Fatty McDickBrain Episode 3: Revenge of the Tension Control Bolt So, it would turn out that fatty from my previous stories ended up getting picked up by another crew with the same contractor last week, and eventually they came to help out at our job. No less than 2 hours passed on the day after they left did I find Dickbrain's mark on our job, this individual is somehow capable of causing problems without being present.  When you build steel buildings, one of the most common processes is to install the beams and columns of the structure, have another person or crew install the bolts, then once everything's in place a final crew comes along with wrenches that impact drive or shear off bolts at a high tension to lock them in securely. It's important that you do it once it's all set, because once you lock it down the piece isn't going to move anymore. I was following up where they'd left off snapping bolts when I saw a piece, a big brace that had maybe 20 bolts on each end, but the other end was just hanging cock-eyed, completely unbolted. I went over and looked and there was no way I could either get bolts through or move it with a tool, so I had to sit and break ~20 bolts off while working off of beams 80 feet in the air, go to the boom lift basket to get bolts, then go back and restart the process to fix his fuckup. Our foreman saw me lagging behind the others and asked what I was doing, so he knew where Dickbrain had left off the day before. It all makes sense; he'd been running around on the ground looking for some piece at the very end of the day, so looking back I figure he realized he was fucked so went to mess around for a while until he was gone so he could avoid the problem.