1. I get to have way more cool tools than other trades.
2. I get to work in mostly conditioned spaces (not roofs, attics and crawl spaces… icky!).
3. I’ve worked so hard at acquiring a serious skill set, that I really don’t have any competition (in my Mississippi River backwater market).
4. I’ve stopped bidding jobs. If you want me to do it, hire me (I’ll tell you how long it will take and how much it will cost when I’m done). :o)
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5. Cool yellow tool cart.
6. I'll see your tool cart and raise you a tool trailer:
That's not a loaded trailer ... I can see the floor."Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
"That's not a loaded trailer ... I can see the floor."
That was my thoughts as well. <G>
Very nice trailer but it doesnt have enough junk in it . Is that a fridge in the corner ? My wife said wow. Yea shes seen mine and his looked wonderful to her.Hes just a ladies man pulling a nice trailer.
Tim
LOL!
You have to leave the aisle clear for dancing. 8>{http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnaeImQ0TSg
Edited 8/24/2009 12:23 pm ET by basswood
I know some that.
Only play classical music.
Have a limo pick them up.
Wear suits to work.
Make goo goo eyes at the Electricians.
Demand a red carpet be rolled before them.
Have taken to speaking with a fake British accent.
Paint there toe nails.
Carry there tools in a briefcase.
Get invited on Martha Steward..
Will not work with plumbers in the same building.
Demand air conditioners be installed where they work.
Only drive English sports cars with Lucas 6 volt positive ground wiring.,.
Spend 4 hours each day telling you why there chisels are the imported ones made from Samurai sword makers in 1675..
Carry 12oz hammers with curved claws and believe there the big macho ones.
Have to have 2 helpers to carry heavy baseboard and 24inch hollow closet doors..
Only work one day a week because there really pursing a writing career and are writing the great American novel, This carpentry is just a boring way to pass the time..
This is why i got out of trim work into roofing.
Do you still carry a 12 oz . hammer ?? <G>
Go ahead and laugh if you want but at the Fest i came in 3d in the 16 penny nail driving contest after Mrs Calvin and Mrs Plumbill!!
I carry a 10 oz that does the work of a 16.
Don't try to pigeon hole me... I play classical, jazz and blues music.I drive myself (see attached).Wear Hawaiian shirts to work.Roll out my own tambour walkway (see attached).No goo goo eyes, phoney accent, or painted nails (though my daughters once tried to paint my nails after I fell asleep on the couch--sleep with one eye open now).I only work with plumbers, when the fancy flush mount toilet needs base removed and scribed to fit.Demanding air conditioners be installed where I work is strictly to maintain the moisture content of the trim at 9% or less... my comfort is just coincidental.My car is German not English and my chisels are English, not Japanese. ;o)My hammer is not one of those 12 oz. clubs--too heavy (10 oz. Titanium). Helpers are a bother (except for caddies).I only write for FHB and maybe JLC (just in the works).I would insist that you take back all the mean, nasty, slanderous things you said... but coming from a roofer, I understand--you just can't help yourself.I'll just keep toughing it out in the trenches. :o)Sir Basswood
LOL i had you pegged from the get go!!;]
If I do really well on a big job, at the finish these girls bring champagne and flowers and help me get dressed.
LOL looks to me like there putting a straight jacket on you.
Do you mean to tell me that roofer jerseys don't zip up in the back? How pedestrian.
OK... full disclosure. I'm not really a wimp or independently wealthy. I struggle to operate a profitable business, but it has gotten better each year (even this year).I am making light of things, but my point is that the more skilled you are, the less of commodity you are. If you are talented, continually improve, work very hard, and persist long enough, you are eventually valued for the work you do and can get a premium for it and stay busy too. There is a long line of "if's" there, but it is like I often tell my customers, "People want work that is Good, Fast and Cheap." I tell them, "Choose Two."
<<these girls bring champagne and flowers and help me get dressed.>>So you're working for Congresswomen in the nude....that just has "investigation" written all over it.
Funny you would bring that up... there has been more exposed skin than I'm accustom to at that job... not mine though. The carpenter that was intimidated by the fancy Victorian trim and invited me to take over the trim work... that guy is a triathlete and works out before and after work at the gym... then goes for a ride or run... he finds almost any excuse to take his shirt off. To avoid any comparison, this actually keeps the rest of us fully clothed... this was a bummer when it was hot and sunny.
