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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: homersipes on March 04, 2015, 07:30:06 PM
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got laid off a bit back and now I am going through withdrawls and missing it like crazy, have any of you ever missed a job and drove the wifey nuts about it? hahaha anyways I found this video and thought it was pretty good about what I used to do and hopefully will do again :pray :pray thought Id share with yall :rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnYvX2d-fkw
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Great post...alotta camaraderie....
Strangely still have dreams about a few jobs... some I didn't care for...
JGroth
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I just quit my job in the patch. It was really bad timing on my part as most companies are laying off and I was high enough up the chain to where I was safe. It's hard to go from 110 hours a week to jobless.
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Only regretted losing one job, laid off from a cargo airline job I had. All the others I was happy to leave, ecstatic even because I got a good pay off. My last proper job was back in 2007 which I quit because I was beginning to have nightmares about it. Since then I haven't had a 'job' although I've been working as a skydive pilot on and off for since then.
Right now I'm a stay at home Dad with a part time gig as a skydive pilot. I don't miss going to the office or the factory at all. I think I have it made!
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hang in there man same boat as you, make the most of YOUR day
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skydive pilot sounds like a pretty fun gig :aok where were you working Pluto? and yeah it is hard to go from 100+ hours a week to 40, it SUCKS hahaha I dont know what to do not seeing a sunrise and sunset on same shift. I have talked to some people at Halliburton and they all said they should be picking back up within the next year fracking and got a ton of supervisors that gave a good word and the hiring manager said when they pick back up he will give me a call, hopefully sooner than later :) if its later I will be divorced, driving the wife up the wall with watching videos and smacking my gums about it :rofl lmfao I found this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQzZhj7i2zI#t=35
yeah there is ALOT of camaraderie out where I was as well, we spent more time with them than our families, so we basically became like family
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I was working with Warrior Energy doing flowback. I mostly worked in the DJ Basin in Colorado, but we frequently worked in ND, Wyoming, Texas, Idaho and sometimes back east. I had some issues with the upper management and how they started treating their employees. Its a cut throat business to be in but I couldnt imagine doing anything else.
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flowback looked like a pretty good job. that sucks about your job man, but you are right it is very cut throat. When I first started in ND, my dad told me once I get working in oilfield I will never be happy doing anything else. He couldnt have said any truer words.
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I hope You find a job. You have any special qualification?
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I started a new job this past monday cutting trees, its alright. Learning a ton about trees and how to PROPERLY drop trees :aok hopefully wont have to be there too horribly long, I guess like Pluto stated cant really imagine doing anything but oil patch, hopefully will pick up soon a ton of people lost their jobs. As soon as I saw oil going down fast I started looking for a job got a few calls and for the most part nobody wants to hire me now here at home because they all figure I will leave as soon as oil picks back up again and had a few state just that, but its true :devil pay is better and I enjoy the work more than anything I have ever done before.
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I started a new job this past monday cutting trees, its alright. Learning a ton about trees and how to PROPERLY drop trees :aok hopefully wont have to be there too horribly long, I guess like Pluto stated cant really imagine doing anything but oil patch, hopefully will pick up soon a ton of people lost their jobs. As soon as I saw oil going down fast I started looking for a job got a few calls and for the most part nobody wants to hire me now here at home because they all figure I will leave as soon as oil picks back up again and had a few state just that, but its true :devil pay is better and I enjoy the work more than anything I have ever done before.
What I have been doing for extra cash for the last ten year's . It's a skill to drop a tree the right way . I can drop one on a dime no madder how big it is .
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I just quit my job in the patch. It was really bad timing on my part as most companies are laying off and I was high enough up the chain to where I was safe. It's hard to go from 110 hours a week to jobless.
While that may be true but I wouldn't want to work 110 hours a week. Last week I worked 63 and that was already 23 hours over time. You need to have some spare time also
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While that may be true but I wouldn't want to work 110 hours a week. Last week I worked 63 and that was already 23 hours over time. You need to have some spare time also
this is true if you are at home, but out there in oil, we would stay out for a length of time and then go home for a length of time. I was 4 weeks on and 2 weeks off, some are 2 weeks and 2 weeks. So when you are out there you work, then when you get home you relax and do what you want for days off. I love 100 hour weeks, but wouldnt want it while working here at home. we worked 15-18 hour days 7 days a week, with occasional 20 hour day.
yes Flench it is an art thats for sure, I am generally pretty good and can get within a foot or so, we are cutting around the power lines keeping them clear, quite a bit of rope rigging around lines
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homersipes , Took me year's to learn how to sharpen the saw than it did to learn to drop trees . That rope comes in handy around lite lines . I had to cut one yesterday and I through a rope on it just in case for it was hitting the lite line and leaning all the way to that side . Doing dam county work again and not getting paid , lol .
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this is true if you are at home, but out there in oil, we would stay out for a length of time and then go home for a length of time. I was 4 weeks on and 2 weeks off, some are 2 weeks and 2 weeks. So when you are out there you work, then when you get home you relax and do what you want for days off. I love 100 hour weeks, but wouldnt want it while working here at home. we worked 15-18 hour days 7 days a week, with occasional 20 hour day.
yes Flench it is an art thats for sure, I am generally pretty good and can get within a foot or so, we are cutting around the power lines keeping them clear, quite a bit of rope rigging around lines
Ahh that explains it. I thought you'd be insane to do 110 hours regularly.
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Took me year's to learn how to sharpen the saw than it did to learn to drop trees
sharpening is tough, first few times I filed a chain, it would cut a circle I could file one side really well and the other well...... not so well :lol there are some really neat ways to drop trees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLkgWFh9lDs I dunno why but I want to try this :D
Ahh that explains it. I thought you'd be insane to do 110 hours regularly.
yeah was nice to work a month then have 2 full weeks off :aok really 7 days a week youre only working 15 hours a day which isnt too horribly bad :)
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sharpening is tough, first few times I filed a chain, it would cut a circle I could file one side really well and the other well...... not so well :lol there are some really neat ways to drop trees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLkgWFh9lDs I dunno why but I want to try this :Dyeah was nice to work a month then have 2 full weeks off :aok really 7 days a week youre only working 15 hours a day which isnt too horribly bad :)
Yep , that's the same way I learn to cut , same saw and all . I got three saw's now a 18 / 21 and a war hog of a saw a 32 . I drop one the other day and when it hit it explode into a thousand pieces it was so rotten , it was cool , wish I had a good video camera .
EDIT" I did just learn something from that next video , never knew about the stick trick .
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(http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/y313/LittleGeorgeJr/saw_zpsr2wp7lxu.jpg) (http://s1025.photobucket.com/user/LittleGeorgeJr/media/saw_zpsr2wp7lxu.jpg.html)
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I had a stihl 048AV with a big bore kit and 28 inch bar, that was a beast of a saw, stupidly I sold it to my neighbor as I dont have any trees and dont heat with wood and he needed a saw :bhead :bhead. I have an OLD Hoffco that needs a bar and chain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPKtn7vmTG8 looks like this :aok yeah rotten trees are awesome when they explode, I dropped a huge cherry that was rotten last summer that competely exploded when it hit, only thing left was the branches :lol
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I had a stihl 048AV with a big bore kit and 28 inch bar, that was a beast of a saw, stupidly I sold it to my neighbor as I dont have any trees and dont heat with wood and he needed a saw :bhead :bhead. I have an OLD Hoffco that needs a bar and chain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPKtn7vmTG8 looks like this :aok yeah rotten trees are awesome when they explode, I dropped a huge cherry that was rotten last summer that competely exploded when it hit, only thing left was the branches :lol
Nice , Would you be interested in selling it ?
