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Re: Tools of the trade ltppowell #17398067 07/05/22
Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 43,975 Likes: 25 Hi-Line SamOlson Campfire 'Bwana
SamOlson Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 43,975 Likes: 25 Hi-Line	People pay you to go have fun. Sure you have to drive the boat, pay for the fuel, pretend to like douchy people but it can't be all that bad. When people start paying me to go feed the f'ning cows for the millionth day in a row I'll stop whining.....lol

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Re: Tools of the trade bsa1917hunter #17398108 07/05/22
Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 7,708 Likes: 1 BC transplant to n alberta And... norm99 Campfire Outfitter
norm99 Campfire Outfitter Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 7,708 Likes: 1 BC transplant to n alberta And...	Originally Posted by bsa1917hunter Originally Posted by BigDave39355 Was…. Not it’s more like… I still weld some, Mostly to shut up the punk ass young welders that think they know everything….. I love it when they get mad because of rework and say “think you can do it better?” “Lemme grab my hood…….” 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ Gotta respect you brother. That hood is probably as old as I am.. My grandpa had one like it. My dad was also a welder/mechanic and Navy Seabee. I just built ocean going oil barges, grain barges, dry docks, and tug boats.. Also repair work, structural and even ornamental schidt: Here's a wheelhouse I designed and built for an old tug: You are right. Young kids don't know jack schidt, but it was our job to teach them. The bad thing is kids are different now days. They don't have the drive. They give up too easy when schidt gets too hard. We always had quota's we had to meet, but management let a lot of the younger guys slide. Up until a point, then when things were not getting done fast enough, they would sick me on them. An example, our quota for fitting angle (lets say 6x4 or 7x4x1/2" angle or bulb flat) on flat plate was 190 feet/day. The young guys were slacking off so much that they were only doing 65 feet/day. That schidt had to come to a stop and fast. So to show the younger guys how much you could actually get done, some of the older guys (all of us in our mid 30's) that could fit pretty decent had a race to see how much angle a guy could get done in a day. My buddy (an ex Airborne Ranger and 6th degree black belt) fit 450 feet. The next guy a huge colored guy that was an ex felon got 350 feet fit up, the next guy was a bomb expert, ex special forces marine (typical bad azz), fit up 300 feet, next guy down on the list was a slow meticulous guy, a little older than the rest of us, in his early 40's, fit up 250 feet. A lot of those guys slowed way down after lunch, where as I don't work that way. I pace myself and build up steam. You don't want to get in my way when I'm swinging a hammer: I fit 608 feet of angle that day. All perfectly on the layout line and nice and tight, ready for the doudle bug to come behind and start welding.. After that day, if the newbies didn't meet quota, the were issued warnings and a couple were even fired..[[[ I don't mind teaching a young guy new tricks, but if they are unwilling to learn I have no use for them.]]]].. Does not matter the work or trade, ill try to teach, if they don't want to learn i have no use for them. norm There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle----Robert Alden . If it wern't entertaining, I wouldn't keep coming back.------the BigSky

Re: Tools of the trade 673 #17398115 07/05/22
Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 7,708 Likes: 1 BC transplant to n alberta And... norm99 Campfire Outfitter
norm99 Campfire Outfitter Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 7,708 Likes: 1 BC transplant to n alberta And...	lots of hand work on Vancouver Island There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle----Robert Alden . If it wern't entertaining, I wouldn't keep coming back.------the BigSky

Re: Tools of the trade dave7mm #17398120 07/05/22
Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 1,966 Georgia USA Chrome Campfire Regular
Chrome Campfire Regular Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 1,966 Georgia USA	Safety first, I'm wearing the helmet.

