Administrators Eric Posted June 17, 2021 Administrators Share Posted June 17, 2021 Looked back at your day, estimated the amount of weight you loaded & unloaded and had a retroactive hernia? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Just moved a few 50 pound sacks of dry mix concrete from one truck to another. No hernia, but I was again reminded of how much heavier those seem than 50 pound sacks of animal feed. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Sawin', splittin', and stackin' all day you wonder how you get so sore. Each piece only weighs a little. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rellik Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Load 16 tonnes and whadda you get..... Soar nutz 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Cicero Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Hey, hey, it was only 250# of chicken feed and 500# of rocks today. Today was an easy day! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 1 hour ago, Eric said: Looked back at your day, estimated the amount of weight you loaded & unloaded and had a retroactive hernia? Ayep! I sure have! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crockett Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 I get gas just from reading the internet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 My wife’s new truck didn’t fit in the garage with the shelving where it was. I just finished unloading, moving and reloading them so the truck fits. Not standard garage shelving. 10 foot tall industrial crap. My back is killing me. Arthritis and A.S. sure make it worse. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batesmotel Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 2 hours ago, railfancwb said: Just moved a few 50 pound sacks of dry mix concrete from one truck to another. No hernia, but I was again reminded of how much heavier those seem than 50 pound sacks of animal feed. I’ve got 150 #80 sacks to pour next month. Sucks not being 18 anymore. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, Batesmotel said: I’ve got 150 #80 sacks. Sounds...a bit...personal....just sayin... 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holyjohnson Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 yes, and i also kicked myself after when i found there are people on craigslist you can pay not a lot of Money to and they will tote a lot of that weight instead of you. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAKA Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 (edited) That is what money is for....To pay other people to do "stuff" you don't want to or can't do yourself Edited June 18, 2021 by DAKA changed the s word 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Cicero Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 10 hours ago, Batesmotel said: I’ve got 150 #80 sacks to pour next month. Sucks not being 18 anymore. I can relate. We're starting the patio next to new deck on Saturday. I had the gravel and sand delivered yesterday (but there is no way to get that truck to the back yard, so the piles are 200 yards away from where they need to be, so I'll be shoveling and garden carting all weekend)... and then we get to start mixing concrete... at least I have a little mixer now, instead of doing it in an old wheelbarrow... (I am too beat up for this job, my right shoulder hates me... according to my oldest child, I should have had way more children than I did, for her to divide these jobs and chores with, lol). She's right. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyzz Kydd Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 That's what children are for. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 In high school, I worked a full week carrying packs of shingles up ladders, onto the roofs. And you couldn't just dump them, you had to open the bale and spread them out, so the nailers could just go whack-whack-whack. So then we all quit. Because it sucked. And our friend's dad said he would never hire us again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 I helped my sister's boyfriend drive his construction supply truck (windows, doors, shingles, washers, dryers, drywall, brick....) He once showed me how to carry a refrigerator, still in the box, with the top-flat tab on in. "Here. Put your butt here. Grab the top-flap, and lean forward. Follow me." Yeah. The 'fridge weighed twice as much as me. I wasn't a very good trucker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 We covered a tri-state area. And because he was, sometimes, drunk, I learned how to drive a box truck. One time, 200 miles away, the transmission got stuck in low-low So we drove back at 25mph. For 10 hours. They paid me. And then I got fired. They didn't fire him, but it was pretty close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted June 19, 2021 Author Administrators Share Posted June 19, 2021 After I got out of the Army, I went to computer school during the day and worked for a while in the evenings, loading trailers for UPS. One guy would fill about one trailer per shift. That is a hell of a lot of cargo. All in all, it was a good job though. Time passed quickly and the pay was pretty good. Cheaper than a gym membership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 We once had gutters in the top special-racks, in the box truck, where they put gutters. It was a long rack, and a long truck. When we were unloading the gutters, the guy "unrolled" an armful off the rack at his end. And they unrolled, round and around. I was standing at the other end, and by the time the unrolling-unrolling-unrolling caught up to my end, the whole stack did a whirling SPIN!, and blew off a blender of jagged metal, that ripped most of my neck out. Like, Freddy Kruger. Jason. The blood was impressive. We showed the trucking company, and they said I should be fired. We showed Mom, and she hated my sister's boyfriend more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 We were once in dahntahn Pittsburgh in a traffic jam. So, Jerry said, "**** this!" and he whipped into an alley, at 40mph (he was cheesed-off). He knew his routes, it was all good. And blowing through this alley, some fire-escape ladder hung down, a "bit" too much.. At 40mph. The box caught it. **** went "crunch", the front of the truck actually picked up, and knocked us into a wall. Vendors ran out out, screaming, for ******* up their alley, and crashing the fire escape. So he burned out, and we never went back to that alley. But the top of the truck was peeled back like a tuna can. We spent an hour, I didn't know this trucker part, I guess that's just what they do, stompping all on the roof, to crush it all down, just enough so the dispatcher doesn't notice it, when you return the truck. I think we got away with that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Eric said: One guy would fill about one trailer per shift. Don't dick with Teamsters. They own this country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huaco Kid Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 Got Hoffa? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Longmire Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 I often wondered how many miles a day my wife put on in her waitressing days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 (edited) The most mind numbing job i ever had was as a file clerk. Paper would go in. I would file it. More paper came in...I would file it. It was 40 hours a week of file it. It was bad enough i toyed with joining the French Foreign Legion. Became a cop instead. But the rural county I worked might as well have been East-Butt-Crack South Africa. I remember the guy who did my background said, "What the hell, son?! You got two college degrees...why the hell do you want to work for us?" I told him i needed beer money and cash to take my girl out to dinner. Edited June 21, 2021 by Historian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 On 6/19/2021 at 2:12 AM, Huaco Kid said: In high school, I worked a full week carrying packs of shingles up ladders, onto the roofs. And you couldn't just dump them, you had to open the bale and spread them out, so the nailers could just go whack-whack-whack. Did that for one summer. By the end of summer my body stopped hurting. I wondered if i was in shape or had just lost feeling. Regardless, I was likely in the best shape of my life (or near it). That is miserable work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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