Do you ever have a scary, dirty, disgusting job to do and the only way to get through it is to shut off your brain and dig in? I call that “gutting the deer.” Here’s a video of me crawling under a house to fix a plumbing problem. I hope you enjoy it.
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I was hoping for a video of you gutting bambi!
ML
Awe man... that stinks!
No, I mean really... I could smell it from here.
~ Ted W ~
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I'd rather gut a deer.......View Image
Nice website, by the way. Also one of the best logo graphics I've seen yet. Kudos!~ Ted W ~
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Geesss....thanx!My son made my website when he was 11, he's 14 now and still at it. Sometimes I think he was switched at birth. There could be a physicist couple somewhere in Baltimore with a son that likes to swing a hammer...who knows. My wife swears she was faithful!.View Image
why not take up the bathroom floor????
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I wanted to have access to the crawl space for new mechanicals and future problems. Plus the original builder did a nice job of insulating between the joists with foam, didn't want to puncture the envelope. But still, going through the bath floor was very tempting.
that makes sense...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
"Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"
Ha ! Good stuff, looks like an episode of Survivorman or Dirty Jobs - our stuff would make great reality TV.
Greg
LOL! The Blair Carpenter Project!
Mike Hennessy
Pittsburgh, PA
what the hecks the gun for? scared of whats living there? be a man,grab you gonads and kill anything with your bare hands.
YOU ONLY NEED TWO TOOLS IN LIFE - WD-40 AND DUCT TAPE. IF IT DOESN'T
MOVE AND SHOULD, USE THE WD-40. IF IT SHOULDN'T MOVE AND DOES, USE THE
DUCT TAPE.
I'm a whimp. Wasn't worried about spiders or snakes but this House is in the badger state. Plus I already had a serious run in with bats in this house. I don't hate bats but my doc said if I ever got bit by one I should kill it and have it tested for some disease. FYI I thought a tennis racquet was the best anti-bat weapon, I was wrong. Shop-vac all the way.
One previously abandoned building I did some work in, one of the crew brought his .22 pistol with him and spent half the day shooting rats. ~ Ted W ~
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"spent half the day shooting rats"
Hey, if he thinks that poorly of you & the rest of the crew, I'd fire his a$$.
;-)
Mike HennessyPittsburgh, PA
LOL,
Good thing I was wearing my ballistic work duds that day. ~ Ted W ~
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"I was wearing my ballistic work duds "
I hear ya -- Duluth Trading Kevlar Firehoses rock!
Mike HennessyPittsburgh, PA
i worked for a plumber back when i was 20. sewer line had come unglued on a new house and no one knew it, so the chit was just going under the house.
it was full.,so the owner bought a scuba wet suit and he went under and fixed it.when he came out he was one slimy terd.
YOU ONLY NEED TWO TOOLS IN LIFE - WD-40 AND DUCT TAPE. IF IT DOESN'T
MOVE AND SHOULD, USE THE WD-40. IF IT SHOULDN'T MOVE AND DOES, USE THE
DUCT TAPE.
Ida bought a pump and hip waders.
On the bright side, at least the septic tank did not need to be pumped out. :)
"Preach the Gospel at all times; if necessary, use words." - St. Francis of Assisi
There were 1.5 million people at the inauguration and only 14 missed work.
Gunner calls it "embracing the suck"
Nice. I use to call it, "going to church with the in-laws" but I was told that was offensive.
That's right, no need to go insulting the church.
LOL~ Ted W ~
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I like it. Its an urban "Survivor Man" episode.
Family.....They're always there when they need you.
'A DECADE OF POO'.................an epic tale.
Dude. Your as scared of crawl spaces as I am. Like Shep said. Embrace The Suck.
BTW Loved the Slap and Tickle video too. Good stuff.
Not now chief! I'm in the Zone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7gxsNogQDo&feature=related
Ive got a 14 yr old boy thats a pretty good hand until he sees a bug . He doesnt refuse but it takes an hour for him to put his head in a crawl space.
He can be mowng and see a wasper and its over for the time being .
Tim
Saw the title and couldn't resist,View Image
You did say "Gutting the deer"
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We had two of them hanging that day & my daughter couldn't stand it, she had to get her hands in on the action.
No one should regard themselve as "God's gift to man." But rather a mere man whos gifts are from God.
