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I am a finish blade operator.This pic was taken last winter on Fort Hood.Here is my office..
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| Posted: Sat May 21st, 2005 02:05 AM |
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well, lately its been driving a big ass tractor around in circles for the better part of a day at a time.
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| Posted: Sat May 21st, 2005 02:14 AM |
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Timberghozt
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dakotasin wrote: well, lately its been driving a big ass tractor around in circles for the better part of a day at a time. Nothing wrong with that bud.Without fellas like you doing that,there would be a lot more hungry bellies in this world.
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| Posted: Sat May 21st, 2005 02:50 AM |
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I'm in the tired part of retirement. I found out that when working, you get weekends off. When retired you don't.
I spent 30 years working on underground nucler testing, living in the Nevada desert for 3 months of about every year, spending 10 hours day, at least, undergound. Then Clinton shut the testing down and I spent about 7 years doing high tech security survillence work for intruders around big power palnts and refineries.
Now I try to go to the range once a week and shoot, mostly handguns. I ride my mules at least one day a week, and the honey do's seem to take up the rest of the time, fixing everything that didn't get done while I was in the desert.
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I own a small Burglar Alarm company. I am trying to semi-retire, with little sucess. I normally can sneak off to the range once a week (or more often). I prefer to go to the range during the week because I usually have it to myself, and weekends are for goofing off, going to the range is serious business.
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| Posted: Sat May 21st, 2005 09:37 PM |
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My jobs in the past before retirement has something to do with things you touch everyday. Meaning there's nothing in the US that you touch and use that i have had something to do with in one way or another.
I started off in life as a car/jeep mechanic. I made parts for machines that made pistons for cars, trucks and trains. Then I built machines chuckers and CNC VTL's for all kinds of companies and they manufactured all kinds of products. I built many big VTL's for caterpillar tractor when i say big i mean 144" chucks thats a big lathe it weighs 200,000lbs. I built chuckers for the auto and truck industry ones that made discs for disc brakes for all the car manufacturers and made trailer truck brake drums too. I built VTL's that manufacture jet engines, breach boxes for the army, Turret bearings for the M1Abrams, main rotor M1abrams turbine engine. Then i moved on to building and assembling 155mm howitzers for the US Army (sub units) Hydraulics, gear units that raise, lower the barrel, barrel slides and the nitrogen shocks. Those are my howitzers in Afganistan and Iraq pulled behind those duce and a halfs, 30 mile range 55gallon drum accuracy. Then I built the large calendar rolls for the paper mills. My last job before retirement for 17 years I was a lead engineering tech for the largest elevator company in the world. We did product development, failure analysis and life testing too. You know we were the CSI's of the real world why and how things break. I did all the welding and fabrication work, most of the time with no prints and little direction. If you don't think your safe in an elevator we dropped as much weight as a trailer truck testing brakes. I would never work for or with train drivers again!!!!!! They have the book smart education but have no clue how things work in the real world they look to the techs for information to design products. Behind every good engineer is a good tech no matter what the product is. The problems with engineers when they make mistakes people can die it was my job sometimes to show them reality so its a safer world. We do have a few good engineers but not too many who can pull their weight by themselves. Thats my lifetime of jobs and experiences in a nutshell. BigBill
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I'm a computer geek. I started off as a helicopter crew chief in Uncle Sam's Army in 1974. Then I became a machinist but the computers were taking over all the interesting parts of being a machinist so I figured I needed to learn about computers in self defense. But the computer part turned out to be more profitable so here I am...
Not a bad way to earn a living certainly but not how I thought I'd spend my 'adult' life. When I was a kid if someone had told me I'd spend my working days in an office we'd have had a fight. It does pay the bills, provides for my family and leaves a little for hunting and shooting.
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| Posted: Sun May 22nd, 2005 12:36 PM |
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BigBill, you aren't the type of engineer that puts a bolt around 3 different corners and is the one that you need to remove to do basic maintenance are you? I'll reserve comment on the way I feel about MOST engineers especially automotive engineers.
