Well, there's a fuel distributer close to us here that we've been courting to do some work for his stations recently. We did several different bids for one of his locations to replace his existing gas price sign with LED changers. Finally the owner decided that he didn't want to spend that kind of money, and would rather just take the existing sign down. I quoted him a price on Monday, and told him that we would get with it the next day.
Well, our installer realized later that night that he was double booking himself, so instead of re-scheduling and risk irritating the client, we decided to just do it ourselves. The existing sign was an 8'x8' cabinet with two 3'x8' faces on each side. It was welded to a highrise pole about 12 feet up to the bottom of the sign with a 3' wide catwalk all the way arround.
So, up I goes with a sawsall and a face full of scowl to cut this mofo down. I cut through the welds almost all the way, then bust out the faces, run a rope through, and pull it down with a truck. Then comes the catwalk. This thing is HEAVY... We cut the front part off and leave the back side with the ladder attached for last. I think, well I'll just cut one of the two remaining supports off, then we'll pop the other weld off with the truck. I'm up on a ladder with the saw, cut through the one weld, and the whole shittin' thing falls on me. Knocks me and the ladder over. I fall over a fence and on top of a dumpster. I'm alright, but I was real shaken up...
Ended up getting $40.00 worth of scrap metal out of the job if that gives you any indication as to how much steel we dealt with. Gave the guy a helluva price on it too, so hopefuly this will help cement our relationship and get us some more business.