It's ok to go to version 5 with stuff...lord knows doing this is a learning curve for us all. Especially for people who don't know what they are doing like me. It's trial and error....aka "the school of hard knocks, head over heals over the public system."
Speaking of which, and quoting the current President. You didn't build it.
Today I Wet Sawed up a 8ft wide by 20ft long 1ft thick old cement patio full of rebar and wire which was supporting a cantalievered portch, (if that's how you speel that, whatever I went to public school)
into 4,000lbs chunks or so. And since I couldn't get my skidsteer under the portch to pick them up, (I knew that going in, and bid it that way, cause I own a tape measure too.) I had to pick them up with the tips of my forks, run a chain underneath the 4000lbs chunks or so. Attach the chain to the skidsteer and pull them out, unchain them, fork'm and throw them in my dump trailer 2 at a time.....I coulda used the governments help on putting the arms under the 4000lbs chunk part. And I know if they are 4000lbs or not, cuase if they are heavier..i have to saw them again, cause that's all that machine can pick up. And you get pretty good at guess the weight thing over time. Coulda used the governments help there...woulda saved a lot of $200 saw blades.
Next week I'm gonna put in 10 tons of pavers, and 5 six inch thick sawed boulder steps ranging from 4' wide to 8'....and cut them SOB pavers in an inverted symetrical curve out to the steps from the lake house....BY MYSELF. It's O.K. if you don't understand that, it's cause I went to public school.
Needless to say I'll be 56 in 2 weeks or so, and weigh 40lbs more then I did when I retired 12 years ago, and it's all muscle. My Dad sits on his portch up at the Lake and reads the Paper.....you could quiz him on it. This is my Idea for relaxing, I like to work. Now...I'm gonna play with Trainz..and work on my Pratt Truss.
Don't get me wrong, I didn't always do this alone..when I stopped going to work everyday...that's when I bought out everybody that owned stock in the company but me that I worked at; my Mom, Dad and Brother. The Internut boom was good for something...I own a 3rd generation private family company that my Grandpa started in 1941, Seventy-one years old business, 100% outright and retired everybody in my family trading Internut stocks on my PC in the basement Thanksgiving Day 1999, (you're all done). Then I got into being a mentor and a model for my 10 year old Son, only Son, couldn't screw up and only had one try...we bought big boy toys that could pick up 6,000 pounds, a pickup, and dirve it down the road at 20MPH on the forks, down to chainsaws, showing him how to work, and get ShXt done.... and he worked with me till he graduated high school..and hit 19 and started working in Nuclear Power Plants.........which they teach at every grade school. NOT!
I taught him how to work, and as we worked...doors opened up, with the people we worked for. People on a budget don't hire us. People with money and power do. He had a Wonderfull 10 year old to 19 Resume that would open doors when I was done with him, and that's what Dads should do.... so them years in the public educational system for him was just a social network, led by people that went to school and then taught it, but have never ever really DONE anything, (doughnuts). I don't think he can speel either. But He'll be in Texas, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Pennsylvania as a jobber so far this winter during outages...still working his way up. And my mother-in-law lives in my downstairs cause of finances.
Yea, Big Government. I bet you a hunderd dollar bill, a Union Carpenter can't plug in an extension cord in a wall outlet to saw a board with his saw, unless a Union Electrician plugs it in for him, that's the way it is in Chicago..and I rest my case. That's why they say things like that...they are doughnuts.
My Daughter is in Puerto Rico, freaking out over a Hurrican...all the ladies are at the Casino...I don't know if my Wife and her Mom makes it back, it's a girls thing birthday party for a good friend that is hitting the big 50. My Son just walked in the house....I'm gonna give him a WHATSUP! Then get to my Bridge.
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