One for the books......LOL

Buddy of mine got a call this afternoon to go look at a job. He said when he got to the address it was a 'million dollar' house in one of the ritzy areas of Charlotte. The owner wanted my buddy to clean up the mess where an old concrete deck had stood. Ok, I know that's nothing special, but as Paul Harvey used to say, here's "The rest of the story." Seems the deck was poured concrete and origionaly stood about 15 feet off the ground on piers. The owner needed a hole in it to add a pier or something, so he hired a couple of hispanics to do the work for him. He gsve them enough money to insure they had enough to rent a jackhammer with money left over, and left to do some running. About three hours later he got home to find not just a hole in the deck where he wanted it, but rather the whole thing, piers included, lying on the ground in a pile. What was really the icing on the cake for him was the guys he hired were all sitting in the middle of the pile drinking beer. Needless to say the guy wasn't all that happy with the work they had done.

He said had he planned to take the whole thing down there was no way he could complain with the amount of work the guys had done in such a short time....unfortunately he did NOT want the whole thing taken down.....So, now instead of just a hole where he wanted it he has a huge pile of rubble that he has to get rid of before he can even think about doing anything else. Guess the money he thought he was saving with the cheap labor cost him a bit more than he expected....but he did get his money's worth, and then some...LOL

Just doing the job that American's won't do.

Reminds me of the guy who hired a couple guys to paint his porch.

Came back later to find his Porsche the same color as his house.

An english speaking Mexican, bought, 5 acres across the road from me, and had two mexicans digging post holes, and setting railroad ties, around the perimeter, most of this winter. Last month I drove by, and saw them putting out 3 rolls of good redtop woven wire, and starting to wire it to their unbraced corner post. They had 4 men rolling the wire out by hand, and fighting the roll on the30 deg inclined road bankI went on to the house, and got my fencing tools and AC B with the fence wire spinner on the 3 pt, and drove down there, met their Patrone( the owner), and talked to him , about how to pull wire, and put up fence. While we were talking the peons were working like bees in a swarm, and put a piece of 1 1/2 galv pipe through the end of the wire, and backed up a polaris ATV, chained on to the pipe and jerked on the wire, till the pipe pulled the 2 upwright wires off the end of the roll of fencing.After explaining to the owner, how to do it right, he finally stopped the show, and let me demonstrate, my 2'X6" board fence clamps, and how to pull wire with the 4 ton comealong, from the bottom of another post farther up the line. I never could get the guy talked into using brace posts on his corners, or gate posts. The crew thought that the 3 pt wire spinner, was great, and unrolled the rest of their rolls with it.The guy put 4 horses in that brushy patch, and has to feed hay in the spring time. 2 horses would have overloaded that small patch.They will have to learn to like scotch broom, as the grass is gone.All of them were respectful, and happy people, and you couldn't help liking them, even If I couldn't understand every thing they said.

Obviously a language barrier.

I worked with a bridge painter who couldn't speak a word of english. If/when we had a problem communicating, we'd go to a pay phone (in the 70's) and he'd call a number in Chicago. A lady would answer the phone. I'd tell her in english what I wanted, and hand the phone to the foreman. She'd tell him in his native language what I had told her, and everything was hunkydory. The contracts always specified "an english speaking foreman" but we got 'er painted anyhow. Paint crew was from Greece.

There is a farm near here that the owner used 8" x 1/2" "I" beam as corner post.....I dunno how deep they are planted, but he doesn't have brace posts....8^)

What is it about horse owners that makes them put horses on a very few acres? The guy across the road has a horse on about 5 acres and it does ok, but the grass is grazed pretty short.
I'm not a horse owner, but it appears in this area that a horse needs 3 acres of well fertilized pasture, or 5 acres of less well taken care of.

KEH

We are having a very very muddy spring here, fella across the way spent all of last summer rebuilding his horse fence/ feeders. It's just all soup now, there will be no grass, donno what he will feed the horses, there won't be anything to graze....

Paul

(quoted from post at 07:18:26 04/24/13) We are having a very very muddy spring here, fella across the way spent all of last summer rebuilding his horse fence/ feeders. It's just all soup now, there will be no grass, donno what he will feed the horses, there won't be anything to graze....

Paul

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LOL that's why we have tractors, you only have to feed them when yer using em.

Rick

Parlez-vous espanol ? Parlez-vous ingles ? Yes Boss Yes Boss. Then they do something completly diferent because no Parlez-vous ingles and you no Parlez-vous espanol. But the high school kids didn't want to work anyway.

Asking a Mexican if they can speak English in French?

That is what you get for hiring a pile of Mexicans so you can save a few bucks. Were they illegal aliens too?

The guy down the road hired the Amish to build his fence, eight ft posts are seven feet in the air, every spring he has to take the loader out and push the posts back in the ground.