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by R.J.Dubya » Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:03 pm
Built agricultural silos one summer after first year Uni. You know those huge blue steel silos with white roofs you see on farms in the states? Ya, built them and tore them down. 100ft silo would go up or come down in 3 days. Worked 110 hours in my first week. Not hourly either. Piece work so it was like being in the army. If we were building, I'd go home with black sealant all over you (which was used to seal to steel sheets together), which could only be cleaned with gasoline, so I'd have gas smelling arms and hands. All I could smell at night. Plus lifting 400 pound sheets off the ground or carrying 500 pound jacks in and out of the structure. Or scraping off sealant from sheets. All of which gives you hamburger meat hands and calouses that the gas gets in when you clean off the sealant. Hurts. Also wash the sheets with hydrochloric acid when building.
And the other workers weren't the smartest. One guy flicked a cigarette at another while he was washing with gasoline. Arm went up in flames. Two other guys were playing chicken, throwing metal rods at each others feet. One went straight through the dudes feet just above the steel toe.
Anyways, 15 hour days sometimes, work straight for 2 weeks and then off for 3.
Oh ya and the crew of four people I worked with went through 64 people in a year. People quit fast.
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R.J.Dubya on Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:27 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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