Re: Tools of the trade hardway #17398141 07/05/22
Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 7,708 Likes: 1 BC transplant to n alberta And... norm99 Campfire Outfitter
norm99 Campfire Outfitter Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 7,708 Likes: 1 BC transplant to n alberta And...	i,ve done 40years of that kind of playing in the dirt with my Tonka toys, There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle----Robert Alden . If it wern't entertaining, I wouldn't keep coming back.------the BigSky

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Re: Tools of the trade SamOlson #17398597 07/06/22
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 50,170 Likes: 2 SE Texas ltppowell Campfire Kahuna
ltppowell Campfire Kahuna Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 50,170 Likes: 2 SE Texas	Originally Posted by SamOlson People pay you to go have fun. Sure you have to drive the boat, pay for the fuel, pretend to like douchy people but it can't be all that bad. When people start paying me to go feed the f'ning cows for the millionth day in a row I'll stop whining.....lol Every "cool" job is hard. That's why more people don't have them. Nothing cooler than being a real cowboy...unless you're a real cowboy. The only thing worse than a liberal is a liberal that thinks they're a conservative.

Re: Tools of the trade SamOlson #17398647 07/06/22
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 69,740 Likes: 35 Not In The City rockinbbar Campfire Kahuna
rockinbbar Campfire Kahuna Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 69,740 Likes: 35 Not In The City	Originally Posted by SamOlson You guys would love feeding cows for the 250th day in a row. Every. Single. Day. Since last October. Did get 2.5" that greened stuff up a week ago. But next 2 weeks none in the forecast, and 100 degree days will brown it all again. Did get to cut the scrub brush out of a ranch to allow better grazing for what green grass we have now. Don't even remove the hay spear. Know I'll be needing it soon. Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!

Re: Tools of the trade ltppowell #17398868 07/06/22
Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 115,424 Likes: 13 South Florida deflave Campfire Sage
deflave Campfire Sage Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 115,424 Likes: 13 South Florida	Originally Posted by ltppowell Originally Posted by SamOlson People pay you to go have fun. Sure you have to drive the boat, pay for the fuel, pretend to like douchy people but it can't be all that bad. When people start paying me to go feed the f'ning cows for the millionth day in a row I'll stop whining.....lol Every "cool" job is hard. That's why more people don't have them. Nothing cooler than being a real cowboy...unless you're a real cowboy. This is the same guy that thinks living in a place with no winter is "tough." LOL Originally Posted by Geno67 Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Originally Posted by Judman Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. Originally Posted by KSMITH My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house

Re: Tools of the trade SamOlson #17398883 07/06/22
Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 23,579 Likes: 2 Southern Ohio KFWA Campfire Ranger
KFWA Campfire Ranger Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 23,579 Likes: 2 Southern Ohio	Originally Posted by SamOlson You guys would love feeding cows for the 250th day in a row. Fishing season?! 90 days? Oh my.... LOL remember my FIL going out to bust ice on a pond on Xmas morning so the cattle could get some water Nope, not raising cattle I says to myself that morning. have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues, can you bend them guitar strings

Re: Tools of the trade dave7mm #17399185 07/06/22
Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 45,383 Likes: 28 North East Urth Valsdad Campfire 'Bwana
Valsdad Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 45,383 Likes: 28 North East Urth	Job I retired from required that I go out and check the passengers on those barges. Yes, there's one in front of that boxy looking thing. Picture from 40' up in the wheelhouse of the tug, which I had no responsibility for. If it got worse, and it did, the captains would say no one is going out on the barge. The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni) member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?

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Re: Tools of the trade dave7mm #17399536 07/06/22
Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 7,988 Likes: 3 Oregon Sheister Campfire Outfitter
Sheister Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 7,988 Likes: 3 Oregon	I had a family friend who was a bar pilot on the Columbia River bar and a river pilot up the Columbia. He asked me one time if I wanted to go on a pilot job with him and I foolishly said yes, thinking this was going to be a nice quiet little adventure... well, the bar was raging that night when we went out on the pilot boat to the ship. Then they put down this little 2' wide stairwell with a boom that hung beside the ship that we had to get the pilot boat up next to, step over, and climb up the stair boom that was swinging in the wind and the ship was swaying back and forth, so the stair wasn't always close to the ship as we traversed up the 30-40 feet or so up to the deck. Did I mention this was also in the dark? Once we stepped off the pilot boat, he scooted out of there as fast as he could because of the conditions and we were on our own going up that stair/ladder/amusement park ride... Once we were on deck and in the control room, the Korean crew gave the ship over to the pilot and it was smooth sailing all the way up to Portland- about 60 river miles. Not a job I ever had a wish to do after that night even though at the time they were making very good money and benefits... Bob Never underestimate your ability to overestimate your ability.

