Pipeline Construction

[hwprouty]

Well, I'm gonna be warm for a little while too. Just got home from having knee surgery. Off work for a few weeks.

Heal quick!

 

[KLA]

Heal quick!

Thank you, buddy. Won't be off too long. As soon as I can climb my ass back up into an excavator I'll be right back at it. Shouldn't be off for no longer than a week or two.

 

[Byrds8]

I'm not really a pipeliner, I'm just a farm boy that spent the last 30 years developing energy projects. Then started a water business with my Dad a while back to provide frack water for oil development. We do this work ourselves, cause it saves a lot of money and it's rewarding.

My Dad is 80 years old! He's been crawling in and out of that skid steer for 5 days straight, probably did more work this past week than most 25 year olds. He doesn't need to work, but not sure what else he would do with his time. Plus he likes to be out there to tell me all the shit I did "wrong"! He's run about a lot types of farm, construction, and military equipment along the way.

Your Dad sounds like mine. Mine turns 78 this year. He still strips and rebuilds old tractors he finds. He's done quite a few Farmall ones. He does odd jobs for folks when they need help. I know he was helping a guy at his sawmill last year. He's doing something for the IRS this year (not sure what). A couple of years ago, they removed 6" of colon due to cancer. Dr told him not to lift more than a grapefruit til he says otherwise. What does this man do? Dug up his back yard and ripped out the septic system and put a new one in place. This was two weeks outside of surgery. When I asked why, he said no one else was going to do it for him. That man is still my hero. Too bad a lot of kids today just dont understand the rewards for doing a job yourself and being proud of your accomplishments.

 

[KLA]

Too bad a lot of kids today just dont understand the rewards for doing a job yourself and being proud of your accomplishments.

 

[AXE]

Your Dad sounds like mine. Mine turns 78 this year. He still strips and rebuilds old tractors he finds. He's done quite a few Farmall ones. He does odd jobs for folks when they need help. I know he was helping a guy at his sawmill last year. He's doing something for the IRS this year (not sure what). A couple of years ago, they removed 6" of colon due to cancer. Dr told him not to lift more than a grapefruit til he says otherwise. What does this man do? Dug up his back yard and ripped out the septic system and put a new one in place. This was two weeks outside of surgery. When I asked why, he said no one else was going to do it for him. That man is still my hero. Too bad a lot of kids today just dont understand the rewards for doing a job yourself and being proud of your accomplishments.

That's awesome! Yep, just like my ol man and gradpa too.

My gramps feel off a 10 foit water truck at 87 and broke his back. All by himself in the pasture dam. "The damn mosquitoes were so bad, I decided to crawl up in the truck and drove back to the. Got himself into the shop to use the phone to call my mom to get him. She gets there and sees how bad it was and calls ambulance. 5 years later he finally went down tugging on his garden tiller in his 2 acre garden he fed many with. Nobody knows tough like homesteading!

We're weaklings compared to that generation. Nobody would survive the the stuff they lived through. My great grandpa used a team of horses and a two gang plow to settle that land. Now everyone uses a $500k tractor and 50 foot plow and bitches how hard they worked. I honestly have no idea how they survived the first couple years on the northern plains, it had to be brutal!

 

[Byrds8]

That's awesome! Yep, just like my ol man and gradpa too.

My gramps feel off a 10 foit water truck at 87 and broke his back. All by himself in the pasture dam. "The damn mosquitoes were so bad, I decided to crawl up in the truck and drove back to the. Got himself into the shop to use the phone to call my mom to get him. She gets there and sees how bad it was and calls ambulance. 5 years later he finally went down tugging on his garden tiller in his 2 acre garden he fed many with. Nobody knows tough like homesteading!

We're weaklings compared to that generation. Nobody would survive the the stuff they lived through. My great grandpa used a team of horses and a two gang plow to settle that land. Now everyone uses a $500k tractor and 50 foot plow and bitches how hard they worked. I honestly have no idea how they survived the first couple years on the northern plains, it had to be brutal!

Yeah man, I believe my Dad would work my ass under the table. He is the youngest of 12. He grew up on a farm and they had to get shit done. My eldest uncle was 90 and still getting around and doing shit when he got t-boned by a Jeep Wrangler. Today's generations are soft and weak and think everything is going to be handed to them on a silver platter. I guess it's our fault for always wanting them to have better than we did.

Now instead of working hard they hardly work except to bitch about what bathroom to use because somehow we haven't gotten that figured out anymore.

 

[AXE]

Yeah man, I believe my Dad would work my ass under the table. He is the youngest of 12. He grew up on a farm and they had to get shit done. My eldest uncle was 90 and still getting around and doing shit when he got t-boned by a Jeep Wrangler. Today's generations are soft and weak and think everything is going to be handed to them on a silver platter. I guess it's our fault for always wanting them to have better than we did.

Now instead of working hard they hardly work except to bitch about what bathroom to use because somehow we haven't gotten that figured out anymore.

Yep, I'm afraid we made it to easy! I try to push my boys to get after it and they do. They have their own jobs, but I make them help out too. They hung new shop lights and changed oil for my Dad last weekend. They'll do some more this weekend.