Bought a real heater

[grampahol]

(11-29-2021, 08:04 PM)fredtoast Wrote: When i was in college I worked in a big warehouse where they unloaded, sorted, and reloaded packages for Roadway Parcel service.  They used those big kerosene heaters that looked like a torpedo on wheels.  Probably overkill for a garage but they sure put out the heat.  Problem was I worked in the trailers stripping and stacking cargo and there was never any heat that got into them.  They were basically freezers in the winter and ovens in the summer.

My truck unloading and loading days were before all the containerized freight came along when the truck was whatever the weather was. I unloaded a long ass trailer full of frozen meat, all 50 pound bags stacked to the rafters. Took all day and there were no gloves or mittens available..That sucked big time..  No pallets back in those days.. The pallet never went inside the trailer so by the time we got to the front of the trailer  we had to carry every bag the length of the trailer and back for a measly 20 bucks..we thought we were shittin in high cotton back then.  lol
15 bucks an hour back then?  In our dreams..We were lucky to get $2.50. Freight yards hardly paid minimum wage and if they did those jobs were grabbed up real quick.  A lot of the older guys remember what it was like when all the big factories shut down all over the Midwest. Young, unskilled labor almost never got paid much more than 1.50.. Hard to believe I could afford an old hoopty on that money.