Retired now but started work driving truck for one of the dairies, stayed for 13 years then Canada Post as a letter carrier for 23 years. Sure wish I could have done something more exciting like most of you.
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Hey: Glad my post got a few takers in the medical field. I was at first thinking they hired all of the outside work done. Guess not. MY first father-in-law, a general practitioner MD even changed his own engine oil. But that was back in the 40's.
Currently I'm an operating engineer apprentice should only have one more year of my apprenticeship left then I'll be a journeyman
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The orthopedic specialist brought into the emergency room to put my 3 broken toes back together was well versed in tractors and chainsaws... as indicated from the conversation as he was working on my foot.
He asked me about the accident that brought me to the emergency room and as I told him about my tractors, he commented advisedly "you know 50 year old tractors don't have the safety features they have today" and went on to tell me about the forested land he lived on and chainsaw work...
What happened and a caution...... I have a blade on the back of my old Ford tractor that can be rotated around to scape at angles and the blade can be turned all the way around to use as a pusher.. I'm sure many of you have those....
Two weeks prior to the accident, I had used the tractor to scape our private road and there was a lot of ice frozen to the ground that caused an extreme amount of blade vibration.
Next time I used it, I started the tractor, raised the blade and was rotating it around... as the blade passed through the center position all 200 or so lbs of the blade itself fell about 16" down from the 3pt blade frame assembly held by the tractor and hit my foot while standing on a concrete floor, nearly cutting my big toe in half and breaking two other toes.
These rotatable blades are supported only by a single large nut with a cotter key when rotated in line with the tractor. The extreme vibration and wear over the years had worked its way through the cotter key and the large nut supporting the blade had backed off to where it was hanging on by a thread. When I rotated it to point where the heavy thick flanges that carry to brunt of the blade load were no longer in contact, the blade fell. Fortunately it only hit my toes, had it hit further back on my foot I'd probably still be hobbling around.
Sorry for the somewhat off topic portion about the accident.. but that's how I learned how much at least one orthopedic surgeon knew about tractors.
and check the condition of your rotatable blades...
He asked me about the accident that brought me to the emergency room and as I told him about my tractors, he commented advisedly "you know 50 year old tractors don't have the safety features they have today" and went on to tell me about the forested land he lived on and chainsaw work...
What happened and a caution...... I have a blade on the back of my old Ford tractor that can be rotated around to scape at angles and the blade can be turned all the way around to use as a pusher.. I'm sure many of you have those....
Two weeks prior to the accident, I had used the tractor to scape our private road and there was a lot of ice frozen to the ground that caused an extreme amount of blade vibration.
Next time I used it, I started the tractor, raised the blade and was rotating it around... as the blade passed through the center position all 200 or so lbs of the blade itself fell about 16" down from the 3pt blade frame assembly held by the tractor and hit my foot while standing on a concrete floor, nearly cutting my big toe in half and breaking two other toes.
These rotatable blades are supported only by a single large nut with a cotter key when rotated in line with the tractor. The extreme vibration and wear over the years had worked its way through the cotter key and the large nut supporting the blade had backed off to where it was hanging on by a thread. When I rotated it to point where the heavy thick flanges that carry to brunt of the blade load were no longer in contact, the blade fell. Fortunately it only hit my toes, had it hit further back on my foot I'd probably still be hobbling around.
Sorry for the somewhat off topic portion about the accident.. but that's how I learned how much at least one orthopedic surgeon knew about tractors.
and check the condition of your rotatable blades...
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37 years old...
A Builder...
A Senior Project Manager...
A Father to three...
and
A Husband to my wife...
That's enough to keep me out of trouble at the moment
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A Builder...
A Senior Project Manager...
A Father to three...
and
A Husband to my wife...
That's enough to keep me out of trouble at the moment
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PHPaul,
spent a couple years "down east". Cutler Harbor..east Machias. VLF station.
1968-1969 KW7 KW37R KW37T KW26 ETR5
then on to one of the last diesel electric submarines out of Pearl
spent a couple years "down east". Cutler Harbor..east Machias. VLF station.
1968-1969 KW7 KW37R KW37T KW26 ETR5
then on to one of the last diesel electric submarines out of Pearl
Millwright forever now a maintenance planner for Kraft Heinz. volunteer interior structural firefighter myself for the past 20 years also.
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Drilling engineer since 1980. Been around the world on someone else's money. Looking forward to retirement. Ed B
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I was a soldier in the US Army for more than 22 years from 1973 to 1995. After I retired from the Army, I became a Telecommunications Engineer, designing corporate telephone systems and networks for major software development companies. I am retired from the Telecom Engineering job now. Nowadays, one can find me doing my wife's bidding in the yard with the tractor or riding the Harley on long trips.
Retired Army Officer. Now doing Business Development (fancy name for "salesman") for a defense contractor.
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Whadda coinkydink - I was a KW37R and KG-14 tech. Went to Crypto school in Portsmouth VA right out of ET"A" school.
Been to Cutler a few times, we used their range for annual small arms quals.
ET A Treasure IS then crypto Mare Is for a year, then 37T at the vault in Portsmouth, then Cutler. I was SET program, Sign for 6 guaranteed 2 years of school. 37's....last of the tubes. KG-14 was that voice or RATT? Need To Know!
Tube's? We are getting old
Built bridges.
, Then built hospitals.
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, Now retired, woodworking, welding and enjoying these,
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, Fly these
, Now retired, woodworking, welding and enjoying these,
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Five years as a software programmer, 23 years in dairy farming, 14 years in cow/calf farming and don't know how many years in retirement, motorcycling, skiing, fishing, and playing with my kubota.
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Getting old?
KG-14 was a supplemental key generator, RTTY and Data.
I was gonna ask you how many of the 6088 and 6418 tubes you reckon you've soldered in your career? Personally, I'd guess thousands...
We had a filament voltage test card extender we used. Put the card extender in, put the card under test on the extender, and turn the filament voltage down until the tube crapped out. I don't remember the go/no go value, but after going through the spare card kit and getting all the spares to pass, it made troubleshooting that POS a LOT easier.
Was "the vault" suspended from the overhead in a building at the Portsmouth shipyard? That's where I did both 37 and 14. Pull a fresh set of whites out of the locker at the barracks, and by the time I'd walked across the shipyard to get to the vault I was dirty and soaked in sweat (Portsmouth in the Summer...)
This might give you some flashbacks or nightmares, as appropriate. The writeup matches my experience exactly.
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22+ years as a nurse. ER, radiology, vascular, flight nurse, contracts and supplies, and now long term care. Many. Different odd jobs before that.
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Life long scooter tramp/wrench. I started off in Tool & Die after finishing the trade school in the middle of the recession of the late "70's". Tired of being laid off and long unemployment lines I turned to my hobby for work, British and American iron, I hold a PhD and Master of Technology from Harley-Davidson. It all started in 1980, I closed my bike shop, Precision Bikeworks, in October of 2014.
Now I pastor small groups, the men's ministry of our church along with managing the AV Department. Our senior pastor is a motorcyclist and old Farmall A lover so I get to play with some old iron.
I'm still riding & wrenching on motorcycles in my spare time. Also, finding every opportunity to burn some diesel through that beautiful Orange B2601. [emoji41]
Rich
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Now I pastor small groups, the men's ministry of our church along with managing the AV Department. Our senior pastor is a motorcyclist and old Farmall A lover so I get to play with some old iron.
I'm still riding & wrenching on motorcycles in my spare time. Also, finding every opportunity to burn some diesel through that beautiful Orange B2601. [emoji41]
Rich
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