Nice. Mine are basically the industrial-duty version of those, and I've been stalling about 30 years on getting around to making a rack for them. Lids purchased separately, but there's no problem with putting several hundred pounds in a single stack, you won't crush these very easily.
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You are correct, Sir.
Those old newsreels and the commentators like Walter Winchell were mesmerizing to watch. The WWII style with film of moving armies and rough-edged reporters continued well into the 1950's or later and it was thrilling.
When I'm doing a carpentry project outside my shop where I'm going back & forth, doesn't take long for all the tapes to be at one end or the other.
Same here. Don't think I've ever owned one, but I've put in quite a few sinks.
I don't miss those days at all. In the 70s I worked as a field service technician and it was pretty much the rule we had to wear a tie at least on the initial visit to a work site and if flying, on the plane. I hate wearing a tie. Most useless garment ever invented. Jeans were obviously not allowed, but I'd push the limit by wearing corduroy pants...same cut & style, just different fabric. Never got called out on it.
Even though I'm mostly retired now, I still do some field repair work. If it's hot I'm wearing shorts. No one has ever complained.I hate ties with a passion.I don't miss those days at all. In the 70s I worked as a field service technician and it was pretty much the rule we had to wear a tie at least on the initial visit to a work site and if flying, on the plane. I hate wearing a tie. Most useless garment ever invented. Jeans were obviously not allowed, but I'd push the limit by wearing corduroy pants...same cut & style, just different fabric. Never got called out on it.
Some of my worksites also had IBM equipment, and I'd often see their techs. Felt sorry for them. Always a suit, white shirt, tie, wingtips. Even working on messy stuff like hydraulic actuators. Never once saw any of them chatting with or joking around with fellow techs or the customer's employees. Strictly business. Way too structured for me.
Fortunately, by the late 70s things got much more casual. Did I mention I hate wearing a tie?
Just thinking about wearing "...a suit, white shirt, tie, wingtips" makes me miserable. I'm thinking about specifying that I be buried in a pocket tee shirt.I don't miss those days at all. In the 70s I worked as a field service technician and it was pretty much the rule we had to wear a tie at least on the initial visit to a work site and if flying, on the plane. I hate wearing a tie. Most useless garment ever invented. Jeans were obviously not allowed, but I'd push the limit by wearing corduroy pants...same cut & style, just different fabric. Never got called out on it.
Some of my worksites also had IBM equipment, and I'd often see their techs. Felt sorry for them. Always a suit, white shirt, tie, wingtips. Even working on messy stuff like hydraulic actuators. Never once saw any of them chatting with or joking around with fellow techs or the customer's employees. Strictly business. Way too structured for me.
Fortunately, by the late 70s things got much more casual. Did I mention I hate wearing a tie?
I keep four in rotation, five if you count the one I try to keep by the second-floor chop saw. But I usually make a point of trying to wear one of them clipped to my front right pants pocket, for this very reason.
When I moved into this house, no two faucet handles faced proper 180-degrees when turned off. They were all clocked at weird angles 5 to 15 degrees off square, and I always wondered why they didn't just square them up properly when installing them, so they wouldn't look so goofy.
I like to use caulking guns that are a step up from the el cheapo versión.
The Cardinals bested the Sox that year unfortunately. Shoot.