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well my tree cutting job came to a stop yesterday, I quit. I had a bad breakfast sandwich and was pukin and coming out other end, and my foreman said I should just go home, I couldnt make it 5 mins without throwing up, so he calls the manager and he comes down to take me to my truck. I get in and immediately get an attitude and he then states " you are afraid to work" so I respond by ummm no it has nothing to do with work and had him pull over and hurled again. So I get back in and he then says, "well if you werent drinking all weekend you wouldnt be hung over" Now I DONT drink AT ALL, NEVER, so I say, Sorry dude but I dont drink at all never have and never will, and he states back " yeah sure thats what every drunk says" So at this point :mad: :mad: I told him to stop the fluff'n truck and I walked about 5 miles back to my truck. I was like I dont need you telling me what and who I am because you have no idea who or what I am. Not exactly what I said, there are a few words left out which would get me banned :lol So I start hopefully next week with another tree company. The company that I was with was very unsafe, we took down a tree with a 100' crane the other day, the crane operator had NO concern for anyone on the ground, he almost whacked a guy on the head with the hook, no tag lines on anything, I was like wow WTF!!
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My son in law works the pumps in Oklahoma, he is on site now but isn't sure how long it will last. Until crude jumps up to $50 bbl their future is unknown. While I like the cheaper gas prices, it's tough knowing that he will lose everything if it doesn't climb back up soon.
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Yeah it sucks bad, lots of guys have been laid off. I think its going to cripple north Dakota, they have adjusted to the high incomes, rent is UNBELIEVABLY high there and without big paying jobs will be a lot of families on the streets. Will keep him in prayers and thoughts. I know the feeling about losing everything, I don't cherish the idea of struggling to live again. Oil is up and down though, part of it. :uhoh :pray
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well my tree cutting job came to a stop yesterday, I quit. I had a bad breakfast sandwich and was pukin and coming out other end, and my foreman said I should just go home, I couldnt make it 5 mins without throwing up, so he calls the manager and he comes down to take me to my truck. I get in and immediately get an attitude and he then states " you are afraid to work" so I respond by ummm no it has nothing to do with work and had him pull over and hurled again. So I get back in and he then says, "well if you werent drinking all weekend you wouldnt be hung over" Now I DONT drink AT ALL, NEVER, so I say, Sorry dude but I dont drink at all never have and never will, and he states back " yeah sure thats what every drunk says" So at this point :mad: :mad: I told him to stop the fluffluff'n truck and I walked about 5 miles back to my truck. I was like I dont need you telling me what and who I am because you have no idea who or what I am. Not exactly what I said, there are a few words left out which would get me banned :lol So I start hopefully next week with another tree company. The company that I was with was very unsafe, we took down a tree with a 100' crane the other day, the crane operator had NO concern for anyone on the ground, he almost whacked a guy on the head with the hook, no tag lines on anything, I was like wow WTF!!
You did the right thing there .
Shoot man , I save a bunch burning firewood . No way I could pay to heat my home with LP . I burn 250 gallons of LP with the fireplace going a year as it is . That be about that much a month with out the fireplace .
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we have a pellet stove I was going to put my wood stove in the house, but the metalbestos pipe was going to cost like 3k, was something like 250 for 2 feet, and I would need at least 30 feet, plus a hearth and stuff inside, we only paid 1600 for stove and everything. a ton of pellets runs me between 250 and 300 which lasts a month or so, so its not bad at all and it keeps the house above 70. We used to have an oil fired steam boiler for heat and we were going through 275 gallons of fuel oil at 4.50 a gallon in less than a month before we got the pellet stove :bolt: Yeah no thanks hahaha LP is one of the worst heats you can have, it burns at a much lower BTU than anything else and is quite expensive. I think this summer I am going to try and build a pellet maker out of an old snowblower that I have laying around, doesnt look that hard to build one its just getting the framework to be able to withstand the loads and pressures.