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things i miss, being retired

Annihilator said:
No, not quite sure where that is, first I heard of that town
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Said every spook who was ever asked a specific question.

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Old_Me said:
this picture goes back to 2006, July in fact.

i worked for a company out of Swanton, Ohio, named Air-Ride, that had the DHL hauling contract.

i'd go to the DHL center about 15 miles from my house, they would load up the trailer, and i'd take "air freight"...yes..."air freight" from RI to Allentown. PA, at the Schantz Rd center...off route 101...??

a WAWA was at the corner, best dang deli, breakfast sammiches, and fresh coffee ever...across the intersection, is the Hershey industrial park

i had to wait for another "air freight load from Pittsburgh, switch out with them, and come on back

"about 10 hours there, and 10 hours back. couldn't be late, the day delivery trucks had to roll...paper logbooks, made it all happen.

my truck back then.......


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Seeing that you mentioned the 'Detroit Diesel', it brings to mind how they were written about in the bible. Did you know that? Yeh, in the book of Revelations, they talk about that in the end "there will be strange creatures wailing and screaming".
Just kiddin' y'all, frankly I like the sound of the ol' 2 strokers. But they do sound like 'strange creatures wailing and screaming'!
Nice rig BTW!
 
TEXASforLIFE said:
Although not retired i do miss driving semi's! I miss days on end of hard physical labor! I didn't mind working a 45-60 hour straight work day. No sleep and barely ate, but did stay hydrated. That was when I had alfalfa. When it's ready, it's ready and no time to waste. 100°+ days, but did have a/c maybe half the time?
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Haha, where the hell did you work where they did a 45-60 hour day? I know, I know, it was a typo .... they're really easy to make when you're working those kinds of hours. ;):unsure:
 
powerboatr said:
i miss being at sea,... well not really
but i miss the good, the bad and the ugly of active duty Navy aviation
retirement often finds me taking 3 days to do a 20 minute job as i get side tracked with other stuff
then other days the day is gone and i have completed tons of stuff that somehow was not done 3 days earlier

range time helps
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LOL! I've found since I retired that as long as I put off my procrastinating until tomorrow, I have loads of time for it all!

I'm sorry guys, for some reason it just seemed like a night for a little levity, hope y'all don't mind.
 
jumpinjoe said:
Haha, where the hell did you work where they did a 45-60 hour day? I know, I know, it was a typo .... they're really easy to make when you're working those kinds of hours. ;):unsure:
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Self employed and no overtime. When cutting alfalfa you work when weather allows. In this case I start by cutting/swathing, then merge/rake 2 rows together, then bale, then haul and finally load semi's or other trailers by myself. The semi's get 18 bales banded together by metal flat straps like on pvc or other metals. Got to bale and rake when moisture is at a certain percentage. You can haul and cut at most any moisture.

So ya, 45-60 straight hours of working.
 
TEXASforLIFE said:
Self employed and no overtime. When cutting alfalfa you work when weather allows. In this case I start by cutting/swathing, then merge/rake 2 rows together, then bale, then haul and finally load semi's or other trailers by myself. The semi's get 18 bales banded together by metal flat straps like on pvc or other metals. Got to bale and rake when moisture is at a certain percentage. You can haul and cut at most any moisture.

So ya, 45-60 straight hours of working.
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Well yeh, but that ain't all one day! We're all pretty elderly 'round here but we ain't retarded.

Seriously, I know a little about farming and those long hours. I'm just messin' with ya' a little bit. Hope that's OK.
 
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SimonRL said:
Hmmm and you just assumed that the term from your boyhood was being used? Yet you didn’t mind having a giggle about it in a separate thread last week. Ok then.
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For one I didn’t give a 🤣 emoji to anything like that, I gave a like, I mostly give likes to members on here, you had that term directed at me, plus you used a black man in a meme, so yea, I took it that way…….
 
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