American Worker and American pride thread

When poeple were responsible for themselves. When hand outs were shameful . When people were proud to be Americans

Hard working people

Post em up !!!!!!

You must be dang proud of that boy Dirtydog ! Great pics

Some great photos of hard working Union and non-union workers.

Great thread!!!!!. Even greater photos!

There are lots of folks around that work hard and take pride in their work. Me last week repairing storm damage to a customer’s garage:

My Dad My Hero

pulling up to load fuel coke in Erie PA Erie Coke is right on the lake. Hard to work sometimes stead of fish for hours. Going to a foundry in Reedsburg Wi. American fuel to make American cast.

What my dad's generation did as kids down here in Dixie.

My son when he was in Afganistan. Also served in Iraq.

American made corn gluten pellets delivered at an American dairy. We got done the farmer asked if Id like to come in for some peach cobbler and a glass of milk. How do you say no to that? It was definitely break time. I bet nowhere in the world can a guy get a better snack than raw milk and homemade cobbler.

Anti those logging pics bring back great memories.
Grandfather was head sawier in several southern Oregon mills in the day

Dad logged for awhile after his law enforcement career. He brought logs into the large log mill in Truckee , Calif before it closed.

Grandfather was killed on Mt Hood , OR in a logging accident in the 70's

My boss posted a picture on Fb of some nameless goober working on a transformer on a 4000 amp service over this last weekend...

Put in 16 hours finishing it up Sunday. I'm still limping around trying to recover.

I'd post it here but it won't let me swipe the photo.

Mike

Edit: Here it is... Wonderful shot of the back of my head. Lol

https://m.facebook.com/tulsaelectri...if&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic

Kansas City MO V.A. hospital. Getting a hole dug and rock hauled off so a building can be added.

Harley factory

Antigov you been busy. Lol

Bring back the pride and most of our country problems would fix themselves

And some work long days behind a desk. Private and public Tax prep guys, accounting firm auditors, and countless other fields put in very long hours especially this time of year. Always working to get it right.

Jim

“Go ahead punk, make my day.”

My daughters job at school will be ending for summer break,she took a summer job that pays the same per week but is twice as many hours,I told her you are working for half,she told me I gotta do what I gotta do to keep the lights on.im proud of her she's only 19 and recently rented her own place.

How about a 24/7 no money job. Great stay-at-home wife and mom(here with the granddaughter).

He has the look of a warrior. Great pic.

great post guys

I had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off them Viet Cong.

Downtown Sandpoint, ID 1948

What always amazed me was the guys on assembly lines splitting hogs in half all day log with those big, heavy cleavers. They could probably tie you in a knot with their fingers.....

Posco's masonry---crafted with pride in the USA.

Nice

Getting ready to tear out more damaged hip and jack rafters this morning. The pride in this job will come when everything is put back together better than the original build.

Awesome!

X2. Awesome.

I do this kind of stuff solo... proud of that and proud to the core to be American.

That or the guy with the sledgehammer above the cattle line.

Nice looking work, Marty. I want to be an American our founding fathers would have wanted to have around.

American Made!

Floors from last summer I was on.



My machines on a deck after a rain blew in on the unfinished floor.

X3 Awesome photo!

Thank you and your family for the sacrifice and service Mr. Steinmeyer!

I poured a lot of concrete back in my younger days. Ten and twelve thousand square foot pours. Two hundred yards at a crack. Backbreaking work but I was in the best shape of my life.

We had a job super tell us to pour when the boss didn't want to. There were clouds on the horizon. We poured. The skies opened up and leaked through the roof system. We were out there throwing Portland cement on the floor trying to work up some sort of finish. What a mess.

Good parenting. The most important and under-rated job out there IMO.

A good spouse and parent is a blessing that has no price, and worth more than all the riches the world has to offer. God bless America!

WOW!

I've been working on this house off and on for the last seven years. It is a vacation island home. The owner has me go there every year between mid-February and May. After May he and his family start using it. It is out of state and a two-hour drive so I stay there during the week while working.

From the top down: I've put a new roof on it. I've installed the attic gable windows. I rebuilt the upper deck and installed a new railing. I converted four bedroom windows into doors so there would be access to the upper deck from all bedrooms. I blew insulation into the balloon-framed studs then resided the entire house. I've remodeled the kitchen. I've put a new hardwood floor in the dining room and done many more smaller jobs over the years.