I used to get all geared up to go in my crawl space. One time a buddy was gonna do it for me but he was late so I lost my patience and went in myself. I got all suited up and went diving. I took my pellet pistol and cordless phone too. (You never know) I finaly got myself pumped up mentaly enough to go in. I weaseld my body in. I slowly started scanning and inching in. Just as the tips of my toes were disapearing into the dark and my heart rate was about 200 bpm. I was sucked back out of the hole. I think I had a panic attack I'm not sure since it went down so fast.
Anyway, my buddy showed up just as I was almost beyond grabbing. He reached in grabbed me by the ankles and jerked me out. (I think he thought it would be funny) Scared the beejesus out of me. He was rolling in the grass laughing, at the site of me. Full coveralls duct taped closed, even around the neck. Gloves, and a full face gas mask. Steamed up of course from the spit and screaming.
15 or so years later I see a little humor in it. Not much though. I think he saved me from beaning myself with a pellet though. If I did fire it in there I probably would have hit concrete of course that would recorshea, then I would have been like a sitting duck on a pool table with a que ball coming down on me.
Not now chief! I'm in the Zone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7gxsNogQDo&feature=related
My boy probably wont get any better either . I have hoped he would get over it but I seriously doubt it will ever happen.
You aint doin nothin are ya ? Ill bore ya a bit .
I used to take him fishing a lot . We were doing the new improved way of jugging which we call noodling now . We cut those foam colored pipe sleeves I call um into foot sections . Wrap 5 ft of nylon trot line cord on them with a hook. Roll it up and fasten the hook. Put them in a milk crate . Go catch bait and keep in bucket . Ride in a boat to where you want to throw them out and let them drift with soft current normally against the banks. Boy on front of boat with a hook pole with me on the back running a 9.9 hp and a trolling motor hooked to the back of a flat bottom. He does all the work on the front of the boat . Ive got it pretty good .
First time he pulls up an aligator gar and eyes all those teeth. That day is over .
Get him back a couple weeks later and he catches an eel which looks like a snake to him. He throws it on me trying to get it outta here.
I took him one night to spot light coon so he could watch them and he did good till he fell to sleep in the bottom of the boat . I passed 16 head of deer on the way back while he was asleep .
We were back to noodling one evening and it got dark. We docked the boat at the marina with noodles still out and ate a hamburger and a coke . I got the spot lights out and put them in the boat and we headed back out . He stated picking up noodles and catching some fish having a real good time . He saw a noodle under a bunch of tree limbs that were in the water so he had to kinda dive through the mess to get his noddle back. He did it and looked up to grab a limb to push the boat off and he was looking at a snake . Thats the last time hes been. He quit me right there.
Tim
Sounds like the kids got a lot of common sense. I hope he never gets over having common sense. LOL
Not now chief! I'm in the Zone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7gxsNogQDo&feature=related
This thread has been a few good laughs.
Got to give a different point of view, used to be an RN working in the OR. Well one night we had this elderly lady with a bowel obstruction. she looked 12 months pregnant.
My turn to be the scrub nurse. the surgeon want to put in a drain to "decompress the bowel"He takes a very fine point scalpel and just want's to make a puncture to put the drain in. Well there was a stream of pressurized #### up to the ceiling and every one in about a ten foot circle, Dripping of the lights, our heads, the anethietist and all his monitoring equipment. Well after a minute of complete horror/disgust we put in the drain, irrigated the hell out of her belly and ran to the shower.
I closed the entire room till it could be disnifected next morning.I left a note for the Day charge nurse why the room was closed. " The Fecal Equvilelent of Niagra Falls". She just laughed till she walked in!!Buy the way the lady did leave the Hospital under her own power. Tough old bird.After much research I have found the best translation, and for those who know. "Contingiou Dregis" latin for s#it Happens or more directly an occurance of ####.Please feel free to use the quote with your colleagues. But give credit from the demented shoemaker from Saskatchewan
>> a scary, dirty, disgusting job
What's that got to do with gutting a deer?
I agree. It's not the best term but it does involve blood, stink and guts and excrement and ticks. Lots and lots of ticks with lhyme disease.. Maybe I'm gutting my deer wrong. I was taught the method where you have to reach up to your elbows in the chest to cut the throat. I almost forgot to mention the chronic wasting disease. That scary enough for you?
Not scary. I'm naturally prone to dressing and butchering.CWD... isn't that just a euphemism for getting older? <G>
"On today's episode of this ####ing house..."
Edited 4/17/2009 7:20 pm ET by Henley
Great thread. there is a reason for everything.
stinky