FWIW, on a few projects a waiver was all it took to get around the requirements for a professional license. I know we did it once in Nevada and once i...
My 2007 C-1500 with tonneau cover and extended cab gets the nod for best all around utility. 2WD and the six banger keep it in the 20 mpg range (real ...
Congratulations DavidWe have the same tradition, pass around a hard hat and everybody kicks in some change which is dumped in the last pile drilled.
One of the advantages of having no friends........Seriously, one of the best folks I ever worked for as far as getting paid at delivery would only giv...
Nuts, worked for two companies that to this day operate on zero debt. One is employee owned, the other almost went under in 1978 and changed their bus...
It really comes down to the company's approach and how they view cad files. Some strictly use them to generate a paper copy and could not care less if...
The Gospel According toRaymond Victor Addicks."It ain't what you did today that matters, it's what you can prove in a court of law 10 years from now t...
When working in high dollar areas I'd use bunjie straps to tie back foliage as opposed to cutting where possible. When I did cut I used a small pair o...
Alls well that ends well, bro in law showed up after a trip to the PX and commisary with a case of Heineken. We both decided for the second beer, a lu...
Gotta love island time. I spent 5 months in St. Croix, had to deal with one petty tyrant in this department or that the entire time. Don't get me star...
Did you probe in the center? I know at one time I worked for a company that would set reference capped rebar around degraded ancient monuments such as...
The porch thermometer is in the shade and said 104, the one in the truck said 108, just finished a day of wrestling with a lawnmower with a stuck gove...
I do both, will turn two sets sometimes with the 'bot, then turn everything off and crank two sets old school. We are 3 or 4 seconds of one another, h...
Must not rain very often in your neck of the woods, just part of the day on the Gulf Coast. A great and cheap deterrent is a plastic bag placed over t...
I seem to remember both the 4400 and 610 were the same way.
Snake Chaps WorkWas struck twice while working in Barateria swamp, both times jumping out of the boat to tie it up. Once I jumped right on a good 3 fo...
XP Pro, "Out Of My Cold Dead Hands"I've been using a Dell laptop with XP Pro which I purchased for less than my computer guru wanted to install a seri...
Too cool, another past project. I supervised crews that set vertical control from Cairo, Il. to W.Helena, Arkansas, with type A monuments set for long...
This confuses me, and I see it happening over and over again. Why do companies do this to themselves, just to generate activity? I guess dealing with ...
KENTCompressed air and a mascara brush are about as extensive as you want to get on something that old, the patina both protects the underlying brass ...
