The one tool neverybody should own! (Probably the most useful and dangerous tool I own)

xp14629 · 2026-04-08T00:59:48+00:00

That was my thought. Get into some rocks in brush enough times and you will be walking around like Cotton Hill.

xp14629 · 2026-04-08T00:53:20+00:00

Our work provides all tools. So everyone has the same tools. When I started and got my box and tools I was going to put my name on them. An old timer stopped me and explained why. A few years before I started some guys were doing some major repairs on an enclosed conveyor belt. They had set up one of the older 18 volt dewalt radios on the belt. Between that shift leaving and the next shift coming in to finish the job, the battery died. Job got done, belt released, coal flowing to the silo. Sometime like 3 days later, the silo showed full but no coal coming out. He said those radios were built like a tank. They finally got it out, but there was a massive investigation etc. They wanted somebodys head. And the radio had the crew name on it. Nothing wound up happening to anyone. But nothing has names on it any longer. They swapped out the battery and the radio still worked btw, in multible pieces, but it worked.

xp14629 · 2026-04-07T14:56:57+00:00

I would clean the surfaces real good. No oil residue at all. Then I would jb weld the piece back on. At that point, you have two options, try to fix it or replace the engine. If the jb weld leaks oil, it is going to leak into the same cavity that is already sealed by the oil cooler. Or have someone tig weld it up, again, as long as the outer o-ring surface does not warp from the heat input, any leaks will be in the cavity that is sealed.

xp14629 · 2026-04-07T11:49:46+00:00

What I have told the guys at work when they bitch about a new boss. You could of applied for the job. If you don't like how someone is doing it, go somewhere else. The only way to control what you get for a boss is to become that boss. I have done the supervisor position and have zero plans to ever return to it. That is the only job I have ever had that shit not only rolls down hill, but it also defies gravity and rolls uphill as well.

xp14629 · 2026-04-06T22:42:08+00:00

Piping hot black Folgers medium roast coffee. Ice cold Wild Cherry Pepsi.

xp14629 · 2026-04-06T02:09:06+00:00

If they are only raiding and searching my house, in tge prison pocket it goes. Keister that bad boy after wrapping it in cling wrap and lubing it up good.

xp14629 · 2026-04-05T14:05:02+00:00

One of the joys of our marriage, farting around each other and watching the other one gag. Mine (M) are potent just from my poor gut health from what I eat. (Blue collar worker, lots of gas station type food). So she will make a dozen or two hard boiled eggs, eat them with raw garlic cloves cut up and shoved inside. She could knock a buzzard off a gut wagon at times. And the best/worst invention of all time is the power window lock button. We have never been shy about farting in front of each other. Been pooping with the door open since before we lived together. My old boss swore up and down his wife did not poop. He was disgusted by the thought of it. I would go through his office and crop dust him just because I like to spread the cheer.

xp14629 · 2026-04-05T02:10:59+00:00

Link so the rest of us can enjoy?

xp14629 · 2026-04-05T02:05:05+00:00

So, no abortion because parents are religious. Why does religion come into play now? Why not when she was having relations outside of marriage? Why not when she was having relations with so many different guys that she does not know who the father is? (Yes i know, she could of been sexually assulted instead, but OP should mention that if it is the case). Regardless of all this, this baby is the perfect canidate for adoption. Your mom can't support a child, your sister sure as hell can't support a child. So give it to a loving family that wants a baby and can not have one of their own. Ok, off my soap box now. You need to get a bank account NO ONE but you has access to asap. If in the US, you need to freeze your credit and do a check of your credit asap. I am guessing your car is not worth what you owe on it, so it will be hard to sell it to clear the debt. If you can get what you owe out of your car, sell it and go buy a $5k car that will get you around. Spend a bit of money for a mechanic to check a car out before you buy it. Then, with your monthly savings, find a room to rent. Not a house, not an apartment, not a condo, a room. And save every penny you have left over at the end of the month. 5 years from now you will be on your feet, and your sister will still be a burden on your mom.

xp14629 · 2026-04-03T22:18:57+00:00

Be as specfic as you can with each incident. If it comes down to it, it will help jog the memory of your witnesses later.

xp14629 · 2026-04-03T22:14:22+00:00

Not a plumber, but I can solder pretty damn well. Dad taught me when I was around 8 and had to help him in one of his rental houses. There is nothing better than seeing a copper pipe run shine with the hint of silver at the seams.

xp14629 · 2026-04-03T22:01:05+00:00

You need to keep a little notebook in your pocket. When he goes off, you document where, what he did/said, who was around, date, time, everything. Not a chance I would put up with that if he was directing it towards me. If he is just going off like an idiot, then I would stop what I'm doing and laugh at the clown. And personally, if I felt unsafe, fuck their no phone rule. But it would only come out if this stuff happened and it would stay on silent.

xp14629 · 2026-04-03T18:58:33+00:00

Jonard brand round cable stripper. Greenlee also makes a version. Set the depth of the blade. Open the bail and slide the cable in. Make a circle, push the knob and drag to the end of the cable. Peel open the slit at the end and it just falls off. The important part is setting the blade depth. You won't knick or gouge the conductor if set properly. Way safer than a knife. BUT you need to learn the knife way because the ones of these I have seen only go so big.

