It Must Be HAIL Season in Texas... Look at this trailer wrap I just saw!

Roofguy said "The truth is, the ability was all his all along".

Everyone has ability. Most never do anything with it. A lot of that is because most do not train others to use them.

Without you there is a good chance he would not be where he is.

When I went on my own in 1987, I bought a 1975 3/4 ton chev pickup. One of those classic rust buckets. It was so bad that after we fired the shingles off the roof into it we would have to sweep the rust off of the driveway when we did the final cleanup. I tried to fix it up a little by taking the tin snips and cutting some of the rust off around the wheel wells but it kind of looked like a bad haircut when empty. Loaded down with a ton of shingles looked ok though.

Sold that to my lead hand and bought a 1980 ford supercab. That was a rust bucket too. I remember when we dropped a tarp loaded with about 400 lbs of gravel off a 3 story apartment into the box and the whole bottom of the box caved in over the rear end and axle. The sides of the box were angled inwards also. Probably should have taken physics in school and I might have thought that through a bit more before we let it go. Had to get a welder to cut it out and install a piece of 1/4 inch plate steel to patch her up and put in some angle bracing to straighten the sides of the box so the tail gate would fit again. Lots of rust to sweep up after that episode.

When I was in my teens and early 20's contractors would come to my house early in the morning without even knowing if I was at home or not. I did not even have a telephone or a car. They would carry me to a small new construction house and I would often roof the whole house in a day and get paid.

When I was around 26, I once sub-contracted tear offs out of a station wagon. I just threw all the tear off on the ground and the company I worked for would send someone else back to clean the mess up off the ground.

Around 30 when I started my own business for the first time, I had an old 4 wheel drive truck that like Lefty said would leak oil all over the driveways if I didn't put something under it. I had magnetic signs made for the doors, picked them up and stuck them on, took off down the road and they both blew off because I didn't realize how much bondo was on the doors. :laugh:

Good stories guys.

Chuck, they carried you to the job? Sounds familiar, my Dad's old boss used to wake him up w/ a twelve pack. The boss said he didn't like doing it, but he couldn't find anybody else that would produce as much as him! Thankfully he quit drinkin in 86 or else things would be different!

Thirty some odd years ago and I just finished a job on Friday and needed the $8,820 to make payroll. The owner stiffed me. Had no excuse, just said he wasn't going to pay me (he never did).

It set me off. I started toward him and told him I was going to whip his butt and I had every intention of doing just that. He got into his building and locked the door. I told him thru the door that Lubbock isn't that big and it was just a matter of time until I saw him around town.

He was killed a few weeks later when his tractor fell off a trailer on him at his ranch in AR.

Karma.

clover83 "Chuck, they carried you to the job?"

Yes. They would have a guy there to help me chalk the lines and he would carry the shingles up for me, load them on the ridge and then leave. They called me BipBap because they said that's what it sounded like when I was hand nailing. Bip-bap-bip-bap-bip-bap-bip-bap in rapid succession. :huh: I would put on 15-20 sq. a day. Most of the houses were 15-25 sq. walkable 1-story.

Roofguy Said: ..........

He was killed a few weeks later when his tractor fell off a trailer on him at his ranch in AR.

Karma.

EZ to see how he could afford a ranch