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Location: Kentucky | Bear - 2017-02-01 11:22 PM Things I'd love to learn: carpenter, electrician, diesel mechanic, welding.
My husband would tell you that no, you do not LOL. The more skills you know like this, the more everyone wants free labor! Probably the same as being a doctor though, people want services for free. |
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Location: never in the right place | my husband does heating and air conditioning, in the winter he plows and he also hauls cars for a restoration company |
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| My husband trains horses for the public full time (mainly team roping horses). He also buys a few nice prospects every year to finish out and sale. He has a small heard of corriente/longhorn cattle as well. He works hard, long hours but loves what he does. I dont see him ever having a boss other than himself. |
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 Poor Cracker Girl
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Location: Feeding mosquitos, FL | Tundra - 2017-02-02 12:11 AM TessBelle - 2017-02-01 9:32 PM My SO is a Welder. Because of that I now know more about welding than I ever cared to..... the other day I caught my self looking at the welds on my horse trailer to see if they were "pretty welds" Same here! My guy fixes ag planes (he has a fancier job title but that sums it up ) and does quite a bit of welding for the company in his spare time as well... I now catch myself checking all the welds on my trailer and critiquing them  spoiler alert: he claims he could have done them better : )
Ditto! There are a few trailer brands we can never own because the welds just aren't pretty enough. 
My handsomest husband is production manager for a regional sign company but he'd prefer it if you just call him a sign man. Signs are like a cult. Once you get in, you never get back out. He keeps threatening to get SIGN LIFE tattooed across his knuckles.
He can do just about anything. Design, fabricate, weld, paint, and then wire it up so it lights up at night. He amazes me with the things he can create. His brain is always going figuring out exactly how to make his ideas look and function like he wants them.
He's pretty cute too.  |
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Location: KS | TrackinBubba - 2017-02-02 1:23 PM
Tundra - 2017-02-02 12:11 AM TessBelle - 2017-02-01 9:32 PM My SO is a Welder. Because of that I now know more about welding than I ever cared to..... the other day I caught my self looking at the welds on my horse trailer to see if they were "pretty welds" Same here! My guy fixes ag planes (he has a fancier job title but that sums it up ) and does quite a bit of welding for the company in his spare time as well... I now catch myself checking all the welds on my trailer and critiquing them spoiler alert: he claims he could have done them better : )
My handsomest husband is production manager for a regional sign company but he'd prefer it if you just call him a sign man. Signs are like a cult. Once you get in, you never get back out. He keeps threatening to get SIGN LIFE tattooed across his knuckles.Â
He can do just about anything. Design, fabricate, weld, paint, and then wire it up so it lights up at night. He amazes me with the things he can create. His brain is always going figuring out exactly how to make his ideas look and function like he wants them.Â
He's pretty cute too.Â
^^^^this made me laugh.....know exactly what your talking about.
My husband farms and ranches, honestly he can do whatever he puts his mind too. I'm thinking about joining him. |
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| My husband is a truck driver. He used to cowboy for a living, and loved it and misses it, but his current job has better pay/benefits, etc and works better for us right now.
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | Mine is now fully retired.
When we lived in Illinois he was an equine dentist in the morning on the Chicago racetracks and then worked 3 to 11 being a police officer.
He retired from police work and we moved to Texas 20 years ago where he continued to do what he loved...Equine Dentistry. He had to quit when a horse tore his rotor cuff 3 years ago. He would love to be able to still be working. He's not cut out for this retirement stuff.
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Location: Arkansas | Farrier, horse trainer (although he is about to stop starting them), we buy/sell several horses a year so he puts time on them to tue them up, etc. He also day works a little when the opportunity arises. We have 20 or so head of horses, so that keeps him busy when he doesn't have other work. LOL. We were raising a few pigs but we are finished with that as well. |
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Location: On My Horse! | Mine is a high voltage lineman. :-) Hard, scary work, but he enjoys it! |
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| My husband is a safety manager.. |
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Location: Lone Star State | Principal and football coach. |
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| TwistedK - 2017-02-03 6:36 AM RidenFly - 2017-02-02 5:37 AM My husband is the batch manager for a concrete company. But his real gift is automotive. He can fix anything from diesel to lawnmower and do it with bubble gum and tin foil if that's all that's handy. I literally could sit and watch him for hours tackle a project. It got so bad around here with friends and neighbors dropping stuff off that he put an end to it. The concrete company keeps him extremely busy these days. Concrete companies definitely keep them busy... Mine has been putting in long days trying to get trucks running. He's currently in-framing a motor of one of their haul trucks right now
We're close to the border. Mine wonders if they are going to get contracted to build "the wall." |
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Location: Oklahoma | RidenFly - 2017-02-03 2:17 AM
TwistedK - 2017-02-03 6:36 AM RidenFly - 2017-02-02 5:37 AM My husband is the batch manager for a concrete company. But his real gift is automotive.  He can fix anything from diesel to lawnmower and do it with bubble gum and tin foil if that's all that's handy. I literally could sit and watch him for hours tackle a project. It got so bad around here with friends and neighbors dropping stuff off that he put an end to it. The concrete company keeps him extremely busy these days. Concrete companies definitely keep them busy... Mine has been putting in long days trying to get trucks running. He's currently in-framing a motor of one of their haul trucks right now
hmmm... I'll send mine down to keep those trucks running if they build the wall  |
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Location: Missouri | My husband works for the Hwy Dept. in our County. He mostly drives a dump truck, but operates heavy equipment when needed. He's just been there 4 years and loves it. Me? not so much. Driving around in a truck all day has made him lazy. Before that, he sold tires. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | My husband ranches with his dad, but since most major decisions ranch related are "above his pay grade," he bought his own Semi, Cattle Pot, Belly Dump and Grain trailer to haul cattle/hay/grain/gravel. It's good money when he hauls hard, but sucks having him gone so much. He's starting to haul less since his dad is getting older. |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Mine is a truck driver and instructor in the Army....a carpenter, a welder, an electrician, a farrier, etc etc etc....
I'd be screwed without him :) |
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Location: frozen tundra of pa | ?My wife is a 4th grade teacher. |
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Location: Armuchee, GA, NW section of Ga | Basically retired, but still Chairman of the board, and keeping busy with various business related actitivies that keep him out of my hair...
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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | Mine dispatches for power cooperatives but within then next few months he's hoping to get a position in maintenance scheduling that will really change our lives. Hoping and praying that it comes through  |
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Location: BRITISH COLUMBIA CANADA | My husband is a signal maintenance technician for the railroad  |
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