Your laugh for today

[JDgreen227]

I just read a story in the local news that described a recent project where the state transportation department here used, quote:
"Blow torches to to break the walkway from it's supports on both sides of the avenue..." The walkway was a 15 foot high, 60 foot long pedestrian bridge spanning a four lane main road and the picture in the story shows several large trucks and a crew of six men cutting away part of the structure. WOW !!! I ran out to my garage and got MY blowtorch...just imagine the projects I have lined up for it when spring finally arrives...:laughing:

 

[bikerdib]

I'll bet it took the workers a LONG time to cut steel with their "blowtorches"

You still use yours for anything? Those things weren't the safest tool in the garage but they did what they were designed for.

 

[RoMad]

When I was a kid my dad used to have me climb in the crawl space under our house and thaw the pipes with a blow torch . I thought it was fun.

 

[Bird]

When I was a kid my dad used to have me climb in the crawl space under our house and thaw the pipes with a blow torch . I thought it was fun.

I never did that myself, but I think that's about the only thing my Dad, and his Dad, had blow torches for.

 

[Trials]

Dad taught me to solder eves trough with one of those ...I was 6 years old;
I applied the muriatic acid to the galvanized steel, heated the draw iron with one of those torches and feed the lead wire into the seam all on my own :thumbsup:
I also used to enjoy cutting pipe threads, cleaning out the steam boilers, cleaning the animals cages, running the sign printing machine
... you know Dad was a pretty smart fella making me think all that crap was fun wasn't he

 

[JDgreen227]

I'll bet it took the workers a LONG time to cut steel with their "blowtorches"

You still use yours for anything? Those things weren't the safest tool in the garage but they did what they were designed for.

Have never used mine for anything except a display object, if I need a portable heat source I use a propane torch. I sent the writer of that story in the paper an email with the same attachment shown here about his goof telling him "THIS is what a blowtorch is...." :laughing:

 

[k0ua]

Dad taught me to solder eves trough with one of those ...I was 6 years old;
I applied the muriatic acid to the galvanized steel, heated the draw iron with one of those torches and feed the lead wire into the seam all on my own :thumbsup:
I also used to enjoy cutting pipe threads, cleaning out the steam boilers, cleaning the animals cages, running the sign printing machine
... you know Dad was a pretty smart fella making me think all that crap was fun wasn't he

Not only was your Dad pretty smart for making you think those tasks were fun, but he was also pretty smart for letting you build a whole bunch of good memories of you and him working together.

James K0UA

 

[cqaigy2]

Not only was your Dad pretty smart for making you think those tasks were fun, but he was also pretty smart for letting you build a whole bunch of good memories of you and him working together.

James K0UA

:thumbsup:

 

[burnieman]

When I was a kid my dad used to have me climb in the crawl space under our house and thaw the pipes with a blow torch . I thought it was fun.

If you sent a kid under a house now with a blowtorch to do anything, you'd prob get a visit from child protective services. They'd take your kid away from you and put you in jail. Your wife would leave you, you'd lose your job and you'd end up sleeping under a bridge turning tricks for your next meal. Too much political correctness these days

 

[kw22614]

If you sent a kid under a house now with a blowtorch to do anything, you'd prob get a visit from child protective services. They'd take your kid away from you and put you in jail. Your wife would leave you, you'd lose your job and you'd end up sleeping under a bridge turning tricks for your next meal. Too much political correctness these days

Not under a bridge - somebody might cut it down with a blowtorch!:laughing: