What's your Daytime Job.

Old 07-18-2009, 06:34 AM
  #1  
TheRabbit
Senior Member
RACING JUNKIE
Thread Starter
 
TheRabbit's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Augusta, Ga.
Posts: 2,276
Default What's your Daytime Job.

Of course we all love racing or hot rods of some type, but what is your day job?
I've been in the equipment rental business for 15 years. Started as a road mechanic and worked up to Store Manager. The rental bus. pretty much sucks right now so I changed jobs in January and now work for a crane co. Southway Crane & Rigging. We rent anything from a small 15 ton to an 800ton crane. The 800ton is one of largest truck mounted cranes in the country and only a couple of them in the US.
TheRabbit is offline  
Old 07-18-2009, 06:50 AM
  #2  
outlaw256
Senior Member
RACING JUNKIE
 
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: falkville al
Posts: 1,764
Default

i dont really have a day job. i have a 24hr job. my son and i own a custom shop at the house. we build ol skool hotrods andcustom build harleys. choppers to bobbers.we dont work on anything import, car or bike.1974 is cut off year for our shop. nothing after 74.( FOR THE CARS) we have the knowledge but not the desire to build anything newer.and we work all hours day or nite.we have no regular hrs. its hotrods and harleys at my house 24 hrs a day.
outlaw256 is offline  
Old 07-18-2009, 07:15 AM
  #3  
kwkracing
Senior Member
RACING JUNKIE
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: austin texas
Posts: 729
Default

I started my own welding businsess about 5 years ago, at first i did alot of welding of stainless and aluminum when custom motorcycles were the big craze, backhalved cars, and so on. I quickly realized it was easier to make money in the construction field and started doing mostly commercial jobs, dont get me wrong, they are both really hard work.
kwkracing is offline  
Old 07-18-2009, 08:50 AM
  #4  
curtisreed
Senior Member
RACING JUNKIE
 
curtisreed's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: KIEFER, OK.
Posts: 1,312
Default

Machine shop supervisor and cnc programmer. Been with the same company for 21 1/2 years now. We sell anything to test, measure or sample oil. 85 year old company third generation owned. I started as a manual machinist and took over the shop 5 years ago. Oh the company is W. L. Walker

Curtis
curtisreed is offline  
Old 07-18-2009, 09:22 AM
  #5  
Tod74
Senior Member
RACING JUNKIE
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 4,137
Default

I set up tube benders. Not like at the local muffler shop. Big CNC benders that make multiple bends in each tube
Tod74 is offline  
Old 07-18-2009, 10:20 AM
  #6  
Xrated1
Member
JUNIOR BUILDER
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 73
Default

Porn star
Xrated1 is offline  
Old 07-18-2009, 06:09 PM
  #7  
tcarda
Senior Member
MASTER BUILDER
 
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Big Lake, Minnesota
Posts: 162
Default

I am a Project Leader for Caterpillar Inc. My division is based out of Peoria, Illinois but I work in Champlin, Minnesota. My responsibilities of being a Project Leader are to wrench and write the Disassembly and Assembly Manuals for all of the Cat Paving Products, Cat work tools, Defense and Federal Products, and also manage our Mechanical Lab. Basically we take a new machine and tear it down and write the remove, disassemble, assemble, and install of all the serviceable components for all the Cat dealers and customers worldwide. I like my job because I am not sitting at my desk 8 hours a day or turning wrenches 8 hours a day. Truth be told.....I am spoiled with my hours which are 6:30 am - 3 pm, and I am home by 3:30 pm.
tcarda is offline  
Old 07-18-2009, 06:18 PM
  #8  
bowtie4542001
Senior Member
DYNO OPERATOR
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Douglasville Ga
Posts: 474
Default

I am a power plant operator. Work 12 hour rotating shift. Before that I was in the Navy for 14 years.
bowtie4542001 is offline  
Old 07-18-2009, 06:24 PM
  #9  
Tod74
Senior Member
RACING JUNKIE
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 4,137
Default

Originally Posted by tcarda
I am a Project Leader for Caterpillar Inc. My division is based out of Peoria, Illinois but I work in Champlin, Minnesota. My responsibilities of being a Project Leader are to wrench and write the Disassembly and Assembly Manuals for all of the Cat Paving Products, Cat work tools, Defense and Federal Products, and also manage our Mechanical Lab. Basically we take a new machine and tear it down and write the remove, disassemble, assemble, and install of all the serviceable components for all the Cat dealers and customers worldwide. I like my job because I am not sitting at my desk 8 hours a day or turning wrenches 8 hours a day. Truth be told.....I am spoiled with my hours which are 6:30 am - 3 pm, and I am home by 3:30 pm.

Hey...CAT is our number one customer. We do a lot of the tubes for thme...all the way up to 7"
Tod74 is offline  
Old 07-18-2009, 06:31 PM
  #10  
kwkracing
Senior Member
RACING JUNKIE
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: austin texas
Posts: 729
Default

i just did some stainless tubing work for cat here in Texas on a diesel test engine
kwkracing is offline  

Contact Us - Archive - Advertising - Cookie Policy - Privacy Statement - Terms of Service - Do Not Sell My Personal Information -