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[PlumberSoCal2]

I can take about an hour of those suits but ya really can't mix a freaking gallon of paint or shoot a whole car in one go. Hell I mix different for vertical and horizontal surfaces anyways....

Back in the day after injuring my back I was told I'd never plum again (doctors, wtf do they really know???) and I got into radio broadcasting and landed a gig with KWVE San Caliente, CA as assoc producer for Woody & Company, a kids Saturday morning show. Woody was a bear, and I got to dress up as Woody at several amusement parks. 10 minutes in that suit and I'm about dehydrated and close to dead and I'd do 30-40 minutes at a time 'cause I loved the kids and all their excitement. About killed me but I'd do it again in a heart beat

 

[ChairmanFester]

Officially got two residents in the pond. What should I name em? lol

Dirlewanger and Wola

 

[BearWater]

That’s one plant on the left and that’s my neighbor house in the background lol I sell this particular one bud and I’m on the end of a dead end so the road is there but there’s only like a cultasack or whatever you call it and a couple empty lots down there

It looks crazier than it is honestly the way the first picture is makes the road look right there lol but the funniest thing is if you look at the pic my property line ends where the grass is mowed to so it’s technically not my property (it’s a right of way owned by the pond association that doesn’t maintain the dirt roads ever haha) but also weed is legal here in ct. not to grow outside in the open like an asshole but 99% of people around here are cool. I honestly worry more about some asshole teenager stealing them lol

“Officer I swear those are hemp plants, go ahead, test em” lol

Thats cool you have cool folks around you! Thats half the game right there!

Dude your thought about the teen is exactly where my head went! Or just someone in general running up there and ripping it out a month before it’s ready! just a concerned thought on the trainwreck thread

stuff is looking good man! : )

 

[closettrapper217]

Dirlewanger and Wola

@Me looking up what this means

 

[Justlovetogrow]

There was a time when I was heavily involved in art. At a young age it was a passion, by the time I was 11 years old I was able to draw exact copies of my favorite comic book art. All through high school always drawing shit, then came the jobs where I was no longer stationary at a desk all day and it slowly faded away. fuckin real world

I can draw a kick ass stick man does that count the mrs can draw she says you can learn I say I can’t because I’m an artistic retard

 

[Ninjadogma]

Ive put one of those poopy suits on, completely self contained, I had a panic attack. I am not usually closterphobic but dude I freaked the fuck out.

When I was around 19 I worked in a clean room at a compact disc factory. It would blow your mind how they were made back then before you could just burn your own. Anyways in that clean room we had to wear Tyvek suits with lint free hoods and booties, plus mask, goggles and gloves and eyebrow hairs be damned, lol. The suits got warm so they would keep the clean room nice and cool. And one thing I learned very quickly, you do NOT want to fart in that suit. We all joked about the "chimney effect" because that fart has nowhere else to go except that narrow space around your neck, the hood would just encapsulate it. Fun times, we had some hilarious moments because we could always spot someone suffering the chimney effect inside the clean room.

 

[Justlovetogrow]

When I was around 19 I worked in a clean room at a compact disc factory. It would blow your mind how they were made back then before you could just burn your own. Anyways in that clean room we had to wear Tyvek suits with lint free hoods and booties, plus mask, goggles and gloves and eyebrow hairs be damned, lol. The suits got warm so they would keep the clean room nice and cool. And one thing I learned very quickly, you do NOT want to fart in that suit. We all joked about the "chimney effect" because that fart has nowhere else to go except that narrow space around your neck, the hood would just encapsulate it. Fun times, we had some hilarious moments because we could always spot someone suffering the chimney effect inside the clean room.

I used to do asbestos removal bout 20 years ago and I can attest to this don’t and I mean don’t ever fart in the suit

 

[Florida_Mike]

I can take about an hour of those suits but ya really can't mix a freaking gallon of paint or shoot a whole car in one go. Hell I mix different for vertical and horizontal surfaces anyways....

When I was painting towers, one of our 1st stops in any new town, was a goodwill (or other thrift store). We'd buy the very light, long sleeve button-ups like a lot of Mexicans wear, a shit-load of tee shirts to wrap our heads & cheap jeans and Dickie type work pants.

Depending on where you were painting, if you had the wind in your face all day, the following morning, you could literally stand your pants up on their own. Most of us wore combat boots with the zippers on the sides - the zippers and shoestrings would be covered with duct tape. (the strings, so they wouldn't hang up on bolts and shit.

High quality Motorola radios were put in regular tube socks taped shut with a carabiner attached so you could hang it from your gear. Practicing finding that ptt button through the sock was an absolute must... Your very life depends on it. You prolly won't believe me but there were times I'd get hung up on something while being raised or lowered in a bosun's chair... I've had my asshole stretch about 6 feet trying to find that fkn button... When you finally find it you just key it a bunch of times to get the hoist operator to stop. Holding the radio wasn't an option when moving bc you needed both hands and feet to "climb" & navigate the steel.

