My 22 year old son is more excited than a four year old on Christmas morning!!
Uri is a good kid. He understands how to work, makes good money and doesn't blow his money like so many his age. He runs a track hoe doing outside plumbing for a large construction company doing subdivisions. Since he does good work and works long hours his bosses love him.
Today he was tinting the windows of the brand spanking new track hoe his company bought and is his to use, getting it ready to start working with it Monday morning. He will have trouble sleeping Sunday night he is so excited! 😂
He is like the 4 year old who came downstairs Christmas morning and sees a bright red bicycle under the Christmas tree!! It is funny watching how excited he is.
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When they get together, our three 30 something daughters get so spun up it's like they're still in grade school and ate too much sugar. They will always be kids!
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LOL, that's cool. Good for him & congrats.
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When I was a kid my grandparents bought me a few Tonka Toys: a shovel, a dump truck, and I think a motor grader. I played with the toys- which back then were made of real steel, and wondered what it might be like to operate the real equipment?
Many years later when I owned a gun shop, I'd ask some of the customers who were equipment operators if it was a fun job? They all loved it.
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Ran a DC9 Cat Dozer, 580 Case backhoe,installing pools, grading land and installing septic systems. It is a young mans life, when you get older they beat you to death.
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I've owned a backhoe most of my adult life. Having a 580 K is not only fun, but handy as all get out. I'm looking for a small track hoe now. Just has to have a thumb.
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good for him when you enjoy your job life is so much better congrats on a good son
when I worked construction40 + years ago I do not remember a operator who di did not like running equipment. most all had at least one or two pieces of equipment they were not fond of for some reason or other . as expected
as for me we were all union on all union jobs so for me it hands off but on remote jobs some older operators would show me or let me run some things like a bulldozer / back hoes / skid loaders , but that was just like giant toys for me to get to Play with them .
my back hoe 😁 on the job sites were a shovel and pick
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@Ditch-Runner my back hoe 😁 on the job sites were a shovel and pick
That's the problem today. Nobody either wants to or knows how use a hand tool. When I've hired a ground man, they all want to climb up in the cab while I work the ground. NO! They don't understand how easy it is to cause damage or injury. My father was a union operator who, "ran hoes." He would tell me that he could do more in an hour than I did all day.
@dreher It will take days for your son to stop smiling.
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@Ditch-Runner my back hoe 😁 on the job sites were a shovel and pick
That's the problem today. Nobody either wants to or knows how use a hand tool. When I've hired a ground man, they all want to climb up in the cab while I work the ground. NO! They don't understand how easy it is to cause damage or injury. My father was a union operator who, "ran hoes." He would tell me that he could do more in an hour than I did all day.
@dreher It will take days for your son to stop smiling.
I try to not to take away the joy of the post and what a wonderful son and job he is doing or hijack it
I worked with operators smooth as silk many years on the controls showed , I trusted my life many a day to them inches away from swinging buckets ( but keep in mind never trust equipment a O ring could kill ya ) I would be down in a deep hole with a shovel some of them fellows could have spread your PBJ sandwiches with there buckets and not torn the bread LOL .
flip side some banged rattled bounced around you would think it was there fist day learn quick stay way clear
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I say a hearty congrats to your son on getting to spend his working hours operating nice brand new equipment!
My only experiences while working maintenance jobs for a local family owned oil company was operating very old, very tired, equipment that had so many quirks to get used to in order to get any job done.
I did find some joy operating a hi-lo for a few years on another job. Equipment I was darn good at! 😁
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Congratulations to your son that he found his dream vocation. Some work 50 years, retire and never enjoy a day of it.
Wish I had the $$$$$ to purchase my own skid steer. I am forced to just rent when the occasion calls for it. Weather is warming and when we get a couple of weeks when the farm won't be a bog I'm renting one to get some gravel moved and some dirt pushed. Once I get in one I could spend the entire day there. Ooooweee such fun.
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that is awesome. Sounds like a hard working, good young man. They are few and far between today. Although my son finally found his career and is a super hard worker, it took him till he was 25 to figure it out. finding kids that want to work and use their hands and minds, is hard today. I can't find one good guy or lady to work, and actually show up on time. Oh, and don't get me started about the damn cell phones😫
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Wish I had a engine powered digger whin I was earning my PHD. ( POST HOLE DIGGER.)
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My Grandson has a degree in civil engineering. When he was still in college, he worked part time for his cousin running a trackhoe. After he graduated, he went to work for the Corps Of engineers, and when they discovered he knew how to operate one of them, he was made trainer/tester for new hires. My son-in-law says he can "pick your teeth" with it.
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Have had and run several pieces of heavy equipment. Not much any more.
I can spot a heavy equipment operator with several years of abuse, Most all will walk bent over.
Had an occasion to see a fellow get clobbered by a expert backhoe operator. Operator was smooth as silk and someone dared him to flip the shovel operators hard hat off, Shovel man was cleaning out the ditch.
Just as soon as backhoe is about to do the flip, up stands the shovel man. out cold for a few minutes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuEoA9PkSD4 It could be considered an art form. This was posted some years ago by another member (sorry, I can't remember who) on this very forum.
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When I worked for TVA back in the 90s at Colbert steam plant in Northwest Alabama there was a pretty blond-headed young lady that worked in the coal yard and she operated a Cat D11 bulldozer. She always had her makeup on and wore fancy flashy clothes. It was really odd to see but she looked great. First time I saw her she was wearing white pants with a top that had a pink feathered coller. She sat in that air conditioned cab and pushed coal to the pit where the conveyors were all day long. She did a good job and I never saw her dirty.
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