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mate,
reminds of a legendary australian ” mad mick of the speewah”. he was so fast sinking post holes that by lunch time he had done so many it took him 1/2 a day to walk back to where he left his tucker bag. 🙂
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mate,
reminds of a legendary australian " mad mick of the speewah". he was so fast sinking post holes that by lunch time he had done so many it took him 1/2 a day to walk back to where he left his tucker bag. :)
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Mark,
You being an aussie, wondering if you make it out on the rugby pitch now and then?? Flanker or 8 man is where I like to play, but I'll swallow my pack pride and run at center if I have to.
Good Day,
Dave
*Best and fastestCommerical job New District court house hollow metal door jams and cherry bookmatched solid doors (3'0"x7'0") Bored for mortis lock sets and hinges. Install door jams, hinges, doors and door locks on 96 doors. Oh, by the way can you have this done by tomorrow? Two hours of walk throught and planning and 9 hours with one carpenter, myself and one laborer equals doors done at $125 per door. Works out at a little under ten minutes per door Note: Both the laborer and the carpenter got a nice bonusWorst Tract TownhousesContract to install owner supply trim and hollow wood Prehung doors. Trim went great then came doors. We were responable for moving doors into townhouses and install.(I know ass backwards) Doors came from 84 lumber and were the worst piece of junk. Jams were made of 1/2 pine finger jointed and broke or finger seperated had to replace 19 doors and I loss count of rebuild jams. Loss of around $3,000 dollars. Now I want full spec's of all trim in writting before I sign. Project manger called just before x-mas and wanted to know if we would do the next townhouses in the spring. Don't think so
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I can drive 30 16d nailz in 25 sec.
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In 1/100th of a second......I cut the cord on my circular saw. At least it wasn't my finger...
No charge.
Rich Beckman
*Had a bank job to do 7 miles off the coast on "the Bermuda of the North." Empty oil out of leaking 250 gallon tank on outside of unoccupied house. Take oil and drum off Island ASAP.Direct costs: $50 - ferry fees round trip.$60 - extra 5 gallon cans (underestimated how much was there and local hardware shop was rip off)5 hours labor: 1 hour ferry 2 hours draining and loading tank and fuel cans 1 hour napping on beach 1 hour ferry ride backCompensation: $2,500 (plus 60 gallons fuel oil)One day after mailing bill to bank we got a call from contact person on voice mail. "Don't bother removing oil tank; we have a buyer for the property."Recieved $2,500 check within 10 days.Moral: even the lowest jobs have their compensation. Anything for a buck. Pride doesn't warm your wallet. Revenge can be sweet.Bank went belly up 1 year later.
*Dave,thanks for your note. I'm afraid I'm a very unaustralian australian. Don't follow the footy ( much to my sons disgust ) though it certainly raises some very passionate debates over here. Any case mate at 42 I'm too old for that bone crunching stuff. My body gets enough damage on site.RegardsMark
*Great story... big HAHAHAHA about bank getting their due...
*We get a half hour for lunch and I can usually wolf mine down in about 5 minutes. One sandwich, chips, canned iced tea, and some kind of dilled deally. We don't get paid for lunch time.
*Mike, you're the best!Island project needed, snow and 0 degrees here...Jack
*How many in ten hours?I think we need a video posting area!Jack
*That means 25 minutes for fishing, right?
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Steve,
Amazing. Was that with a hammer or nail gun?
Wow!
*At least 50* and that in 9 hours.
*that was with the daluge clasic.
*3 of my guys and me laid 189 sheets of plywood in 5 hours on a 6/12 roof.That was from a pile in the front yard to felted out!Once me and one other nail boy drove 12000 gun nails in one 8 hr. day building 10 ft. walls with solid purlins.These were extreme examples I wish it was that way all the time!
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0 to 60mph in 0.5 seconds.belt sander left on the bench,trigger locked on,cord unplugged.Get the picture!!!!
*My wife says to fast for her liking, but I'll lie and say everything takes me a good long time.
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Maj, you might be interested in this speed link.
http://www.beltsander-races.com
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AJ,
No not the best. Just lucky.
Had to 'price' high. We were performing a task that left us in a legal grey zone. Had I been caught the fines could = 'profits'
I think I'm beyond the statute of limit on this one.
*If you're speaking of the environmental issues, I am not so sure there is a statute of limitations. If there is one, I'll bet it's mighty long.Maybe you should ask Sean to delete the post!Rich Beckman
*Everything was dealt with 'correctly'. Just didn't get permits to haul excess fuel (60gal) on ferry.I filtered and put oil in my tank at home and cut old oil drum in 1/2 and squashed w/ track dozer and recycled steel......You're right, if I'd have done something stupid I'd still be on the hook.. I'm not Dupont, GE, or some other mammoth conglomerate that the regulators don't bother.
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Rich: Thanks for the good laugh. Yours is one of the few responses to this subject I believe.
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*Here goes one for me...Six panel solid pine, pre-hung jam, colonial trim uncut, drilled for locksets, and lockset. My first door ever, up with trim and lockset no paint or varnish...about two hours.Time is money right so next house I planned production style... each door half the time till the last ten, 15 minutes each. Super.Worst situation years later... New carpenter jumped at doors, says finish is my specialty. Well he wasn't shining yet and we were real busy so off he goes... Noon I check in...where is he, in the first room he's found?!...The doors fighting him like a wild beast, nothings right. Thats enough for me...He volunteers to go down the road and I jump out of his way. Quick check seems like the door was hinged wrong and the roady was trying to get proper gaps impossibly. How could it be, I had bought lots of these doors?... NOPE! I remember, my new salesman had beat another suppliers bid and sold me doors that looked identical but were from a different source. Not very fair to the man on the road but we weren't a good match anyway.New plan...dissassemble, plane, rehing twenty doors, hang myself till blue in the face and deduct fifty percent of the door cost from the supplier, (Six month battle, semi-won, old news.)Never know where the next surprise will arise from, That's the true fun of being a little contractor.Today I charge door assembly cost times two($100labor) on average, plan on a half hour per and still can hit less than fifteen minutes if more than a few to do. Wanna bee production type/perfectonist (FHBer?)Jack;)
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Dave,
So tell us your believable tale...
Jack : )