Nevermind any protective gear. Just stay out of the way! 😂

 

Ahh, the good ol' days. Sometimes you have to wonder how mankind (is it person-kind now?) survived at all.

3 minutes ago, Fred W. Hargis Jr said:

Ahh, the good ol' days. Sometimes you have to wonder how mankind (is it person-kind now?) survived at all.

And without OSHA!

 

2 minutes ago, John Morris said:

And without OSHA!

 

 That's our tax dollars at work...kinda brings tears to your eyes, doesn't it?

But I don't recall ever needing told, "do not eat laundry soap pods". Somehow we just knew that was stupid.

Does anyone remember "Oakum"?

37 minutes ago, FrederickH said:

Does anyone remember "Oakum"?

 

I bet I still have some.

1 minute ago, HandyDan said:

 

I bet I still have some.

I still have some in the original, very oily, box!

4 hours ago, FrederickH said:

Does anyone remember "Oakum"?

Dad was a plumber/electrician back in the old country. In the mid to late 20's, electricity was being installed in the smaller towns and villages. This required conduit to be installed to protect the wiring, and someone decided that this was a job for plumbers, since they were good at installing pipes. This led to a job classification which combined the two. When we moved to Canada, he eventually found work as a plumber, and eventually I inherited his tool boxes. I still have a couple, and they still contain not only oakum, but several lead bars!

And...it is not very fun to do, when you are under a house, in the crawl space......BTDT..

The Karen's of today would totally freak out at the mere mention of lead, much less molten and explosion in the same sentence. 

 

That said, there was a period of time when "workers" were considered expendable and monies were not spent on their safety.  The bosses had thousands standing in line to take their place.  Read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair for some insight into just how unimaginably bad things were and why, in retrospect, we should all be thankful for the rules and regulations today. 

 

.40 

2 minutes ago, forty_caliber said:

in retrospect, we should all be thankful for the rules and regulations today. 

Most certainly .40! Thanks for the sober reminder

In retrospect and in many cases, the good old times weren't all that good. But, we survived and, had fun.

4 minutes ago, Gene Howe said:

we survived and, had fun.

Indeed!

I think I still have a lead stove and ladle around here somewhere. 

i still have the lead/solder smelter and bars of each.   Not to mention the graphite packing rope.   still remember sitting around the lead smelter to pour soldiers into

carbon smoked molds why my younger brothers and i were kids.

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Edited September 23, 20241 yr by Mils Hills

9 minutes ago, Mils Hills said:

Sometimes it's best to just let things unfold. Are you working on a plumbing project or just sharing a funny take on it?

Welcome to our community Mils!

No plumbing projects in my future, but ya, sure was an interesting time in pre OSHA wasn't it!