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very interesting. I watched the first 8 minutes.

not altogether different from what I used to do. except for the casting. rivets are seldom used these days.

What work were you in Wes, I did my apprenticeship in an iron foundry.

This place.

I was a structural steel fabricator for 20 yrs , gob.

mainly at crystal steel fabricators, inc. if you want to google it. they started up here, and now are multi state, multi national, doing some interesting work.

we started out doing anything, but mainly did govt work after a while. schools, universities, museums, military bases.....

eta-"physically exhausting and ruinous to the health" tell me about it brother.....


geez, I d like to go to the ancient celtic lands.... there is something about welsh names that conjures up the faerie ....

I was a machinist, using milling machines and lathes.

cool. our head of maintanence was a master machinist among other things.....

I pretty much did everything, door to door, except run the cnc lines....

...the proverbial 'busy guy' that you get to do the job....

Gob wrote:What work were you in Wes, I did my apprenticeship in an iron foundry.

This place.

Interesting. My Swede worked in a foundry as a young man before and during college. Mostly cast iron and brass work. Like yours Gob, his started in the 1880s and then shut down a century later. My uncles also both worked at the Bethlehem Steel shipyard in Baltimore, when they were in high school, doing rivets and other steel assembly. It's amazing how much that kind of heavy industrial work touched all of us, at some point. Even me - a bunch of my early legal work was related to cleaning up those kinds of plants so I've learned a bit about the work and the processes. It's fascinating.

Thanks for sharing that Guin, interesting stuff!

My dad was a Tool & Die maker and his father was a machinist.
I worked at the shop growing up but ended up in electronics.
I inherited the mechanical gene thankfully.