The hoist operator can't see you after you're a couple hundred feet up, it's all radio and there were usually 3 people on wires at a time. It was a firing offense to get on the radio when someone else was already moving (except for the boss/owner of course, that fkr would get impatient all the time and break the rule, nearly getting people killed.)

A good operator pays attention to the cables and can tell by the amount of slack in them, if you're moving alright. There is normally more slack in the 5/16" wire rope, than you would think, so you do have a couple seconds to react if you get hung up or in a bind when trying to navigate around cellular arrays and tom-toms and shit. We called anything attached to the tower "junk".

Good fn times!

And yes, we got ripped before, during and after climbing & painting. My pre employment drug test was proving I could roll a good joint...

 

[closettrapper217]

When I was painting towers, one of our 1st stops in any new town, was a goodwill (or other thrift store). We'd buy the very light, long sleeve button-ups like a lot of Mexicans wear, a shit-load of tee shirts to wrap our heads & cheap jeans and Dickie type work pants.

Depending on where you were painting, if you had the wind in your face all day, the following morning, you could literally stand your pants up on their own. Most of us wore combat boots with the zippers on the sides - the zippers and shoestrings would be covered with duct tape. (the strings, so they wouldn't hang up on bolts and shit.

High quality Motorola radios were put in regular tube socks taped shut with a carabiner attached so you could hang it from your gear. Practicing finding that ptt button through the sock was an absolute must... Your very life depends on it. You prolly won't believe me but there were times I'd get hung up on something while being raised or lowered in a bosun's chair... I've had my asshole stretch about 6 feet trying to find that fkn button... When you finally find it you just key it a bunch of times to get the hoist operator to stop. Holding the radio wasn't an option when moving bc you needed both hands and feet to "climb" & navigate the steel.

The hoist operator can't see you after you're a couple hundred feet up, it's all radio and there were usually 3 people on wires at a time. It was a firing offense to get on the radio when someone else was already moving (except for the boss/owner of course, that fkr would get impatient all the time and break the rule, nearly getting people killed.)

A good operator pays attention to the cables and can tell by the amount of slack in them, if you're moving alright. There is normally more slack in the 5/16" wire rope, than you would think, so you do have a couple seconds to react if you get hung up or in a bind when trying to navigate around cellular arrays and tom-toms and shit. We called anything attached to the tower "junk".

Good fn times!

And yes, we got ripped before, during and after climbing & painting. My pre employment drug test was proving I could roll a good joint...

You must have balls the size off boulders and a cock the size of that tower to do some shit like that. I’m scared to go on top of my one story house to sweep the chimney LMAO

When I was a teenager my punishment when I was an asshole was working with my uncle who was a union roofer I fuckin hated that shit and it’s not even a comparison haha

 

[BearWater]

Im sure u could do the work yourself bear that would be the route I would go but i guess me being in the field its easy for me to say also feel like it’s common sense righty tighty lefty loosey this off before that mark anything splined or with adjustments

I was doing a quick check of YouTube and watched about 3 minutes of a mechanic in a shop with the vehicle up on a lift loosening up the sub frame and having to mark it for re tightening and i got a little intimidated, I can throw some 2x12 ramps together to throw under it to make things easier? Im not scared… just very cautious about being under vehicles : ) and the more i type this and think about it. The damn thing might not even be able to be up on ramps (on the wheels) as all that shit is coming off! ill sleep on it for a few before i decide what’s going on with it. thanks for your input my man!

 

[ChairmanFester]

The NY state fair is a ton of structural steel, not that tall but 40ft is normal. I'm only bothered indoors by heights and outside I was painting the concert grandstand for half a month all day which is tall, open and windy. That was fine, but the 30ft Center of Progress building ceiling was scary as hell. Don't know why.

 

[ChairmanFester]

I was doing a quick check of YouTube and watched about 3 minutes of a mechanic in a shop with the vehicle up on a lift loosening up the sub frame and having to mark it for re tightening and i got a little intimidated, I can throw some 2x12 ramps together to throw under it to make things easier? Im not scared… just very cautious about being under vehicles : ) and the more i type this and think about it. The damn thing might not even be able to be up on ramps (on the wheels) as all that shit is coming off! ill sleep on it for a few before i decide what’s going on with it. thanks for your input my man!

Remember "Christine" the horror movie? Yeah we used to have rental bays in mechanic shops too and insurance fucked the whole thing up. Nobody even had a serious injury but all NY banned them.

 

[TheGoldenRoad]

@Me looking up what this means

I’ve learned not to Google things found on the ‘Wreck

 

[ChairmanFester]

I’ve learned not to Google things found on the ‘Wreck

It's not "The International Criminal Court Code of War Crimes", it's a fun to-do list.

