How'd it go today?

pigwot said:
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Just looked it up. Doesn't seem like you hit the typical occurrence points. Is it just a failure to work correctly? How would it be fixed? In any case, good luck with the further analysis.
 
So much fun. Rear axel seals and bearings. New brakes all 4 and new rotors.
This should be wrapped up on the 4x4 today should all the "right" parts arrive today. Then the F350 goes under the knife for the same thing.
Brakes suck with gear oil and grease on them. Ahhhh that smell. 20210331_105125.jpg
 
kevin bingham said:
have you ever been to the states? it plays a big part in the lives of pretty much everyone.
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Yes Kevin, I have been to the US. I spent 6 months there in 1997. I drove 12500 miles around the US.

So probably have seen more of the US than the average American.

I was’t implying the boss’s were meth heads but they get effected by employees being meth heads and the associated problems.

There are piss heads everywhere but I didn’t realise Meth was such a problem in the States.
 
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some places its meth, other places heroin opiates, others crack... it effects everyone and its presence is felt everywhere. tree work is one of those professions though like stripping where an addict can make enough money to support a pretty good sized habit without being in a union or having an education.
 
It's not just meth, basically everything can be a problem here. Lots of opioid abuse, pills, booze, etc. The problem is worse in certain professions, mainly dictated by their income and their responsibilities. For example, although you will have a hell of a time finding a welder who doesn't enjoy "substances," you will find that the highest paid ones that work construction are often drug tested all the time, so they make enough money to not do drugs (usually). Instead most simply drink, and/or stick to stuff that won't show up on a drug test. Tree work often pays less, often has very lenient to non existing drug testing, and the guys often have good mobility between companies so losing a job isn't that big of a deal. From what I've seen tree work is more personable and smaller crews, often talking/ meeting your customer, who is very often pleasant to you, a very different experience from a construction job.
 
Surveying around here's a bunch of misfits that fell into it cause they got a job and thought "This is alright". Decent, but not exceptional pay, and oversight is limited to 'Did you do the job right?', and even that's flexible if you need a warm body to fill a spot. It's probably changed a little bit since I got in. Less room to learn on the job, so a lot are probably coming from school, and it's less freewheeling than it used to be.

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Oh, and my day went shittily. Boss pissed me off. I have important work that needs to be done on my job, and it could have been done before the rain started, but we did some stupid shit for his jobs that aren't as time sensitive as mine. Not having a robot isn't gonna work for me. I try to make sure my shit gets done, and I do what it takes to get it done. Having to deal with another person is really cramping my style.

He mentioned looking into a gps system. The machine costs whatever, and the service is $2.5k/year. Says it's good to .01'. I don't believe it. If it was that good, why would anybody use anything else? You could have a true one man crew that isn't constrained by line of sight. It's probably good to .01' except for the 68 circumstances where it isn't. Sounds awesome, but I don't buy it..
 
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I was under the assumption that most of the surveying equipment these days was GPS based? Guess not. That is remarkable accuracy if it's true.
 
I'm not really clued in to what's going on with gps. Way back in the day, we were one of the first companies in the area to have gps, and we'd contract out to other companies setting up control for them. I wasn't really involved with that, and setups required ~45 minutes of occupation, plus a bunch of postprocessing in the office to get usable points. There's been mobile rtk solutions for awhile, but AFAIK, they required base stations on the ground to supplement the satellites, and still couldn't get you to .01'.

All that's old stuff, and I've been uninvolved, so maybe the situation's better, but I'm skeptical. I'd have to see exactly what he's looking at, and review the documentation. The guy he was talking to mainly did property work, and that's gonna be wrong no matter what you do. A few hundredths here and there, who cares? That wouldn't work on a lot of my jobs, and there's stuff that's more exacting than what I typically do. If it truly was accurate to .01' xyz, I could live with that, but that's the upper range of tolerable error.
 
Good perspective re construction, 09.

Re the vibe on a construction job- I've seen signs posted at entrance to site that says, among other things, No swearing etc because you (the employees) are a direct reflection to the public and the customer about the company.

I thought that was interesting and wise.
 
Lol that must have been a remodel job hahahahaha. Usually it's a cluster, with a bunch of different trades all in each other's way. On some jobs you never see the customer, or if you do its the guys that run the plant. I've also dealt with very hostile customers, and some very not hostile. I'm talking police escort bad. I've also heard of people being randomly shot at on jobs too, including a fatality over a guy not giving up a cigarette, no shit. Completely different vibe is a great way to say it man, really is. Even doing services it's a different vibe, you are there and they don't know you and didn't pick you.
 
lxskllr said:
Just looked it up. Doesn't seem like you hit the typical occurrence points. Is it just a failure to work correctly? How would it be fixed? In any case, good luck with the further analysis.
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depending on rate....you might earn yourself a pacemaker
 
kevin bingham said:
some places its meth, other places heroin opiates, others crack... it effects everyone and its presence is felt everywhere. tree work is one of those professions though like stripping where an addict can make enough money to support a pretty good sized habit without being in a union or having an education.
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one of the reasons I got out.....the quest for employees

Meth seems to be laced with fentanyl here. People OD or tweak themselves into rhabdomyolysis regularly. Had one today ..........cant see how that shit is any fun. Go eat mushrooms or something.
 
Yes. All that nice pine goes to the recycling place in hot weather.. From income source to expense. Waiting to hear what the arrangement is.
 
Has that 'always' been the case- no pine wanted in warm weather ?
 
No_Bivy said:
one of the reasons I got out.....the quest for employees

Meth seems to be laced with fentanyl here. People OD or tweak themselves into rhabdomyolysis regularly. Had one today ..........cant see how that shit is any fun. Go eat mushrooms or something.
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Addiction is doing something even when you don't want to.

Meth has to be fun, at first. I think it's incorporated into sex, sometimes.

I wouldn't know.
I'm a Virgin.









Meth virgin.
 
The sapwood blue stains in hot, humid weather. Structurally ok, but not really saleable. Yes, pine market is usually November/March.
 
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