

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Added by Justin T. Wittwer on March 17, 2010 at 6:28pm — No Comments

This week at Scaffold Builders...

I have posted some jobs I found on the Internet as well as some that we posted by other members as well. I am hopefull that we can keep building that part of this as we progressively get better connected. Please let all of your employers know that we are here and have a growing membership daily.

I have added a "Q&A Time" tab to the site to add some feedback from you people to be presented in ways to yet be seen but still we can gather…

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Added by Justin T. Wittwer on March 7, 2010 at 12:21pm — No Comments

Scaffold Outlook for Jobs in the UK

While searching for jobs to post I came across this about jobs across the pond. Can any of you UK members let me know if this is good or if it is rubbish.

http://www.workgateways.com/job-scaffolding.html

Check it out and let me know.

Cheers,
JW

Added by Justin T. Wittwer on March 2, 2010 at 6:46pm — No Comments

Congratulations to our Canadian Brothers!!!

Congrats on winning the most medals for a hosting country.

Added by Justin T. Wittwer on February 28, 2010 at 11:26pm — No Comments

SAFETY GEAR

I have a few different sized retractables for sale and at good prices!!!send me a e-mail if interested to tomterriffic@scaffolddawgs.com Thanks!!!

Added by Tom Hallman on February 26, 2010 at 11:28pm — No Comments

New Friends & Members Only Shirts

In this wonderful world of Facebook, My Space and other networking sites I have found someone who shares our vision for a networking site for us scaffold types. Please check out the site at www.SCAFFOLDDAWGS.com. They have some cool merchandise and he seems to be a head of me in that area. I am hoping that we can use the iron sharpens iron philosophy to help each other out. Please check out the site and let me know what you think. Check… Continue

Added by Justin T. Wittwer on February 24, 2010 at 10:22pm — No Comments

Curious thoughts from a different perspective....

Without sound like a total pompous arrogant jerk there is a certain sense of nobility in what we do. Ours is never the finished product, or the desired end result but there are quite a few major things that would not be the same without dedicated individuals who are willing to do the tough stuff that unless someone took a picture of it most people probably won't remember. Oil refineries and ethanol plants would be different, power would have to be generated by steam from small… Continue

Added by Justin T. Wittwer on February 20, 2010 at 12:38am — 1 Comment

Events - Jobs Instructions & Other Information

When posting jobs on the "Events-Jobs " tab please watch the start and end dates you put in. They should be the day it is posted and either 90 days from post date or the day the job ends. This will keep the jobs page from getting too muddy.

Also I am about to begin a mass mailing campaign along with some other measures to get some of the employers to notice that this is a good place to post jobs where actual scaffold builders will see them. So please tell everyone you… Continue

Added by Justin T. Wittwer on February 18, 2010 at 8:54pm — No Comments

Changed have been made, others will be blamed.

Greetings and salutations. Hope everyone in DC and the surrounding states are working inside. Keep warm out there, you too Canadian members.

I have made a few changes like adding "Jobs" to the event tab. Anyone who knows of scaffold work should please post in there for now unless it gets moved later. As you may have noticed I am still working out all of the glitches and bugs in this thing as I tweak it to work out to be as simple as possible. This isn't a corporation yet so… Continue

Added by Justin T. Wittwer on February 10, 2010 at 11:33pm — 1 Comment

Jobs Available

I recieved this from someone else stating the are looking for Scaffold Builders Check it out if you need work.
Corner Stone is hiring for Foster Creek, Air Wepons range, Cold Lake area. The shift is 9 days on 5 days off. 8 hrs regular and 3hr over
time each day. Camp job! They are looking for Journeymen &
Apprentices. Call Rob Breen 1-403-598-3836.

Added by Justin T. Wittwer on February 9, 2010 at 4:30pm — 3 Comments

Accident Information

I found this article on yahoo about the explosiion.

Added by Justin T. Wittwer on February 7, 2010 at 9:36pm — 4 Comments

CHECK THIS OUT!!!!!! JOBS POSTINGS

Hello fellow ScaffoldBuilders I received this message from a new member and thought I would share it in case any of the rest of you are looking, or know someone who is looking for work. I have not had the proper time to devote to the jobs section of the site and will have to rely on other sources for now

"well i learned about this site from trades-usa.com, it is the best jobs board i have found so far, it also has a live chat feature and guys give out phone #'s and web sites to send… Continue

Added by Justin T. Wittwer on February 3, 2010 at 5:23pm — No Comments

spring 2010 nuclear plant outages, and canada info

Hatch........................in Ga..................feb 8

Lasalle......................in IL...................feb 15

Brunswick.................. in N.C.................feb 21

Calvert Cliffs...............in Md.................feb 22

Browns Ferry ...............in Al...................feb 27

Davis Besse................in Oh..................feb 28

Point Beach................in Wi...................mar 2

D.C. Cook..................in Mi...................mar… Continue

Added by michael clifford on February 3, 2010 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments

Shop tools explained (thanks Tracy)

Mr. DeBerg sent me this explanation of shop tools, very difinitive and helpful:

DRILL PRESS:

A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat

metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in

the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the

freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the

corner where nothing could get to it.

WIRE WHEEL:

Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under

the… Continue

Added by Justin T. Wittwer on January 26, 2010 at 11:04pm — 1 Comment

Busy busy busy......

I have been out working really strange hours on an emergency re-shore job in Iowa. Thanks to Matt Scott I was able to come home today and prep another job for tomorrow. Yeah.....as Metallica put it....Back to the front...... T-shirt are in store is up. Sale is over and all of yous missed it..... Check the store out and please let me know if you have another idea for shirts. I would like to come up with a members only design so anything you might like along that line would be super sweet.… Continue

Added by Justin T. Wittwer on January 18, 2010 at 11:36pm — No Comments

Store is up.really it up there .

If you look on the tabs above you will see one that will take you to the store. The store site is up but I am having some trouble with the icons on it showing up funny. Please let me know if you have any problems navigating through the site so I can get them resolved. Any one who needs tools I have some used ratchets available and more tools to come later. Take a look and buy some shirts so I can afford some improvements around here. Thanks for your time and good… Continue

Added by Justin T. Wittwer on January 6, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments

Working Dilligently on the Store

I am working hard in my time not spent doing billing (yuck) for my day job working on the store. I have 2 format of t-shirts on order and hopefully they will be finished this week-end so I can start shipping on Monday. i was hoping to have them ready by Christmas but no avail. maybe someday serving you fine folks will be my full time job, but until then I'll just have to make some time. I do have a few ratchets to sell and a few ideas about things besides t-shirts that I think you guys may… Continue

Added by Justin T. Wittwer on December 30, 2009 at 9:13pm — No Comments

Reflections and other oddities 2009

AS I am sitting here trying to come with something worth writing about about I must admit I am a little dismayed at the current trend of the larger companies in becoming more diversified and trying to do more things like insulation and other items not scaffold related. I must admit I am from the old school of do one thing and do it well. I'm not sure that I would be a good insulator or an electrician, but I understand I am a pretty fair scaffold builder. I look at the things I am currently… Continue

Added by Justin T. Wittwer on December 23, 2009 at 12:51am — 1 Comment

God bless the Internet

God bless the internet for giving good advice on how to build a frame scaffold. Now we all need to find other jobs...except you engineers and manufacturer reps..... check it out this is quite funny.…

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Added by Justin T. Wittwer on December 18, 2009 at 6:27pm — 1 Comment