Just cuz your co-worker is an Adonis, don't let anybody yank your...um...well...
Yeah, well I do feel like the Stay-Puff Marshmallow Man, next to that guy... abs of... oh nevermind.However, my miters look better than his... so I'm better at work and he is better at play... priorities... who would you rather hang out with... oh nevermind.
I hate making decisions. Sancho over in the Backroom was saying i need a man. Yeah! Singular!
Hey check out the link in post 35 of this thread... it is Django Rheinhardt inspired Jazz/Hip Hop... in Swedish... it is all the rage in the trendy set I hang with. ;o)
I thought that was just another of your incessantly cheerful and educational vanity vids, with you as the guy on the 6-string banjo (didja catch THAT, huh???), but then he took off his hat and the girlie hair seemed so not-you. ;^)You need to come over to the dark side just to check out Rooney and me and our dueling music vids. Truth is, i'm well out-classed by that boy, but Serena Ryder is my latest find. He's infected me with Lily Allen against my will.
Edited 8/24/2009 8:48 pm by splintergroupie
Lilly Allen mixes that acerbic wit with such effervescent music that it is at once hypnotic and unnerving. Another of those "force of nature" people.Sounds like a good time down there in the tavern... just a bunch of lugs up here obsessing over oak tannins and ferrous metal corrosion (or not). I'll try to stop by for a Moose Drool after a bit.
Not this-here Tavern, but...the Backroom...
On my third beer... sittin' here at a table by myself... looking for a familiar face... stood up again.Now you tell me... what thread??
Scoot over. I'm all out of Moose Drool since my triumph over bar ties with an L-hook and a cordless screwdriver and if i don't procrastinate, then i have to unload a Fordful of grass clippings for mulch.Just look around there and you'll see some fine vids sprinkled everywhere. The devout atheists entered some Tim Minchin into the mix; it's pretty darn funny, too, but they'd jump the gal named "Storm" with the tramp stamp if they had a chance, i'm sure of it.
So what is that dood doing, so close behind you ?
..Electric bike...
Getting there is not the goal. Enjoying getting there, is..You are always welcome at Quittintime
Best Young Carpenter's jersey?
I thought you were a little older...
They are who we thought they were and we let them off the hook.
Bobbys.
There are no 6 volt systems on British sportscars.. Oh Sure! MGA's had 2- 6 volt batteries but it was a 12 volt system.
The Limeys were into 12 volt long before Americans got that figured out..
They may have had 12 v at the battery, but it was only 6 v by the time it got to the lights.
The Limeys were into 12 volt
Do not speak Light-ly of Joseph Lucas, Master of Darkness!
And besides, my '59 A-H Sprite used 6v battery, bulbs and voltage regulator. Try getting those parts at Western Auto....
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
'59 A-H Sprite used 6v battery
Thought that too when Frenchy pontificated <G> . Brother has a 'bug eye' sprite and recall it was 6V.
Check again, Sprite used 12 volt! Maybe why you burned out a lot of bulbs?
Voltage on a Lucas electrical system of that vintage is immaterial in any event, because nothing electrical ever works.
Why do you think Triumph mechanics call Lucas the Master of Darkness?
I never blew a bulb on the Sprite, but I did have to replace the voltage regulator and IIRC the generator. Also always carried a can of kero in the boot because if ya ran thru a puddle, the Lucas cap and ignition wires would short out and nothing short of a bath in kerosene would get the engine running again. (This was before the invention of WD40.)
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
My first car was (and still is) a MGTD with a 12 volt system
TC's TB's and TA's were all 12 volt.. In fact I think you need to get well into the 30's to find any 6 volt systems.
As for reliablity, Most of the electrical parts on my 1953 MGTD are original. (points, cap, and rotor excepted) In fact I now insist that all the electrical parts are lucas I've never had a lucas rotor short out, I've never had a Lucas distributor cap crack from use,..
Periodically they need adjustment but that's part of maintinace not something that needs replacement.. Are you aware that there are points on the electrical fuel pump? They need adjustment and cleaning and that the points arms periodically need lubrication..
As far as reliablity I'd estimate that my MGTD has well in excess of 200,000 miles on it.. Plus somewhere around 500 races. Plus it's traveled from England, to America and to Japan and to the Bahama's. It's been in races everyplace except England.
In trips across the country I've never had an electrical failure.
