I was at the local hardware store and the woman I front of me at the check out told me those are my gloves, you wouldn't want them they are woman's. I replied I thought all gloves were women's gloves. The female cashier didn't like it either
#6 Sign, sign, everywhere a sign...if only people would read them.
#8 BTGTTS except it was going down a ramp with a cart full of 5 gal. buckets of paint. One of the cart wheels hit a rock or something and a bucket fell off the front, the small cap popped off and paint spewed out of the bucket as it continued rolling down the ramp and across the room. What a mess.
1, surfs up dudes! 5. Why only clear wood should be used in the making of an Engineered Truss. No knotty wood. The truss will fail eventually at the knot. 9. Just another day working as a carpenter, suck it up buttercup
And all the paint, yeah most all painters are drunk/stoned on the job. Or basically drunks in general.
Don't know about commercial painters but industrial painters... each time we have a crew on our site at least half will get run off for being drunk or stoned on the job. Scaffolders used to be worse in that 50% were getting caught with hard drugs but last couple years its been better. Exile1981
I’ve often wondered how much the county inspectors are bribed for each house, because that seems to me the only way most of the houses could pass inspection in Harris County/Houston
#3 Yeah, it's going to need a lot of preparation before it's ready for paint. #5 If you enlarge the pic you can see the next upright (half in the shadow) has a big knot in it too. Things like this is why you should build your own house. Al_in_Ottawa
In the 90's in Martin Co FL we had a surfboard come off a car early in the morning on I-95 and it killed a guy on a bike. People who lost the board didn't realize it was gone until they got to the beach.
#9 My 12yo daughter did that this week. Except it was her big toe. And it was MUCH deeper, down beyond the visible nail.
And it broke off about halfway down the nail when I went to pull it out.
We decided to go to the urgent care, where they have novacaine, for the next part. Didn't know what a "ring block" was before that, but apparently there are several nerves that carry signals out to a digit, and so you need three injections around the base to actually block it.
She's fine, went to dance camp three days later and was OK. Still some bruising and pain, but nothing to stop her. Good kid.
I had a toenail removed, they put a tourniquet on it, and kept pumping drugs into it to kill the nerves. It actually took a long time. Then took the nail off, and killed the nailbed with acid, to keep it from growing back. I went to work that night, not because it didn't hurt or I am a stud, but just because I am like most guys, and had a family to support and need the money. We all did what we had to do back when we were working. I worked on a sprained ankle from playing semipro football, that they wanted to put in a cast. That was the end of my football days. The semipro name is a misnomer, in that it was called that, but it was all for charity, and we didn't get paid, we raised the money for good causes. So we paid for our own equipment and only kept enough money for uniforms. But even though we were young, most of us had a wife and kids, and had to work to support them.
Traumatic memories of infected, ingrown toenails are returning to me... The doc probably got the biggest horse needle he could find, or used the drawing needle for injections, then cut both sides of the nail out to scrap it. Having dental work done that required injected anesthetics was several times less painful...
FWIW, I was told jewel weed juice cures poison ivy. I googled it and read it also kills toenail fungus. Some time later I got fungus under big toenail. It was beginning to come offf, so I jammed some jewel weed underneath. I couldn’t believe it, but the fungus was gone the next day, and I didn’t lose the nail.
Have none of these idiots painting their house ever heard of drop cloths? It would not make any difference in some of the pictures posted over the series, but in many of them would help. I always use good heavy duty drop cloths, use a small container that I can reseal if needed for trim and\or cutting in and close the can fairly securely after adding paint to the roller tray.
I put the lid on everything as I’m working. Yes it takes 20 extra seconds to put the lid on the five quart jug of oil, but if you kick it over without the lid you’re cleaning for hours and it’s never truly cleaned.
#5 The result of the poorer quality of lumber being sold. Knots in a piece of kiln dried wood get brittle and can crack like this. At least they can either buddy board that piece or use a piece of metal strapping on both sides to give it back some load bearing capacity.
#9. Very painful. Biggest risk however is an infection under the nail...called paronychia. If it gets bad enough a doc has to do a ring block of the finger and either remove the nail or pull it up to debride and irrigate the nail bed. Definitely not fun.
#5 The knot size exceeds the limits placed on truss manufacturers for lumber quality. That board should have been rejected by the gang sawyer and if missed by him then by the truss assemblers. Of course, with automation there may not have been a human at either station.
#9 hurts just to look at...
ReplyDelete#6: Looks like a driver and/or company will be buying that town a new bridge.
ReplyDelete#9 - painful lesson about wearing gloves!!!
ReplyDeleteI was at the local hardware store and the woman I front of me at the check out told me those are my gloves, you wouldn't want them they are woman's. I replied I thought all gloves were women's gloves. The female cashier didn't like it either
Delete#2 and #8 look like my normal painting efforts.
ReplyDelete#9 Oh it feels SO GOOD when that comes out! Ask me how I know.
#7 Eye see what you're saying
ReplyDelete#6 Sign, sign, everywhere a sign...if only people would read them.
