I just wanted to let all you guys know that on this holiday weekend..

Vetech63 · Sep 5, 2020

.....I'm still busting balls

keeping our industry moving. 100+ heat, no shade, no wind, injured shoulders, Poor eyesight due to the sweat rolling off my forehead.

I ask that you please have a BBQ, cold beer, beautiful women catering to your every need, brotherhood, fellowship of the machine and happy thoughts throughout the weekend. Dont worry about me as I am holding the fort down, by myself

until all of you return from your holiday weekend of rest and relaxation.

Have a HAPPY LABOR DAY and see you all Tuesday

Truck Shop · Sep 5, 2020

So what's new-I've been working every holiday the last 20 years-7 days a week. I see you smoke my brand and I'm running a little low mind if I bum one?

wornout wrench · Sep 5, 2020

Hey Vetech.

Thanks for holding down the fort, means I can stay retired and not have to worry about things.

I worked many a long weekend in my day.

When you do get done, the beer tastes just that much better.

DMiller · Sep 5, 2020

Cowboy Killer lights!! Between those and Hump Day Lights was about all I ever smoked toward the end.

Truck Shop · Sep 5, 2020

DMiller said:
Cowboy Killer lights!! Between those and Hump Day Lights was about all I ever smoked toward the end.

That's {Drug Store Cowboy Killer Lights}.

DMiller · Sep 5, 2020

Started off in the illustrious smoking game on Pall Malls and Lucky Strikes, BOTH Unfiltered, moved to Cowboy Killers, then on to Pall Mall Filtered and finally ended up Marlboro Lights and Camel Lights. Never could handle the taste of Winston, brother smoked them for YEARS.

Older brother quit smoking and every so often would bum one so would kick on free of the pack, he would grind it in his hand saying "OOOO, that is just SO Satisfying!!"

I at one time was smoking 3-5 packs a day, kick one free of pack before feet hit the floor out of bed and grind last one out as tucked back into the bunk. Driving fuel truck chewed Beechnut and Red Man, would still have a chaw tucked then light up a cig as ended a day, and be swilling a coke or root beer with the other two still in process

suladas · Sep 5, 2020

I'm glad you got it covered! I've had enough of the working weekends and crazy long hours.

Can you send some beautiful women up north though? I am lacking there

Don.S · Sep 5, 2020

I spent the morning splitting fire wood with my son who is soon to be three. And then had my parents over in the afternoon for drinks and dinner. Tomorrow it will be just me and the boy since the woman has to work so maybe we will go for a walk in the bush or take him to play with some cows and horses. And monday i hope to go up north to the woods and play on the avts and three wheeler.
Glad some of you are willing to work on weekends and holidays cause i sure wont anymore.

CM1995 · Sep 5, 2020

At least you have enough shop towels to make it through a long weekend.

mitch504 · Sep 5, 2020

Yeah, I was out there today, too; and I will be out there tomorrow and Monday. I hope to get closer to caught up, so I can take next Sunday off.

Ct Farmer · Sep 5, 2020

Well it’s Labor Day so I’ll be laboring. 2 big orders for trees this week so got to get them dug. Couple of semis worth so a good payday when the check comes in.

suladas · Sep 5, 2020

mitch504 said:
Yeah, I was out there today, too; and I will be out there tomorrow and Monday. I hope to get closer to caught up, so I can take next Sunday off.

I'm back and forth on it, as much as I enjoy taking the weekends off in some ways i'd rather be working them right now and take even more time off this winter but not busy enough right now. This week was the busiest i've had in a few months and still was only 4 days of work.

I'm looking forward to winter actually, taking at least 2, maybe 3 months off completely.

Spud_Monkey · Sep 6, 2020

Wait, it's a holiday of some sorts? There isn't weekends here, holidays, 5 o' clocks or birthdays here, days just blend together. It's get up at 0600/0500 hrs and go till the wife says it's dinner time, at lunch she is shoving some food in my hand and saying eat as I wipe the grease,grime, or whatever off shove it down and go again. When it hits dinner I know it's around 1900 to 2000 hrs, time to shut it down unless I am in too deep. If I'm in too deep on the project and want it done then I eat grab a nice stiff drink and go at it again for couple more hours.
I'm actually retired, you believe that? I could actually flip a middle finger up, get a mortgage, move into suburbia (probably never get a hard on again) subscribe to some TV channel thingy and drink all day and not have to work for a living, but I chose this route and I don't have to work for a living, but I chose this route while earning retirement pay.

ih100 · Sep 6, 2020

What’s with the not taking holidays off? I enjoy my job, but I enjoy time with the family and friends a lot more. You give up too much for work when you’re young, and at nearly 60 I’m unashamedly backing off. At the end of the day, it’s getting too near the end of the day.

