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A guy at the yard in Tulsa said something I still think about
We were setting a big drum on a new boiler base, and I was rushing to get the slings off. He stopped me, pointed at the gap, and said 'The steel isn't tired, you can be.' We took five, checked the shims again, and it dropped in clean. What's the best piece of simple advice you've gotten on a job?
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the_sage5h ago
Man that's a good one. It reminds me how the best advice cuts through the noise and just tells you to slow down. We get so stuck in the rhythm of the task that we forget the work will wait for us. My old welding instructor had a similar line, he'd say "let the metal cool, your head can't." It's all about respecting the process over the pace.
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fisher.jessica10h ago
My old foreman in Kansas City always said measure with a micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with an axe.
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