it upsets me to much when I add up the time lol...ignorance is bliss I suppose..
yep, sparky = electrician
yep, sparky = electrician
construction stories. the good and the bad
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Yes it truly is bliss.I'd rather be dumb and happy than smart and miserable. oh and broke.lol
CoCoSativas
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No pays... I lost it back in the day when i was a employee. Some piece of shit didnt pay me for a week of commercial flooring. I wont really go into detail, but i did end up costing the guy some serious money in dental bills when i caught up to him at a mall a few weeks later.
Ive grown up alot since then. Id probably take him to court now rather than put myself at risk gettimg caught pulling some shit like that. Or just let it pass, a couple grand isnt worth going to the can.
CoCoSativas
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I know there are many times you have to work o live shit, but man so mny times i see guys working on live gear when they could turn it off... My deaf employee... Fuckhead.
Solid advice tho about the one hander... Its no joke people. Thank you for pointing out 240v live is never safe. Thats right people dont fuck with live 240.
I can do all sorts of electrical, i just try not too. Its not my favorite thing and i pay my guys to do most of it. I stick to doing the fun stuff, like today we loaded fence posts into the back of my truck, and one of my guys drove while i threw them out to the holes. Then after we loaded concrete bags onto the truck he drove again and i passed bags to the guys.
We got 75 posts up today, done by 2 pm. Now im chilling out, enjoying a early start to my weekend. Got a new 2x2 tent for vegging yesterday and to hide my vegging plants, i had some drain guys come into the place because i hate plumbing, so i couldnt have that shit out, my veg box was a uhaul lined with white poly. Just had the shit kicking around and decided to use it. It worked but now i have another light proof tent, much better
CoCoSativas
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Its not ignorance dude. I work with every trade so we have pet names for most of them. I dont call plumbers sewer rats but have heard them called that and worse... I laughed the first but thought it was pretty sad someone would call them that.
Whatever man, floor guys get it all. We get it for being on our knees, motherfuckers say some ragged shit. No one says fuckall to me anymore because my sig is on their cheques.
Some trades have nice pet names. Some not so much...
I'd rather do floors than roofing any day.I don't even wanna know what they call us.got a 100 year old wood shake roof coming up soon.gotta wear a mask for that dusty old crap.AND its in Chicago!!! You gotta be extra careful cause the houses are so close together. if something happens to the houses next door were fucked!!
CoCoSativas
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Monkeys, skydivers, theres a couple ones for you guys i cant remember. I usually call the roofers the skydive team, after seeing so many falling off the roofs. I saw one guy fall and a piece of rebar went through his cheak. He was lucky not strait up through his skull...
I fucking hate roofing.
Sounds like you have a cool job coming in a neat city. Ive never been to the states but your cities look cool.
Chi town is great.but expensive.I'd love to come to Canada but its cold enough already here.my god roofing sucks in the winter.hell it sucks in the summer too!!lol I've been roofing over 15 years and never fallen off a roof.knock on wood.skydivers!!lol I'll have to tell my dad that.a buddy of mine calls us gargoyles.
CoCoSativas
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You should travel here in the summer, or go to the coasts in the winter. East is snowy, west is still pretty nice, some bad weather but not much.
Gargoyles... That is a good one... Ill remember that its fitting...
Im glad you never fell man. Ive fallen on my ass and slid a bit once. I was pissed, but ok. I really only go on flat roofs and really shallow slopes because i hate heights.
I take floors before heights anyday. I hate heights ive always had a fear of heights
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Haha I've done a tiny bit of roofing, concrete and framing. The framing included building the roof sometimes lol but at that point I didn't shingle it anymore lol. I hate edges, I didn't fall because I didn't do that shit long.
I did have a gable board split while nailing it and it shot the nail straight along the board into my finger like 10-12 inches away. I pull my hand up and flicked it like it would come out lol and looked at my finger. nail didn't even move it was just chilling. It stoped at the bone and im pretty sure mighta dented it or something. My reflex was pull it out and for some i reason threw it like it would hurt me again lol. Bad idea it started bleeding like a motherfucker.
I did have a gable board split while nailing it and it shot the nail straight along the board into my finger like 10-12 inches away. I pull my hand up and flicked it like it would come out lol and looked at my finger. nail didn't even move it was just chilling. It stoped at the bone and im pretty sure mighta dented it or something. My reflex was pull it out and for some i reason threw it like it would hurt me again lol. Bad idea it started bleeding like a motherfucker.
CoCoSativas
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Lucky guy you are dj
Holy fuck boys!I just got done doing a tear off on 100 year old wood shake roof.this is a very nice neighborhood. but its secluded in woods and shit.so I'm tearing it off and what do I see?MILLIONS of fire ants!!I've been around.done lots of roofs.but never did I suspect ants live under shingles like this.needless to say me and my buddy are fucked up from all the bites.holy fuck I'm in the wrong business
Dready_jake
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I woulda quit after bite number one! like "peace" lol
But a shit Leopard can't change its spots.
But a shit Leopard can't change its spots.
Haha!! Shit leopards can't change their shit spots.no.but I didn't really have a choice!this is the first job I've had all year!! And now I've got tornadoes and micro burst every where.gotta help my friends and families. even if I don't get fuckin paid.sigh
Dready_jake
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Shit man! Good luck then.
And micro burst are?
And micro burst are?
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Thanks bro!I'm gonna need it!we got crazy weather in the Midwest.but my house has been real lucky!oh sorry.a micro burst is like an atmospheric pressure bomb that bursts like a bomb.rare but it happens.it takes out houses and trees like nothing.at least that's my understanding of it.sorry.lol
Everything I do that isn't framing or carpentry looks fucked up lately.
I'm getting old and tired, I guess. Just bought a door that needs to be hand chiseled. Never done that before, we'll see how it goes one of these days.
I'm getting old and tired, I guess. Just bought a door that needs to be hand chiseled. Never done that before, we'll see how it goes one of these days.
Just have a cocktail, Jim. Everything will be alright.
Lol thanks floral!
CoCoSativas
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Thats fucked.
I would go down, suit up and get rid of the ants, come back the next day after they ate the poison.
Im ruthless though, i will get rid of any pest in my way. I have too many jobs going so i just go do something else.
Really bad shit i call pest control.