ReplyDelete#8 BTGTTS except it was going down a ramp with a cart full of 5 gal. buckets of paint. One of the cart wheels hit a rock or something and a bucket fell off the front, the small cap popped off and paint spewed out of the bucket as it continued rolling down the ramp and across the room. What a mess.
1, surfs up dudes!
ReplyDelete5. Why only clear wood should be used in the making of an Engineered Truss. No knotty wood. The truss will fail eventually at the knot.
9. Just another day working as a carpenter, suck it up buttercup
And all the paint, yeah most all painters are drunk/stoned on the job. Or basically drunks in general.
Having been a painter for 40+ years, a boss for 20 of those years, I can say that 90% of painters are as you say.
DeleteDon't know about commercial painters but industrial painters... each time we have a crew on our site at least half will get run off for being drunk or stoned on the job.
DeleteScaffolders used to be worse in that 50% were getting caught with hard drugs but last couple years its been better.
Exile1981
After having worked construction for only one year, I now assume everybody on the site is loaded.
Delete#5 looks like a house built by the "messicans" down here in Texas.
ReplyDeleteI’ve often wondered how much the county inspectors are bribed for each house, because that seems to me the only way most of the houses could pass inspection in Harris County/Houston
Delete#6 - They don't mean me, I'm special.
ReplyDelete#3 Yeah, it's going to need a lot of preparation before it's ready for paint.
ReplyDelete#5 If you enlarge the pic you can see the next upright (half in the shadow) has a big knot in it too. Things like this is why you should build your own house.
Al_in_Ottawa
In the 90's in Martin Co FL we had a surfboard come off a car early in the morning on I-95 and it killed a guy on a bike. People who lost the board didn't realize it was gone until they got to the beach.
ReplyDelete#9 My 12yo daughter did that this week. Except it was her big toe. And it was MUCH deeper, down beyond the visible nail.
ReplyDeleteAnd it broke off about halfway down the nail when I went to pull it out.
We decided to go to the urgent care, where they have novacaine, for the next part. Didn't know what a "ring block" was before that, but apparently there are several nerves that carry signals out to a digit, and so you need three injections around the base to actually block it.
She's fine, went to dance camp three days later and was OK. Still some bruising and pain, but nothing to stop her. Good kid.
I had a toenail removed, they put a tourniquet on it, and kept pumping drugs into it to kill the nerves. It actually took a long time. Then took the nail off, and killed the nailbed with acid, to keep it from growing back.
DeleteI went to work that night, not because it didn't hurt or I am a stud, but just because I am like most guys, and had a family to support and need the money. We all did what we had to do back when we were working. I worked on a sprained ankle from playing semipro football, that they wanted to put in a cast. That was the end of my football days.
The semipro name is a misnomer, in that it was called that, but it was all for charity, and we didn't get paid, we raised the money for good causes. So we paid for our own equipment and only kept enough money for uniforms. But even though we were young, most of us had a wife and kids, and had to work to support them.
Traumatic memories of infected, ingrown toenails are returning to me... The doc probably got the biggest horse needle he could find, or used the drawing needle for injections, then cut both sides of the nail out to scrap it. Having dental work done that required injected anesthetics was several times less painful...
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FWIW, I was told jewel weed juice cures poison ivy. I googled it and read it also kills toenail fungus. Some time later I got fungus under big toenail. It was beginning to come offf, so I jammed some jewel weed underneath. I couldn’t believe it, but the fungus was gone the next day, and I didn’t lose the nail.
DeleteHave none of these idiots painting their house ever heard of drop cloths? It would not make any difference in some of the pictures posted over the series, but in many of them would help.
ReplyDeleteI always use good heavy duty drop cloths, use a small container that I can reseal if needed for trim and\or cutting in and close the can fairly securely after adding paint to the roller tray.
I put the lid on everything as I’m working. Yes it takes 20 extra seconds to put the lid on the five quart jug of oil, but if you kick it over without the lid you’re cleaning for hours and it’s never truly cleaned.
Delete#9 That splinter is on the money.
ReplyDeleteI have seen #1 before & I see #4 waaay too often, but it keeps the boat yard making money.
ReplyDelete#9 - I can feel that from here!
ReplyDeleteA picture is worth a 1000 curse words!
ReplyDelete#5 The result of the poorer quality of lumber being sold. Knots in a piece of kiln dried wood get brittle and can crack like this. At least they can either buddy board that piece or use a piece of metal strapping on both sides to give it back some load bearing capacity.
ReplyDelete#9. Very painful. Biggest risk however is an infection under the nail...called paronychia. If it gets bad enough a doc has to do a ring block of the finger and either remove the nail or pull it up to debride and irrigate the nail bed. Definitely not fun.
#5 The knot size exceeds the limits placed on truss manufacturers for lumber quality. That board should have been rejected by the gang sawyer and if missed by him then by the truss assemblers. Of course, with automation there may not have been a human at either station.
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