Last Day at my old job

[Erich]

When I was in Engineering school we took a day long tour of a Kaiser steel mill in Fontana California. Its all gone now, turned the site into a California Speedway race track. But I digress.
They had both open hearth and continous caster, cold rolling and galvanizing lines. Coking ovens, the whole process. In one day I saw more dangerous crappy jobs than I have seen before or since.

 

[boslab]

They were hard men back then, I respect them, they deserve much more than what the crappy government gave them, minimum wage, minimum lifespan, minimum choice.
If it wasn’t for manufacturers in America and Britain to a much lesser degree, we would all be speaking German and spending marks and Jerusalem would be a bomb testing site
Mark

 

[john.k]

When you see the old pics of guys pouring cast iron in their white shirts and rolled up sleeves.

 

[Adrien]

I hope a year of retirement has treated you well.

 

[Ox]

I landed a new job

Two years at my previous employer was enough. I started looking when they let me buy a Fadal 3016 on Ebay and after we paid for it and were arranging shipping they ordered me to cancel the order and get our money back! So it was back to making, modifying parts with basic handtools. Two years of...

www.practicalmachinist.com

As well as a cpl of posts in the lower half of Page 1 on this thread.


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Think Snow Eh!
Ox

 

[john.k]

I quit for the reasons I said......mother passed only three weeks afterwards ,and I could have gone back like nothing happened .....I thought about it ...naaaa.

 

[john.k]

I had a really good time for about 4 years ......finished a lot of projects ,did the stuff I wanted to do ,hung out at the shed like we were still running trucks ......then everyone I knew just died....one after the other...........then the plandemic,then I sold the yard .......had some real good times in that yard over the years......and probably worst,I scrapped a whole lot of good machines ,and left my crane behind..

 

[Freedommachine]

I had a really good time for about 4 years ......finished a lot of projects ,did the stuff I wanted to do ,hung out at the shed like we were still running trucks ......then everyone I knew just died....one after the other...........then the plandemic,then I sold the yard .......had some real good times in that yard over the years......and probably worst,I scrapped a whole lot of good machines ,and left my crane behind..

What does the next chapter have in store?

 

[john.k]

Boot Hill.