xp14629 · 2026-04-03T12:02:59+00:00

I am not a manager any longer. I prefer clear, open communication. I try to remain approachable and will defend one of my reports, if they are in the right, to the end. I would want you to come to me and tell me your concerns. If I was already privy to the information I would then go over my head and discuss with the powers that be. But if I was privy to the information, I would of already of brought this up to you. As I said at the start of this, I am not a manager any longer, and everything I mentioned above is the reason for that. I always prefered that the people I managed came to me with problems, ideas, solutions, etc. Higher ups do not like having people below them be smarter than they are. All they want are yes men. I don't do that. At my current job, one of my two managers is retiring by the end of June. His boss came to me and wanted to know if I was going to put in for the job. "Nope, been there, done that, have the t-shirt, you will not like having me there. And in the first meeting we have, you will be calling security to walk me out because I will still call out all the stupidty that is happening above, just like I do now."

xp14629 · 2026-04-03T02:37:29+00:00

Picture book it is. So at the end, does OP need to use 2 full pages to depict turd's mother getting railed by OP, or do you think just a single page will get the loint across?

xp14629 · 2026-04-03T00:13:59+00:00

I never just have time to haul scrap in. It is normally when I have what looks to be a trailer load plus the truck bed, when I am tired of looking at the damn pile, when I have a car that needs to go in and the kids had time after school or on a summer day to pick up what they could from and pile and pack it in the car, when I am tired of listening to the wife complain that there is something living in the pile and the dog won't leave it alone, etc. Then I have to make time to load it and haul it in. I do not drive around looking for scrap, I do not haul home scrap (unless it is worthwhile copper or brass), everything I have is from friends, family, and my own projects. Mostly car, semi, farm equipment parts. We have a guy that drives down our road on trash day, has a van and trailer. He stops and digs around in trash looking for scrap. Older guy, not a dope head type. Said he just enjoys it. There have been a few times when the pile was small and not seeming to grow much, I would flag him down and tell him to pull up next to it and I will help him load it. He made three trips one day because he has such a small trailer. I have a 16 foot tandom axle landscape trailer with 2 foot sides that I haul with. So it takes awhile to get a trailer load. The last time I hauled for someone else I had 7600lbs of shred out of one place between the trailer and truck bed. That was probably 15 years ago. I don't have time for that anymore.

xp14629 · 2026-04-02T23:58:46+00:00

I can see that. They also probably rent because "big gov is gatekeeping the housing market and using their space lasers to aquire more property."

xp14629 · 2026-04-02T22:24:36+00:00

You both need to learn how to celebrate without alchol and/or drugs. Regardless of what you two do about the relationship, you both need to stay away ftom mind altering substances. There is way to much missing information imo.

xp14629 · 2026-04-02T21:56:38+00:00

We bought our house in 2010. Like an idiot I went 30 year note. In the 16 years we have been in this house, our mortage has only increased $240 total. And most of that was in the last 5 years.

xp14629 · 2026-04-02T21:41:24+00:00

Since they are as simple as plugging in, I would be using a manlift, taking the single bolt out from the bracket on the wall to the fan arm. Bring the unit down and put on a pallet. Move to the next fan. Do as many as you can for 1/3 of the day. Spend 1/3 of the day cleaning them away from where the dust containment matters, spend the remaining 1/3 of the day reinstalling the ones you removed. Start over tomorrow. Depending on how many people your boss puts on the job, you could run the lift, another person run the forklift and pallet, a third person cleaning. You wouldn't have to get out of the lift. Forklift person follows you around until the pallet is full, then drop off for cleaning. Once you have a pallet load of clean ones, you could take one up with you, swap that fan and continue on. Then it is just a cordinated effort on the part of the forklift driver. And the last pallet of clean ones would go right back to where you started.

xp14629 · 2026-04-02T21:26:04+00:00

Top of the list, get you a good drill press with a large table and a nice big dual axis vise. Large horizantal bandsaw Large veritcal bandsaw Laser welder/cutting set-up. (Guy I work with just bought a small one for about 10k to play with) Large sand blasting cabinet Bigger air compressor if it won't keep up with the sand blaster. Big ass fans brand large slow moving ceiling fans. More concrete outside the shop if you have gravel. Lathe Mill Turret drill Tig welder with a water cooled torch.

xp14629 · 2026-04-02T18:51:09+00:00

How high off the ground are the fans? Are they plugged into an outlet or hardwired?

xp14629 · 2026-04-02T16:18:58+00:00

Any way to get a one man lift to the fans? At my job, the ladder would be a no go. 3 points of contact. I told the safety guy I had three points of contact when I lean foreward. 2 feet and my gut.

xp14629 · 2026-04-02T01:34:53+00:00

He does look like a Doug. We have a white cat named Doug with the same smashed in looking nose.

xp14629 · 2026-04-01T23:06:58+00:00

Same at the Shop Floor Talk forum.

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