If you want to pay for his degree, why not buy a man tools or trucks or tractors?

So, college degrees are now supplied for free?
Not at all. You gotsta pay. Its almost all loans. Unless you're my Boy and his wife and three letter agencies pay for your 'totally not cracking encryption codes! seriously!' education. :)
 
Nope, you were not there at the time. I notice your call out got put in the flame zone.
Got it. The entire world calls the top of a pile its butt and the ground workers bucks (referencing young bucking horses) except for the one local you claim to have been a member of.
 
I was looking for a good spot to put this one yesterday. I dumped it on Malcom X.

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You either misheard or they were ridiculing you.
This is history of the pilebutts union local 34 by Mike Munoz. I happened to know him and showed him many homes he wanted to see as his Broker. We clicked after he learned I had spent many years in local 34.

Mike Munoz on Pilebutt Work and History​

Excerpts from Michael S. Munoz's "Pilebutt":
Stories and Photographs about Pile Driving.
(Courtesy of Michael S. Munoz and Pile Drivers Local Union Number 34)



Pile Driver union man Michael S. "Mike" Munoz comments and tells personal experiences in Maria Brooks's film "Pilebutts: Under the Hammer." He himself has also compiled and written a book entitled "Pilebutt": Stories and Photographs about Pile Driving (San Leandro, CA: Pilebutt Press, 1986). The following passages are a sampling from it. To read the rest of his book and see its rare pilebutt photographs, order a copy from:
Pile Drivers Local Union Number 34
55 Hegenberger Place
Oakland, CA 94621
Film showing piledriving by pilebutts
 
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This is history of the pilebutts union local 34 by Mike Munoz. I happened to know him and showed him many homes he wanted to see as his Broker. We clicked after he learned I had spent many years in local 34.

Mike Munoz on Pilebutt Work and History​

Excerpts from Michael S. Munoz's "Pilebutt":
Stories and Photographs about Pile Driving.
(Courtesy of Michael S. Munoz and Pile Drivers Local Union Number 34)



Pile Driver union man Michael S. "Mike" Munoz comments and tells personal experiences in Maria Brooks's film "Pilebutts: Under the Hammer." He himself has also compiled and written a book entitled "Pilebutt": Stories and Photographs about Pile Driving (San Leandro, CA: Pilebutt Press, 1986). The following passages are a sampling from it. To read the rest of his book and see its rare pilebutt photographs, order a copy from:
Pile Drivers Local Union Number 34
55 Hegenberger Place
Oakland, CA 94621
Film showing piledriving by pilebutts
Interesting video.
I stand corrected. I drove pile all along the Gulf coast, from Brownsville to the tip of Florida, all around Kansas City and places in between. I have always known ground workers to be bucks and the top of the pile where the the hammer hit, and where the structure attaches to it as the butt. Often, piles, especially wood pile are deformed from the hammer hitting them. We had to cut those butts off square, and at the correct elevation. I suppose some terminology is different for different parts of the country. Thank you for the correction. You'll note that I stand by my remarks about that TV show, and the experience I have. An OSHA inspector would have shut them down before their first lift.
 
Interesting video.
I stand corrected. I drove pile all along the Gulf coast, from Brownsville to the tip of Florida, all around Kansas City and places in between. I have always known ground workers to be bucks and the top of the pile where the the hammer hit, and where the structure attaches to it as the butt. Often, piles, especially wood pile are deformed from the hammer hitting them. We had to cut those butts off square, and at the correct elevation. I suppose some terminology is different for different parts of the country. Thank you for the correction. You'll note that I stand by my remarks about that TV show, and the experience I have. An OSHA inspector would have shut them down before their first lift.
In crews I worked with, pilebutt was the only term used. All of my experience was in California. We drove wood piles as well. We had the steam hammer contact cushion blocks. After they were beat many times, we replaced cushion block with a fresh cushion block. Actually, all piling we drove used the cushion blocks. We were supplied with them from the home office yard.
 
In crews I worked with, pilebutt was the only term used. All of my experience was in California. We drove wood piles as well. We had the steam hammer contact cushion blocks. After they were beat many times, we replaced cushion block with a fresh cushion block. Actually, all piling we drove used the cushion blocks. We were supplied with them from the home office yard.
Don't change them soon enough, and they catch on fire.
 
Think why Democrats are all for buying students degrees yet never offer drivers trucks to make a living or tractors for farmers?
We will dive right into the strange things Democrats do yet refuse to do for others. So, who wants to explain Democrats to me?


We should be doing neither.
 
Don't change them soon enough, and they catch on fire.
That happened a few times. The way we used them was to grab the steel housing and drop in the cylinder piece of wood. I believe the wood was Eucalyptus. To keep the hammer from hitting the wood directly, on top of the wood we placed a 1-inch-thick steel plate that was directly hit. This helped to prevent the wood from catching fire.
 
That happened a few times. The way we used them was to grab the steel housing and drop in the cylinder piece of wood. I believe the wood was Eucalyptus. To keep the hammer from hitting the wood directly, on top of the wood we placed a 1-inch-thick steel plate that was directly hit. This helped to prevent the wood from catching fire.
Damn, Eucalyptus? I never used anything but oak.
 
Damn, Eucalyptus? I never used anything but oak.
There is a huge amount of Eucalyptus in the SF Bay area.

As it turns out, the wood is excellent used as cushions for pile driver hammers.
 
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