well, i'll begin this thread then, i guess. i spent the first few years bending rigid pipe with hand benders, building and installing unistrut "trapezes", (crawling around 20-30 ft. in the air, hanging from bar joists) and cranking away on the handle of a ridgid hand threader. [Linked Image] the "grass certainly looking greener" on the residential side of the fence, i asked, after a couple of years in industrial, if i could "branch out". but, the old-timers" in the industrial division apparently liked the idea of me carrying their tools for them, loading and unloading the truck for them, and soaking up all that excess cutting oil with my clothes, for them. [Linked Image]

ahhhhhh!....those were the days......back when "men were men, and a good helper was certainly worth his $1.10 an hour".... [Linked Image]