Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Smith Newsgroups: sci.engr.joining.welding Subject: Re: welding tractor for bridge - 2 lines railway span Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 21:23:21 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: jWIXHW27Sdyslve1w0djog.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XW0j+nnTz/cDLP99ZnCHb9BQ+Ko= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: csiph.com sci.engr.joining.welding:12931 Bob Engelhardt writes: > On 8/29/2018 4:49 PM, Richard Smith wrote: >> ... >> Where do I start? ... > > Anybody else find it kinda' scary that somebody who is going to be > building a _bridge_ is asking that question? > > I mean that if I was going to have somebody build me a bridge with a > welding tractor, I would expect that he have extensive experience with > such a tractor; such experience then be applied to the bridge > building. No they don't. They know the person is both highly qualified and significantly experienced including with bridges - and are made further confident that this person has a confident character and is completely at-ease reaching-out to benefit to the limit of contemporary knowledge from those he respects.