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[Tortuga]

12 minutes ago, bagwell1987 said:

a sweet 80 pound swing machine.

Oh, I didn't know that you were a dancer...

[CHecker]

Oh you should see me dance with that thing....oh yes I have! I can even run it one handed while I whoop it up with the other! I've even been known to drive it with my hip! You didn't know I have such hidden talents 🤣🤣

[Qapla]

Back in the 70's and 80's I used to work in a pizza place. The owner would strip and rewax the floors every 6 months. You're right, the floor tile under the booth seats almost new while the main area looked an entirely different color.

 

One time, he asked me to help (yes, I got paid) and I discovered he was doing the job "by hand". He used the stripper with a mop and scrub brush on a handle. I told him the next time he should rent a floor machine - that it would be much easier and work much better.

 

A few months later he told me he had bought a machine for doing the floors and it should also help keep the floors buffed in between. He showed me the machine and it was a nice-looking machine. A couple weeks later, when I came in to work, the machine was sitting in the entry way and he was not really happy. He said he thought something was wrong with the machine - that it didn't work like I told him it should. He asked me to check it out.

 

I adjusted the handles to my grip and pulled the handle, the machine whirred to life and operated quite smoothly. I buffed the entry way in just a few minutes. He stared at me running the machine and said he could not get it to work like that. I told him to show me.

 

He dropped it down to his height and pulled the handle. The machine bucked, bashed the side of the counter and, in general, threw him all over the place. I looked at him trying to hold back a grin. When we topped, I simply said, you do know, you are supposed to lock the handle when you use it. Yep, he was trying to use it with the handle unlocked and free-floating. Once he locked the handle, he found it worked like I told him - although, he never could run it one handed like I did.

 

If you really want to have an experience, you should try an old carpet shampoo machine. Not only is carpet much rougher to run a machine like that on, they also spin in the opposite direction.

Edited June 18, 2023 by Qapla

[CHecker]

Absolutely John!!!!! I remember not locking it in the early days and it was impossible to operate. The brother I was learning from corrected me and it was great from there.  I became an asset to him by doing the check stands in a 27,000 sq. ft. grocery store as he and his crew did the other isles. After that I learned, much to my detriment, to use the burnisher. It's not for women. We DO NOT have the upper body strength to use it. But me, as a farm girl who slung 70 pound hay bales, wouldn't listen. Now I suffer the body damage from those decisions.

But I still love floor work, 1,300 sq ft or less, I can handle that.

[Qapla]

I have a machine that I made a "floor sanding disk" by gluing 36 grit floor sanding paper (often called cobblestone paper) on the back of some carpet. I would toss that on the floor carpet-side-up and use the scrub brush to spin it. Cleaned the old glue of many-a-floor with that thing - even a few KH's. 

 

I never did get an actual floor sanding attachment.

 

 

[CHecker]

Oh dear, did you grind the carpet to nothing? I have a black pad I use for concrete and its the most aggressive pad I use. Ahhh, it sounds like you were cleaning things up for re-gluing carpet down.

[Qapla]

Yes, I was sanding concrete floors for new glue-down carpet.

[Tortuga]

14 minutes ago, Qapla said:

Yes, I was sanding concrete floors for new glue-down carpet.

Many years ago, I was sanding new construction bathroom and kitchen floors for tile installation. I had a 7" angle grinder with a vacuum hose attachment.  Unfortunately, there wasn't much information about hearing safety back then and that's why I have poor hearing today..

 

 

[Qapla]

Yes, it took quite a while for safety standards to put emphasis on hearing and knee pads

[CHecker]

2 hours ago, Tortuga said:

Many years ago, I was sanding new construction bathroom and kitchen floors for tile installation. I had a 7" angle grinder with a vacuum hose attachment.  Unfortunately, there wasn't much information about hearing safety back then and that's why I have poor hearing today..

 

 

I used a propane burnisher when I did grocery stores, it's screaming loud, I did wear ear plugs. The only thing that made it bearable.

[Shawnster]

(2 Kings 2:23) Go up, bald head! Go up, bald head!

https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&pub=rh&srctype=wol&bible=12002023&srcid=share

[Luigi62]

9 hours ago, Shawnster said:

(2 Kings 2:23) Go up, bald head! Go up, bald head!

https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&pub=rh&srctype=wol&bible=12002023&srcid=share

 

Thats a great verse to listen to in the audio Bible.

[pnutts]

We were asked Not to make comments about the "Elisha look" to our brothers who are follicly challenged.😁

 

I had lots of fun, but no more. 🤐

[Shawnster]

[Tortuga]

8 minutes ago, Shawnster said:

Wow, that was some hurricane!!!

[Tortuga]

My wife and I leave messages to each other on a whiteboard on the refrigerator. She recently wrote this..🤣

[coolbrz731]

What is going on with our Dollar Tree?  This is in a small town with barely 2,000 people living in it.

[Tortuga]

Getting ready for the meeting for service today. 😁

[TheKid23]

Our congs carts ready for a new week 

[Shawnster]

 

Bye bye vacation beard. 

[TheKid23]

A 1st for our congregation tonight- 2 sisters did the mics. It was very nerve wracking in the beginning but I soon calmed down and started getting into it 😅

[Sheep]

4 minutes ago, TheKid23 said:

A 1st for our congregation tonight- 2 sisters did the mics. It was very nerve wracking in the beginning but I soon calmed down and started getting into it 😅

Congratulations. Soon you be a Ministerial Serviette!

[TheKid23]

14 minutes ago, Sheep said:

Congratulations. Soon you be a Ministerial Serviette!

That’s my goal! 😂

[Tortuga]

32 minutes ago, TheKid23 said:

A 1st for our congregation tonight- 2 sisters did the mics. It was very nerve wracking in the beginning but I soon calmed down and started getting into it 😅

What? Wait!

Where's your head covering?

 

 

Just kidding...🤣

[Qapla]

Trust me, after enough time you will no longer be so nervous carrying a mic ... I know I was not nervous after the first 25 years or so