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[AzIron]

Blocker probably has whatever card the day of the week requires as resourceful as he is

 

[Ronsii]

Lately I think he has the 'crack' card...

 

[cuttin edge]

I try not to move anywhere, where rattlesnakes out number people... looks nice and all though.

That's why I live where the cold hurts my face

 

[wornout wrench]

I jump about 5 feet in the air and scream like a 5 year old when I see a garden snake.
I don't even want to imagine how high and what octave I could hit if I saw a rattlesnake.

I have bears and cougars where I live and they are not much of a problem.

Now, about the rain.
How much does it rain in Oklahoma.
I am getting sick of the rain, living in a coastal rain forest and all.

 

[Willie B]

Down here in tropical VT I plan, hope, and plot for a day dry enough in spring and fall to blow the leaves. Been several years since I blew them dry. Almost always I blow slop. Clearing wet leaves is harder. We have been known to get three days without rain, not in spring, not in fall. Recent years, not even in winter.

 

[RZucker]

I jump about 5 feet in the air and scream like a 5 year old when I see a garden snake.
I don't even want to imagine how high and what octave I could hit if I saw a rattlesnake.

I have bears and cougars where I live and they are not much of a problem.

Now, about the rain.
How much does it rain in Oklahoma.
I am getting sick of the rain, living in a coastal rain forest and all.

Rattlesnakes don't even bother me anymore, usually I know where I will see them and tend to expect it. I was welding a well tie-in once while the electricians were wiring power from the panel to the motor on a new install, they opened the panel and found four snakes coiled up in the bottom, one guy took a piece of 1/2" EMT and made a snare with some 16 gauge wire and "relocated" all 4 of them. I don't think the snakes were happy.

 

[Ronsii]

Rattlesnakes don't even bother me anymore, usually I know where I will see them and tend to expect it. I was welding a well tie-in once while the electricians were wiring power from the panel to the motor on a new install, they opened the panel and found four snakes coiled up in the bottom, one guy took a piece of 1/2" EMT and made a snare with some 16 gauge wire and "relocated" all 4 of them. I don't think the snakes were happy.

Relocated them.... what he didn't want to chop em' up and keep a trophy???

 

[RZucker]

Relocated them.... what he didn't want to chop em' up and keep a trophy???

No, a seriously strange guy that took them off to the side and turned them loose. Earlier on that job we had 860' of well casing laid out on skids and about every third or fourth joint would dump a snake when the rig lifted it. The tagline guys weren't impressed.

 

[Tugger2]

Id go south in a heartbeat, im tired of these anarchistic roadblockers. Here in BC no one will even step and help you if you challenge them.My hats off to the Albertans that do challenge them!

 

[Spud_Monkey]

Did someone say rattlesnakes, I say hell yeah, need some good dress boots.

 

[RZucker]

Looks a lot like the ones I see around here.

 

[cuttin edge]

Not sure how the working across the border works. A friend of mine has been working in the Virgin Islands for a few years as an electrician at a rock quarry. The company had all the paperwork looked after, everything was legit. He went to go back down in January, and paperwork or not, they wouldn't let him cross the border to get to the airport. He is aloud back into the states, but not aloud back to the island. The company....Florida Rock I think are trying to get things sorted out, but they are basicly being told that the government is putting a cap on forien workers in the country.

 

[wornout wrench]

Not sure how it works now but I had a friend who did the cross border thing for years.
He was working for a Canadian company that got bought out by and American company, the head office was moved to Texas.
My friend was a tech and worked internationally on repairs but he would have to be in Texas on a regular basis. He eventually was in Huston working as a trainer.
The company wanted him to move to the states but he resisted, when the push came to shove and they told him to move or quit, so he quit and they relented and let him stay on and live in Canada. Can't remember his scheduled. I think a month on month off.
He worked that way for a few years.
He never had any issues going back and forth and his passport had stamps from so many country's

That guy had the best stories, I would get an email with a picture and have to guess where he was.

Unfortunately, he became quite ill two years ago, just passed away in February.

 

[Welder Dave]

Temporary foreign workers were a big problem in Alberta when things started to slow down. Too many qualified Albertans out of work and they're bringing in foreign workers for less money. A lot of workers from other provinces were also here. There were lots of stories where they went back home and just left their unpaid vehicles at the airport with the keys in them with a note. They came here expecting to hit the jackpot, bought a bunch of expensive toys and then the economy went South. It's only got worse... in large part because of the PM and people like BC's premier who are against pipelines coming from Alberta but fine with pipelines originating in BC.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-tfw-restriction-1.4076837

 

[92U 3406]

Temporary foreign workers were a big problem in Alberta when things started to slow down. Too many qualified Albertans out of work and they're bringing in foreign workers for less money. A lot of workers from other provinces were also here. There were lots of stories where they went back home and just left their unpaid vehicles at the airport with the keys in them with a note. They came here expecting to hit the jackpot, bought a bunch of expensive toys and then the economy went South. It's only got worse... in large part because of the PM and people like BC's premier who are against pipelines coming from Alberta but fine with pipelines originating in BC.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-tfw-restriction-1.4076837

TFW's and transient workers from out of province are a bit of a sore spot with me. I have some big money invested in living in the north for work and it really got under my skin during the last boom. It was complete BS waiting 2-3 weeks to see a doctor because they were booked solid with pre-employment physicals for these camp workers. They didn't invest a dime to come up here and they just sucked all the resources up.

 

[Welder Dave]

A lot of the temporary workers were applying for citizenship so they could stay here permanently.

On the flip side there was a stink over the building of the new arena in Edmonton because some workers from the US were brought in for a few weeks. Specialists with extensive knowledge for a specific task and I have no problem with that. Kind of like having a factory technician coming in to help solve a complex problem.

 

[Blocker in MS]

OK, so Blocker, do you have your red card?

I must have not wiped my card when I put it back in the toolbox last time. It must have rusted....everything lately has been old and rusted that I got to touch

Ronsii is probably most rightest though....crack card. ‘Bout got that wrapped up for now though (see picture thread shortly)!

 

[Blocker in MS]

Blocker probably has whatever card the day of the week requires as resourceful as he is

Thanks!
Hey, text me your email. I have something you might like

 

[Fat Dan]

Oklahoma? I spent a year in Cement one day.

 

[Mother Deuce]

Oklahoma? I spent a year in Cement one day.

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