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From: Thomaston
The crane topple was on the new out here.
I did not realize you had land.
I am on hold on my shop rebuild till I cut some more lumber. If it dont rain today maybe able to cut tommorow.
I am glad yall both are having so much fun at WORK
I did not realize you had land.
I am on hold on my shop rebuild till I cut some more lumber. If it dont rain today maybe able to cut tommorow.
I am glad yall both are having so much fun at WORK
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From: Cave Spring Georgia
Joke if you want too but I know some days you work harder on you land and milling lumber than I do at work. We have slowed down a lot in the last 2 weeks. Little man got his haircut again yesterday and still doing great on potty training.
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That is a very true statement. I work harder now than I did working. I just dont have to put up with customers and company bs stress level a lot lower. I did try the other option of being retired of doing nothing did not work well. Even now do not like not doing anything a down day is ok every now and then.
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I can handle a down day if it's raining or super cold outside but more than one day I am going nuts. I am not an inside guy.
The customers complaining seems to come in waves.. The people I think would complain don't but the people I think won't will... Mower people seem to complain a lot more.
The customers complaining seems to come in waves.. The people I think would complain don't but the people I think won't will... Mower people seem to complain a lot more.
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From: Thomaston
I am like you 1 day ok then go stir crazy what makes it bad for me is having stuff to do ,decent weather and just not feeling like doing anything. Your mower people for the most part or the whiny baby type. Their mower maybe a status symbol, the exception your commercial guys. The tractor folks are your for the most part hands on people like us.
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my land is where my shop is and where my ford is.
Im not surprised. Foreman and I were talking about it today, we think it may be the same crane company that went down in Seattle at Google.
The company has had some violations recently, upwards of 20.
Dallas is still largly without power and junk, I saw about 40+ trucks, utility, emergency, yada yada headed towards dallas from my part of the woods.
Im not surprised. Foreman and I were talking about it today, we think it may be the same crane company that went down in Seattle at Google.
The company has had some violations recently, upwards of 20.
Dallas is still largly without power and junk, I saw about 40+ trucks, utility, emergency, yada yada headed towards dallas from my part of the woods.
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Today was monday Jr for all of us at work. Just snowballs of stupid ****, I did tear a couple booms apart and put them back together. I have a 120 hour job, ive been on for about 30 and its already near the end of the list of stuff that needs replaced, fixed, or inspected.
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the power company guys make serious money when they go on storm duty, but do some serious 12 hour days. a lady i know her husband is a lineman for a contractor. he went to puerto rico. they never shut the trucks off. Day shift would pull in jump out night shift would jump in. I think the rotation of 3 weeks working 1 week home.
Crane collispes are like lake drownings possible aircraft crashes all tragic, the news paint a bleak picture but never shows the actual small % the event actually is. How many cranes air in the air in Dallas?
Over the weekend a firetruck in Atlanta caught fire. Now they the are painting the picture all this equipment is out of date cause the City of Atlanta reponds to a 100k calls a year so they decided that equipment should be retired at 10 years. that one should have been pulled in 2010. Sounds like we need money speech.
Crane collispes are like lake drownings possible aircraft crashes all tragic, the news paint a bleak picture but never shows the actual small % the event actually is. How many cranes air in the air in Dallas?
Over the weekend a firetruck in Atlanta caught fire. Now they the are painting the picture all this equipment is out of date cause the City of Atlanta reponds to a 100k calls a year so they decided that equipment should be retired at 10 years. that one should have been pulled in 2010. Sounds like we need money speech.
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From: Cave Spring Georgia
Yesterday was a good day, no crazy customers to deal with. We have 3 deliveries of completed equipment so not an overload of pickups and deliveries right now. Hopefully the delivery guy comes back to work tomorrow.
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oh this is no doubt. Working for electric though is hard, finding insurance is hard, work is hard and very dangerous.
In the video there were 2 cranes. 1 went down.
As far as I know, there has to be 5 or more with all the construction and junk
In the video there were 2 cranes. 1 went down.
As far as I know, there has to be 5 or more with all the construction and junk
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From: Cave Spring Georgia
Down time is important. We were cleaning the shop yesterday and my boss came over and said it was looking great and said don't worry October will be here soon. Referring to us going back to Disney World in October. Saturday I am going to try and do some roof maintenance on the motorhome.