2014 World Skills Australia National Competition Perth.

[Gitzy]

Hey All for those who weren't aware (or have seen my fb) I'm a 3rd year Apprentice in Heavy Steel Fabrication (so a simple boilermaker :-) I was selected about 4 months ago to represent my region and state in the World Skills National Comp on Sept 18-21 Held in Perth WA http://www.worldskills.org.au/.

Our category was the Engineering Excellence Team Challenge which consisted of myself (the boily) and another apprentice Brock (fitter machinist). We had to build a functioning hammer crane within an 18 Hour time frame from scratch using our given skill set.

So it was a barrel of fun and a little bit stressy, having never been on a plane before I was packing it but survived after all. I had a great time over there and I think I spent about $80 total. It was all funded by my employer Ultrafloor and World Skills so that was a positive all my tools were purchased by my employer (that was a fun shopping trip :)) and sent over for my use in the comp..

I represented the Hunter Region and NSW in my category which had 10 teams of 2 from every state/territory, 5 Teams worked on day work 5 on afternoon shift. There were 500 competitors across 48 Trades, the Hunter had a team of 17 we took out 10 Medals and the Evatt Shield for most medals for a region so that was cool too.

Anyhoo some pics and a vid of our 3 mins of fame . We win it at 2h30mins


http://youtu.be/3dZrofncGNc?t=2h29m51s

[Gitzy]

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[Gitzy]

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[Gitzy]

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[Gitzy]

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[Gitzy]

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[ozzy1100]

much coolness

[hooligan]

Fucking awesome, congratulations Gitzy.

[hutch]

congrats mate welldone

[wackyrider]

Bloody awesome mate

[Gix11]

Well done mate. You've gotta be happy with that. Big future ahead!

[Beaza]

Shit hot, well done mate.

[Watto]

well done mate! - shame we didn't know you were in town as could have got a couple of lads together for a brew or 2

[Mr Ed]

FUCKIN AWESOME!!!! Well done mate. The talent there is out there is humbling sometimes.

[Nudie]

Congratulations you hot arse giant!



See, I can be magnanimous!

[Hagarr]

Great stuff!

[Gitzy]

Cheers Lads, not sure if it will lead anywhere it's definitely good for the old resume, and impressed my General Manager who funded me from start to finish..

I would have loved to have an OJ or two with the WASF boys but we were flat out from go to whoa, but damn Perth is a nice place that's for sure I'll come back one day.. Wouldn't mind a job there :)

[ALBI]

well done todd .
go the hunter !
now when ya coming over to reweld my subbie hmmmmm

[Bob]

Well done Gitzy

[ozzy1100]

btw todd I see by the pics that like me you wish people built benchs 200 higher lol
all mine are over hight and part of the reason for the lift table

[Gitzy]

Lol I thought you were a gun welder Albi..

Lynton my work bench at work is 1150 high I love it.. 5'8" boss not so much. :)

[ozzy1100]

You see the secret is that you said your bench lol

[ALBI]

I can weld mate !
but urs is porn!!