The beauty of doing more with less is that it eventually becomes the norm and then they cut back even more. I can’t hire new engineers and the ones I have left are so over worked I’m afraid that they are gonna leave.ChrisK1970 wrote:
Dude, normally I don’t complain about work but it’s been a real be-hotch for a while now. Gotta love the budget minded. Do more with less. Then do more. Then…..let’s change benefits. Yeah…..now…..do more with less……FOR LESS!
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I know. What’s crazy is that I only paid 20 bucks for it when it had only driven about 30 or 40 screws. No way I get one for that kind of deal again!torontotoolman wrote:
Thats a close call man would be a shame to lose that
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20 bucks thats crazy how did you manage thatkruton wrote:
I know. What’s crazy is that I only paid 20 bucks for it when it had only driven about 30 or 40 screws. No way I get one for that kind of deal again!
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A guy I went to church with got a new job offer overseas and they sold everything they had before they moved. They were selling stuff crazy cheap and he had just bought the gun so I jumped on it. He said he wanted 20 bucks and wouldn’t take anymore for it. They then turned around and donated half of everything they got to our church. They were really neat people. He was a mechanical engineer and liked to tinker. Had a lot of cool stuff. They ended up moving back with a new job. Unfortunately he was killed in a car wreck around Christmas. It’s a Damn shame too, he was probably one of the most humble and smartest people I have ever had the chance to work around.torontotoolman wrote:
20 bucks thats crazy how did you manage that
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How did the little guy (compressor) do
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it basically wouldn’t stop running got maybe 5 shots off then it turned on, it was a pain in the ass but good thing i don’t have any framing guns i run off it.
Machine of the day was a Lincoln flextec 650 with a LF74 wire feeder. Millwakee electric grinder. I was also using my miller digital elite welding helmet with a pair of new miller gloves. Lastly I had a miller fume extractor going.
Job today was pretty much welding up guards for a oil Derrick. Monday all parts were cut using a hypertherm powermax an a clausing horizontal bandsaw. Material was mainly expanded metal an angle with a little bit of flat stock. Hopefully by end of day tomorrow all 58 guards will be done. Some guards are just small boxes some are pretty big.
What hypertherm power max do you haveFletcher94 wrote:
Machine of the day was a Lincoln flextec 650 with a LF74 wire feeder. Millwakee electric grinder. I was also using my miller digital elite welding helmet with a pair of new miller gloves. Lastly I had a miller fume extractor going.
Job today was pretty much welding up guards for a oil Derrick. Monday all parts were cut using a hypertherm powermax an a clausing horizontal bandsaw. Material was mainly expanded metal an angle with a little bit of flat stock. Hopefully by end of day tomorrow all 58 guards will be done. Some guards are just small boxes some are pretty big.
A powermax 125. It was at work so it’s not mine. They have a powermax 45 all the way to 2 of the max pro series.
I personally own a powermax 65.
Hypertherm really makes great products.
Life is good
I started repairing one of our bathroom walls after the kids pulled the towel bar off the wall,lol…..
. Oh man rego that’s look nice!! I’m so jealous of u right now sir!!regopit wrote:
Life is good
Took the kid and wife to the Chicago air and water show, VIP style!!! It was really good just really hot.
Moved furniture back into the dining room we just renovated…..
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. Oh man rego that’s look nice!! I’m so jealous of u right now sir!!
Don’t be jealous BigZ. Make the best of what is going on. Monday I’m back to the addition from hell.
. So true My friend have a great rest of the day bro!regopit wrote:
Don’t be jealous BigZ. Make the best of what is going on. Monday I’m back to the addition from hell.
Started a big project on the backyard today. The yard slopes down approximately 2′ in a little over 28′ on length. You can see the drop if you look at the foundation of the garage. Were going to be filling it in and leveling everything off. Ultimatley putting a new vinyl fence around the perimeter and a pool. Today we did a lot of destruction by removing a bunch of bushes along the old fence. Taking the fence down and then taking the playscape down and storing it behind the garage.
Tools used.
Jeep Liberty
Bunch of Chains
Shovel
Loppers
Impact gun
Pry bar
Dead Blow Hammer (BFH)
2 Place Snowmobile Trailer
I’m beat and ready to go to bed. 🙂
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I’m on vacation next week and I’ll be spending a couple of days building the retaining wall and then back filling everything in. Pic’s of that to follow.
Can’t wait to see the upcoming pics!! I haven’t had any projects lately ..well I do I just been to dang broke lately had to buy school clothes for all the kiddos, anyways we will be waiting to c more pics man
Thanks Mike!
Can’t wait to get started, I’ve already lined up a dump truck that I can borrow and my father is going to be bringing over his Ford Diesel tractor to help in spreading everything out. That should be fun!
I fired up the Rolair and filled up my wife’s tires. It was not an exciting day for tools at my house!
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This is my day, every day
I think its time to look at getting a new central ac unit sometime soon.
I finally got around to getting my Traeger grill out of storage. Unfortunately, I think the heating unit is no good.
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Started the day by building a security cage for a ac unit on a construction trailer. Main tools used were a miller trailblazer, hypertherm powermax 65, roll air air compreser, metabo chop saw, and millwakee angle grinders.
