I was looking at my old Carpenters union cards.
In NJ its stamped, Carpenter , Millwright… local 15 Hackensack.
Local 780 Astoria its carpenter , pilebuck.
I did have to take welding classes years ago.
Theres no way im a journeyman millwright or pilebuck but i have the documents.
I did work on pilebuck gangs but just did what they told me unless i was fixing docks.
I did work along side millwrights in mills, cannerys as the carpenter to groups of millwrights.
i never would say im something if im not but i always thought it interesting im certified
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What's a "pilebuck?"
pile driving gang, usually with the scars to prove itMike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
Oh,, me of the story of the pile worker who fell in just before the pile driver ended the conversation. Can you imagine! poor fellow! Sounds dangerous. Real dangerous!
dave
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in most of the country they are referred to as pile bucks, however in the san francisco bay area the term is pile butts.
many of the skills of the actual pile driving are similar to loggers in that they have to rig and loft the piles to be driven.
bucking the logs is a logging term, and probably the ancestor of pile buck.
pile butt refers to driving a pile to refusal and then "butt" cutting to grade.
check out archie greens book, "pilebutts, wobblies, and other heros"
Although they do drive piling, a lot of work is fixing docks on the waterfront here in Oregon. I also worked on bridges where one is more pilebuck then carpenter, or a sort of form carpenter on the piling
that is very true, local 34 piledrivers in san fran/oakland call themselves "piledrivers, divers, carpenters, bridge, wharf and dock builders"
they make no mention of the welding or structural shoring or coffer damn building that is a large part of the work for many local 34 hands.
So a "pilebutt" is different than a hemorroid?
read the book, by archie green, "pilebutts, wobblies, and other heros"