Ah now there is a tool name I know Snap On never used them though execpt in highschool.

Dimitri

Yup...Have a sluff job myself these days...Push a desk, a computer and 8 mechanics...My waist shows it too...

Dimitri wrote:

Ah now there is a tool name I know Snap On never used them though execpt in highschool. :)Dimitri

Here's another tool you know Dimitri.......... "Bushmaster".................!!!!!!!

Bushmaster wrote:

Yup...Have a sluff job myself these days...Push a desk, a computer and 8 mechanics...My waist shows it too...

I quit the auto business a year ago and went to work for the Highways Dept. Yep provincial gov'ment. Now I get to stay home for the winter. Doesn't help the waist line either.

1895,

Atleast you dont need to go out in the cold unless you want to or your wife makes you

Dimitri

Easy job...I work for Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) in the ESSM (Emergency Ships Salvage Material) program. I teach a forklift operations course (3,000 lb narrow isle to 40,000 lb lifts). I teach boat operations for 18 ft to 50 ft craft (work boats and open ocean oil skimmers, single and twin screw). I train apprentices and run an overhaul shop for the US Navy. We overhaul and repair everything from Diesel engines to what diesel engines turn, push and operate or drive. Generators, pumps, hydraulic power units, boats from 18 ft to 50 ft, we change propellers of ships while in the water of every thing from tugs to carriers, if the US Navy drops it overboard (even 5 miles deep) we go get it. We respond to oil spills like the EXXON Valdez to the mess in New Orleans...Should I brag some more??? Oh...I almost forgot. I travel all over the world. I must maintain (company pays for them) a pass port and an international drivers license...I just got back from Crete a while back...Great food...Those Greeks love to eat...

Bushmaster,

Yes we do love our food

Never been over there myself though. Its ok I like this contiant enough

Bushmaster how do you get that kind of job, I really want to know ??

Dimitri

I spent 22 years in the US Navy as a main propusion specialist. (Engineman). When I retired I fell backwards into a pile of sh++ and came out smellin' like a rose...That's how I got this job...Seriously...

Bushy, sounds like a fun job, you likely know all about something like this then............?
www.bath.ac.uk/%7Eccsshb/12cyl/

Thats one big engine

Dimitri

Norinberg diesel has a 6 ft bore...And an air lock (two doors) for access into the crankcase and a cat walk inside the crankcase...

They are huge engines................... ! I can see where you would need fork lifts and cranes to work on them.............

What do you think is a good type of shooting glove that woule be good in the cold weather as well ??

Dimitri

Thank you, but I don't work on them as they have not been manufatured in many a year...They were used in Germany to turn huge generators...The largest I work on now is around 30 ft long X 4 ft wide and 8 ft high. Some with a 12 inch bore and a 14 inch stroke...Enterprise. Some with 12 cylinders and 24 pistons...Fairbanks-Morse. And EMD's (Electromotive Diesels) GM's And a whole lot of Detroits...John Deere, Izuzu, Lambordini, Volvo-Penta and other small and large diesels...

Dimitri wrote:

What do you think is a good type of shooting glove that woule be good in the cold weather as well ?? Dimitri

I seldom wear gloves. I guess I get that from my Dad, rest his soul. I can be outside shoveling snow in minus 30 degree weather and my hands are toasty warm, so I'm not the one to ask. My wife just shakes her head when I'm out there, cause she freezes her hands with the biggest and warmest mits available.:-D