Stop in for a cup of coffee

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krazykuda said:
That's great!!! :thumbsup:
I've made garage band aids with electrical tape and a paper towel to get by and keep working on my car until I wash my hands and put on a real one.... :steering:

I was thinking I was crazy for doing that... :realcrazy:

I'm glad I'm not the only one.... :D


Who wants to interrupt progress and waste time by going in and washing your hands and putting on a band aid when the time could be better spent making progress on your car... :mob:

You have to keep focused and stay in your zone... :soapbox:
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Like wed and yesterday. Hid truck and put phone in airplane mode. Got lots done.
 
memike said:
Dakalb !! I spent the night in jail there (Battery charge, I was 16 and removed a 20 year old off of my little brother and busted him up good, they said I hit him with a 2x4 but he lied, beet it in coart
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Did you hear the Energizer Bunny was thrown in jail????

He was charged with battery.... :lol:
 
38 degrees here and 65 later.sunny day.
We will work till 3pm and then closing shop for two full weeks.
Be back at work January 7,2019
 
One interesting thing from work last night...

We got in the heaviest plate that I have seen yet... It was a hunk of cast steel plate 5 1/2" thick, 72" by 144" and weighed 16,742 lb... They pulled the one trailer in the loading dock right next to it and it took the special claws on a chain with the 15 ton overhead crane to move it... It was tricky moving that thing, the dept lead and supervisors handled that...

FYI - thin metal under 3/16" is called a sheet, where anything over 3/16" is called a plate....

I have loaded plates 1/2" to 1" thick and up to 98" x 240" (8 foot by 20 foot) sometimes, but that is the heaviest that I've seen there yet...
 
TXDart said:
Spam calls...
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krazykuda said:
One interesting thing from work last night...

We got in the heaviest plate that I have seen yet... It was a hunk of cast steel plate 5 1/2" thick, 72" by 144" and weighed 16,742 lb... They pulled the one trailer in the loading dock right next to it and it took the special claws on a chain with the 15 ton overhead crane to move it... It was tricky moving that thing, the dept lead and supervisors handled that...

FYI - thin metal under 3/16" is called a sheet, where anything over 3/16" is called a plate....

I have loaded plates 1/2" to 1" thick and up to 98" x 240" (8 foot by 20 foot) sometimes, but that is the heaviest that I've seen there yet...
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2 twenty ton gantrys running on rails to work on our bridge.
Moving I beams 40’ long and 7 feet tall. The plate is 1-1/2” thick.
Going from 2 beams to 5. I figure its 10 times stronger than the original bridge. Was originally a train bridge.
 
krazykuda said:
One interesting thing from work last night...

We got in the heaviest plate that I have seen yet... It was a hunk of cast steel plate 5 1/2" thick, 72" by 144" and weighed 16,742 lb... They pulled the one trailer in the loading dock right next to it and it took the special claws on a chain with the 15 ton overhead crane to move it... It was tricky moving that thing, the dept lead and supervisors handled that...

FYI - thin metal under 3/16" is called a sheet, where anything over 3/16" is called a plate....

I have loaded plates 1/2" to 1" thick and up to 98" x 240" (8 foot by 20 foot) sometimes, but that is the heaviest that I've seen there yet...
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Headz up !!!
Hard hat not going to work.
 

krazykuda said:
I knew all of my grandparents on both sides of the family, but never knew my great grandparents on my dad's side... They all died before I was born...

However, I knew all four of my great grandparents on my mom's side.. But they all died off by the time I was in high school... My great grandma had her first heart attack in 1970 and the doctors gave her 6 months to live... She ended up to be the last one of my great grandparents to die... She survived two heart attacks, but it was the stroke that finally did her in... Proved the doctors wrong when she lived another 11 years after their prognosis...
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I grew up with no mother so cooking was simply essential. I still love to cook as do our sons. On the it's a small world note, as a result of no mom I would get shipped off to my grandparents for extended periods of time. Oddly enough my grandfather worked for inland Robbins construction who built the Orland park mall. He was the job Supt. I learned to drive on that job site! He would put me with a different operator everyday. I got to drive everything from dozers to scrapers. Some of them I could not reach pedals on so I would steer and the operator would work pedals. I want to say he lived in a place called pebble creek? There was a golf course near by so we would ride bikes and sneak in and swim in their ponds while fishing for golf balls. We would swipe beer and drop it in ponds to hide it and keep it cold. The staff was forever trying to catch us swimming, we were all fast skinny kids! Hah Good times! Shame kids can't do that anymore.
 
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