Like it’s the 1920’s or something

[Freelancevagrant]

Based on @ok boomer @Seventyfuhkinseven and me constantly posting shit in the post your fit thread I thought we should have a dedicated place for cool work related type shit. Yeah, work blows but sometimes you get to do cool shit.

So if you got a new fork lift, or new boots, got a raise, or some other cool shit happened, post it up! Also, if you’re needing to vent or wanting advice on how to deal with shit related to work, also please share.

[mushroom slice]

I got some new scissors for fall

[Mean salto]

Not new but some random old job I had was basically just breaking shit.
It started as doing landscaping/cleanup on building sites but somehow turned into I'd just turn up and they'd point out like curbs, retaining walls, footpaths etc that they wanted gone and I'd just put on my goggles and headphones and hulk out.
I had this big duffel bag full of different sledge hammers and crow bars and these two big crowbars one about 3-4 feet and the other almost 6 feet with a point on one side and a ball on the other end like the size of a softball. I never bought a single tool they were all found when I'd cleanup sites after construction had finished.
Unfortunately the job turned somehow turned into bushfire prep for schools and the boss fucking sucked so I stopped

[DaleSr]

Rocking my every day fit in the yard. May post forklift cheesecake later

[Fhk]

New favorite thread! Where I live you got to get creative to keep the lights on..here's some things I did this past year. From my food truck, to remodeling the bank in town with my wife into an Air BnB..concrete foundations and a timber frame gazebo at a campground. In years past I was a logger,equipment operator, truck driver and even a bus driver. Unfortunately at 44 years old all this shit is destroying what I have left for tricks, I just want to skate while my body still works.





I won't bore you guys with too many pictures, as I have already posted my food/food truck and my logging trucks in other threads.

[ok boomer]

^ that is awesome!!!!!

I just happen to have my detachable-sleeves-hi-viz jacket here from my previous job (the brewery I worked at in NZ).
I worked in the warehouse initially - shipping (all forklift certified work). Then I had the options of team leader or inventory controller - went for inventory control and loved that. I was basically an alcohol detective. When counts were off, I'd have to re-count all inventory of that product and then go through past orders to see where the errors were made. Also, I was in charge of the fleet of forklifts - daily checks and getting the maintenance done on them all. Love this jacket - took this home and still use it for cold ass outdoor work

[lilboosie]

my dad invented the toaster strudel so i dont really have to work

[Fhk]

my dad invented the toaster strudel so i dont really have to work

Hell ya tell Hans I said hi!

[Coastal Fever]

Cabinetmaker/installer by trade.. but now I’m mostly just protecting walls and building stalls.  All that random stuff you see in non-residential buildings and wonder who the hell even does that? 




As far as tools go, my company thankfully supplies all the fancy Hilti/Milwaukee laser levels and saws and whatever I need.  But I swear this Olfa knife with the metal tab on the end is the most useful thing;



And for work boots, Blundstone is the only option anymore.  I know they don’t fly on some job sites, but I never want to have to wear big clunky lace up boots again.  These are so much more comfortable;

[DaleSr]

I'm a redwings man but i may consider the blundstones. I used to hang drywall with my old man for a living and i absolutely love working the forklift

[Fhk]

Cabinetmaker/installer by trade.. but now I’m mostly just protecting walls and building stalls.  All that random stuff you see in non-residential buildings and wonder who the hell even does that?




As far as tools go, my company thankfully supplies all the fancy Hilti/Milwaukee laser levels and saws and whatever I need.  But I swear this Olfa knife with the metal tab on the end is the most useful thing;



And for work boots, Blundstone is the only option anymore.  I know they don’t fly on some job sites, but I never want to have to wear big clunky lace up boots again.  These are so much more comfortable;

This is me every time travel anywhere.

[IUTSM]

these are from the last year or 2 that I was working in the mountains. now I work inside again and appreciate not being cold and wet all the time, but it was an awesome period of my life.

carhartts, walls, vasque boots, REI wool sox












snow storm outhouse. best view on the land





RIP etz







deer heart in mushroom gravy gets me going like a shot of cocaine. suuuuper energizing



snow dog

[DaleSr]

these are from the last year or 2 that I was working in the mountains. now I work inside again and appreciate not being cold and wet all the time, but it was an awesome period of my life.

carhartts, walls, vasque boots, REI wool sox












snow storm outhouse. best view on the land





RIP etz







deer heart in mushroom gravy gets me going like a shot of cocaine. suuuuper energizing



snow dog

What's the work situation like up in norcal

[IUTSM]

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these are from the last year or 2 that I was working in the mountains. now I work inside again and appreciate not being cold and wet all the time, but it was an awesome period of my life.

carhartts, walls, vasque boots, REI wool sox












snow storm outhouse. best view on the land





RIP etz







deer heart in mushroom gravy gets me going like a shot of cocaine. suuuuper energizing



snow dog

[close]

What's the work situation like up in norcal

I don't know, man. Used to be pretty easy to get work on a farm and it paid well too. $20/hr was starting rate for labor. If you connected with someone and were a good worker, it was too easy. Since prop64, there's actually been a pretty harsh economic decline in the already declining economies of the emerald triangle. No more logging. No more fishing. No more weed.

