A "shoot the breeze" thread
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From: Tacoma, WA
Just an FYI to all the v10'ers out there, I will be ordering my 5-Star tune within the next day or two, I have been working OT so I figure why not, now I just have to hide it from the wife or have it shipped to the office. She knows I want it and knows how much it costs, I said I NEED IT but she didnt believe me but I really do need is so bad haha 
Cargo Master
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From: Cincy area
Yeah MDsuperduty Ive been a remodeler for 15 years and 10 of those years as an owner, I wish I was the guy hiring the guy like me haha. Im not the office type though.
Uh oh cbdzel . You better have something coming for her too or a very nice garage to sleep in.
Uh oh cbdzel . You better have something coming for her too or a very nice garage to sleep in.
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From: Rogue River, Oregon
I know what you mean. I just turned 50 a few weeks ago, but still feel better than I did 20 years ago. Yet our engineer at work is 24 and acts like I'm older than dirt. That's OK, though. I invited him to go play paintball with me and my 11 year old son this Sunday. We'll just see who's feeling old afterwards...
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From: Reynoldsburg, Ohio
I know what you mean. I just turned 50 a few weeks ago, but still feel better than I did 20 years ago. Yet our engineer at work is 24 and acts like I'm older than dirt. That's OK, though. I invited him to go play paintball with me and my 11 year old son this Sunday. We'll just see who's feeling old afterwards...
For about 12 years I was helping a younger friend permanently install start-to-finish large concert style sound systems, mostly in new build or remodeled churches. This process could include anything from hanging support structures to the steel skeleton just after the roof deck went on to hand pulling large umbilical cables 100' or more----and everything in between. Even at 20 years younger and thinking of himself as quite fit and in shape there was only one time I felt the need to quit for the day before him!
I think the longer we work we just more fully realize perseverance is really the shortest way to completely the job. When somewhat new to the work force that ability to simply power though something when we'd rather be playing hasn't yet developed----it'll come in time.
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I know what you mean. I just turned 50 a few weeks ago, but still feel better than I did 20 years ago. Yet our engineer at work is 24 and acts like I'm older than dirt. That's OK, though. I invited him to go play paintball with me and my 11 year old son this Sunday. We'll just see who's feeling old afterwards...
Cargo Master
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Man you guys are a bunch of geezers!! LOL. Just kidding.
I completely understand that perseverance through tough work. I run a part time landscape business and the 20 something year olds that help me from time to time pass out before I'm ready to quit. Or they're so hung over they are pretty much worthless. I worked for a friends landscape business for 5 years and we would just work like crazy, hung over or not. I think the most rediculous part of it all is that when we would do some trimming, edging, and mulch jobs I'd be standing around so much while he trimmed the bushes. I cleaned up the trimmings so fast that a few times my rake got caught in his trimmers because I was right near him. He literally paid me to stand there leaning on a rake....sort of. The guys I've had would be so far behind me and do a terrible job cleaning up. But that's today's youth, "give me the money but I don't want to work hard". Or they think "oh I want to landscape, I'll get a tan then.". I better stop or this will be a ten page write up on how 90% of the 23 and below crowd could be the laziest generation ever.
I completely understand that perseverance through tough work. I run a part time landscape business and the 20 something year olds that help me from time to time pass out before I'm ready to quit. Or they're so hung over they are pretty much worthless. I worked for a friends landscape business for 5 years and we would just work like crazy, hung over or not. I think the most rediculous part of it all is that when we would do some trimming, edging, and mulch jobs I'd be standing around so much while he trimmed the bushes. I cleaned up the trimmings so fast that a few times my rake got caught in his trimmers because I was right near him. He literally paid me to stand there leaning on a rake....sort of. The guys I've had would be so far behind me and do a terrible job cleaning up. But that's today's youth, "give me the money but I don't want to work hard". Or they think "oh I want to landscape, I'll get a tan then.". I better stop or this will be a ten page write up on how 90% of the 23 and below crowd could be the laziest generation ever.
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Man you guys are a bunch of geezers!! LOL. Just kidding.
I completely understand that perseverance through tough work. I run a part time landscape business and the 20 something year olds that help me from time to time pass out before I'm ready to quit. Or they're so hung over they are pretty much worthless. I worked for a friends landscape business for 5 years and we would just work like crazy, hung over or not. I think the most rediculous part of it all is that when we would do some trimming, edging, and mulch jobs I'd be standing around so much while he trimmed the bushes. I cleaned up the trimmings so fast that a few times my rake got caught in his trimmers because I was right near him. He literally paid me to stand there leaning on a rake....sort of. The guys I've had would be so far behind me and do a terrible job cleaning up. But that's today's youth, "give me the money but I don't want to work hard". Or they think "oh I want to landscape, I'll get a tan then.". I better stop or this will be a ten page write up on how 90% of the 23 and below crowd could be the laziest generation ever.
