The rest are absolutely great, too ... and #20 is my favorite. Yes, you guessed correctly: I am going to steal all of them. Again. Let's see how long it takes until they kick me out of Twitter.
#2, When I get close to death, I want to swallow a bunch of unpopped corn kernels. Make things in the crematorium exciting for a few minutes. #3, We had a tin knocker ( union steel worker), who was at our shop almost every day. I used to drive him nuts, saying, " looks good enough." Then when he would sort of cringe, I would instead add, "I mean, Looks within spec." That would always make him laugh. You could always tell the real pros from the guys who were just maintenance men, and wanted to get things done and up and running. Some of the contractors who came in were pretty good men.
#3 is why I had to quit welding. I was pretty dang good, if I say so myself, until my eyeballs started going south. It was a tough when I realized that "you can't weld what you can't see".
I miss being able to do it every day. If you can weld well now enjoy it while you can.
While working at the foundry, they paid for me to take a welding class with all of the other maintenance workers, even though I was not a regular maintenance worker. I just had been there so long, that I fixed most of the equipment that I ran, to keep production running, as it was molten steel that you would end up halting, if the equipment failed. So if a strand of molten steel pulled apart, since I was right there, it was best to hurry and weld it back together, rather than wait for the maintenance guys to get there and get set up and try and weld a bar that was cooling and contracting away from itself, while you had to attempt to bring it together, manually, in order to allow them to weld it back together. Welding a nearly white hot steel bar is nothing like welding cold bar stock, but once you learn how to do it, you can weld anything. And you have just saved the company at times, over 4 million dollars, just by keeping that heat processing. Of course, you never get an attaboy, just the knowledge that you don't have to clean up the mess of a several thousand pound spill of artificial hip socket or knee joint material. Which just about 2 weeks ago was installed into my wifes knee joint. The name of the alloy is F-75, or CoCrMo, with several other companies names as well. The biggest companies are Zimmer, Homedica, Kirschner/Biomet, Stryker, Osteonics, Stryker, and many others. My company, a small place called Cannon-Muskegon, at one time made up to 85% of the metal for all of the implant manufactures in the entire world. We were bought out by PCC, or Precision Castparts Corporation, for mainly our vacuum furnace production facility, which makes high quality super alloys for jet engines, such as the hot section of Rolls Royce engines for jet planes, among others. We used to be a huge iron base manufacture as well, plus nickel base alloys, but sent those out to a different part of the corporation, to concentrate more fully on the medical implant business, from what I have heard from friends who still work there. The corporation has since been bought out by Warren Buffet's company, Birkshire Hathaway, basically a holding company who just wants to make money off companies who have a lot of money flowing through them. I hired in at just barely 18, and left at 54, and don't miss it a bit. my body is worn out, from that kind of work, and i have little to no hearing left, again thanks to them. I was smart enough to do just about any job that I wanted to do, but I chose that to support 2 different families. And I don't regret it for a second. The friends i made and the lives and limbs i saved were worth it.
Pigpen, thank you for sharing your story. A couple of decades back I went to a junior college and took gunsmith classes which included welding. I did not have the innate skill to turn it into a career, but I can appreciate the skill, knowledge and the commitment of men like you. Most of the people with artificial joints have no understanding of the service of workers like you. We live in a country which is now out of touch with reality. Richard in Colorado
5) Sure miss old Charlie Daniels. He was one wild fiddler. My son transposed "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" into Alto Clef for Viola and played it at half tempo and it turned into this weird celtic war hymn. So cool!
#3: That one is for Angel, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteThe rest are absolutely great, too ... and #20 is my favorite.
Yes, you guessed correctly: I am going to steal all of them. Again.
Let's see how long it takes until they kick me out of Twitter.
#3 looks like my jigsaw work.
DeleteSo I'm looking at #3 (the odd "woodwork" on a tabletop) and wondering.... WTF? Is that by design or did someone's scroll saw run amok?
ReplyDeleteThat's a crooked welding seam because this table is made from steel and not from wood.
DeleteI don't understand #1 or #11.
ReplyDelete#3- yeh, at least 1.
