I love that cheek meet!. My pipe crew was mostly Mexican. Carlos, my lead pipe layer was actually Honduran, but married to a Mexican American girl, who was a bomb-ass Mexican cook. They would do a pig a month at their casa. They boiled them (just chunked up parts, butchered on a sheet of plywood) in lard and coke cola. The heads were used for the best tamales you can ever imagine. Carlos and Gracie gave me an authentic Mexican, 10 gal, hand hammered copper kettle and burner/stand, that Gracie's father made; for X-mas one yr... Was pretty cool, ironically lost in a fire...
I use to have a pretty bad case of carpal tunnel, I was a mechanic for fifteen years. I wasn’t convinced that it was caused by the work I was doing but attributed it more to being a side sleeper and sleeping on my hands and forearms. I haven’t worked in a garage for almost ten years now, and still sleep on my side though. I don’t notice any symptoms anymore unless I continually hold my phone in certain positions for extended periods of time. For the last eight years I’ve been working in a warehouse and delivering cabinets and flooring (lots of heavy lifting) I wonder now if it was being caused by air impact tools?? Or maybe it was all the excessive masterbation??
Air tools... for sure. I used to use a 60lb hammer on the low end and after cutting 4 foot or so, one hand had to pry the other open. Yeah I bet that has effects.I use to have a pretty bad case of carpal tunnel, I was a mechanic for fifteen years. I wasn’t convinced that it was caused by the work I was doing but attributed it more to being a side sleeper and sleeping on my hands and forearms. I haven’t worked in a garage for almost ten years now, and still sleep on my side though. I don’t notice any symptoms anymore unless I continually hold my phone in certain positions for extended periods of time. For the last eight years I’ve been working in a warehouse and delivering cabinets and flooring (lots of heavy lifting) I wonder now if it was being caused by air impact tools?? Or maybe it was all the excessive masterbation??
I totally know that feeling of one hand having to open the other. Dead man’s grip.
Woods USA Brother! Allegheny Co. My big bro is still there and 100% hillbilly. I can barely understand him when talking to him.
I have carpel tunnel and trigger finger in my middle fingers and thumbs.
Smokey did build and test a vapor-carbureted prototype that achieved remarkable fuel economy. He drove it long-distance to prove the point (exact endpoints vary in retellings).
It wasn’t just “a carb trick” — it was a whole system (intake, heat exchangers, exhaust routing). The auto industry didn’t adopt it widely, but not because it was fake — more because of emissions, drivability, and manufacturing hurdles.
Want me to dig up the original Popular Science / SAE write-ups on Smokey’s hot vapor engine? They make wild reading and separate fact from lore.
Makin some breakfast food for lunch some homefries about 10 large potatoes cubes small about 1/4”x1/4” then a whole pack of bacon, all the seasonin’s and onion and garlic, 3 eggs scrambled in and now it cooks till ready (then serve with eggs)
One of the first clues you need to not ride a motorcycle right there.
I got a tip if you have a family member who can not have white potatoes your recipe will loose nothing substituting sweet potatoes.Makin some breakfast food for lunch some homefries about 10 large potatoes cubes small about 1/4”x1/4” then a whole pack of bacon, all the seasonin’s and onion and garlic, 3 eggs scrambled in and now it cooks till ready (then serve with eggs)
Plus some fresh chopped seasoned tomatoes
If you ask me there is one historical group of workers in the USA that should have been striken with Carpal Tunnel.I use to have a pretty bad case of carpal tunnel, I was a mechanic for fifteen years. I wasn’t convinced that it was caused by the work I was doing but attributed it more to being a side sleeper and sleeping on my hands and forearms. I haven’t worked in a garage for almost ten years now, and still sleep on my side though. I don’t notice any symptoms anymore unless I continually hold my phone in certain positions for extended periods of time. For the last eight years I’ve been working in a warehouse and delivering cabinets and flooring (lots of heavy lifting) I wonder now if it was being caused by air impact tools?? Or maybe it was all the excessive masterbation??
Yep I use bacon and garlic and onions with it
This happens when I use a hammer for extended periods of time. I never really worked in construction or carpentry due to a crippling fear of heights, which fucking sucks to say the least. My brain loses its ability to control my legs and arms, vertigo kicks in and I move at a snail’s pace. But oddly enough I am able to use climbing treestands for some reason. I do use a fall harness though, so maybe I’m just scared shitless of falling. I also have titanium rods holding my pelvis together from a workplace accident when I was 19, so any significant fall would probably leave me paralyzed. But anyways my hand cramps up after a while of swinging a hammer , that’s when Ive experienced the death grip, probably just poor form or lack of experience swinging a hammer.
I never looked for high places to go I was always looking for places to get high. BUT
