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The worst repair job you ever performed.......

chroniekon

Senior Member
Joined
Apr 1, 2011
Messages
357
Location
Albany, Or
Fortunately I never had to deal with the smelly and gross. My worst had to do with extreme noise mixed with heat and humidity. I worked for a company that did electrical control upgrades for corrugated paper machines (some people call it cardboard) We tried to do our work during plant shutdowns but on this one occasion we were working on one of the machines while the rest of the plant was up and running. We were near Tampa Florida in July. I suspect the heat and humidity isn't anything too different than what many of you would consider normal, but being from the Pacific Northwest, I wasn't acclimated. Add to that a noise level that no amount of hearing protection seemed appropriate. Communication with coworkers was impossible, you could not shout loud enough to be heard.
 

John Canfield

Senior Member
Joined
Apr 27, 2009
Messages
431
Location
Texas
Occupation
Ranching
In basic training I had KP duty at the meat processing facility for the base. The floors were covered in 'stuff' - various and sundry animal parts. This wasn't a slaughterhouse (fortunately,) they took in beef sides. I remember one huge kettle catching ground beef, the meat was spilling over the kettle on the floor and the guy picked it up and stuffed it back into the kettle. Took an hour to clean my boots. I noticed all of the beef sides were graded "Good". My grade was "don't bother".
 

DMiller

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Joined
Feb 21, 2010
Messages
16,579
Location
Hermann, Missouri
Occupation
Cheap "old" Geezer
You were lucky
I Basic trained Ft Knox
Knew when I saw it as to the ‘Steak’ we were served
My Grandfather had a supplier get him Horse for a sensitive mutt(chihuahua) and we were served that same dark red stringy stinky meat. Ate it as was hungry.
 

Old Doug

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Joined
Oct 16, 2013
Messages
4,545
Location
Mo
I may have told this before. I was leaveing the farm one night long story short and run some kids parking in a gate way off. There was trash and i thought it was theirs but it was a deer remains in trash bags. I thought they wouldnt be back but 2 nights later there they were i stopped and told them they could park there but watch the trash. Days later i was stopped were they had parked to unlock the gate i got out of my jeep and i was standing in rubbers tampons and paper towels.
 
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