I never mess with the older guys. Seen to many times where a young hotshot will think he knows best and do something halfway right, but take a rediculous amount of time and effort doing it, and the older guys with there infinite ninja knowledge come up with a super effective, minimal effort, spot on solution in minutes and make you look like a fool.

 

BLAKE THATS FUNNY - WAS THINKING THEY WOULD HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME UP HERE WITH ALL THE SAND- ( BECAUSE THATS What happens cave in`s )

HEY RICK HOW GOES IT ?
LOOKS LIKE ONE WEEKS WORK TURNED IN TO MORE (THATS A GOOD THING )

 

Kinda of like this guy?? https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...s-t264155.html

 

EXACTLY like that guy. Old men wont mess with ya.... they will just kill ya.

 

I dont recommend messing with Rick.. He's an old retired LEO that knows how to hide boddies without getting caught.

 

THE MOFIA LEARNED LONG AGO THAT BRINGING IN EQUIPMENT THAT DRILLS 20 TO 24 IN HOLES IN THE GROUND ( TEST HOLES FOR WELLS ) 100 TO 150 FEET DEEP ) NO ONE RECOVERS ANYTHING FROM THAT DEPTH

OH & IT DOESN`T THROW RED FLAGS ON GROUND PENETRATING RADAR EATHER

 

SSSSSSHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

 

Mornin' All!

Busy start here this AM. Night shift got slammed right before shift change so I got the cleanup.... all done now so I can coast for a bit.

Gonna be nice outside again today. 25* above at 0430 again. Roads are NASTY (I can drift in the truck and only be spinning the tires at 15mph....)but that's to be expected. Same with the idiots who can't drive and pile up their cars.

Hauled fuel for the house last night. Looks like I'm only going through 2-2.5gal/day right now. Pretty good considering my boiler is over 20 years old and I'm heating just under 2000sqft. Still too bad fuel is so expensive......

I'll toss a pot of in the reactor and see if it grows anything. Enjoy.

 

Morning Marc

 

It's fun when it comes together like that. I've had a time with a couple of the regular employees already. One on another crew working the same project, just the other side of the road. We were carrying gravel into the area where the equipment will be set. The access road, more like a short driveway, was bad. I put 18" of 24 stone down and it still pumped under the weight of the backhoe. I capped it with about 4-6 inches of 610 and left it over night to freeze. The next day we started on the compound. The young guy watched me for a while with the backhoe. I'd drive up to the road and before I started onto it I'd shift to 1st gear and just crawl into the compound area, spread the stone and crawl back out, just as slowly. He jumped on the bobcat and ran wide open, both ways. Now a bobcat doesn't weigh what a backhoe does but the bouncing in and out started to take it's toll on the road. I stopped him after I couldn't take it any more and "explained" why I was moving in and out so slowly, that he should do the same and also why we needed to do it. You could see the anger in his eyes so his solution was to park the bobcat and pout. Suited me just as well. The second guy was a newbie on my buddy's crew. He's just lazy, one of the types that is fascinated by work and could watch it for hours. After 2 days of seeing him stand and watch the three of us busting our butts, I just handed him a shovel and point at a couple small piles of dirt and said put the dirt in the dumpster. I was good until he rolled his eyes, then the top came off the bottle and the "bad" genie came out. It got ugly for a couple minutes until he got the message that I didn't owe him anything. If he wanted me to respect him as a "man", he needed to act like one and get with the program. He'll not be around long if he doesn't do a 180 fast.

It's good but I was looking at a month from the beginning. I'll be surprised if they don't cut me loose once we finish with the digging.

I keep telling them that old guys don't fight often. If we don't think we can take you out in one or two punches, we'll just shoot you.

 

What he said.

Morning Marc.

 

That kinda stuff burns me to the core. Im young, and I am proud of where I have made it in my field of work, and have done it with hard work, long hours, lots of learning and integrity. I have never expected anyone to hand me anything or give me special treatment. I believe in ambition. No one owes you anything, especially respect, that must be earned.


Brings to mind that part in Indiana Jones where he just shoots that guy with the sword.

 

IN MY YEARS OF ENTERTANING (IN BARS) I LEARNED ONE THING - (I DONT PUNCH WITH THEM - JUST GRAB THEM BY THE TROUGHT - THEY MIGHT PUNCH YOU ONCE AFTER THAT THEY FLAIL LIKE A LITTLE GIRL
MEAN WHILE YOU CAN INTRODUCE THERE FACE TO SOMETHING SOLID ( LIKE A WALL -POST OR BAR )FIGHT OVER

 

I have a hard time with entitlements too! We got it straightened out, he did better the next day but still doesn't understand that he has to pull his load. I got a better understanding of "his" situation the next day. Have you ever watched any of the shows like Jerry Springer, Maury etc. and said to yourself, I know they're out there, I'm just glad I don't know any of them? I can't say that any longer.




Absolutely!

 

Ain't it the truth.