Likkmee
Gold Member
Good years. Good money. Strong unions. The worst was the Ironworker gig. Fucking assholes wouln't even let you chip the slag on a weld."That's the helpers job"/ Wait 3 hours for the lil prick to show up, show him how to "feather" and run another foot. Wait 3 hours again.Fuck the ironworkers BS and their BS electrode test for moisture. I smuggled old wet 7018 in from my truck and passed the Xray on my welds. Told the "engineers" they were all fulla shit. Went back to structural....private.BTW that was turkey point nuke plant.... govt money. End of job they buried miles of Goodyear air hose and tens of thousands of brand new Ingersoll Rand air grinders/die grinders. I was only able to "steal" maybe 20. Your tax dollars at work.Somewhat hazardous, too, and a very responsible position with a significant degree of civil liability for the work.Boilermakers are indeed the best of the best.I'm just a lowly journeyman carpenter and ironworker. Before I was united Rubberworkers(Dayton-Mohawk bias tire builder) and Maintainence of way(RR builder)