Above 1200 Sq/FT The Salvage Garage
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Wokspaces above 1200 squarefeet.
mybigwarwagon
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Try a cup of UncleWillie's patented cardiac coffee. It may not motivate you, but you won't be able to sit still...
Roundhouse
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I always dumped the oil from my 18 wheelers into the fuel tanks.
Recycling at its best
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The one on my late 80s International cabovers also worked as a cruise control since the engines governed out about 71 MPH
Monza Harry
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The one crane I was forced to use [I am not licenced for mobile cranes] had a foot pedal for the engine and it would get real tiring standing on one leg for a couple of hours after a ten or twelve hour day carrying roofing supplies around. The company would only put me on it after hours, they knew it was wrong and I had a family to feed so no wasn't an option.
bimmer1980
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Some days that is the best thing to do.... a nap can be great.
I find that sometimes beating your head against the wall is not worth it.....
I have figured out that when I notice issues starting with my back, that I need to stop or it get's so bad that I will be out of commission for a week.....
Hopefully the rest was helpful. Good luck with the chiro!
Kevkx125
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Great Stouty Hope you feel better!!!
cbacres
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Strouty, wonder if your doctor could fit you out with grease zirts and adjustment screws? Superlube make a food grade synthetic grease.
Glad your getting your back straightened out.
Glad your getting your back straightened out.
xtremek
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Glad hearing you're better, hope you get back to firing on all cylinders soon.
mybigwarwagon
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I just have the wife grab me my the ankles and snap me like a whip. HEHEHE.
Glad you're feelign better.
Glad you're feelign better.
XJSuperman
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mybigwarwagon
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XJSuperman
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Wierd. Can't you read!
Huh? Im just giving Strouty a hard time on leaving an "o" out of good. He went back and fixed it. I got a chuckle out of it because I can read.
steaks&anvils
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Is the test hole for the footers for the dock/pier at the island?
I can't believe you only have a that little drill? Don't you have a huge, track mounted, industrial, amphibious drill rig?
As I recall, you have a trailer for it?
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I wish we had something like that, we are only drilling 2’ so it works, just not fast. I tried to convince him that we needed our own landing craft type vessel, but he doesn’t want to get into that.
Right now he is all mad because I suggested that I don’t go to the island today due to my back still being a bit off. He basically told tried to get me to go by calling me a whimp and then told me that I work for him and it wasn’t up to me, I decided to leave at that point. Maybe he will be sane again after lunch.
Right now he is all mad because I suggested that I don’t go to the island today due to my back still being a bit off. He basically told tried to get me to go by calling me a whimp and then told me that I work for him and it wasn’t up to me, I decided to leave at that point. Maybe he will be sane again after lunch.
steaks&anvils
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I wish we had something like that, we are only drilling 2’ so it works, just not fast. I tried to convince him that we needed our own landing craft type vessel, but he doesn’t want to get into that.
Right now he is all mad because I suggested that I don’t go to the island today due to my back still being a bit off. He basically told tried to get me to go by calling me a whimp and then told me that I work for him and it wasn’t up to me, I decided to leave at that point. Maybe he will be sane again after lunch.
I should have figured you had looked into getting one.
Sorry about the back, I have back/shoulder issues too, so I totally understand. I have found that people who do not have medical issues of any kind are never empathetic. Better for you to walk away than have lasting life long issues.
Can you hire someone to help for this project? Maybe day labor with you supervising?
Dad doesn’t see the value in getting this done, he is playing the tides and basically you have about 4.5 maybe 5 hours you can actually do any real work before you are under water again. This week the tides are getting worse, I think next week will be much better, low tide at 10 AM to 1 PM is ideal for what we are doing.
steaks&anvils
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Good thing completion timing is loose. And low tide early in the day is good too, cooler temperatures that way.
didn't you say you had some step-sisters? Wouldn't this be a great task to use to break them into the company?
The problem is the micromanaging Dad that can’t see past the first step or whatever shiny thing is in front of him at the time. I love him to death, but I wish he could just plan a project from start to finish instead of winging it, when you have other people involved it is nice to know a bit in advance instead of two hours notice. I understand weather can change things, but if you are mentally prepared it makes things much smoother for everyone, at this point he is just being selfish and it *****.
steaks&anvils
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Bummer. No easy fix for that.
Is the island company owned or family?
Hire him a personal assistant for the summer. Get a college kid who needs summer work. I suggest a young woman. They are way more organized and go getting than young guys. She can take phone calls, schedule everything, do paperwork, order equipment/supplies and drive him around etc. Pay her well and stress that she be stern with him. AND offer her a BIG end of job bonus. Maybe get the lawyer to suggest this new employee. If the wife doesn't like it, she can take it up with the lawyer.
We tried something like this and it got out of hand, he would have the assistant doing 30 or more hours of pointless work and I had to go in and fix all the mess ups. At this point I really think he is angry that I am running the office, he wants to hire some young girl to do it, but no way is some girl going to stay up in the office in the middle of the woods all day with no one else around. We have talked to a few people, but you get someone set in their ways and it makes it worse, so he wants me to train someone to do the job, like I have time to do it. At this point I told him in order to get an employee into the office we need it to be updated and have a good cooling system (attic space and it cooks), in order to do the revamp, we have to get the office into the house temporarily, in order to do that, we need to remove the mold and repair the ceiling and bathroom after fixing the leaking roof and removing the chimney. I can get things done with a bit of help, but I can't find help that is worth a **** and when you do find help, they usually don't last because if they are good help, they are going to get a better job.
I am officially looking at things as a two year plan, there will be no conex moving, no more rebuilding of the shop at the Hill, just get things so I can comfortably work on OMO and Perk. I figure I have two years to get things done, then I will be back at the SG, if things change for the better, then I can adjust, right now I am not seeing a long term future for the Hill.