Ct Farmer · Sep 6, 2020

ih100 said:
What’s with the not taking holidays off? I enjoy my job, but I enjoy time with the family and friends a lot more. You give up too much for work when you’re young, and at nearly 60 I’m unashamedly backing off. At the end of the day, it’s getting too near the end of the day.

It all depends on the time of year. When you farm for a living as I do there no weekends or holidays. Not to say that are not days off, but when things need to get done it really does not matter what day the calendar says it is.

Now when I worked for someone else and was away from home for months at a time I missed a lot of family things and that is part of why I went back to the farming full time. The worst is sitting in a hotel 2000 miles away and you miss something special.

Honestly as hard as this seems at times I look at every day as a holiday so an official holidya is just nothing special. My Dad is 81 now and i know the field work is keeping him young.

CM1995 · Sep 6, 2020

ih100 said:
What’s with the not taking holidays off? I enjoy my job, but I enjoy time with the family and friends a lot more. You give up too much for work when you’re young, and at nearly 60 I’m unashamedly backing off. At the end of the day, it’s getting too near the end of the day.

Couldn't agree more ih100. I enjoy what I do 5 days a week and enjoy the weekends and holidays even more.

We'll work the occasional Saturday but that's if there has been a lot of rain or we are behind on the schedule which rarely happens. People will work you to death if you let them.

Don.S · Sep 6, 2020

So we decided to have a boys day and went north today to play in the woods. My little guy will be three this month and absolutely loves going for rides in the woods. No double time pay could ever be better then going for a ride with him.

Willie B · Sep 7, 2020

Vetech63 said:
.....I'm still busting balls keeping our industry moving. 100+ heat, no shade, no wind, injured shoulders, Poor eyesight due to the sweat rolling off my forehead.
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I ask that you please have a BBQ, cold beer, beautiful women catering to your every need, brotherhood, fellowship of the machine and happy thoughts throughout the weekend. Dont worry about me as I am holding the fort down, by myself until all of you return from your holiday weekend of rest and relaxation. Have a HAPPY LABOR DAY and see you all Tuesday

I didn't take pictures, but I was putting conduit in a ditch Sunday. Customer rented a mini excavator, finished 180 feet of ditch Saturday. I asked for 46". He gave me 4'-6' deep. Narrowest trench I've ever seen! I'm pretty brave about being in a ditch. I, or any full time excavator will slope the sides enough that injury or death are unlikely. This was extra deep, with vertical walls. Spots the gap in the sod was only 2' wide. I didn't want anybody in that ditch.
I laid conduit, and a crew of the customer's friends with hand shovels & wheelbarrows brought in sand. Worked surprising well. Dump a wheelbarrow of sand, lift the conduit off the rocky bottom of the ditch. sand falls under the conduit. More sand on top. People with shovels pick around the biggest rocks & cover several more inches before the tractor pushes the bony gravel in.
They were still backfilling when I left them with a roll of warning tape.
68 degrees, my day went better than yours.

crane operator · Sep 7, 2020

Thank goodness someone was working. I took my youngest daughter to see a couple college campuses. Of course you can't actually meet anyone or get a real tour, with covid still around, but at least she could see where she's looking at spending 4 years and who knows how many $$$$$.

But- it wasn't all roses- I had to pull out the wrenches on the way home. A/C quit on the way back. Not a happy crew on a six hour drive with no A/C .

I saved the day in a McDonalds parking lot under a shade tree. (I wasn't hungry enough to eat their food).

Pugged up cabin filter removed- and ice cubes were back flowing from the dash vents.

Nige · Sep 7, 2020

crane operator said:
But- it wasn't all roses- I had to pull out the wrenches on the way home. A/C quit on the way back. Not a happy crew on a six hour drive with no A/C .

I saved the day in a McDonalds parking lot under a shade tree. (I wasn't hungry enough to eat their food).

Pugged up cabin filter removed- and ice cubes were back flowing from the dash vents.

Didn't you say you did all your own maintenance.? So who got the finger pointed at them for failing to change the cabin filter before it got plugged..? (Tin hat on. Ducks for cover.)

I just wanted to let all you guys know that on this holiday weekend..

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