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My brother in law got a job at a facility as a heavy equipment mechanic the week after he graduated from high school. It is the only job he has ever had, and the company has changed ownership many times but he just gets a new logo on his paychecks. For nearly 48 years he has worked on bulldozers, and front end loaders and scrapers and dump trucks. The tools alone are heavy and the parts are all juge. His hand strength is incredible.
We were tasked with replacing his mother's garden faucet. To remove the old sillcock meant working in a restricted space with a brick wall a few inches to one side preventing using a long pipe cheater bar. It was in a little recessed nook with just enough room to get a your hand in there to put a hose on it. Some brick layer made it a real challenge on us. I put the pipe wrench on it and just grunted, and it did not move. He tried and said this is on tight, and then proceed to turn the pipe wrench. I was in awe. I was going to try to figure out some 90 degree extension for the pipe wrench and he just twisted it loose.
Do NOT ever get in a handshake contest with him.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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