I can vouch for you, Tom. Engineers are often pricks with terrible socialization - its not a false stereotype.

Next time he pulls some BS like that : "Wow, you know so much more than I do... too bad nobody likes you..."

When I worked in concrete, Walers were the metal ties we used to hold the forms together. I always though it was because you have to "wale' on them to tighten them up. They are usually some kind of clamping system with a wedge that you beat the hell out of to tighten the forms up into true.

now, loosely, the horizontal boards were referred to as walers or waler boards because they were part of the waling system.

..but everyone uses these terms as they see fit in any industry, wrong or right. my boss came from a background of railroad work with Union Pacific.

Tell your engineer friend you might not know what a waler is, but you sure know a mule pussy when you see one. (also a concrete term for a style of waler)

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Interesting. I would have immediately gone with a square rigged ship with a crows nest.

Weird that "whaler" has come to mean something related to concrete. (Is it spelled waler for concrete use?) I wonder if its regional?

I just hired a local concrete guy, gonna ask him when he comes by

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Whaler is an older concrete form description of usually a horizontal form support member. Not perhaps totally universal but a well used term in many areas at one time.

For example I might have supported an eight foot concrete walls forms with four horizontal walers. Their use has seriously declined in general today I suspect. Compared especially to the day of cast metal wedges . Speed being so important has introduced other approaches.

Yeah, the only time people pour walls in wooden built on site now is when it will not work to use manufactured forms.

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Dunno. Never wrote it before.

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I hate sites that do that.

Instead I'll just download it and upload it here.

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Which is, of course, where the phrase commonly heard on work sites, "Hit that mule pussy, boy!" comes from.

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