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Hey Brandon:
Mine is bigger than yours and it looks like you broke a water line J/K
Sorry the pics are so bad but back then, well you know brother
Bobby
Nice, yeah the backhoe is mine but I run a bunch of other pieces of equipment, I'm also small crane certified (stupid certification). That was an emergency watermain repair I performed last year. Here is one I did the other day
This is what I seen when I first arrived on scene, driver and passenger were ok. 16 inch C900/PVC water main
Last edited by Brandon619; Jun 11, 2017 at 12:03 PM.
Nice, yeah the backhoe is mine but I run a bunch of other pieces of equipment, I'm also small crane certified (stupid certification). That was an emergency watermain repair I performed last year. Here is one I did the other day
This is what I seen when I first arrived on scene, driver and passenger were ok. 16 inch C900/PVC water main
Most people can look out the window of an airliner and not have any issues; being in free fall is the same. However, if you put those same people on a ladder or on the edge of the building or cliff, and I bet they'd freak just like me. I actually get vertigo so badly in those situations, that it feels like my head is falling off and landing below my feet, and my fingers and toes are full of soda water.
Can I be at the edge of a building? Sure, but it's a case of determination being stronger than physical and mental imperatives. I actually get vertigo from Youtube videos of people wandering around on the edge of buildings.
I agree. I had no problem with skydiving but get me near the edge of a roof and my stomach is in my throat. Same thing with cliff jumping as a kid. I had to close my eyes or I couldn't do it.
Oh yea? What did you imagine me to look like? Haha i know i haven't got on much, but you are right. For example I thought nsf was a lot older than he looked. When i was 18 i worked in a supermarket and there was a 70 something year old man there. He had a deeper voice, with a smart phone, down to earth. He was the coolest guy there. That's how i imagined him.
Now i saw nsf for the first time, he looks like a young stud! I was HONESTLY suprised!
Hey Brandon: That must have been a faulty install on the water main, slipped coupler or something, Blue Brute water line doesn't break that easily.
I worked all over the SD area, mostly for Colich & Sons doing pipe line work, back in the day of course.
Bobby
Hey Brandon: That must have been a faulty install on the water main, slipped coupler or something, Blue Brute water line doesn't break that easily.
I worked all over the SD area, mostly for Colich & Sons doing pipe line work, back in the day of course.
Bobby
Hey Bobby, yeah it was bad bedding and condition of pipe. This pipe line was installed only 20 years ago by a less than accountable private contractor. I've worked for my current employer for the past 17 years but I've been in the business for 23 years.
ATTENTION NSF-BOBBY: I believe it was Jaime a few pages ago who said he was surprised that you don't look as old as he thought you might.
I agree.
And you were the high-wire guy? (or was that Batman75? ) Wow, no thanks. There is NO WAY in hell I could ever do that job.
That what you call "high-wire guy" was me. It was a fun job. Working outside being paid to 4-wheel up the side of mountains. Set poles, string wire, work energized high voltage electricity (4 and 12 thousand volts). The picture of me on the wire in the previous post, I was replacing insulators on a de-energized 230 thousand volt line. The height was the least of the risks and I would do it all over again.
The picture is of my apprentice class in 1965. I'm the guy standing on the top level.
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Oh yea? What did you imagine me to look like? Haha i know i haven't got on much, but you are right. For example I thought nsf was a lot older than he looked. When i was 18 i worked in a supermarket and there was a 70 something year old man there. He had a deeper voice, with a smart phone, down to earth. He was the coolest guy there. That's how i imagined him. 
) Wow, no thanks. There is NO WAY in hell I could ever do that job. 
