DR99 wrote:
I think its slang for a retarded customer. It took me a second to figure it out too Conductor 🙂
LMAO! I think this is going to catch on here in the states.
I forgot to add how I use my tools.
I use them by trade but being a tool whore I find reasons to need and use them. I post review videos on youtube sometimes. I’m going to be making one soon on the Milwaukee 2763 High Impact 1/2″ impact, its not a tool I need often but I’m going to be making a review video of it simulating a laminated beam assembly using 150 board ft of 2×16 Microlam.
That’s the next big project I would like to do with the house is put a tankless water heater in. I’m pretty confident with the water connections the parts that I’m not used to is the natural gas piping. I personally do mostly IT work and the networking that goes with it. I don’t do too much in cable runs anymore thank god that is not my kind of fun. You really do need to be a jack of all trades to survive in this economy now. I would love to run heavy equipment though it just seems fun as hell 🙂
DR99 wrote:
That’s the next big project I would like to do with the house is put a tankless water heater in. I’m pretty confident with the water connections the parts that I’m not used to is the natural gas piping. 🙂
Hey DR if you are going to go tankless and use Natural Gas check to see what your delivery pressure is. I know here in Baltimore we have a lot of low pressure systems 10in of water column (less then 1 pound of pressure). I know that some of the tankless units need a min of 8in. That’s fine for most of the year but when winter hits and puts a draw on the system from people turning up their heat it can drop down to 5in and your heater will not be able to keep up. Now if you are on a med or high pressure system you will be fine.
started working fulltime as an electrician helper this summer I’m 17 and doing a co-op my senior year for the same company.
Some how I missed post in this thread. I’m 24 and a Environmental Services Director (Maintenance Director) at a senior housing facility. Day to day I do all sorts of randomness for painting, to HVAC and from repairing the skid steer to Housekeeping. I do everything. In the evenings me and my dad run a custom wood furniture shop, where we do all kinds of fine woodworking. I’m also a certified high school teacher(robotics, Computers Programing, Fabrication).
Welcome to the forum Jens. You are one busy man.
regopit wrote:
Welcome to the forum Jens. You are one busy man.
Yup never bored, and always tired. Got called middle of last night to fix a broke door handle/lock. Why is it that doors never break at 10am?
Work for a wastewater treatment facility. First 5 years as a plant operator, last 2 years as a mechanic. Way too much to list as far as specifics.
wtpanther wrote:
Way too much to list as far as specifics.
I bet!
Painter,bodywork/mechanic/T.I.A member and do a bit of carpentry. And yes it SUCKS that there takeing away those classes my kids won’t be able to enjoy them like I did so I guess I gotta just show them myself.
Boilermaker Mechanic, auto mechanics as a hobby and still burning rods to go into welding..
I’m a diy guy so I don’t like paying extra for something I can do myself, currently building a cedar private fence with 2 3\8 pipes.
I am a mechanical engineer who instead of engineering does project management for a mechanical contracting company so when we need to design the systems and build I am there to do it. However I never had any adult role models who worked with tools while i was growing up and as ive been around them more and more through project management I wish i would have gone into the local union for pipefitting and done the engineering at night and once done my apprenticeship was done started my own company. Now that I am a home owner I have my own little construction site aka my house that I’m always working on. I really wish i had the tool knowledge at a younger age but I’m getting it here and there.
I’m an industrial boiler service technician, for about 40 years. I worked for a major manufacturer and went all over the world fixing and start ups. Now working main in the northeast USA. Run a small machine/fab shop out of the garage, making boiler parts, race car parts and whatever is needed.
I run a tech support business and do lots of field technician work and work with everything, from computer software to low voltage cabling, you name it, if runs off a computer you bet i support them and the infrastructure. Im very much a jack of all trades when in it comes to technology, with that said, im a real tool nut, if i can find something that makes my work quicker i will get it. I have a lot of construction and woodworking and general tool know how i learned since i was a kid. I use all kinds of tools in my daily work, specialty IT cabling tools to termination equipment to big power tools.
There are days when im working out software problems then the next im recabling security and network cables which sometimes involve core drilling. So i do a lot of what an electrician does minus the high voltage stuff plus a lot more. but also spend lots of time just fixing anything electronic.
its fun work, never the same stuff, always a challenge and always a reason to buy a new tool!
Union Ironworker in Boston here.
