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A guy in a Chicago yard taught me a trick for checking wind direction.
We were setting steel on a gusty day last fall. This old timer pointed at a piece of flagging tape tied to his rig's boom tip. He said, 'That's my wind sock. It shows the real direction, not what you feel down here.' I started doing it and it's way more accurate than just guessing. Anyone else use a simple visual cue like that?
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wren65224d ago
That reminds me of a guy I knew who welded water towers. He'd always toss a handful of grass clippings off the platform before starting a tricky weld. Said watching where those tiny bits went gave him a better read than any fancy gauge for the crosswinds up there.
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jake_hall889d agoMost Upvoted
Grass clippings for wind checks is a bit much, isn't it? Feels like making a simple thing way too serious. Willowc60 has the right idea with the seed shell method, that's just getting the job done. Some guys just love the extra steps to feel like experts.
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willowc6024d ago
Honestly that grass clippings trick is genius. Tbh I'm over here trying to level a toilet with a cracked plastic torpedo level from 1998. My version of checking the wind is spitting a sunflower seed shell and seeing if it hits the baseboard. If it does, good enough, that's a plumb line.
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