Re: Tools of the trade Sheister #17399543 07/06/22
Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 45,383 Likes: 28 North East Urth Valsdad Campfire 'Bwana
Valsdad Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 45,383 Likes: 28 North East Urth	Just another day at the office Sheister. The tug captains had a saying: "Boredom is way underrated" When operating those things, excitement was not fun. The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni) member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?

Re: Tools of the trade hanco #17399721 07/06/22
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 11,955 Likes: 1 NB / Canada SuperCub Campfire Outfitter
SuperCub Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 11,955 Likes: 1 NB / Canada	Originally Posted by hanco Burned a million welding rods. And I inspected a million of those welds by radiography and or MT/PT. Shot a 42" flair line weld yesterday.

Re: Tools of the trade dave7mm #17399723 07/06/22
Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 45,383 Likes: 28 North East Urth Valsdad Campfire 'Bwana
Valsdad Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 45,383 Likes: 28 North East Urth	Some of you folks have cool jobs! The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni) member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?

Re: Tools of the trade Pharmseller #17399794 07/06/22
Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 42,642 Likes: 4 Orange Park, Florida jorgeI Campfire 'Bwana
jorgeI Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Jun 2003 Posts: 42,642 Likes: 4 Orange Park, Florida	A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”

Re: Tools of the trade dave7mm #17399801 07/06/22
Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 958 USA P PWN Campfire Regular
PWN Campfire Regular P Joined: Feb 2001 Posts: 958 USA	Some of the tools of my trade. Not shown: Telephone, computer and printer.

Re: Tools of the trade PWN #17399907 07/06/22
Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 7,988 Likes: 3 Oregon Sheister Campfire Outfitter
Sheister Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 7,988 Likes: 3 Oregon	Originally Posted by PWN Some of the tools of my trade. Not shown: Telephone, computer and printer. I took a few law classes when I was going to college off and on and they were reasonably interesting to me but they just put me to sleep in no time... pretty sure they could be marketed as a cure for insomnia... Never underestimate your ability to overestimate your ability.

Re: Tools of the trade jorgeI #17403802 07/07/22
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 23,374 Likes: 2 Atlanta hatari Campfire Ranger
hatari Campfire Ranger Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 23,374 Likes: 2 Atlanta	Originally Posted by jorgeI I guess that Trump's most others, huh? "The Democrat Party looks like Titanic survivors. Partying and celebrating one moment, and huddled in lifeboats freezing the next". Hatari 2017 "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." Han Solo

Re: Tools of the trade jwp475 #17403809 07/07/22
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 23,374 Likes: 2 Atlanta hatari Campfire Ranger
hatari Campfire Ranger Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 23,374 Likes: 2 Atlanta	Originally Posted by jwp475 Would go through a 50# box of 3/16" 8010 every day on a firing line Pretty nice looking job, pard! "The Democrat Party looks like Titanic survivors. Partying and celebrating one moment, and huddled in lifeboats freezing the next". Hatari 2017 "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." Han Solo

Re: Tools of the trade jorgeI #17403855 07/07/22
Joined: May 2008 Posts: 25,542 Likes: 9 Valhalla SE AK & WA A AcesNeights Campfire Ranger
AcesNeights Campfire Ranger A Joined: May 2008 Posts: 25,542 Likes: 9 Valhalla SE AK & WA	Originally Posted by jorgeI Nosler? 😁 �Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politician.� �General George S. Patton, Jr. --------------------------------------------------------- ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~

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