Electrical apprentice, worked doing voice,data,fiber for a small 3 man operation before moving on to a big cell tower company doing work in the pa,md,dc, and va area. Pretty awesome job and lots of characters to talk too 🙂
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very cool Jordan!! those heights are a killer for me bro I used to work in roofing and hated that job just cus of the heights I only hung in there for 3 1/2 yrs . once again very cool Jordan!
a roofer with fear of heights – not a good combo 😛
Yea it sucked being 260pnds at the time and working on steep roofs in big bear balancing on a 2by6 and 3 L brackets with nails keeping u from falling from 1-200ft down to rocks and cement while tearing off the old roof shingles. I’ve seen a lot guys fall and land straight on there knees my uncle being one of them who has to have a 2nd knee surgery for that one fall and everyone I worked with had a fear of fallin I don’t think anybody wants to do it for the hell of it…..
when i see roofer they always wear those climbing gear, which is hooked up to the roof…that this cant happen
The roofing company I worked for was crap plus it was about 10yrs ago and it was a job so I was just happy to have it. Don’t get me wrong I learned a lot from that shitty job but I won’t leave my job now for it:)
the last 10y lots of stuff changed.
Yea tell me about it the boss changed there and I heard things got much better for them I have a couple of cousins that still work there, the old owner didn’t give a crap bout us
during high school worked at a local machine shop part time until I finished school, then they offered me an apprenticeship and became an interprovincial machinist after a few years the shop offered me more training and became a fabrication engineer until I retired, worked for the same company my entire career ……
wow that’s not so common
comp56 wrote:
during high school worked at a local machine shop part time until I finished school, then they offered me an apprenticeship and became an interprovincial machinist after a few years the shop offered me more training and became a fabrication engineer until I retired, worked for the same company my entire career ……
Machining is the 1 skill I wish I had, but don’t.
everybody has a perfect skill – just have to find it out
here is a pic of one of the last projects I was involved with …….only pic I had on computer…..lol
Very cool comp do u miss that place?
part of me does and part of me don’t, funny thing is I miss the noise the most …..nothing better sounding than a busy shop…..
I hate it too when its all quiet….even back in the day when I was the first one in the office and it was so quiet that you could hear a pen dropping….
Yea I’m used to all the noisy too, a lot people can’t think when under so much noise plus even when I’m home with my kiddos there is no quiet there either and my friends say man don’t u ever get nervous or irritated by all the noise at work and home and the truth is it doesn’t bother me at I love when the ships busy and I love hearing my kids play
Welder/fabricator an a little machining here an there
My card says laborer but I’m more of a hat rack, I wear them all.
Machinery Operator (everything but a motor grader) for 5 years working for a fortune 500 company for 7 (last ranking I saw it was #143) doing 100 million dollar and up contracts, most in education building schools and collages before I jumped ship to start my own business after the economy caught up even to us. After working for a company doing billions in revenue and not seeing very much of it myself I decided I needed a change. Doing a lot of renovation / maintenance / vacation rental / property management in the Florida Keys, and loving life ever since. Don’t think I’ll ever be rich but I enjoy what I do, and one day I’ll be a pretty smart ol’ guy I figure. =-)
Electrical Supervisor for a University.
Tooladvisor/salesman at Dewalt before that I was a carpenter..
Framer/carpenter. And i love the hitatchi nail gun and pancake porter cable compressor main tool is the gun and hammer
Ibew electrician and I love everything about my job
Adamg wrote:
Ibew electrician and I love everything about my job
WELCOME SPARKIE!
I’m sure you know what IBEW really stands for so I won’t bother with the jokes lol.
Electrician, work on diesel – electric drive dump trucks at a coal mine, so not the same as the usual house wiring electrician, not sure I want to go back to that.
I am an HVAC-R installer/technician by day and a volunteer firefighter whenever I’m needed. I am working on getting my fire department to invest in some Milwaukee fuel Saws to replace our old worn out dewalt 18v recip saw. I have a truck full of tools and can pull just about everyone of them out on any given day.
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I’m a professorial tool buyer ^-^ Im in the tree care business, il be doing my tree climbing test soon.
StrippedScrew wrote:
I’m a professorial tool buyer ^-^ Im in the tree care business, il be doing my tree climbing test soon.
Good luck on the test, safety first!
Civil Engineer. My tools by day tend to be Autocad and Microstation these days. Grew up on a farm learning the joys of tools at an early age. Anymore I’m just a DIY guy that enjoys mechanic work and building things around the house. My obsession as of late is working on getting my yard dialed in.
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Commercial flooring installer here.
597 pipefitter/hvac service tech. On my second year in my apprenticeship, which I love.
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bennyrt68 wrote:
597 pipefitter/hvac service tech. On my second year in my apprenticeship, which I love.
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What company do you work for Benny? I responded to your introduction post, work with 597 guys a lot.