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| Posted: Sun May 22nd, 2005 01:36 PM |
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I was an engineering lead technician not an engineer. I have my experiences of how things work thru hands on experiences in the real world, I didn't get it out of a book. I'm not too fond of engineers either and I would never work for another engineering group again if i was working. I have always taught the new engineers just out of school, when they design something to think of the mechanic who has to fix it first to make his job easier. Trust me I have seen and fixed plenty of engineering disasters. Seeing the recalls an cars brings one thing to mind its called push it out the door and fix it in the field attitude and that can be very costly. I remember when i was a car mechanic at a dealer back in the 70's the attitude was to fix the car so it would make it past the 12,000 mile warranty not fix it right so it would last. Example we had a run of bad undersized crankshafts with .003+ oil clearance instead of .001 to .002 max. after about 8,000 miles if it made it that far the engines would start knocking. We just put in new standard sized bearings without doing nothing else like change the crankshaft to the right size or even just raise the oil pressure to make up for the extra clearance. Like I said they would just get them past the 12k warranty at the time. We see the american car manufacturers losing more of their share of the market every year. And its why the japanese cars excell. I bought my first japanese car in '97 and today it has 145,000miles on it and it still runs like the day i bought it. I have a feeling it will run to 300,000 miles or till the body rusts out either way what ever happens first its the best car i have ever owned right now. I have never owned an american car that made it out of warranty without having engine problems first. Every new american made car i have had needed the engine pulled for some reason. I won't even talk about my 350 chevy engine in my truck with a cracked block because of thin cast iron at 52k miles? Cost cutting money saving thin cast iron? I haven't owned another GM made car since 88. I could go on too... BigBill
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I was a cable splicer for Verizon. Used to be GTE, but like so many companies these days it merged with another and became fubar....I mean Verizon. I've seen so many old messed up splices that I'm amazed the phone system works as well as it does.
Engineers? I knew a few that really had their heads up their a**es. Luckily we had some darn good splicers that could totaly re-do a print in the field and make it work.
A little over a year ago we sold our place in Southern CA and I left that job. Now I'm sorta retired and enjoying life in Northern CA. Not much to do except load, shoot, walk the dog, get on the net.
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Well I'm one of those engineers ya'll were talking about. My background is in Industrial Engineering. I worked for ten years in the automotive industry in quality and process improvement, mainly for automotive suppliers. I worked with FORD mainly, which is why I'll NEVER buy a FORD. Oh they make good products, but I'm tired of all the people who work for and run FORD... so I'll never give them any of my money. I have plenty of stories that I could tell at a later date.
I got tired of the auto industry, and the economy hit a downturn post 9/11, so I went back to school and got an MBA with dual consentrations Operations Mgmt and Logistics & Transportation. While in school I got an internship with a shop-at-home television network based here in Knoxville, working on process improvement. It is Jewelry Televsion and they sell nothing but jewelry and gemstones. Check us out on the website http://www.jewelrytelevsion.com Anyway, this company is growing pretty well and they have outgrown their current facility and need a new building. So I am working with a newly hired architect on building a new facility for this company. It's a lot of fun.
Oh a little useless nonsense. I didn't know how many gemstones there were in the world. I knew there were at least 12 due to a gemstone for every month. In Jewelry Televsion's 11 years on air, it has sold over 200 different types of gemstones!!!
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Well by trade I am an HVAC Designer, at the moment I am Mr. Mom to my 6mth old daughter and 6yr old daughter.
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 Well , let me see - what I do when I'm not Hunting or shooting . Well I used to be a carpenter and equipment operater . If it had wheels or tracks we could make her pay . That was after serving in the armed forces . But I was always pulled in the direction of the bush . Now I earn a living as the owner / operator of a Hunting Guide operation . And when I'm not doing that I design bullets / testing for improvements to construction and quality . Plus I am a trapper with my own line of 83,000 acres . So I stay pretty busy . I also get to say my job is fun and never boring ! Regards - Bullet
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I work for myself now,I do wildlife work . I manage wildlife,do Wildlife Damage control,and set up ranches for hunting .
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Logger, trucker, and now D.A.V Now I just hunt & fish.
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Part time farmer,part time pro shooter.Mostly feral dogs,pigs and deer.I used to do anything that moved if someone needed it reduced.Insurance and family commitments are making me more part time everyday. I have the competition side of shooting with my son to take up most weekends now as well.
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Truck driver, equipment operator until my massive coronary in 1995 now I just shoot,hunt,shoot,fish,shoot etc.
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Well lets see I have been a High school football coach, Then went into pro wrestling was pretty good in that just not enough money for me. I then got a job working in the mining field i then got really good and was promoted to a mining engineer specialzed in roof control. I then got hurt at worked and no is disabled. the sad thing im only 37. Got 7 disk that is so messed up that the cannot do nothing to help me. I got my ankle crushed totally. Had 14 surgurys to rebuild it cost around 1.7 million to my comp company.
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Spent several years as a computer operator/programmer/systems analyst/
data processing supervisor, which left me with no time for shooting,hunting,
fishing.wiping my A$$. I adapted, took some courses, and for many years,
have worked as a gunsmith/archery pro. A couple of years ago, I retired(?)
and dived headlong into my lifelong dream of building and marketing, full time,
my bullpups that I spent years designing and perfecting along with building
precision rifles. Now I'm having to work real hard at having the time to shoot,
etc.,etc., you know..
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If I remember right you did some road construction early in life.