backhoeboogie
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To some here Caustic is God. (I hope he lets me in to cow man heaven and doesn't send me to cowman hell).
I have read all the "tips and tricks" and think that some foks are going about things the hard way when they think they have discovered an easier way.
When someone has been doing something for 50 years, they are going to learn a few tricks. I am not even that old.
I grew up around cattlemen and learned a great deal from them. I have even applied that in the engineering work I do. For instance we were in the middle of Wyoming, in the middle of no where and needed a 3/4 allen wrench. The situation warranted NEEDING IT NOW. Management had the Procurement group on it and the nearest allen wrench was in Denver. They were about to machine one. That is when I got word of it. I went picked up a 1/2 inch bolt (with a 3/4 inch hex head) double nutted it, and used a 3/4 inch box end to extract the allen head bolt. I was just a kid at the time, but everyone thought I was a genius. I had a crowd watching me and cheering me on. All the big wigs were coming out to meet me. Heck, I had seen Dad do all kinds of things like that on the farm. Farmers make do, save nickels, and don't drive 30 minutes to town to resolve trivial issues.
Anyway, its been kind of like that in my career. I apply things from time to time that I saw on the farm.
Surely Caustic sees "Big Problems" like the allen head bolt and sees easy solutions. Some times you find an easy solution when you are in a dire panic. The farm culture instills a lot of dry humor into you. Farming is not the big romatic things you see on television. When city folks are all snug in bed in the middle of a winter night, you are out trying to save something. Growing up in that culture you are often faced with hard reality. Sometimes it is a matter of salvaging rather than saving. You learn to suck it up and keep going. You also learn from your mistakes. If you are choosing the farm life, get used to dry humor.
There is an old saying about experience coming from mistakes. Don't take it so personal when someone points out your mistake. Learn from soneone who has been there a time or two. You might as well get used to the dry humor too because they are full of that right along with the knowledge. They have had a hard life and life has hardened them. You'll find they all have good hearts deep inside. There are still alot of these old folks around that no one wants to listen too. They aren't perfect and they know that too.
I have read all the "tips and tricks" and think that some foks are going about things the hard way when they think they have discovered an easier way.
When someone has been doing something for 50 years, they are going to learn a few tricks. I am not even that old.
I grew up around cattlemen and learned a great deal from them. I have even applied that in the engineering work I do. For instance we were in the middle of Wyoming, in the middle of no where and needed a 3/4 allen wrench. The situation warranted NEEDING IT NOW. Management had the Procurement group on it and the nearest allen wrench was in Denver. They were about to machine one. That is when I got word of it. I went picked up a 1/2 inch bolt (with a 3/4 inch hex head) double nutted it, and used a 3/4 inch box end to extract the allen head bolt. I was just a kid at the time, but everyone thought I was a genius. I had a crowd watching me and cheering me on. All the big wigs were coming out to meet me. Heck, I had seen Dad do all kinds of things like that on the farm. Farmers make do, save nickels, and don't drive 30 minutes to town to resolve trivial issues.
Anyway, its been kind of like that in my career. I apply things from time to time that I saw on the farm.
Surely Caustic sees "Big Problems" like the allen head bolt and sees easy solutions. Some times you find an easy solution when you are in a dire panic. The farm culture instills a lot of dry humor into you. Farming is not the big romatic things you see on television. When city folks are all snug in bed in the middle of a winter night, you are out trying to save something. Growing up in that culture you are often faced with hard reality. Sometimes it is a matter of salvaging rather than saving. You learn to suck it up and keep going. You also learn from your mistakes. If you are choosing the farm life, get used to dry humor.
There is an old saying about experience coming from mistakes. Don't take it so personal when someone points out your mistake. Learn from soneone who has been there a time or two. You might as well get used to the dry humor too because they are full of that right along with the knowledge. They have had a hard life and life has hardened them. You'll find they all have good hearts deep inside. There are still alot of these old folks around that no one wants to listen too. They aren't perfect and they know that too.