Where I'm at is gentrifying pretty hard and in the next 10 years, as it becomes more and more a part of California as opposed to a rural outpost, it could very well end up a techier sort of place. Unless you're already well off and work fully remotely or live off family $$, there's not much here other than the beauty. There are some folks working for the last vestiges of the timber companies- lots of folks get out of the local university and end up working as biologists whose findings prop up the timber companies legal abilities to clear cut what have the potential to be the greatest carbon sinks on the planet (redwood forests).

Anyways, there's not a ton of work. Plenty of cashier, server, store type jobs, but other than that, I don't really know. Seems like most of the people working on the books farm work are making $15 or less without bennies.

Honestly, I don't know what the fuck a lot of people do to survive.

[Bunk Moreland]

I get a $1 increase this month, Union shit.

[os89]

Jobs? Never!!

[newguy]

New favorite thread! Where I live you got to get creative to keep the lights on..here's some things I did this past year. From my food truck, to remodeling the bank in town with my wife into an Air BnB..concrete foundations and a timber frame gazebo at a campground. In years past I was a logger,equipment operator, truck driver and even a bus driver. Unfortunately at 44 years old all this shit is destroying what I have left for tricks, I just want to skate while my body still works.

Cutting out the sick pics from the quote to keep the thread tidy, but I have to say your work looks great, very comfy and clean.

[Fhk]

Some more logging pictures. Working 80-90 hours a week was tough and very very hardcore but fun. The last picture of a jackknifed truck shows how easy things can get fucked up. Looks like a 1/2" of snow but it is glare ice. In that case the truck came down a hilll backwards at about 30 mph. I will find my collection of rollover pictures somewhere. If you fuck up in the winter in the mountains where I live, there's a good your getting hurt/killed or at causing hundreds of thousands in damage. I have more trucking stories than anyone would ever want to hear.

Edit: added a picture of someone that panicked and used his brakes, that's a rookie move. That fool made that 14 hour Saturday day into a 16 hour day. I was so pissed.

[RichardBarkley]

Logging looks gnarly

[ok boomer]

Log life looks great

[Prinzy]

Working two jobs currently to pay for school, one in food service and the other is a maintenance position at the University’s parking division.

Usually just doing janitorial work, repairing gate arms, setting up road signs, etc etc.

Here’s a pic of me on this wonderful Sunday morning tasked with cleaning up the messes tailgaters left behind yesterday. Shoutout the Bearcats for being #3 in the nation tho!

[Fhk]

Log life looks great

Well if you want it to completely consume your life, it's great!

[matty_c]

I reckon trucks are sick
Logging looks heaps interesting

I am working on this casino in Broadbeach, I went up top for photos just now

[DaleSr]

That's fucking sick matty

[matty_c]

I wanted to take a video cause they were jumping the crane today, I always like watching that

What they do is the crane grows with the building, they wind these hydraulic things on the crane and manually raise it, then the crane lifts up some mast from ground and they put it together again

But I got 86’d from up there pretty fucken quick lol, the whole place is an exclusion zone when they’re doing that stuff

[DaleSr]

It's wet and rainy out here again so I've got the rain coat on. Also got my chai tea like an alpha male

[Freelancevagrant]

Fucking love seeing all my fellow workers out there crushing it. Keep up the great work and be safe y’all!

My buddy came out and I’m training him and he got me a wave cap.

Still out in the desert but it’s tight.

[tom]

Here I am showing off one of my then-new Stiletto hammers. I was supposed to be fixing the bungee that you hook a backdrop onto, but I always find time for a colander pose. I had my department head take the picture for me


Sometimes I even use my own wrench. On this particular job I was the gang boss. In my world it carries the same responsibility as a foreman, but with a smaller crew

[matty_c]

They’re mad hammers ay
Haven’t got one but seen their website and saw ONE in the wild here maybe five years ago
Those good light ones are like $500 here, no shit

Are they heaps cheaper in states maybe someone could send me the nail puller/prybar and a hammer if I pay upfront

What are some other dope USA hand tool brands?
I heard proknee make the best knee pads, we don’t have anything here like that

[Freelancevagrant]

@matty_c they’re way cheaper out here, but I think it’s the shipping that’s absolutely fucked.

I may be way off, but I know of dead on tools and Picard . Never seen either in the wild but I think kc tool is german