The Antique Boat Club used this house as a backdrop for their 2015 calendar cover.

nice. I hope more of you post pictures of what you do

This is my fur/ hunting / motorcycle shed i built from ground up .

^^^^^^^
Now that's what i'd call an up-scale fur shed. You must live in one of those gated communities.

Lugnut
Posco
Marty

Great work guys , guys with skills these days are few


Danny ......much respect for what you do also

Awesome!

Thanx , and i hate those gated places . The hoa Nazis wouldnt like me ....lol

Proud member of International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 49

Where's Bucks ?.......he builds some cool stuff too

Nice looking work, Lugnut. Overhauling existing work is much harder than new construction, at least IMO. My hat is off to you.

I would say so.

Thanks and you are correct, remodeling is more involved than new construction. Especially old places like the lake house. It was built in the 1890's and was used as a yacht club for decades. It was only accessible by boat until a long footbridge was built from the mainland about fifty years ago. Nowhere on that house is there anything that is plumb, square or level.

The kitchen remodel presented challenges but we got it done.

That is the nicest looking fur shed I've ever seen AntiGov.

you da man big guy,if'n i knew anything about construction i'd be beggin for a job.more for the fishin and warm weather than the money though.

wife started a new job and went straight to 50 plus hrs a week remodeling airline seats.

sons workin pipelines locally and is doing 60 hrs a week

i'm self employed and don't have to look for work as my phone seems to be ringin a lot lately.3 offers from flagstone quarries in the last 2 weeks and all 3 said they have orders coming out their ears.

MAGA.

I'll be taking my fishing gear with me when I head up there Monday. I know it's way too early, water is probably only in the low-forties, but a guy can hope!

American made

Can't forget those workin the fields in the heat

Loving this thread. Awesome stuff. Often wish I would have been born like 80 years earlier.

I like it , some thing about any thing chevy.

Pretty sure this is Amarican made...1970 mostly...part of my fathers collection I’ve been gathering up..
Hopefully I’ll get it finished before I get to old..One part a year I try to finish...I’ve skipped a few years..

Local iron mine

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Missouri white oak going to make American whiskey and wine barrels

Those are some big logs, wow.

That's awesome!

Yes it is. Our guys on a mountaintop outpost in Viet Nam looking for a helping hand. My brother took the pic...I assume they got the help they were looking for.

It is unbelievable when I see these blood suckers out there that can work but would rather have the government take care of them. I get mad every time I pay more taxes like this year owing the government $2,700.00 more for income tax.

U.p. Michigan iron mountain

Here's a man who spent 40 years climbing poles and microwave towers for the railroad to provide a good life for his family.



I'm a lucky to call him my dad!

ol'dad

Drilling wheat moonrise, feeding at sunrise

https://images.app.goo.gl/WxWUS4eJYJea7AX38
I help build things like this years ago.

Dang lugnut ...........

Could you get a boom lift in there ?

No access for a boom but I “got her done.” Over 1,700 2.5” stainless, ring-shank nails to renail that gable wall.

I don't think I have that much scaffolding . Had to borrow a 40 ft ladder one time . Don't ever want to own one of those

That’s everything I own set up on that job, fourteen sets. It was barely enough to reach the top of the gable.

Local 125 laborer, heavy highway hear

Farmers are getting a handout because of Trump.
Hard working people in China too! They are going to eat our lunch. This focus on steel, petroleum, and coal is so last century. We will be left behind. Need to look forward.

I don't.

Osky

Me neither and I don't want to.

X 4

I like the pic of that big log, Antigov.

Those aircraft carriers are massive.

We WIN !!!!

Big Brutus

American made striped bass, and walleye eggs.

My cousin Jesse graduating from Drill Sergeant School




Me as a young whipper snapper

American lumber.

Feeling pretty insignificant right now!

I remember saying the pledge every day at the start of school. They don't do that any more do they?

Feeding America !!

1950 Farmall Cub still going strong. Got eight more inches of snow last night and time to go plow.

Directing yesterdays meals on wheels to their final resting place!




Chris

I taught school for sixteen years and every class said the pledge every single school. Also had daily prayer at the flagpole, regardless of weather.

I taught school for sixteen years and every class said the pledge every single school. Also had daily prayer at the flagpole, regardless of weather.

Good ole days .............

Colt

Great finish work there Marty. I'd be proud of that.

coonman220