ReplyDelete#1 Sending a black woman to the moon to pick that cotton.
ReplyDelete#2 Oppressed kids in a sweatshop filling a Stop Oppression" order?
By #2 WC means #11, that being the second part of your question. Sweat shop slave labor sad face. -D
DeleteOh now I see #1. Thanks. But I can't make heads or tails of the picture in #11.
ReplyDelete#2, When I get close to death, I want to swallow a bunch of unpopped corn kernels. Make things in the crematorium exciting for a few minutes.
ReplyDelete#3, We had a tin knocker ( union steel worker), who was at our shop almost every day. I used to drive him nuts, saying, " looks good enough." Then when he would sort of cringe, I would instead add, "I mean, Looks within spec." That would always make him laugh. You could always tell the real pros from the guys who were just maintenance men, and wanted to get things done and up and running. Some of the contractors who came in were pretty good men.
I aint heard Tin Knocker in years. Thanks for the memory. In the early years of my adult life I was a licensed turd navigator.
Delete#3 is why I had to quit welding. I was pretty dang good, if I say so myself, until my eyeballs started going south. It was a tough when I realized that "you can't weld what you can't see".
ReplyDeleteI miss being able to do it every day. If you can weld well now enjoy it while you can.
While working at the foundry, they paid for me to take a welding class with all of the other maintenance workers, even though I was not a regular maintenance worker. I just had been there so long, that I fixed most of the equipment that I ran, to keep production running, as it was molten steel that you would end up halting, if the equipment failed.
DeleteSo if a strand of molten steel pulled apart, since I was right there, it was best to hurry and weld it back together, rather than wait for the maintenance guys to get there and get set up and try and weld a bar that was cooling and contracting away from itself, while you had to attempt to bring it together, manually, in order to allow them to weld it back together.
Welding a nearly white hot steel bar is nothing like welding cold bar stock, but once you learn how to do it, you can weld anything. And you have just saved the company at times, over 4 million dollars, just by keeping that heat processing. Of course, you never get an attaboy, just the knowledge that you don't have to clean up the mess of a several thousand pound spill of artificial hip socket or knee joint material. Which just about 2 weeks ago was installed into my wifes knee joint. The name of the alloy is F-75, or CoCrMo, with several other companies names as well. The biggest companies are Zimmer, Homedica, Kirschner/Biomet, Stryker, Osteonics, Stryker, and many others. My company, a small place called Cannon-Muskegon, at one time made up to 85% of the metal for all of the implant manufactures in the entire world.
We were bought out by PCC, or Precision Castparts Corporation, for mainly our vacuum furnace production facility, which makes high quality super alloys for jet engines, such as the hot section of Rolls Royce engines for jet planes, among others.
We used to be a huge iron base manufacture as well, plus nickel base alloys, but sent those out to a different part of the corporation, to concentrate more fully on the medical implant business, from what I have heard from friends who still work there. The corporation has since been bought out by Warren Buffet's company, Birkshire Hathaway, basically a holding company who just wants to make money off companies who have a lot of money flowing through them.
I hired in at just barely 18, and left at 54, and don't miss it a bit. my body is worn out, from that kind of work, and i have little to no hearing left, again thanks to them. I was smart enough to do just about any job that I wanted to do, but I chose that to support 2 different families. And I don't regret it for a second. The friends i made and the lives and limbs i saved were worth it.
Pigpen, thank you for sharing your story. A couple of decades back I went to a junior college and took gunsmith classes which included welding. I did not have the innate skill to turn it into a career, but I can appreciate the skill, knowledge and the commitment of men like you. Most of the people with artificial joints have no understanding of the service of workers like you. We live in a country which is now out of touch with reality.
DeleteRichard in Colorado
#4 The one downside to atheism is that you have no one to talk to during orgasm.
ReplyDelete5) Sure miss old Charlie Daniels. He was one wild fiddler. My son transposed "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" into Alto Clef for Viola and played it at half tempo and it turned into this weird celtic war hymn. So cool!
ReplyDelete#1 I don't care how far away the moon is, that shit is gonna bite them in the ass someday.
ReplyDelete