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Originally Posted by Spunky
I'm also a Metal trades Journeyman.worked in the petroleum industry for half my working life..If only the net was around when I was a kid and not the only way to survive was work with your hands or steal..been a rough ride and it builds character..most people on here couldn't do the work.
Imagine being in the bowels of a ship where a pool of bunker oil..3 feet deep working on a 10" pump..the bearings were 2' in diameter and seals were 200 pounds and the rotor and shaft was 600...hauling that shit down in the hole was hard enough.
Too many scary stories..almost died 3 times during the years
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I can relate ;) Most of my work was on huge stamping presses big enough to smack out a whole side of a van. It is a hard living but a satisfying one. It's a real sense of accomplishment to breath life back into a broken piece of equipment. Nothing like it for sure. Later on in my career I switched over to machine tool electrical repair rebuilding the control logic circuits , it was a hell of a lot easier on my back. Working in those cold cast steel/iron presses sucked the heat right out of you and made you feel like an old man before your time. I kinda miss it if you can believe it
I actually got started in the skilled trades as a sheet metal model maker building automotive prototypes.
Seems like we chewed some of the same steel