So you think that was a dirty job? July 26th 1956 I started work on the Ohio Turn Pike. The North plaza at the West end of the pike had the skimmer in the sewage tank catch and bend down about two feet into the sewage two days before. The day before they had pumped it down to four feet below the bend. They had rigged a chain fall over the end to pull it back up. It was close to 90 degrees and my first task on that first day was to be lowered down on a swing board with a huge rose bud torch to heat the eight inch I beam so it could be bent back up. It took all day with only three of four brakes. I don't think they would have stopped if it had not been so hot because when you stopped heating you just about had to start over. We had it looking fair by the end of the day. I stunk so bad that Mom had me dump all kind of stuff in the bath tub to tone it down. the next day they put me in the cab of a gradall that the remote had gone out so I could move it forward along the ditch bank when the operator it the horn. Still close to 90 degrees sitting a narrow steel cab with no fan.
Did I say I loved every minute of it except the stink that took a month before it toned down to where I could get close to my wife to be. I never once had a single thought of not going back to work. I didn't know how to work steel with a rose bud or even what a rose bud was before that day. They stood at the top and directed me and explained why I was doing what I was being told to do. I know I was their robot but I could never have learned any younger.
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