As a former torch-cutter, $13 an hour was about what we were paid. I'd have loved to cut up a ship.
Only things I wanted to burn on that I never got to were a railroad car, and a ship. Mainly a railroad car just to see how they were put together differently from other things. Of course, in the yard where I worked I never would have seen a ship, but a guy can dream.
Bulldozers, forklifts, cranes, structural steel, huge industrial equipment, all kinds of other stuff were a daily occurrence.
