Crane drops antenna tower section - GIF

[Frank S]

You know there are people who just do the shutdown circuit too. They go from one to the next just like a bunch of rodeo cowboys. It takes a lot both physically and mentally, and the mental part might be the more important part. The longer the run is the more cranky everybody tends to get and only the strong can survive without going completely nuts.

About like some of us rig welders all pretty much hung together on the pipeline circuit of traveling in packs like a bunch of hungry wolves rolling into a rig building yard. IF you hired 1 you hired all of us. piss on 1 without good reason and we all spooled up, and headed to another yard, have a good reason and we cut him from the sec ourselves.
There were a few times where I spent quite a number of months in the field without ever going home, what difference could it make anyway as long as I was home for things they thought important like birthdays.

[cmarlow]

About like some of us rig welders all pretty much hung together on the pipeline circuit of traveling in packs like a bunch of hungry wolves rolling into a rig building yard. IF you hired 1 you hired all of us. piss on 1 without good reason and we all spooled up, and headed to another yard, have a good reason and we cut him from the sec ourselves.
There were a few times where I spent quite a number of months in the field without ever going home, what difference could it make anyway as long as I was home for things they thought important like birthdays.

I also noticed that most of the others on the shutdowns with me were divorced, separated, transient, etc. Mining narrow vein hardrock was a lot like that too, but not as extreme. Most of the miners had reasonably stable home lives, but there were still quite a few globetrotters chasing the bonus money. (I only spent a couple years in the mine. but it was still one of those camp jobs that took the miners away from their homes for 2 weeks at a time.) I was, and I guess at heart I still am, one of the transient types.

Yes, it can play all kinds of hell with the home life, don't let it mess up yours. It seems almost as if to have a real home life going on you actually need to spend time at home.

[Frank S]

I also noticed that most of the others on the shutdowns with me were divorced, separated, transient, etc. Mining narrow vein hardrock was a lot like that too, but not as extreme. Most of the miners had reasonably stable home lives, but there were still quite a few globetrotters chasing the bonus money. (I only spent a couple years in the mine. but it was still one of those camp jobs that took the miners away from their homes for 2 weeks at a time.) I was, and I guess at heart I still am, one of the transient types.

Yes, it can play all kinds of hell with the home life, don't let it mess up yours. It seems almost as if to have a real home life going on you actually need to spend time at home.

Yep it took me 20 years to get rid of the first wife though, she really liked me being gone all the time, because it meant I wasn't around to stop her from spending the money I made.