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I'll start it off. As my handle you might guess I drive a truck. I started 20 yrs ago in a 69 Diamond REO and graduated to this KW. The green KW was my first truck I bought when I started my company with that set of gravel trains. Then I bought the Yellow Banana . I'm all over MI and venture to OH,IN,IL,IA so if ya see me use all your fingers and wave ! Trucker
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The first two pics show a lake I built last fall. If you look close enough you can see the plastic barrel at the inside toe. This barrel has the stand up pipe and is full of rocks. The stand up pipe has 3/8 holes drilled in it that will supply water to the back of the dam for a stock tank.

The next two pics are of an old garage I demolished for a good friend of mine in town who is in the Funeral Home business. We demo'ed this building and he built another to store his cars.

The last pic is of my K and K2 combines and my '67 Chev C-50. When the price of fescue seed is good I drag em out and cut seed.
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This basement apartment needed a storm door-problem is it was 29" wide by 70" tall! It was grandfathered in, so we did not need to enlarge. SO, being a trim carpenter, I built this cedar storm door custom. Used mortise and tenon joints! Should have enough glue in it to last a while!

 
nothings more fine than a w-9! only cool looking new truck on road, the new petes look like the old cat eye glasses from way back when with them new headlights. Drove a late 90's model for a freind several years ago, last of the class!
 
House and barn that I built by myself over 4 winters. Kept the bank out of it, so now I can afford to farm.


Barn that was built first...lived in it for a couple of months.

Now it is veggies....
 
I taught high school math for close to 20 years. Now I spend my time developing these cool machines that convert grain and vegetables into bacon.
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Super Trucker,

NICE Kenworth!!!

Just got home half-hour ago. Too tired to take a picture and post it.

Everybody just look down at your keyboard... that's my work. I'm an administrative assistant... just a fancy name for secretary.
 
I've posted photos of my tile work before.
Here's a bathroom floor I set last fall.
4" X 4" marble tile.
Normally I could set a floor like this in 3 or 4 hours but this one took me most of 10.
The S curve in it is a little hard to see.

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Don"t have many pictures on new computer but here is a building we did last year. Also an old wagon I rebuilt for my better half to use as a flower planter if spring ever gets here.
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I got into making reproduction parts for Minneapolis Moline tractors. Thought about it the other day, didnt realize Ive been doing it 20 years already. Have made over 18 different parts and have a few more Id like to try when time permits. Here is a few pictures of the parts I make.
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Its kinda hard to make out but the first pic is two truck scales with two 250 ton silos over each one for loading out asphalt into dump trucks or tractor trailers.the second pic is a part of the asphalt plant.
Rick
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I manage a powder coating line for a major lighting company. I built this system two years ago and put it to work. Pic one shows 12' housings housings being hung on the overhead conveyor four deep. Pic two shows parts traveling into the three stage zirconium phosphate pretreatment system to clean and treat the steel prior to paint. Pic three is the parts entering the automatic powder booth. Each booth has eight automatic powder guns and two manual touch-up guns that can be used if needed for odd shapes. Pic four is the powdered parts traveling into a 30' X 75' curing oven. Parts serpentine from end to end three times through the oven to get the needed 20 minutes of curing time. Pic five shows parts coming out of the curing oven and cooling down. In a few more feet they are cool enough to handle and pack. Done deal. I can coat 240 12' housings an hour. The numbers go up from there on the 8' and 4' products. 4' product runs off at 600 parts and hour and six operators can run it front to back. The booths are equipped with photo eyes to trigger guns off and on so no operator is needed. Booths are set up to reclaim any powder that does not attach to parts to be reused so we have very little waste.

Greg
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Ron,

My home facility is Lino Lakes, but I travel to all facilities when I have SORT training. (Corrections version of SWAT). I believe we just had some major boiler work done at our facility in the last couple of months.

Stillwater is the real deal, there. I'm glad I am working at Lino Lakes, that is for sure!
 
My little brother spent some time at Lino back in the 90s. I visited him there several times. He went from Lino to Red Wing then went to a Half Way house in St Paul.
 
Alan, nice work. Do you have a turret and press break sitting out in the barn or what? Looks great.

Greg
 
I do all sort of building and repairs, here are pics of a hot tub surround deck I just did out of cedar. I was fun and challenging. making the curved cut look right took some time. The other thing was making half the steps removable for service access. The wooden boxes are urns I made for a friends ashes. The firewood box I put together for my neighbor.
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Couple of the mechanical rooms in the hospital I work in. 6000 tons cooling capacity, 1500 HP of boilers. All done in house.


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I have a very deep respect for folks in the dairy business. It is hard long hours. I've been there in the past and miss it from time to time. It was the only job I ever had when I showed up in the morning everybody was glad to see me. Thoroughly enjoyed working with the animals. They are easier to manage than people most times.

Greg
 
I am guessing that he probably pent some time at the Anoka County Juvenile Center. It is across the parking lot from the Adult facility. The adult facility originally started as a juvenile facility back in the 1960's, but hasn't housed juvenile's since then.

We are in the process of converting one of our small (20 bed space) units into a unit that will house adjudicated juveniles. (Those who have been tried and convicted as adults. We are going to have 14-18 year old "youthful adults" convicted of s** crimes. Pretty sad stuff when 14 year olds are being locked away for those types of crimes. Makes you wonder how bad of an environment they grew up in.

