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General => General Discussion and ??? => Topic started by: mooseman on February 05, 2015, 07:19:13 PM
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I never thought I would leave a mark on this industry except for a burned out crater where I crashed and burned.
But today it hit me there is a possibility all that can change with the following revelation.
I would like to coin an industry definition..................
I work alone all day long. Today it seemed I was, at the same time working on the following tasks;
setting up 3 different one color jobs
running films for the next jobs
reclaiming screens
doing some invoices
answering the phone
unpacking shirts that UPS just threw in the door
working on an embroidery file
requesting a quote for patches
calling around to find a price for an embroidery machine part I need
shoveling the walk from the recent snow fall
sending out a couple of quotes
and a couple other things I don't even remember
After all that it hit me I am a LINDBERGH
DEFINITION; "A LINDBERGH" ........ A FULLY OPERATIONAL SCREEN PRINTER FLYING SOLO !
So to all you LINDBERGH'S out there I say "for those about to print, (solo) we salute you"
mooseman
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After all that it hit me I am a LINDBERGH
DEFINITION; "A LINDBERGH" ........ A FULLY OPERATIONAL SCREEN PRINTER FLYING SOLO !
So to all you LINDBERGH'S out there I say "for those about to print, (solo) we salute you"
mooseman
His ties to Nazism would make me shy away from being identified as a Lindbergh. Besides, after thirty years off and on in the biz, I still sometimes feel a little lost, so maybe I'm more of an Earhart
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Didn't see that angle but I guess it all depends on where you land.
At any rate wishing you a strong tail wind.
mooseman
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Didn't see that angle but I guess it all depends on where you land.
At any rate wishing you a strong tail wind.
mooseman
Heh heh heh, he said strong tail wind, heh heh heh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOS5gWzkXMA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOS5gWzkXMA)
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I couldn't do it all.
I used to build my own electric signs, "from scratch" as much as that is possible, and often installed them by myself. (Not as often solo installations)
I do NOT miss that. But I was able, with one or rarely 2 small sign cranes. Solo work is exhausting.
We've got between 2 and 6 people at any given time...most often 4.
I couldn't do it all nowadays. I'd rather quit before it came down to that. Too many things I know nothing about. I'd have to fire myself if I ever discovered all the stuff I've been up to lately... and all the stuff I don't know how to do. Then after letting myself go, I'd be underfoot all the time, tripping all over myself.
I'd give myself cabin fever.
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Moose, looks like you were kind of busy, but what did you do in the afternoon?
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I really should have help (both kinds mental & physical) but I just don't need the grief but I could use the couch rest ;).
In the last two years I have had NY state inspectors stop in to check on my Workers' compensation situation.
Another time, another NY state inspector stopped in to have a look at my employee rights posters to be sure they were properly posted and visible. I tell them I have 3 employees, me , myself and I........they leave...I smile.
FYI on the employee rights posters I have a customer who has a ice cream shop who got hit with a $1500.00 fine because they had the posters incorrectly posted. They had the posters on the public side of the restroom doors. They got whacked because the state said the rooms were down the hall and not in the work space proper. Because there is no guarantee employees will ever need to use the restrooms
they were found to be in violation because "employees did not have unrestricted view to their rights"...... ::)
mooseman
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Heh heh heh, he said strong tail wind, heh heh heh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOS5gWzkXMA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOS5gWzkXMA)
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kick the tire and light the fire..............
mooseman
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Moose, looks like you were kind of busy, but what did you do in the afternoon?
printed 3 shirts :'(
mooseman
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And that's about the time I decided embroidery wasn't for me lol. Screen printing solo is enough to worry about!
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For the first time I had to hire a helper. Right now I'm in a middle of job installing printed graphics on 28 trucks.
Hired a helper to help me clean the trucks and to help me handje big 4x10' decals. He is my buddy, but is paid help.
Due to that job, also had to send two jobs (350 and 50 pieces) across the town to Pierre. Pretty simple prints, but no time to do them.
With being part time (Still have a full time job), I believe it is time to start looking into helpers more often, or looking into making this my only job.
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remember....skidmarks are still considered marks...i leave them in my "racing underwear" everyday.
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Am I still printing Lindbergh even though my wife is navigating from the right seat?
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Am I still printing Lindbergh even though my wife is navigating from the right seat?
