This reminds me of a few years ago when I was in El Cajon there was a young kid,hispanic who spoke spanish who was using a nail gun during “construction” of one of those apt-to-condo things. Well he was mindlessly nailing the plywood with the gun, just trying to get it stuck back together, it was hilarious and sad at the same time. I wonder how many pipes or wires he must have hit?
Nailgun in the hands of someone inexperienced? That scares the sh*t out of me. It is not called a Nailgun for the heck of it. It can easily put a 16d nail through someones skull, eyes or other body parts.
I’ve seen the same type of thing. I put myself through college doing construction and had the opportunity to ‘inherit’ the journeyman carpenter’s business at 18 (I could have quit college and took up the business). I passed on it. I saw the writing on the wall. I put a lot of the blame on ‘beancounters’ with no experience in the business. The ‘beancounters’ would compare the hourly rate and use that for sole determination, ignoring rework, quality and production rates.
I have also seen the ‘rework’ of these guys. Case in point, a recently purchased new house had damage to the bathtub (probably a hammer dropping on it). Part of the purchase agreement was for the tub to be replaced. Because tubs have an outer raised lip that fits under the tile, the tub has to be ‘cut’ out of the wall. The person who cut out the tub did the cut in one pass.. through the tile, creteboard/cement backing board, moisture barrier, OSB/Green-rock. This creates the problem where the seam between the replaced tile and existing tile is not supported and will flex, breaking the grout and allowing water all the way into the wall. The cuts are supposed to be ‘staggered’ and the cut behind the OSB/Green-rock needs to be ‘crippled’.
Your posts are spot-on. Don’t let the emotional and personal attacks bother you. It simply means they don’t have a valid, logical argument.
Thanks.. I don’t let them bother me.. but I do address them directly and call the attacks for what they are.
BTW, I’d much prefer paying $3.00 per head of lettuce than $.50, if it meant the worker who picked it was legal and earning a livable wage and good benefits; but that’s just me.
I will never fall for the argument that cheaper produce (and we really don’t **know** that, do we?)
Interesting that you mention this. Lettuce is largely picked mechanically, as are beets, potatoes, celery, etc. If you have the book “The Way Things Work”, Simon and Schuster publisher; vol 1 page 434 is a lightweight description of how a beet harvester works. A lettuce harvester is similar except it doesn’t have to pick up the root and effectively the top of the ‘beet’ is the lettuce head in the device. I got the series for my 8th Christmas birthday.
Apples, Oranges, Avocados, Strawberries, etc are picked manually. I wouldn’t be surprised if Strawberries can be picked mechanically since the plant can be sacrificed at picking time.