 

[JIMKSI64]

I was doing a quick check of YouTube and watched about 3 minutes of a mechanic in a shop with the vehicle up on a lift loosening up the sub frame and having to mark it for re tightening and i got a little intimidated, I can throw some 2x12 ramps together to throw under it to make things easier? Im not scared… just very cautious about being under vehicles : ) and the more i type this and think about it. The damn thing might not even be able to be up on ramps (on the wheels) as all that shit is coming off! ill sleep on it for a few before i decide what’s going on with it. thanks for your input my man!

I have had a few instances of parts falling off or frames cracking from lifting the vehicle correctly. I had a Jetta bail both front springs hit the ground and f'n ran them things did from just lifting it for an oil change.
Always ensure the vehicle is safe to lift cause if it's rusted up it can fold up.

 

[TheGoldenRoad]

It's not "The International Criminal Court Code of War Crimes", it's a fun to-do list.

I was assuming it followed suit with some of the other fun terms I’ve looked up over the last year

 

[TheGoldenRoad]

I have had a few instances of parts falling off or frames cracking from lifting the vehicle correctly. I had a Jetta bail both front springs hit the ground and f'n ran them things did from just lifting it for an oil change.
Always ensure the vehicle is safe to lift cause if it's rusted up it can fold up.

Every time I hear about this stuff it reminds me of being a kid. One night my dad was drunk as a skunk and decided to change my mom’s car tire in the driveway. In his drunken haze he forgot that it was winter and the driveway was covered with ice. The second that car lifted a bit.. I’ve never seen that man move so fast

 

[Florida_Mike]

I went in for an MRI at 8pm last night. I do the open MRI bc the last time I was in the tube, I weighed almost 300lbs and almost got stuck coming out (my arms were clammy and were kind of grabbing the tube)... I freaked the fk out and swore; never again... I can't even watch cave exploring yt channels anymore.

Fast forward to last night; I'm down to 215lbs (from a high of 290). I do open MRI's now, but it still sucks bc you only have less than 2" between your face and the ceiling of the unit. I made it thru 12 of the 15 minute exam before starting to hyperventilate and hit the "Get me the fk out of here" button... After sitting up and getting some o2, I went back in for the last 3 minutes...

I've never had any phobias prior to this, Hell, I once crawled 200' into a live 30" gravity sewer main to hook a 3/4" cable to the back of a "re-rounding bullet" that was supposed to take the deflections out of the hdpe pipe, but got stuck and had to be pulled out backwards. I couldn't crawl on all fours bc of the deflections in the pipe, so I had to stretch out and move like an inch worm.

The sewage was only 4 or 5 inches deep at 1st, but got about 12-15" deep closer to the "bullet", bc the pipe was deflected so bad, the raw sewage would build up until the liquids could get around the side of the "bullet" in the egg shaped pipe. It was as nasty as you could imagine... Fn condoms and corn and and tampons and turds and all kinds of floaties, all held back by the bullet... I only turned my light on every few minutes to see how far I was, and tried to not look down and see what I was crawling thru.

We had a makeshift shower and 2 buckets of bleach water to dump on me when I came out... all I got was some "atta-boys", nothing else.


*Side note. This job was in a mobile home park, that was 1st owned and developed by "Dan Daniels", who was Polk Co FL Sheriff, from 85-87 and later became the Grand Wizzard of the KKK. He still owned and lived on 10 acres, adjacent to the MH Park. He had a giant flag pole with the US Flag, pow, mia flag and some KKK nonsense flag. There was also a huge fire pit for burning their crosses and shit during their meetings.

He would come over and shoot the breeze and see what we were doing. It was hilarious and sad at the same time when talking to him bc he was so overtly racist. Some of the shit he espoused was funny as fuck and made you want to laugh in his face, other shit made you want to throat punch him.

 

[JIMKSI64]

Shhhh. Be veeery quiet.
We're hunting wabbit.

He is creeping on it right now. Just at the edge of the pile.

 

[Florida_Mike]

The NY state fair is a ton of structural steel, not that tall but 40ft is normal. I'm only bothered indoors by heights and outside I was painting the concert grandstand for half a month all day which is tall, open and windy. That was fine, but the 30ft Center of Progress building ceiling was scary as hell. Don't know why.

Most people have a natural fear of heights that kicks in around 40' high, bc evolutionary speaking, our ancestors learned that a fall above 40' is almost always fatal. I don't seem to have that fear. However, put me on the edge of a 1 or 2 story roof and my knees will start knocking. Put me up 1,000'+, and I swing and climb around like a damn monkey. I don't notice the height even when I look down, then, I only see my feet, steel and the ground with no apparent distance between them.

It's very strange being up there. You (me, anyways) become hyper aware of every thing around you. Colors are more vivid, tastes and smells are better. You know exactly where every hand and foothold is. Every move has a purpose. You have cells in your pinky fingernail that you were never aware of, that are screaming at you that they are alive and wish to remain so.

I miss that shit, I wish I was still able to do it.

Pic is at the Grand Canyon in 2012, with a 2 or 3,000 foot drop, 6" behind me lol