Joe The Bad

Wiring used to be my least favorite part of this trade, now I think it’s kind of fun. Tomorrow this bowl of spaghetti will be all wired up and lookin’ purty 🤓

Wearing a sportsball jersey with another man’s name on it is peak cuck behavior

Scored this hot rod at a garage sale for $10 this morning. Dude couldn’t get it to run, I spent 10 minutes taking the flywheel cover off and sanding the surface rust off the coil pickups. Now it’s ready to cut some grass https://blossom.primal.net/fcc1dd5cf98a054d5792ca527c67f94fa0f11076dc58b17fa4c88cf21065816e.mov

Sucks to be these nerds #justsaynotozog https://blossom.primal.net/fc4557afcff231e7e0122ff3106ceb398fe726249c8847637c32e8e35acb32b5.mov

Another day, another blown out hydro

On August 15 1971 (the day the dollar was decoupled from gold) gold was $43/oz and federal minimum wage was $1.60/hr. At that time, a 40 hour work week making minimum wage came out to $64 or 1.49oz of gold. Today with gold at $3698.58/oz, to earn 1.49oz of gold ($5510.88) for a 40 hour work week you need to make $92.46/hr. Today a 40 work week at federal minimum wage ($7.25/hr) gets you $290 or .08oz of gold. I’m not a gold bug, I just like to run these numbers sometimes 🤷‍♂️

Got to work on a water hydro freight elevator for the first time today. One of the oldest elevators I’ve ever worked on, built in 1936 with the original permit still intact. Cool way to close out the work week. https://blossom.primal.net/91c862f08ac17ae766d66e00a2ff40a35199ef1c74b1f4e70f068581f8962a91.mov

GN

Weekend photo dump. Hope everyone had a long productive weekend

GM #bikestr #dadstr

GN Picture taken facing east with the setting sun behind me

I like trains

GM If you don’t know now you know. Jerry Reed was the man. https://blossom.primal.net/2e46a00e112462d4a505df5e730eb566976b8a944a78dc6936838a2586c32ff3.mov

Is this vlog thing just a pysop to get the anons to show their faces 🧐

Dang ol’ rig ol’ son #truckstr

1st day with a new apprentice today, after 2 years with lousy help I really hope this guy can hang