And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, October 12, 2018
A worker holding a 193 lb. (87.5 kg.) bolt and nut used to couple two shafts together on a main unit during the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Grand Coulee, Washington, December 29, 1942
had a job like that when i was very much younger. stacked 130 pound zinc ingots all night long at anaconada metals in montana. gave me an appreciation for hard work. did a bit of hard rock mining before i figured out that guys a large as me shouldn't work in little holes in the ground as that time will come soon enough to us all.
I had a job when I was 18 putting 125-lb. drawbars on bulldozers in an Allis-Chalmers plant. I weighed 140 lbs. at that point, and I definitely learned to lift with my legs.
The guy I was replacing was in his 40's and a lot smaller than I was.
I used to have to tighten double-acting compressor crosshead nuts about that size with striker wrench. Once drawn up it 20 good kits with a 20 pound sledge hammer. It was a real workout considering some of the comoressors had 6 crossheads.
Looks to be around the same size as the coupling bolts on the Navy's propeller shafts. (former Philly yardbird)
ReplyDeletehad a job like that when i was very much younger. stacked 130 pound zinc ingots all night long at anaconada metals in montana. gave me an appreciation for hard work. did a bit of hard rock mining before i figured out that guys a large as me shouldn't work in little holes in the ground as that time will come soon enough to us all.
ReplyDeleteI had a job when I was 18 putting 125-lb. drawbars on bulldozers in an Allis-Chalmers plant. I weighed 140 lbs. at that point, and I definitely learned to lift with my legs.
ReplyDeleteThe guy I was replacing was in his 40's and a lot smaller than I was.
I used to have to tighten double-acting compressor crosshead nuts about
ReplyDeletethat size with striker wrench. Once drawn up it 20 good kits with a 20 pound
sledge hammer. It was a real workout considering some of the comoressors
had 6 crossheads.