Hope your little brother straightened up! Red Wing is kind of the "last chance" juvenile facility now.
 
is everything SUPER FROSTED IN THE PIX ?,, neat work guys ... did everyone notice the sign in the semi truck about being human ??Greg , it pleases me to know how wonderful you are able to help the commercial world ,,. and i cant help but think lifes best early lessons were taught to you in the milkin parlor,, same with me
 
Thank you. Actually just have a regular shop press. I built all the forms from scratch to bend the metal. For the single battery covers I start out with a 6 5/8" X 24 flat sheet of steel. The double ones I end up welding the two together to make one cover. If I did one start to finish they take about a day to day and a half for one. I usually do them in batches so I don't have to change jigs as often.
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Awesome fab work. Nice to see quality craftsmanship. Looks like they dress out real well when you are done.

Greg.
 
Thank you. I try and make parts close enough that you can tell the difference between an original and the reproduction. Some days I wonder why I started lol.
 
You have a lot of impressive work there yourself. How does the powder coat adhere to the metal exactly?
 
A few pics of some of the most in depth jobs I've been involved in over the years. The complete overhaul of the D9G and the 71B Bucyrus Erie crane were both tackled by both my Dad and me. The engine in the old D6 was pretty much routine, but the power unit for the bale buster project was all mine, and one of the things I'm most proud of fabricating.
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I know the feeling. I started building livestock panels out of the shop at home a few years back. They are really nice, but time consuming. Every time I take an order I wonder as well. I don't make much on them, but people love them. Lightweight, strong and intended for travel and temporary penning at shows. We all need a hobby I guess.

Greg
 
It's magnetically charged, you have to put a small current to the metal you want coated, and the powder sticks to it. Then you roll it into the oven and heat it. The powder is a fine plastic powder that melts and makes a plastic coating over the metal, that can only be removed mechanically.
 
I thought being a cabinet maker was hard. After seeing all the posts on here I feel quite insignificant and relieved my job isn't that hard after all. I sure would like all of the upper crust of America to take a long hard look at all of the work done by all of us (little people) and realize not a whole lot could be accomplished on their part without all of us in the foreground helping them get ahead. I have never been more proud to be a blue collar worker.
 
Thanks, Alan, Powder coat is a great finish in the right application and properly applied. It is fast, low cost, and durable if the base metal is properly prepped. It is basically a ground up plastic resin. It can be polyester, Epoxy, acrylic, or a hi-bred mix. Unlike liquid coatings powder does not have much in the way of adhesion. Liquids stick to the sub-straight by nature as long as it is reasonably clean. Powders need the sub-straight made to accept the coating. Basically you need to pretreat the metal sub-straight by de-greaseing and applying a conversion coating such as iron, zinc, or zirconium phosphate or even grit blasting prior to applying the powder. Pretreatment is critical. The metal then then has the ability to hang on to the powder rather than the coating trying to hang on to the metal. Metals that are not properly treated will not hang on to the powder. It is not if it will fail, but when, because it is going to if this is not done properly.
Powder is applied via electrostatic charge. The part is grounded and the powder is given a positive charge via the guns. The powder is naturally attracted to the part. After the powder is applied it is just sort of hanging there until you get in the oven. You can walk up an blow it right off. When the part is put in an oven at 350f to 500f depending on the chemistry, it will cross link and adhere. Time in the oven is critical as well. Too short and it will not properly cure and will break down and fail. Too long or too hot it will burn the pigments and color shift.

It is an easy process if done correctly and will last a very long time.

Greg
 
My company does fiberglass stuff. Working on the museum of modern art in San Francisco. Probably more recognizable are PF Chang horses.
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I keep telling my wife that I need a 3-car garage - - and she keeps telling me: "No you don't, not at your age."
 
We manufacture lubricated plug, eccentric, and butterfly valves where i work. My title is painter/shipper. Here's two 36" eccentric valves that just came out of the paint booth.

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I did this for a couple of decades, taught school/college, spent 31 years in environmental protection (not EPA).
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I can't see the guages too well, but it appears the plane was on the ground when you took the picture?
I'll bet you DID enjoy that job!
 
Taken at 36,000ft carrying a load of "tourist" from Rockford, Il to Las Vegas, the "Gambling Capital of the World".
 
It"s not as manly as most of the other jobs here but it keeps a roof over my head and the family fed. I am an MRI tech in Springfield MO
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I make holes in perfectly good boards and make short pieces of wire out of long ones. Today's project.
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You a techie too Royse? Thats what keeps me busy
during the day for a local school corp in
Indiana...

Kris A NC (now in IN)
 


Here's one of two 80 ton Trane roof top units changed out on 4th of July a couple years ago at a local hospital... Had one 24 hour period to get both disconnected, both reconnected and piped for chilled water cooling, on line and in operation. After 38 years in commercial/industrial HVAC, I retired Aug 1, '013.



Had to recover approximately 250 pounds of r-22 prior to removal between the two units. These are considered to be small to mid-sized units, both supplying common ductwork in a three story building.



One of the cool things is rigging the units and signalling the lift. But I'm done, already passed the torch to the next generation.
 
I work on these during the day so I can support my farming habits! haha This is a brand new one I get to put tires on and get her on the ground.
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Kris, don't know how I missed your question, but yes I work as a
network administrator in the finance industry and run a home
based computer repair business on the side.
It keeps this old geek pretty durn busy! ;)
 
No pictures of what I do for a living on my phone right now but I am a combine, self propelled sprayer,and planter mechanic and also deal with product application at a John Deere dealer. It helps my livestock farming hobby which helps me keep my sanity lol. I have stock cows and registered purebred Montadale sheep. I just added a couple photos of the some of the cows and 1 of the 4020's.
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