my metal fabricating job photos

[jamies98lsc]

i mentioned this in my other post so i will put up pics here. these are all jobs i have built, or built together with other guys at work, like some of the big jobs i will post, and some of these i have installed too, these are only pics from florida, i have built so much since i was in high school. i went to a vocational high school and took 4 years of metal fabrication for a trade. my first big job i ever built was my sophmore year of high school, me, my cousin terry, and my buddies matt and shawn all made the front page of the daily hampshire gazette newspaper for building a brand new sander body for the back of one of westhampton massachusettes highway dept. plow trucks. it was a mach dump truck with a sander body on the rear for sanding the winter streets. our schools body shop painted it to match the truck, bright orange! so i have been building stuff out of metal for about 20 years now. here are just a few pics.

this was the view from a job we did 2 years ago. this was the roof of the bayfront tower in st. pete fl. we were 29 floors above the road! our work trucks are straight down from this pic. we built and installed this railing around the running track on the roof. there was over 500 feet of it. it took 2 guys and a window washing scafold 7 hours to get all our railing up to the roof. almost one whole work day just to get the stuff up there! wasnt gonna fit in the service elevator lol.

this ramp and stairs you see i built for macdill air force base in tampa. it was all steel and steel diamond plate sheets. i had 8 days to build it and get it to the base, i finished with 4 days to spare and got a $500 dollar bonus for getting it done early.

this is the same car but i am not the one who tubbed it or painted it.

 

[jamies98lsc]

shop bathroom joke!!

this i built for the front door at work. the curved railings were already there but my boss's wife wanted to put double gates there so she could open the front door during the day and her dogs wont take off. so thats what i built two little gates with a magnalatch on them. one is stationary with a cane pole in the ground but you can swing both of them open.

i would post more but i have to go to bed lol!

 

[jamies98lsc]

we also do all the tig welding on these aluminum pool tables. if anyone is in the market to drop about 35,000 dollars on a one off custom built pool table and if you can wait for about 4 months you can get one. some of the sickest tables on the planet. i just made some ball runs for inside one they are building right now. Lee is the owners name and he is a super cool guy. if you want to see the kinds of tables they build go to hurricane custom billiards they are out of st. pete fl.
this is one of the tables we did all the aluminum legs and table top frame for. you have never seen pool tables like these.

 

[AnthraxBird]

I may have to modify my house so I can use one of your spiral staircases... AWESOME work!!

 

[Mike P]

nice stuff, tedious work I was never good at

 

[Last Mrk]

Great work. Be proud! Be glad you have documented all your work with pictures.

 

[steve]

I like this stair case

 

[redn8]

You are a talented guy!

 

[my1995mark8]

wow thats really cool, nice work. that chevelle looks bad ass, especially with those huge tires out back lol

 

[jamies98lsc]

that stair case went up from the garage to the first floor then again from the first floor to the second floor. it was very heavy, took 6 of us to put it all in. it went in, in pieces through the second floor balcony then we lowered it down with ropes because we couldnt make the turn with it from the garage into the house. it was all steel. its supposed to replicate like a prehistoric spine, they call them backbone stairs. i never got pics of it finished, but it has mahogony hand rails down each side and glass on the sides so no one can slip off the sides in between the wall and stairs. the home owner had piles of cash! the house was amazing.

 

[SCTBIRD1173]

Sweet work Jamie!

 

[lead foot]

Very impressive projects, Jamie !
I didn't know you were also such a multi-skilled metal-worker and fabricator - With that kind of talent, there's gotta be a million different things you could create..How about a full tube chassis with integrated roll cage, four link suspension 'n' all the good stuff, set up (of course) for a Mark 8 body shell ?
I'd sure like to team up with you to build something like that, but the budget is not there right now..maybe some day, though..

 

[jamies98lsc]

Marc i actually have had a plan on paper and in my head since i was in high school. i want to build a 4 seater chevy LS2 powered sand rail. i have dreamed of one for so many years now, i have been welding nearly 20 years now and i still havent built one, same reason, no money, i have the skills, the space and the tools, but it stops there lol. i want it to be street legal so it wouldnt be slopped together. i have done some automotive work. i bagged my old silverado pickup with a custom air ride suspension, a pete and jakes triangulated rear 4 link, a monster notched frame, i could lay the frame flat on the pavement going down the road and with the flip of switches i could hop it up to a 14 inch ride height, thats how much travel it had. i also back halfed a 2000 gmc sonoma, cut the frame off at the back of the cab and built a tubular rear chassis with a cantilever air ride set up. i have the pics but they are in my old hard drive from when my computer died, i dont know how to get them without buying a new tower and installing it. but this is what i really want to build out of anything i could, this would be number 1'

 

[budpytko]

To access that old hard drive, stop at a computer store and buy a hard drive enclosure with a USB port, install your old drive in it and just access it using one of your existing USB ports. Fairly inexpensive too....

 

[tixer]

Something like this: it's ugly, but you can connect most any type hard drive to it, and connect it to USB in order to retrieve data. And it's $16.
http://www.amazon.com/Vantec-CB-ISA...1I1G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324687684&sr=8-1

Amazing work, by the way. I'm viewing from home now, so I can actually see the photos. Thanks for posting these. I had no idea that this was your "day job."

 

[jamies98lsc]

i cant use my usb's they are both broken on my current laptop. we can only use our printer on this laptop because its wireless. we are limping it along until taxes so i can get me and my wife each our own laptops and the kids wont be allowed to touch them. i have many more pictures from work but its a pain to load them from my phone to the computer and by the time i get to sit down on this after work i am too tired to play picture sending games with myself lol. but yes, its been my day job for a long time, minus a few years i took off to keep the mark VIII stuff going. i finally smartened up though!

 

[tixer]

ha! I know the "broken USB" game all too well. Does your laptop have PCMCIA slots? (the credit-card sized add-on cards that usually go in a slot on the left or right side of the laptop?

These are fantastic. I keep one on-hand most of the time because that problem is so common.
http://www.amazon.com/2-Port-PCMCIA...4HXG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324688638&sr=8-1


I forgot to mention how funny I thought your sandpaper dispenser was.. I actually did, laugh out loud.

 

[lead foot]

Cool sand rails, indeed, Jamie - Thanks for posting the pics !
Hope you can get your computer situation sorted out soon, looking forward to seeing the other photos from your archives..

 

[jamies98lsc]

im sure i can get into the old drive after taxes i will be buying new laptops fr both my wife and myself, sick of this sharing computer crap, too many people use this one and its trashed, its been so neglected. little kids have a way of wrecking anything they touch.