Sorry but no, not by the true definition..... solo means solo , unaccompanied, single-handed, companionless, unescorted, unattended, unchaperoned, independent, solitary; alone, on one's own, by oneself.
to be a Lindbergh printer you got to be alone. I am actually borderline Lindbergh if you count the voices in my head ::), that is how fine the line is on this one.
mooseman
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Am I still printing Lindbergh even though my wife is navigating from the right seat?
Sorry but no, not by the true definition..... solo means solo , unaccompanied, single-handed, companionless, unescorted, unattended, unchaperoned, independent, solitary; alone, on one's own, by oneself.
to be a Lindbergh printer you got to be alone. I am actually borderline Lindbergh if you count the voices in my head ::), that is how fine the line is on this one.
mooseman
I believe, for this particular application, even the typical spousal sounding board for support (or lack thereof) at day's end disqualifies one.
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Well... crap!!! Not enough people to be considered "A Real Business" by my friends, and to many to be Lindbergh. Stuck in the middle again. I'm a middle class, middle child using middle of the road equipment. I'd hate to see where I'd come up on a school yard pick for kick ball.
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For the first time I had to hire a helper. Right now I'm in a middle of job installing printed graphics on 28 trucks.
Hired a helper to help me clean the trucks and to help me handje big 4x10' decals. He is my buddy, but is paid help.
Due to that job, also had to send two jobs (350 and 50 pieces) across the town to Pierre. Pretty simple prints, but no time to do them.
With being part time (Still have a full time job), I believe it is time to start looking into helpers more often, or looking into making this my only job.
I got pretty good at installing big decals all by myself back in the day.
I once installed a 30 foot decal (30' X 12.977" to be exact) on a billboard in the wind by myself. I should have just hand lettered it....if we hadn't switched from enamel paints over to Latex House Paint. We used to have quite a few highway signs in rural Kansas, and lots of them were enamel painted 1/2" MDO for a couple of decades. (MDO = Medium Density Overlaid plywood. Paper faced plywood for signs, basically.)
If you don't like a hijacked thread, just stop here.
Properly scuffed, primed, and edge sealed MDO painted with Exterior House Paint lasts a RIDICULOUSLY long time. But lettering with latex paint sucks. Multiple coats with a little stiffer brush than you'd use for enamel was the ticket. But after they "season" for a while, you can apply cut decals.
Thing was, with BIG letters, almost ZERO skill is required to hand letter. So we often involved our kids. No Lindberg stuff here.
Now I'm going to hijack my own post.
In my sign company days, I once hung a 1500 pound 6 x 16 electric sign, Lindberg style, in Alva Oklahoma in one day. 30 foot to the top.
I've now forgotten if I dug the holes for the poles on that day or not. But I had an augur rig I had built in High School for the sign company that could dig an 80" deep hole. 7 full foot actually, if you didn't mind digging out a spot for the big drive sprocket to go below grade 4 inches. A 12" round hole, 7 foot deep filled with a cemented 5 1/2" drill casing or 7" or even 8 1/2" absolutely WILL hold your average small town electric sign. I promise. Especially 2 of them, which was the case on this install.
I was so tired at the end of that day, that I vomited.
There. That's my superlative solo job. One guy, one crane truck, one ladder, one welder, ~20 years younger. (Luckily NO wind. Weird for Oklahoma)
The PAINFUL memory of that last solo installation, is a BIG reason I now print tee shirts.
60 Year Olds don't need no steeknin ladders, especially operating a worn out crane from the tippy top of it. I had a wired remote control for my smaller crane truck and could operate it from the top of an extension ladder.
I don't often tell people this story. Probably because, 1) it was stupid and I did it all the time. My wife didn't fully understand how stupid it was. and 2) it is a little hard to believe, and I don't want to be thought a liar. I'm no Brian Williams.
Or Hillary.
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Well... crap!!! Not enough people to be considered "A Real Business" by my friends, and to many to be Lindbergh. Stuck in the middle again. I'm a middle class, middle child using middle of the road equipment. I'd hate to see where I'd come up on a school yard pick for kick ball.
I was always picked last, which means I wasn't picked at all.
Funny post though!
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Crap again... I was just reminded that I'm also middle aged. Wow...I think I'll just go out back and lick some stir sticks...