I completely understand that perseverance through tough work. I run a part time landscape business and the 20 something year olds that help me from time to time pass out before I'm ready to quit. Or they're so hung over they are pretty much worthless. I worked for a friends landscape business for 5 years and we would just work like crazy, hung over or not. I think the most rediculous part of it all is that when we would do some trimming, edging, and mulch jobs I'd be standing around so much while he trimmed the bushes. I cleaned up the trimmings so fast that a few times my rake got caught in his trimmers because I was right near him. He literally paid me to stand there leaning on a rake....sort of. The guys I've had would be so far behind me and do a terrible job cleaning up. But that's today's youth, "give me the money but I don't want to work hard". Or they think "oh I want to landscape, I'll get a tan then.". I better stop or this will be a ten page write up on how 90% of the 23 and below crowd could be the laziest generation ever.
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I am the oldest of 8 kids and my two youngest brothers, 34 and 32, are in construction also. Sometimes when we are working together they will say I'm tired, my back hurts, blah ,blah and I will just give them that look, shake my head and laugh as I walk away.
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From: Rogue River, Oregon
Man you guys are a bunch of geezers!! LOL. Just kidding.
I completely understand that perseverance through tough work. I run a part time landscape business and the 20 something year olds that help me from time to time pass out before I'm ready to quit. Or they're so hung over they are pretty much worthless. I worked for a friends landscape business for 5 years and we would just work like crazy, hung over or not. I think the most rediculous part of it all is that when we would do some trimming, edging, and mulch jobs I'd be standing around so much while he trimmed the bushes. I cleaned up the trimmings so fast that a few times my rake got caught in his trimmers because I was right near him. He literally paid me to stand there leaning on a rake....sort of. The guys I've had would be so far behind me and do a terrible job cleaning up. But that's today's youth, "give me the money but I don't want to work hard". Or they think "oh I want to landscape, I'll get a tan then.". I better stop or this will be a ten page write up on how 90% of the 23 and below crowd could be the laziest generation ever.
I completely understand that perseverance through tough work. I run a part time landscape business and the 20 something year olds that help me from time to time pass out before I'm ready to quit. Or they're so hung over they are pretty much worthless. I worked for a friends landscape business for 5 years and we would just work like crazy, hung over or not. I think the most rediculous part of it all is that when we would do some trimming, edging, and mulch jobs I'd be standing around so much while he trimmed the bushes. I cleaned up the trimmings so fast that a few times my rake got caught in his trimmers because I was right near him. He literally paid me to stand there leaning on a rake....sort of. The guys I've had would be so far behind me and do a terrible job cleaning up. But that's today's youth, "give me the money but I don't want to work hard". Or they think "oh I want to landscape, I'll get a tan then.". I better stop or this will be a ten page write up on how 90% of the 23 and below crowd could be the laziest generation ever.
Man you guys are a bunch of geezers!! LOL. Just kidding.
I completely understand that perseverance through tough work. I run a part time landscape business and the 20 something year olds that help me from time to time pass out before I'm ready to quit. Or they're so hung over they are pretty much worthless. I worked for a friends landscape business for 5 years and we would just work like crazy, hung over or not. I think the most rediculous part of it all is that when we would do some trimming, edging, and mulch jobs I'd be standing around so much while he trimmed the bushes. I cleaned up the trimmings so fast that a few times my rake got caught in his trimmers because I was right near him. He literally paid me to stand there leaning on a rake....sort of. The guys I've had would be so far behind me and do a terrible job cleaning up. But that's today's youth, "give me the money but I don't want to work hard". Or they think "oh I want to landscape, I'll get a tan then.". I better stop or this will be a ten page write up on how 90% of the 23 and below crowd could be the laziest generation ever.
I completely understand that perseverance through tough work. I run a part time landscape business and the 20 something year olds that help me from time to time pass out before I'm ready to quit. Or they're so hung over they are pretty much worthless. I worked for a friends landscape business for 5 years and we would just work like crazy, hung over or not. I think the most rediculous part of it all is that when we would do some trimming, edging, and mulch jobs I'd be standing around so much while he trimmed the bushes. I cleaned up the trimmings so fast that a few times my rake got caught in his trimmers because I was right near him. He literally paid me to stand there leaning on a rake....sort of. The guys I've had would be so far behind me and do a terrible job cleaning up. But that's today's youth, "give me the money but I don't want to work hard". Or they think "oh I want to landscape, I'll get a tan then.". I better stop or this will be a ten page write up on how 90% of the 23 and below crowd could be the laziest generation ever.
Cargo Master
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I haven't washed mine in forever......and it's black. What a mess!! The interior is a disaster too. Just moved into a new house, had a baby, and everything else life throws at ya. Truck washing and cleaning is on the bottom of the list unfortunately.
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From: Itinerant
Tomorrow hooking up to the 5th wheel and finish the drive to WI. Truck is washed and so is the 5th wheel. Weighed the truck yesterday 7,880# and last year was 8,160#, lost 280# stuff from it. Will stop at a truck stop tomorrow and see what the truck and 5th wheel weighs.
And age is nothing more than how you feel mentally and physically or something like that.
And age is nothing more than how you feel mentally and physically or something like that.
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From: Reynoldsburg, Ohio
Also heard C.R.S, Can't Remember S**^#t!
