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That is hysterical.<p... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Matt | December 14, 2005 2:37 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
That is hysterical.
FWIW, Vicky may be coming down there this weekend. I'm sure she'd love to buy you a beer.
1. Posted by Matt | December 14, 2005 2:37 PM |
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Posted on December 14, 2005 14:37
2. Posted by Paul | December 14, 2005 3:24 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I've been thinking about giving fellow bloggers free tours. Where is she headed?
2. Posted by Paul | December 14, 2005 3:24 PM |
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Posted on December 14, 2005 15:24
3. Posted by scrub_oak | December 14, 2005 3:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
My years in the construction business demand that I respond (can't...keep....from...responding!) Sounds more like a front-end loader. A bulldozer has a blade, not a bucket. The difference is a bucket carries stuff (usually dirt, but as seen in Paul's encounter they are often employed in unique haulin' activities) and blade merely pushes dirt (such as terrorist headquarters.) Also, a 'dozer is a tracked vehicle with a very large mass and would wreck the roadway. A front-end loader it wheeled and generally weighs 20 tons or more less than a 'dozer.
3. Posted by scrub_oak | December 14, 2005 3:29 PM |
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Posted on December 14, 2005 15:29
4. Posted by dodgeman | December 14, 2005 3:48 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
You know you're really, really from New Orleans when you're stuck in traffic, behind a "front end loader" carrying a boat, you call your client to inform him, and it's his boat.
And for the golden coon-ass award, he asks if there's any bait left in the live-well. Just in case.
4. Posted by dodgeman | December 14, 2005 3:48 PM |
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Posted on December 14, 2005 15:48
5. Posted by Phillip II | December 14, 2005 4:06 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Thanks, Scrub Oak. I was just trying to figure out which Tonka to buy for Christmas...
5. Posted by Phillip II | December 14, 2005 4:06 PM |
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Posted on December 14, 2005 16:06
6. Posted by Paul | December 14, 2005 7:18 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ha! scrub_oak you're on the ball.. it was indeed a skid steer front end loader.
But if I called it that, who besides you and me would know what I was talking about?
lol
(worked way thru school as a landscaper/laborer)
6. Posted by Paul | December 14, 2005 7:18 PM |
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Posted on December 14, 2005 19:18
7. Posted by scrub_oak | December 14, 2005 7:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Alright! Another grunt is in the house! I also paid for my education by literally (even by James Taranto's ultra-orthodox definition) eating dirt and crawling through mud working for a concrete foundation subcontractor.
7. Posted by scrub_oak | December 14, 2005 7:29 PM |
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Posted on December 14, 2005 19:29
8. Posted by McGehee | December 14, 2005 7:48 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I know a bulldozer from a front-end loader from a backhoe, and I can't even drive a forklift. I did get away with using the company's motorized pallet jack a few times several jobs ago, until the boss decided mere stock clerks weren't to be trusted with it.
And no, I wasn't the one who convinced him of that.
8. Posted by McGehee | December 14, 2005 7:48 PM |
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Posted on December 14, 2005 19:48
9. Posted by Paul | December 15, 2005 10:46 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Ouch-
Back when I was making like 3.50 an hour they had a local concrete company paying laborers 60 bucks a day. I figured double the rate of pay was a good deal.
After like 5 days I figured landscaping was not such a bad deal. (maybe I lasted a little longer)
Looking back thru older eyes, I was the young kid and the old farts gave me the worst of the worst jobs and worked the shit out of me. Guess that was to be expected.
I'm quite glad those days are well behind me.
9. Posted by Paul | December 15, 2005 10:46 AM |
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Posted on December 15, 2005 10:46