Then finished the day trimming some small branches with a millwakee fuel sawzall.
Got some wood from the Depot. Going to do some over-door molding on my interior doors. It’s raining out so I’ll do the work tomorrow.
Lost about 5 pounds in water weight with Day 2 of the retaining wall build. If anyone is wondering about the tank on the right hand side. It’s an old galvanized water heater that someone filled with concrete (Previous Owner) and it weighs about 800 pounds. So it’s not going anywhere anytime soon.
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nice progress 99, looking good!
Went for the weekly home depot run today and they had their back doors open and i could see the Firestone tire plant next door, just thought this was a cool view. Those tires are a lot taller than me.
Working on some over-door molding
Finished the wall today and more than likely my Craftsman Skil Saw. Towards the end it was really struggling to make a full 2″ cut in the 6×6. Time to go shopping…
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So my niece lowered her car a couple weeks ago and I knew something was gonna go wrong but u guys k ow these young peeps they always wanna look cool they have a lil import car club that get together and cruise around, well today she went over a speed bump and broke her header pipe!! I was like WTF!!! But she knows uncle mike will always be there for her plus it was an excuse for me to bust out my milwaukee impact wrenches 😉 man I can’t say enough about there mechanic tools guys I freakin lovem!! At the end we ended up changing her oil rotating tires and replacing header pipes now she’s back on the road for now…
That’s cool man. Any excuse to bust out some tools!Bigmikez wrote:
So my niece lowered her car a couple weeks ago and I knew something was gonna go wrong but u guys k ow these young peeps they always wanna look cool they have a lil import car club that get together and cruise around, well today she went over a speed bump and broke her header pipe!! I was like WTF!!! But she knows uncle mike will always be there for her plus it was an excuse for me to bust out my milwaukee impact wrenches 😉 man I can’t say enough about there mechanic tools guys I freakin lovem!! At the end we ended up changing her oil rotating tires and replacing header pipes now she’s back on the road for now…
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. Heck yea bro it’s so nice not to have to bust out a air compressor to for all this 🙂 I use to take these to the shop with me everyday but man the guys over there go crazy to use these badboys some times I wouldn’t see them for a couple days lol!!kruton wrote:
That’s cool man. Any excuse to bust out some tools!
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That’s awesome man. How do you like that Milwaukee?Bigmikez wrote:
. Heck yea bro it’s so nice not to have to bust out a air compressor to for all this 🙂 I use to take these to the shop with me everyday but man the guys over there go crazy to use these badboys some times I wouldn’t see them for a couple days lol!!
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Continuing on the window replacement project in the house. Had 5 to do today. Everything was going well until I unwrapped #4 and came across this and of course I had already torn the old window out. I installed it temporarily until the replacement comes in from my supplier.
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Man that always chaps my behind. You are making great progress then something like that completely derails the program.
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I came home from school for the weekend and today my dad, uncle and I cleaned out a log jam in his creek today. We went to load his high lift and the rear end of the truck went about two and a half feet in the air while I was in it holding the brakes on. Then the thing bounced up and the trailer came unlatched from the ball and hit the bed. After we had the log jam cleared out he went to take his truck and trailer back but the trailer came unlatched again and my uncle didn’t notice it and he drove off until it hit the ground so we had to get his tractor and lift it up and hook it back up. Other than those couple of incidents the day went smooth.
. Which one bro they’re all badass man!kruton wrote:
That’s awesome man. How do you like that Milwaukee?
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. Man that sucks!99_XC600 wrote:
Continuing on the window replacement project in the house. Had 5 to do today. Everything was going well until I unwrapped #4 and came across this and of course I had already torn the old window out. I installed it temporarily until the replacement comes in from my supplier.
the right angle impact has came in extremely handy so far. How is yours holding up mike?Bigmikez wrote:
. Which one bro they’re all badass man!
. Same here bro!! Milwaukee really did a great job on these tools my bro had some of his neighbors over while I was working on my niece car and they were underestimating my milwaukees well that changed after all was set and done 😉NicholasShetley wrote:
the right angle impact has came in extremely handy so far. How is yours holding up mike?
Today I changed the power steering pump and balancer pully an I had to take off the crank shaft bolt I used my 2763 fuel and of course it busted it off like a CHAMP!!! Lol! I also found a cool proto breaker bar in my gramps car I’m trying to get him to let me have it but no budge.The sad part is I haven’t touched my garage yet………………
That breaker bar looks well used.
. Heck yea Nicholas that’s what I told him lolNicholasShetley wrote:
That breaker bar looks well used.
Get a jack stand under that car Mike!! 🙂
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Get a jack stand under that car Mike!! 🙂
No worries the impact will break the fall LOL…..
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I helped my Moms boyfriend load this killer toolbox onto his truck the other day.
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Passed a city of Chicago building inspection. Yehaw!
Those Matco’s are sharp man. Any idea what that would cost? I’m gonna guess 12k won’t touch it.NaluRash wrote:
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I helped my Moms boyfriend load this killer toolbox onto his truck the other day.
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That thing its bad ass.NaluRash wrote:
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I helped my Moms boyfriend load this killer toolbox onto his truck the other day.
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Super badass!!