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Hit 10,000 cubic yards moved on the old 8-inch and it made me think about how much the job’s changed since I started 20 years ago.
That number just crept up on me last month, and it really hit me how we used to eyeball everything with a pencil and a tide chart, not a screen showing real time readings.
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kaiharris28d ago
Man, is it really that deep though? Like yeah technology changes things but I don't think a tide chart and a pencil was some golden age of pipe moving. People have been guessing and checking stuff for decades and it worked fine, now we have better tools and it works fine too. Feels like every old timer says the same thing about their job no matter what it is. You could be making sandwiches and someone would say "back in my day we didn't have automatic mayo spreaders.
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lindaowens27d ago
Next thing you know someone will be nostalgic about the good old days of using a rock and a stick to figure out pipe angles. I guess we should all go back to chiseling our pipeline plans onto stone tablets then, right? The mayo spreader thing got me because it is exactly what every trade does. Bet there is a guy out there right now telling his grandkids about the HEROIC era of manual caulk application.
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