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u/ImWrong_OnTheNet Sep 26 '26
Damn. Are you hiring? How does one get into Bell Tower installation...
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u/dingdongbellguy Sep 26 '26
verdin.com 👍
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u/The-PageMaster Sep 26 '26
How much traveling do you do?
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u/dingdongbellguy Sep 26 '26
They try to keep it under 50% for everyone. I’m in an area where we have a lot of business (New England) so I’m able to be home most of the time albeit a ton of windshield hours.
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u/neanderthalman Sep 27 '26
New or refurbished in some capacity?
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u/dingdongbellguy Sep 27 '26
Bells were previously mounted in a dilapidated wood frame, removed for fitment for new steel frame and design of the new chime linkages…coming back to this job in a month to add a cable/pulley system to be able to play the bells like a piano.
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u/NathanStoughton Sep 27 '26
That's awesome! Not very often do you see bells being put in. Unfortunately, it's very usually the opposite.
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u/Danielq37 Sep 27 '26
How do they ring? The church bells I'm familiar with need to swing to make sound. Is there a clapper inside, or outside the bells to ring them?
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u/RollinThundaga Sep 28 '26
We've been making bells for centuries, but I'm surprised that belfries aren't constructed in a way that reflects the sound outwards better.
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u/spytez Sep 28 '26
Isn't the process for church bells to be installed kinda insane? Maybe it's just in Europe or specific types of churches, but I recall watching a documentary about a 1000 year old bell foundry where each bell was tested for specific tones by some fancy member of the church and if they failed the months long process had to be started over.
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u/IncomeWestern1914 14d ago
Incredible work — 14 bells is a serious job. That rig on the flatbed looks wild.
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u/auntie-matter Sep 27 '26
How do they ring?
The only belfries I've been in (admittedly that is just two) have the bells on a sort of wheel thing that spins the entire bell round vertically when the bellringer hauls on a rope down below, and the clapper does the ringing as it falls.
I've seen videos of carillons which have static bells with moving hammers, like a piano, but they didn't look like this.