Good advice that brought a change in the way you do things?

After reading gitrb post about the tree got me thinking about what I have been taught.


The first one was when I was younger about 16 I worked for a excavating company. The owner was a great guy on second and the next 15min a real a@#HOLE . In the time I was there I was learning how to run a dozer to finish grade. I spent most of the morning grading what at best a motorcross track out of the yard. He come pulling up and right away I'm ready for the biggest a!@ chewing. He looked at the mess I made and looked at me and told me to get back to grading. After 5min he stopped me and told me I was going to fast and "Get good at being slow and speed will come" So back at it I went and SOB within 2hrs I had things straightened out and it was looking like a yard. Never did I imagine that a simple sentence would be so life changing.


Sometimes I think we let the rat race tell us how fast we need to live. Just a thought from a trucker that has to much time to think. Trucker

"Son , if You dont turn your stumbling Blox into Stepping Stones ,, YOU are Going to be tripped up All Your Life ",, Next door neighbor told me that when i was 15 or so,...

One of my dad's sayings was "Can't never could"
Richard

My father's advice to me just before he died....' son always make sure you have to pay plenty of income tax!"
Sam

I was welding pipe in a pond bank for an old man who had been in the business of excavating for many years. He could move the most dirt in the least amount of time without hurting his machine, He had about three old Allis Chalmers. I think one was an HD17 and the other was an HD 19 along with something smaller. He had a dumb kid running the 19 who was back dragging the inside slope. This kid would drop the blade over the top and drag down pulling some of the dirt from the top instead of leaving a sharp edge. This old man yelled at the kid but the kid continued and the second yell also produced no results. He flagged for the boy to stop. He stood on the track and rubbed his hands on opposite sides of the boy's head like as if he was going to unscrew the boy's head. He told the boy to drop the blade after past the top of the berm. Thw boy startd doing the job right. I told the old man that It took a good kid to take that kind of a fuss and if the boy would not qet mad and quit or try to whip the old man he would someday be a good operator, The old man is dead and I wonder what happened to the boy

Git yer a$$ behind ya son!!
Get yourself in a good position when you have to do do heavy lifting or have to exert leverage while doing a job.
Saves both energy and damage to the old body!

LOL My dad always said "can't never did anything". Which was usually followed closely by "Get over there and get it done".

go ahead and do it your way "the hard way".
o'well, live and learn.
you had to be cited.
i told you so.
i tried to tell you.
next time you'll listen to me.
time will tell.
now, this time do it right.
just cover it up, nobody will notice.
cost you twice as much, didn't it?

Fair is a nice day, a pretty girl, and what you take your pig to.

If "if's" and "but's" were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas.

Kids need the school of hard knocks, that's for sure.

Yes sir, Jim.

Not all that clever, but a wise old man told me years ago, when I was in a very tough spot, "Glenn, you can let it make you better or bitter, take your pick." His advice really went deep in me. Hardly a day goes by that I don't apply that wisdom. Poor me'll sure never get you anywhere.


Glenn F.

Change, Idon't know but I had a friend that was a rough or barn carpenter he would always say if things werent right, Can't see it from the Pool Room.

Dad always told me "if you don't have the time to do it right where are you going to find time to do it over"?

Rick

The best advice I think I ever got was from my Granddad, He allways said, Everything is cause and effect. Because you were in a hurry and didnt measure right, The effect is you cut the board short. The other thing he told me was to Never act on an impulse, Cause it will bight in the butt everytime. It has served me well over the years and I still think things through before doing anything important. Bandit

My wife always says, "if you don't belive me, take my word for it". At my age I just say I am getting dumber evry day.

A contractor said when I was young, "Always have 14 months of work to do in one year. That way you will do what is most important". I never loaded myself quite that heavy, but I remember that from 55 years ago.

Many, many, many years ago when I lived in Romeoville, IL, I rode one of my HOGs to a concert, had no intentions of drinking, but ran into the Killians Red stand so many times that I got trashed. I was so trashed that after I left the concert, I pulled the cops directing traffic over. That was kind of a dumb thing to do. I quit drinking after that. They didn't arrest me, and rightfully, they should have shot me. Instead, they escorted me to the interstate and advised me to never ever come back to their town. I wasn't supposed to stay for the whole concert, just long enough to hopefully hear Neil Young sing Powderfinger, which he didn't anyway, and then I was supposed to ride into Chicago to take in a Blackhawks playoff game. Well, as I said, I was trashed on my HOG, the cops escorted me to the interstate, let me go and told me to never come back, so off I rode. The dash bulb went out on my speedo so I couldn't tell how fast I was going, if I could have anyway. I got behind a car that I figured was doing the speed limit, and followed it to keep out of trouble, but missed getting off of my interstate onto the interstate that would have taken me to the Hawks game, and I followed that car almost to Iowa before I looked up at a sign and realized that I was almost to Iowa, nowhere near the Chicago Stadium. I got home about 1 in the morning, and I don't drink anymore. OK, in the past decade or two, I have had a couple of Killian Reds, Sam Adams Boston Lagers, or Leinenkugals Reds, but probably no more than a six pack in total, and not on a motor scooter or behind a wheel.

In all honesty, if and when you pull the cops over like I did, they should be allowed to shoot you on the spot.

Mark

I was in auto body/paint/restoration most all my life self emmployed. If you didn't have patience you didn't make money . you were busy doing things over. My pet peeve has always been" If all they can complain about is how long it took me , I will gladly shake their hand and thank them for the complement".

Not excactly advice but I thought it made sense...If common sense was gasoline, that feller wouldn't have enough to drive a pi$$ ant's motorcycle halfway around a Cheerio!!

When farming was financially tough in the 80s, a friend told me, "Don't confuse your net worth with your self worth".

"Don't get upset and angry, just let them have it we'll go elsewhere, The Tractor Tales Forum no loger exists for us!" From several old Talers...works too...I haven't looked on 3 plus weeks and by not looking I haven't gotten angry!

My uncle do not practice moderation to the excess

Grandpa told me as I approached puberty: "More than mouthful is wasted." I'll leave it at that.

Close enough is good enough. It ain't gotta be perfect.

know exactly what you mean.