I make enough as a crane operator to buy my vehicles cash scrub, but okay

Lololol you’re so mad

Jesus Christ you’re relentlessly toxic and ignorant. The rigging I’m talking about are the cables hanging below my 8000lb load block, rated for 60,000 lbs. they regularly lift close to their capacity. With other rigging, I regularly lift an upwards of 120,000lbs.

Contractors don’t spend 4 million dollars on a crane that has 3/4 million lbs of counterweight just so I can swing the rigging around and look cool.

I’m talking about a 300 ton lattice boom crawler crane with 210’ of boom, we’re not talking about the same thing here kiddo.

Yeah, to the person below saying “vAn gUd, tRuCk sToOpId”, how many times have you had a truck bed full of soil, gravel, or a drop in fertilizer spreader, or a sprayer vessel, or any number of things that you can’t put in a van.

Don’t hate trucks. Hate the yuppies who drive them. They’re the same people wearing big belt buckles in the suburbs who’ve never seen a fucking cow irl.

A van is usually the same truck chassis driveline and engine as it’s comparable full-size truck, like, and econoline 150 is an F-150 on a van body. Only I can drop my 500lb spreaders directly off the hook of my crane into the bed. Literally same vehicle with different capabilities. Id have to torch a big hole in the top of your van to do that.

Oh, and my full-size pickup gets 24mpg.

Hey now, just because my truck works doesn’t mean I don’t keep it looking slick. Then again I’ve only had it a year or so. I’m sure the job will eat it up pretty quick.

As someone who works in heavy industry as a crane operator, regularly totes around big rigging, outrigger pads, and all of the gear and tools required for my trade, and then drives onto job sites that look like apocalyptic motocross tracks with deep mud, gravel and sand, I need a full size pickup. You can’t take your car where I need to go.

That said, I’d guess 95% of full size truck owners probably drive theirs to the office parking lot and back, and use their bed for nothing but groceries. It’s a cultural thing, that what should be a specialized work vehicle is co-opted as a hillbilly luxury/status vehicle.

So, don’t hate all of us. I’m guessing you need the roads and bridges and infrastructure and apartment buildings that I build. I need a truck to make it happen.

Linux Mint and Bit Warden are the obvious picks, But I’ve really been enjoying NetNewsWire on iOS since the decline of Reddit. RSS is a great protocol, and NNW is a very seamless experience. When I find a link to an RSS feed I want to follow, just tap and hold, share, and it auto fills an entry with everything but a title and automatically adds it to your feed. Great stuff.

Shut up and take my down vote

I don’t feel even a little bad about it.

Say stupid shit, surprise surprise, unless you’re in your cozy racist or queerphobic echo chamber with a bunch of other dudes that can’t get laid, you’re gonna get called out and shit on. This is the way. It will always be this way. Just leave. Delete your account. You will never be welcome here.

The freedom to tell idiots to get fucked is the greatest freedom of all. Sounds like someone is salty about the fact that the sewage that comes out of their mouth has social consequences.

Thanks for the thoughtful response ☺️

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I'll see what I can do when it comes back to me. It's currently in the shop for a rebuild and lubrication of the movement, as well as a hand polishing of the case. I'll drop another post when I get it back and manage to get a good picture or two.

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