Spent the whole day yesterday
Inside a hole about the size of a garbage can, reaching through another hole the size of a mailbox, changing a rotary union. Imagine picking the lock on your front door, from your garage. using only a rake and a piece of cheese. It was like that. They had to pull the floor so I could even get to the area where I had to work. So I got to lay in ten years accumulation of oil, congealed coolant, cigarette butts and chaw spit.
On the other hand, the guy I was working with on this project is the next generation, a twentysomething self-taught engineer who understands what he’s doing very well and has no issues doing it properly. It’s refreshing- and rare- to see someone under 40 who takes that much interest, and pride, in his work.
Should have put him in the hole.
I work in a auto repair/towing and recovery facility. Teaching one youngster how to straighten a wheel with a 50 year old tool while a tech is yelling “Tell the cheap bastard to buy a new wheel!” Teaching another to do recoveries without ripping the suspension off a vehicle. Pride and interest are indeed on the wan. But I have a couple ready and willing to learn. I love it when we get the calls that a few other companies have failed trying.
Roger