We want to move into the house on the Hill temporarily so we can do a complete rehab of our current house, it is way too small to do major renovations while living there, plus the cats freak out with noise and boots and any strangers. This should allow for things to get accomplished, I will need to do a bit of pushing, but I am used to that.
I am officially looking at things as a two year plan, there will be no conex moving, no more rebuilding of the shop at the Hill, just get things so I can comfortably work on OMO and Perk. I figure I have two years to get things done, then I will be back at the SG, if things change for the better, then I can adjust, right now I am not seeing a long term future for the Hill.
We want to move into the house on the Hill temporarily so we can do a complete rehab of our current house, it is way too small to do major renovations while living there, plus the cats freak out with noise and boots and any strangers. This should allow for things to get accomplished, I will need to do a bit of pushing, but I am used to that.
I do a lot of it remotely, but there are a ton of paper files that need to be converted, problem is the stuff needs to be sorted by someone that understands it. I could pay to have it all scanned, but I think dealing with the digital mess would actually be worse than the paper end. My goal had been to make everything remote so I could easily deal with the work from afar, problem is that it sounds like he is giving me until next April and then expects me to no longer be a part of the company, probably the best thing anyways, I really don't want to see the company liquidated like my stepmother has planned.
So if it your stepmother wants to liquidate it why go through all the hassle of scanning and organizing it? Just getting back a 1,000+ or whatever files scanned sounds like a nightmare but at least you could do it on the couch away from fights. Regardless, best of luck!
steaks&anvils
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uuugggg, assistant sounded like a good idea, should have figured you tried that already.
Mass scanning *****. I have had to deal with that and the subsequent document control. It *****.
Next April? you not part of the company? Get out now. Start your own liquidizing. Stop any improvements on the the hill. Move stuff back to the SG. Think about this, if you are out of the company in April, then you had better have your stuff out by then too.
Remember your self first. If your stepmom is going to liquidize everything, then she will do that. You, your dad, anyone else be damned. Look out for yourself. Make sure she is not able to lay claim to your equipment. Hopefully the lawyer can mitigate some of the mess. But your stepmom will do what she will do.
Liquidation can’t happen for another 4.5 years, scanning the docs has always been part of the plan, as far as being part of the company, not really. I have a verbal 10% of one tower and a verbal ownership of another. I am currently working on getting things in writing, but there has been so much going on. I am still hopeful that the Hill will be mine, but I am planning on the opposite, will make things easier if there is no agreement reached. I won’t move back to the SG for a while, I have a signed cheap lease and the shop space up there is perfect for building my trucks, SG can’t fit the trucks inside due to door and ceiling height. So I have through June 2022 to get things together.
steaks&anvils
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OK, that all sounds better. I was worried for you.
Did I mention scanning *****? One project they scanned on a conveyor belt feed system. The PDFs page breaks were in the middle of a paper page. But only sometimes and with no rhyme or reason. We had thousands of PDFs on like 9 DVDs. I had to match electronic data to documents in that scanned mess. It was evil. Good thing someone else was paying us.
Another project I had to go through pallets of boxes of paper reports. Toss duplicates and have the original scanned. One guy spent a year in a government warehouse filing one original on a shelf and logging the scanned documents into a document control program. We called him the "Librarian" for years after that. Your tax dollar at work.
We have tons of engineering reports that mean nothing, but to a lay person they wouldn’t know what to toss and what to keep, them Dad has tons of the same paperwork, some has sticky notes on it and some has handwritten notes, I can figure what is needed and what isn’t fairly quickly, I figure it will take me about 100 hours to do it, then scanning will be another 30 or so. Organization for the computer is using Dropbox, this way I can share the info easily. We looked at doing a database system, but it is clear Dad has no interest in learning anything. He is having trouble understanding what a text is versus an email because they both are on his phone.
shortykorte
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Wow, I thought everything had been worked out on business and house. Sounds like you’re back on an iced covered lake, the sun is shining warmly, spots that have thin ice has thawed and the rest of ice is on its way.
If step mom is smart enough to decide on business liquidation, shouldn’t she be smart enough to scan, file, etc.
I’m thinking I’d be buying a boat or start looking for dry land.
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If step mom is smart enough to decide on business liquidation, shouldn’t she be smart enough to scan, file, etc.
I’m thinking I’d be buying a boat or start looking for dry land.
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The two year lease is the boat.
Might hit land before that, but if not we have the current house and the SG.
I would love to leave it to her, but I am being paid to do, basically I am making the office so anyone can come in and keep things flowing. The idea was that once we get to that point, I would still run things, but at a lower rate of pay because the heavy lifting was already done and paid for.
Might hit land before that, but if not we have the current house and the SG.
I would love to leave it to her, but I am being paid to do, basically I am making the office so anyone can come in and keep things flowing. The idea was that once we get to that point, I would still run things, but at a lower rate of pay because the heavy lifting was already done and paid for.
steaks&anvils
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Too much bucket time...
I don’t ever want to see this many oily buckets ever again.
Don't get a job at taco bell...
good job!
In a past life, we had water lily ponds. We would winter over the dormant tender not hardy lily tubers in buckets in the basement (cool and dark). I imagine cleaning those greasy buckets as similar to scrubbing the black oooky lily buckets. Stick you head in few of those...
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Most of these were either used french fry oil or motor oil. They should have been cleaned as they were used, but the ex employee just stuffed them out in the storage box so he wouldn't have to deal with them at all. Four or five at a time wouldn't be too bad, but in the beginning there were 30 or so, I tossed a few already, then there are the ones that are full of watery oil, I think spreading that out to let it dehydrate would be the best move at this point.
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