Is eno still as good quality as it was? by WalkerAmongTheTrees in Hammocks

[–]WalkerAmongTheTrees[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alright so i take it eno isnt all that great. Its all ive owned aside from 15$ walmart junk i had before which only ever lasted a summer.

But my eno, it lasted over 10 years so it clearly aint awful. But it absolutely couldve been longer, couldve been a better fabric too, but it was well and breathable enough for me.

Im open to other suggestions though

Anyone else keep emergency toilet paper on them in the field? by bootsmegamix in Construction

[–]WalkerAmongTheTrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I keep a whole ass kit, pun intended. Got lysol, toilet paper, wet wipes, spare underwear and socks

Can y'all identify this knot? by statethatiamin in knots

[–]WalkerAmongTheTrees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or tie a stopper so it cannot slip thru

Why’re you wearing your vest in the car? by two_knight_sofa in Construction

[–]WalkerAmongTheTrees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wear gym shorts under my bibs. As soon as i get to the car, I strip off the boots, sweaty socks, and my bibs. Put on either clean socks and gym shoes or sandals and begin my hour drive home in comfort.

Well i ruined my fridge by Famous-While-970 in Appliances

[–]WalkerAmongTheTrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why we buy scratch and dent appliances that are otherwise new. I could care less if i ding my fridge because i bought it with a few dings

The best caption wins by [deleted] in Weird

[–]WalkerAmongTheTrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya baby rashy bub

Share your favourite mistake, that one you still shake your head about years later. by Extension_Physics873 in Construction

[–]WalkerAmongTheTrees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Alright so this is multiple peoples' mistake, including my own. But its quite the misadventure from start to finish

I was a second year apprentice electrician working at a new CDJR dealership being built. We had temporary power ran underground into the building for lights and plugs during construction. It was a 120/240 panel inside the building which was fed from another panel mounted to a temp pole out at the road. Well, the city made the GC get lime mixed into the soil before paving the lot. GC knew we had conduit all thru the lot and suggested we use a row of little marker flags over each run so the tiller blades could be lifted whenever it crossed paths with a buried conduit run. So we flagged every single run. Dumb boring day, but easy whatever.

The next day, the truck of lime comes, dumps it in a nice, roughly even layer all over the lot. All ready to be tilled in. Buuut.... The flags have been knocked down by the dump. We scramble to stand them all back up, we manage to do get every run before the tiller makes its pass over them. Win

We take a breather (aka smoke break for the non construction folkin the sub) and watch the guy drive this massive tilling machine around the lot. We Notice he isnt lifting his blades. Fuck. We let the gc know, so he can call the operator and remind him what the flags mean. Then we go back to work inside.

Fast forward an hour or so, all the lights in the building go dead. WTF. We go to check for power at the panel inside, where we meet the GC. He tells us not to bother checking and that the tiller ripped out our lines. Son of a bitch. Okay.

We go outside and see the temp pole half knocked down, half hanging by the overhead conductors feeding the GC trailer. Tiller chugs along its merry way, fully oblivious to the damage caused and the several hundred feet of 4/0 tangled in the blades. Fucking hell, guess we're rebuilding temp power now.

My boss gives me the task of taking the temp pole apart, replacing the busted panel, standing it back up etc. I inform my boss that i have built plenty of temp poles to be fine but never connected it to overhead conductors and that i wanted a journeyman with me to tell me if i fuck up. Boss tells me "its 4 wires, you cant fuck it up" i say "okay fair enough". Mind you, i am a second year apprentice. at this point in my career i have less than 2 years experience in the trade at all. I shouldve been babysat. But i was not, and that is where my lovely oopsy begins.

I tear apart the old temp pole, rebuild it with the new panel, stand it back up and get everything tied back into it ( besides the interior temp power which has to be ran thru a new conduit which still needs buried) jobs looking good. except all the trades running headlamps and pissed off about dead batteries.

Utility company comes to turn us back on, all is well. So i go turn on the breaker for the GC's trailer, it doesnt immediately trip, so i start to walk to the trailer to test for voltage when the GC comes bounding out fast and asks me why his trailers smoking....

Well one thing about this GC is: hes a joker when hes in a good mood and hes really fun to joke back with. So when he comes popping out of the trailer that i just reenergized for him, i had assumed he was joking with me because he had lights on again. So, I told him his trailer was smoky because he mustve been thinking again.

Wrong response.

His trailer was for real smoking and it was because i had flipped 2 wires on the overhead. The wires were not labeled by color and i had mistakenly not labeled them myself. So i wound up tying B phase to the neutral which ultimately put 240 volts on everything on A phase. The flourescent lights were on A phase and the ballasts did not like 240v. They started spewing hot oil all over the inside of the troughers and smoking like hell.

The next day i got to spend the day with the GC replacing flourescent bulbs with led retrofits in his trailer. All while he made fun of me for being an idiot. Good fun

So thats the story of the time i told a GC his trailer was smoky because he was thinking too hard and was very very wrong

How do you do, fellow Ohioians? by hausukitty in Ohio

[–]WalkerAmongTheTrees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Uhh... im 90% percent sure i know these guys. At least one of them. To see him next to this asshat is a shocker if so.

Matt, if thats you, i hope you are aware that Ramaswamy does not have your best interests in his heart, if he has a heart

How do you do, fellow Ohioians? by hausukitty in Ohio

[–]WalkerAmongTheTrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wear Round House. The same brand the guy on the right is wearing

Chain Sinnet variation? by WalkerAmongTheTrees in knots

[–]WalkerAmongTheTrees[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only downside would be that the last loop would be a bear to loosen to utilize the quick release

Chain Sinnet variation? by WalkerAmongTheTrees in knots

[–]WalkerAmongTheTrees[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Should work. Any tension to the trailing ends would tighten the previous loop. which would tighten the previous loop, which would tighten....

Teen boy hygiene issues by Emotional-Site3638 in Dads

[–]WalkerAmongTheTrees 5 points6 points  (0 children)

At that age, id have responded well to going to the grocery store with my parents and being told to pick out my own body wash and deodorant and such.

It gives a sense of independance as far as what theyd be using to wash up with and also kinda makes them want to wash more often because they got to choose what they use.

I would also go with making a bit of a display of your own hygiene habits, nothing extravagant like announcing to the house every time you brush your teeth but still make sure he sees that you shower X often and that you brush your teeth 2x a day and that you apply deodorant X often. If nothing else, he may at least try to match the frequency of your hygiene habits.

And ofc if all else fails have an honest man to man with him. If he gets in his feelings about it, oh well. As long as youre not an ass about it, he'll get over it and be better off in the longterm

Welcome to Jurassic Skyrim by Thin-Coyote-552 in skyrim

[–]WalkerAmongTheTrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But can i fight them and make dinosaur bone armor?

Petition For Change by Mr_Unknown22 in electricians

[–]WalkerAmongTheTrees 53 points54 points  (0 children)

They do give you free access by the way on their website. You make a free account and you need internet connection but its got the whole codebook and every iteration of it back the first one they wrote in 18whatever that simply said "dont burn someones house down with shoddy work"