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My Boy
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I took our almost 8 son out to a job this week to recover some monitoring points on an on-going 3 year project at the school he attends.
It was very hot . he hung in there.
He wanted to use the the 92xt locater as soon as he saw it. He dug a little too and did some excellent toting and fetching, some on his own with no direction that surprised me. Very helpful.. We did not find one point for some unknown reason. We dug a pretty nice hole with the sharpshooter and talked to the head custodian. But nada…School starts early this year, .. a week from Monday. Onward to 2nd grade.
He said that the is taking it easy a this time on learning stuff because he knows he will have to do a lot of hard school work real soon. -
the other Party Chief in our operation likes to ask my employee if he “was a big helper today?” My employee is 31 but we call him the boy wonder anyway.
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Great looking kid Brad, no doubt you’re very proud! Looks like he’s working hard to please dad.
It’s a special time.
hope the best of everything for your family,
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Great pictures, Brad
Takes me back a lot years to when I started to go with my Dad at that age. The equipment looked just like what’s in your avatar.
Thanks for the memory
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Training him early eh Brad?? 🙂 That watering hole…is that a pond or?? Can they swim/wade in it??
See, these kinds of pics are what I’d like to make a calendar out of for you guys. Your kids, you, animals, etc…posing with your survey equipment. If we could swing it, the calendars would be free. Just have to pay postage.
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Hey Brad
I bet he’s going to go the same elem. school I went to when we lived there in Franklin. That would be Webb Elementry – home of the Spiders. That was in ’71 so it’s not likely any of the same staff would be around anymore. It was all pretty rural farm lands back then. Google Earth paints a VERY different picture these.
All my buddy’s Dad either were professors at the college there or were engineers somewhere near Indy – Allis-Chalmers had a big plant up there if I recall.
Wouldn’t happen to know any of these name, McMurray, Grimmer, Schmidt, Records, Poe, Toole, Dowden or Palmer? I could probably think of more names but it has been some 39 years since I’ve been there. -
I can’t say this often enough: anyone using a hammer should wear eye protection, but this is especially true when the operator is a kid.
I “got religion” when I was in my early 20s and was testing a hammer handle I’d just replaced. I took a bent nail — it was the handiest piece of scrap iron in my shop — grabbed it with a pair of pliers and started pounding it on an anvil to make sure the handle was good and tight. After a couple of blows the nail flew out of the pliers’ grip and hit my open eyeball. A trip to the ophthalmologist revealed nothing more than a lacerated cornea, and it was off to the side enough so that it didn’t really affect my eyesight. It was a wakeup call, though. I always wear googles or a face shield when wielding a hammer, and I insist that my son does the same.
A couple of months ago my son got hit in the eye with a shoe while at school. It was freak accident, nobody’s fault, but after 1 MRI (he briefly passed out after getting hit and was vomiting in the ER, thus the MRI), 4 trips to the ophthalmologist and a month on steroids, he got away with nothing more than a bit of internal scar tissue and a reduction in acuity from 20/15 to 20/20. Still, the thought that he might lose a significant degree of vision was pretty scary.
You only get 2 eyes, and having 1 isn’t nearly as good! Please take care of them.
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Hey Brad
Very cool!
That is the way I started with my old man. And hopefully one day my 2 year old son with have the interest to tag along with me. Funny I still remember some of those first jobs that I went on with my dad. It was also cool taking him along on a couple with me years later when I got my license and showing how a robot worked.
Good times.
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Keep working with him. He’ll catch on little bit by little bit,and one day you’ll realize that he’s just set the instrument up perfectly all by himself and you’ll think “Hunh? When did he get that good?”
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HELL YEAH!
That’s way cool. I love taking my boy with me, but he’s not that little anymore. It’s better at the younger age.
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HELL YEAH!
Yeah, some of them turn into teenagers, become useless for the next ten years (hopefully only ten) and remind you of why some animals eat their young.
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