Hey old farts..how many over 50 yrs?
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Budley Doright
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I search google a lot
. But yup had a hammer and tape measure in my cloth nail bag (remember those lol) when I was 14 working as a labourer every summer . But yup youngest is a civil engineer and oldest is engaged to a lawyer hehehe, love that boy lol.
I did lotsa hot tar roofing in South Fla as a youngster.
NEVER AGAIN !!
NEVER AGAIN !!
xtsho
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Yikes! Tough work. I was a Hod Carrier for two years. That was enough for me to get out of construction and into technology. That was some brutal work but I cherish every moment of it.
WayFarGone
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I can relate, I ran a tar wand "resurfacing" roads in my teens some 4 decades ago. Never Again isn't strong enough language! lol
Stripping the roof was bad enough - mopping down the tar in the 100+ heat & re-roofing was another.
#Learning experience.
(Learning I never wanted to do it again)
Roger A. Shrubber
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i've had two that stand out. i cut logs with a chain saw and a peavy hook in the middle of a big dirt field in Tampa, for Wolman lumber, who sold them as log cabin kits. they'd dump a load, you'd have to dig through it, find logs that were at least so big around at the skinny end, and cut them so long, depending on what they told you that day. all day, in the sun, in florida. i lasted about 6 months at that one, before i found a better job.
when i was a kid i got a job at a norbest turkey plant. my job wasn't that bad actually, but it was hard. the turkeys you buy in the store are young'uns, the ones they make into everything from lunch meat to dog food are 40-60 lbs. by the time they got to me they were pretty much like you see them in the store, but 3 or 4 times the size. they slid down a chute, i had to pick them up and attach them to a moving line overhead. simple enough, but it was 8 hours of picking up 50 to 60 lbs birds and hooking their feet into spring clips on a moving belt. i lasted about 6 weeks at that one. didn't get a better job, just said fuck that.
when i was a kid i got a job at a norbest turkey plant. my job wasn't that bad actually, but it was hard. the turkeys you buy in the store are young'uns, the ones they make into everything from lunch meat to dog food are 40-60 lbs. by the time they got to me they were pretty much like you see them in the store, but 3 or 4 times the size. they slid down a chute, i had to pick them up and attach them to a moving line overhead. simple enough, but it was 8 hours of picking up 50 to 60 lbs birds and hooking their feet into spring clips on a moving belt. i lasted about 6 weeks at that one. didn't get a better job, just said fuck that.
Budley Doright
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I stood on the back of an asphalt spreader, spreading asphalt
, painted lines, and yup sprayed tar on roads, that was my own company . I fixed steel shutter doors above the dumping pit in a rendering plant, we got a $1 hr more for that location, smelled like a 3 week old dead groundhog strapped to your face. Worked in a lube bay in the pit in the winter, that was especially fun, it snows a lot here jsyk lol. Oh and the cutting wood, well that wasn’t a job, that was 15 cords a year to keep warm, never again have I burned wood lol. I’ve had some real awful jobs. Yup some real awful jobs lol. Now I try and teach stupid kids how to be smart...worst job ever lol.
ttystikk
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Have them do an honest day's work and I promise they'll pay attention!I stood on the back of an asphalt spreader, spreading asphalt
Novabudd
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Nope. They'd quit
Sour Wreck
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Moldy
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Yikes! That's painful work! I painted water towers when I was 18, now I get scared on a 5' ladder.
too larry
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I have some silk and wool leggings for sleeping in the cold, but I picked up a pair of Nike Pro tights for walking. It keeps me from having to worry about underwear.
Roger A. Shrubber
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i feel like i know you better than i want to, sometimes.....
too larry
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Get a bunch of hikers together, and as soon as they have talked out all the food and beer they are going to consume at the next town, talk always goes to cat holes and privies. Or which underwear rubs you the least.i feel like i know you better than i want to, sometimes.....
Sour Wreck
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i feel like i know you better than i want to, sometimes.....
ttystikk
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Not here it doesn't. And we do a fair amount of hiking in Colorado.
ttystikk
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That's because you're now old enough to know better.
BarnBuster
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