I am really surprised this didn't kick up

You want to really notice it? Climb to the top of a 100' aerial ladder on a fire truck and see how much you're swaying around in the breeze at the top. Like a foot this way, a foot that way. Doesn't give you a warm fuzzy feeling, but the materials allow it. You don't have to weld as an occupation to understand what you're talking about.


After retiring from Tampa Fire Dept. with 33 years, I can attest to that first hand. Our old LTI 100 foot ladder truck when a 3" line was laid to the tip mount nozzle and the line was charged, the tip of the ladder would rise 11'! Yeah that was a E ticket ride!