I am pretty sure Sir Joseph Lucas was quoted as saying "A gentleman should not motor about after dark"
He was also the inventor of the intermittent wiper!
Had a couple of Bugeyes, 12V.
Healey 100-6, 12V also
Joe H
Could be, I suppose; only thing I'm sure about after nigh-on half a century is that it was red and you could drop the oil pan without pulling the engine (don't ask my why I know that...).
Oh, yeah--that, and the fact that four football players could pick it up and park it on top of four concrete blocks in the HS parking lot.
Dinosaur
How now, Mighty Sauron, that thou art not broughtlow by this? For thine evil pales before that whichfoolish men call Justice....
>>"Have taken to speaking with a fake British accent."Been there, done that.Now Blase'It's the New Zealand accent that's all the rage now!
I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm gone,
And I can't question how or when or why when I'm gone;
I can't live proud enough to die when I'm gone,
So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here. (Phil Ochs)
The groupies.
It's not too late, it's never too late.
See white jersey photo. :o)
And you get your pick of the most awesone footwear.
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"All he wanted was some beer. And they shot him in the face." Wilma to Two Puff Johnny on a train bound for CrazyLegs Fest.
http://tinyurl.com/Soldier-Hard-Walk-With-Me
I like to wear and old pair of fleece lined mocks while doing finish work in customer homesEasy on easy off when coming in and out of the houseComfortable CheapAnd customers get a kick out of it
I wear mine Clubbing but they come off when. In the Navy or. YMCA starts to play;]
TMI.
"I wear mine Clubbing but they come off when.In the Navy or.YMCA starts to play;]"So you can show off your painted toenails ?..Electric bike...
Getting there is not the goal. Enjoying getting there, is..You are always welcome at Quittintime
I can slip those shoes off at the door and slide around the house in my socks like Tom Cruise.Did you take a nip of the vanilla yet. That bottle = 4 Miller Lites.
I was saving it for cooking. Don't tell me it's for nipping. I ran out of beer last night and didn't want to go to the store. Don't tell me I had liquer in the cabinet all along.
"All he wanted was some beer. And they shot him in the face." Wilma to Two Puff Johnny on a train bound for CrazyLegs Fest.
http://tinyurl.com/Soldier-Hard-Walk-With-Me
It's for cooking... but I'm sure it's been nipped a time or two.
Gotcha.
"All he wanted was some beer. And they shot him in the face." Wilma to Two Puff Johnny on a train bound for CrazyLegs Fest.
http://tinyurl.com/Soldier-Hard-Walk-With-Me
working indoors is for girlieboys
other than that--pretty good post
I especially like the bit about not bing a commodity!
stephen
Im a girlie boy.
I was in a truckers forum and they were having a discussion about automatic transmission drivers were girlie boys . NO jammin 18 gears and all that macho stuff. Big reason a lot of wimmin are drivin them now because of the power needed to clutch. Now a 90 pound woman can drive a truck. But also men with disabilities . I know you were kiddin but its a topic too..
Edited 8/24/2009 3:00 pm by Mooney
I didn't know they let any girlieboys in Texas?
stephen
But Im not in Texas. reread the other post. I added to it .
I had a complete knee replacement this year and the other one scoped . Im having problems getting to the bath room. The result of the surgery is not good at all . Looks like we need to go to court. Past that I dont know whats gonna happen.
I slide around on the floor on a mechanics dolly if I want to work there. Takes some getting used to . I actualy lay down to work sometimes. Im up to climbing ladders but I havent been on a roof yet. Need to but I aint goin just yet if I can get someone else to do it . Im the only one that can cut well with a paint brush around here. I need to put some stuf on a metal valley as its rusty. Looks like Im gonna do that and its prety sttep. If I was a roofer I would be out of business . I can do pretty well inside a house . Still pretty fast if the trailer is backed to the door with everything I do.
I thought you were in Texas-- my BAD I am doing some fair sized repairs on a tile roof--and installing some half round gutters.--2 doors away there is a house with a HUD sticker on it I don't know how to turn that hud house into money(YET)-- but somehow I think that house is related to my future I figure--when there is a problem that needs to be solved-- there is also an opportunity I see a lot of opportunities------- I just haven't figured out how to turn them into money (yet)
but I will
stephen
Does this look like girly boi work to you:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzecgPNpsOE&videos=KSuBAelbcIQOk so it is outside work... oh nevermind.