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Remember Tim, I quit and they came into my happy place and recruited me. It's too wet to haul now, and I have suggested they use this time to find a loader operator.
Kingsolver, I don't envy the crew we have in Northwest Arkansas. They are digging a 16x16X27 foot deep hole. It has to be shored of course, but 27' is a long way when your looking up out of a hole. I'll try to get pictures of that one. Tigger, I ain't smart at all. I am just so lazy, I figure out how to get out of work. My observation is, restoring trucks is a lot easier than remodeling houses. |
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These are the pits of a treatment plant we finished over on NE Arkansas a while back. |
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Kingsolver, this is a hole they dug in Springfield a while back. I finally go them to stop digging.:lol::lol:
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I guess that’ll be deep enough. Glad someone is taking care of business.;)
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While I was digging through my files, I ran onto this picture. This was my first dump truck. A friend of mine still has it. I traded it for a 71 Cheyenne Super. We hauled thousands of yards of dirt on that old thing.
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The ole money-maker that started it all. You done good Jethro.
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Quite an adventure with work you have been on Larry.. running them track hoes has gotta be fun ,,at least for awhile.. I ran a back hoe with a concrete breaker on it for a week once ,, I think I still vibrate.. it was more fun using the back hoe changing the place I lived on rather than so much working it for a living .
Are you moving out of Harrison ? and if so what rural out of town place ya going ? if you dont mind telling .. Maybe I been there.. :) |
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I won't ever leave Harrison Larry. I have lived lots of other places, but this is where I belong. It's in the center of everything, with little traffic, relatively low crime, plenty of entertainment, both commercial and outdoors, and good healthcare close by.
The kids I mentioned live on the north side of town in the country. They live about two hundred yards north of where we lived when that girl was baby 40 years ago. |
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I just toted 21 boxes of hardwood flooring from my truck into the house. They are 70 lbs per box and now my tail is dragging.
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I knew you'd be moving to another 'part of' Harrison, not away, but it was for you to answer. So far, it's me and Kingsolver moving there, too! :cool:
That's just shy of 3/4 of a ton you hauled in Hardwood. I always figure it that way when I haul 80# bags of concrete mix. Me: "I hauled a ton of concrete today". Very interested party: "Really?? How did you manage to carry such a heavy load?". Me: "80# x 25" |
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Workin those pythons.:lol: My back is killin me just thinking about it. |
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Those were some hefty flooring packs @ 70#. That's a bit much to be slinging up on your shoulder, which is my preferred way to carry heavy stuff. Lugging at the waste sucks, especially through doorways.
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You guys are on opposite sides of the continent, too. Maybe you have the same kind of phones? Do you have to hit the "Post Reply" button more than once to get the window to open? Some of the stuff bears repeating, ;) but I'm just curious.
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I called the 60 year old hardwood floor installer, and he was moaning and groaning. I said "Did you get hurt." Him. "Nope, just 35 years of crawling around on my hands and knees." |
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Hard to believe, but I'm not suffering at all from carrying the flooring.
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A few weeks ago as I was going out to my van and a customer asked if I was ok. I thought to myself that’s an odd question then it dawned on me I must’ve even moaning getting up. I didn’t think I was straining or struggling.:uhmk: I’ve heard other installers moan but didn’t even think that would be me one day. :lol: |
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Lately I’ve been avoiding them too. |
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That's great to hear. I never know. I'll go into doing some things I know I'll be paying for later and never feel a thing. Then, just like the last couple days, I'll be sore from I don't know what because I didn't do any real work. Sat funny or something. I chop firewood with a splitting maul and that has never bothered me, that I can recall. Now, use a chain saw and my back is tightening up by the third cut, and I know what's coming. But not always :cool:
I realize now I grunt and moan like my dad used to. I don't know if he had back or joint problems or not. That generation of man didn't talk about their problems. I even asked my mom if dad had back or joint problems since I'm doing the same thing because of mine. Her answer was "I don't know". Married over 50 years and she couldn't say. I sure miss my dad. |
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