I think some of us take for granted just how INSANELY complex it is to build a car from scratch

[Unholy707]

Control of gravity is the window to the 5th dimension.

I knew it!!!

 

[Illegal_Demon]

Control of gravity is the window to the 5th dimension.

 

[Unholy707]

Control of gravity is the window to the 5th dimension.

We experience 4 dimensions, which is 3 + time. Theory is NHI operate in the 5th, which is 4+ time. Gravity is strangely weak in our perceived dimension. I think you know more than you’re letting on with that reference to the 5th and gravity lol

 

[jroyk]

I absolutely LOVE production lines! After college I got a job at an aircraft factory, I had access to most of the production areas, it was very cool! Later in my (non-aircraft but aircraft component) career, after I designed the product I would train the supervisors and lead persons how to build the product. Nothing like watching new production, I miss it...

That depends on the line. I worked a line one summer at the Ypsilanti Ford plant in ‘72. Three of us packed distributors into wire crates. We’d each pack about 5,000 a day. So, if you grabbed two at a time, you had to bend over 2500 times a day. There was another line where three women sat there testing horns all day with an electric prod. They likely went deaf.

Probably a lot better now.

 

[Hickster]

Anti augumated nowster. I wurked wit my ears pinned to my ass wit sum ass hole engineers. They attempted to dis lodge dee cummon sence out of wa. 2 ears knowledge and 4 years non cents. Two read my posts,, you have two read em ass back wards and or up sides down.

 

[Bobo]

Anti augumated nowster. I wurked wit my ears pinned to my ass wit sum ass hole engineers. They attempted to dis lodge dee cummon sence out of wa. 2 ears knowledge and 4 years non cents. Two read my posts,, you have two read em ass back wards and or up sides down.

Like Chinese if your standing on your head, you read right to left and bottom to top

 

[Smitty]

That depends on the line. I worked a line one summer at the Ypsilanti Ford plant in ‘72. Three of us packed distributors into wire crates. We’d each pack about 5,000 a day. So, if you grabbed two at a time, you had to bend over 2500 times a day. There was another line where three women sat there testing horns all day with an electric prod. They likely went deaf.

Probably a lot better now.

Had 2 uncles and my grandfather that worked at the Ypsi Ford plant then.

 

[Unholy707]

Had 2 uncles and my grandfather that worked at the Ypsi Ford plant then.

So did my grandfather, he stamped the steel body plates for the old broncos

 

[1971demon]

Had 2 uncles and my grandfather that worked at the Ypsi Ford plant then.

And back then ...they probably made probably made good money

 

[Smitty]

And back then ...they probably made probably made good money

Yeah they did pretty good. Not even sure if my Grandfather graduated from high school. He’s been gone years. Came up from the south to get a factory job in the 50’s.

 

[1971demon]

Yeah they did pretty good. Not even sure if my Grandfather graduated from high school. He’s been gone years. Came up from the south to get a factory job in the 50’s.

Those were simpler times...less than degreed professionals could make a good living...jobs were plentiful..and women could run the household..and raise the children..and family was a unit...unlike what we have today....and none of us kids ever considered killing anybody...

 

[Smitty]

Those were simpler times...less than degreed professionals could make a good living...jobs were plentiful..and women could run the household..and raise the children..and family was a unit...unlike what we have today....and none of us kids ever considered killing anybody...

For sure. I remember my Dad telling me stories about how my Grandma used to pick cotton to make some extra money to make ends meet. Life up here was certainly better for them.

 

[2ndAmend]

I started working summers in my father’s body shop when I was 12. My uncle, then retired, would be the part time go-for, in return we maintained his car. He’d hang over me as I was working and talk and tell stories. I got really tired of him saying “you do really nice work, just not much of it”! That and in his first job he made 7 cents/hr. Reminds me of my father telling me he bought his first car for $15. After tax and tip, I can’t even buy a nice beer for that. (Maybe a Bud.)

 

[1971demon]

I started working summers in my father’s body shop when I was 12. My uncle, then retired, would be the part time go-for, in return we maintained his car. He’d hang over me as I was working and talk and tell stories. I got really tired of him saying “you do really nice work, just not much of it”! That and in his first job he made 7 cents/hr. Reminds me of my father telling me he bought his first car for $15. After tax and tip, I can’t even buy a nice beer for that. (Maybe a Bud.)

Maybe that's why Bowtie wont leave Canada...he found really cheap beer up there

 

[Hickster]

Inn then in Fl wee make our own stuff and grow. Wurkin on cars. Everybody down hea used da biggest oak tree 2 pull an engine wit. Den we worked on em. Snot like da 1st auto mate ed plant I worked on. Symirana Nissian Truck factory 1981, do believe. Hell it copters and all settin equipment. Sounded like a war zone. We bee wurkin on da power house as usuall. SS metal finish on exhaust stacks, cut da hell out of wa. UAW pissed off and pick nick en at da front gate every day. No rocks like da rest of da places. Dow Chemical Dalton, Ga, Olin Chemical Charleston, Tn, Chattannoga Free Press Chattanooga, and lots more. Well like Sea World, Da Cape, Whorelander Mayo Hospital in Jasksonville, Anwoozer Busch Tampa- Jacksonvillber, M & M Mars Cleveland, Tn. Watt happens when you are an engineer wurkin fer a mutha company that is union and you all company is non union. A war and all youz want 2 do is make a pay check fer da family. Oh yea,, Zinc Plant in Clarksville, Tn. Gosh, wife #2 waz at da air force place. Never been a wife #2 butt she could have bean itster. Enough saidster.

 

[jroyk]

And back then ...they probably made probably made good money

Summer help got $5/hr. Good money in ‘72.

 

[1971demon]

Summer help got $5/hr. Good money in ‘72.

Huge money...

 

[jroyk]

Huge money...

A few times I did a 12 hour shift on a Sunday. Worked out $100 in a single day!

 

[1971demon]

A few times I did a 12 hour shift on a Sunday. Worked out $100 in a single day!

you were rich....now 100.00 a day...= minimum wage...

 

[Hickster]

E nugh fer a bottle of bune farms and ah 5$ bag, snot da girl,, she waz $6. Not my gal, she waz 9$ and a ride 2 wurk.