The construction life list

[Philippe Binette]

1) Drink as many beers a day as the number of hours you work that day
2) Lose your only dozer key in the sand
3) Learn to walk back and stare at stuff
4) Quote Tom Doak in a conversation
5) Turn a 5 minute talk into a 2 hour debate
6) Demolish the wrong bunker
7) Knock down a 60' tree with a dozer and film it
Ruin your car on a construction site
9) Play dirt golf shots over a piece of equipment

10) Pretend you know what's flat
11) Get stuck
12) Run over an irrigation head
13) Go-kart with sandpros
14) Keep a cooler in the back of your truck
15) Become a small town local
16) Get some of your work critiqued on GCA.com
17) Forget the rippers down on a dozer
18) Wear the same hat for the entire length of a project

19) Quote: don't worry, I'll fix it

[Matt Varney]

I can relate to many of those on that list - Drinking 12 beers after a long hot day, losing keys, get stuck in mud, staring at shaping contours,  crushing irrigation heads, saying I swear that tee is level, wearing the same hat for a project but, I have never quoted Tom Doak.   

Personally I use a cardboard top to a pizza box and golf tees are much better for playing dirt golf.  You would be amazed how far you can smoke a driver in work boots and shorts and watch a golf ball bounce a 100+ yards down a shaped dirt fairway.

[Jim_Kennedy]

20)- Never plant fur balls in bunkers because you think it's a good idea. 

[Jeremy Rivando]

Great list Philippe,

I have some work to do still but I've covered- 1,3,5,8,9,10,11, and a close call on 18.

Need to get some more hours on a dozer to catch up.

Of course the 19th hole has been covered and I'm sure it'll be said many more times.

[Anthony Gray]

  Phililippe,

  You have just been elevated to my must read list.

  Awesome work.

  Anthony

[Bill_McBride]

Philippe, on #14 - is that a water cooler or a beer cooler?

Oh, see #1. 

[Philippe Binette]

What is that thing called "w a t e r", is that new technology...

[Kalen Braley]

Shouldn't there be a category for hooking up with the owners or bosses daughter and getting fired?  Or are they savy enough to know not to bring em around you dirt bunnies....   

[Yannick Pilon]

Nice one Phil,

One of the highlights of my construction career involves a sledge hammer, a chain, and a dozer to demolish an old concrete silo at Willow Valley GC near Hamilton....

After destroying part of the base with the sledge hammer, we wrapped the chain around it and clipped it to a cable that we fixed on the dozer to pull on the thing.

It was almost poetic to see that thing slowly crumble.  Icing on the cake was seeing the top dome flip over as it reached the ground, as if the thing was removing it's hat to salute us....

Once again, poetic! 

YP

[Alan FitzGerald CGCS MG]

cool list, i can check nearly all of them, i'm just not sure if that's a good or bad thing

[rocket]

What about cooking dinner for your co workers?

[Joe Hancock]

What about cooking dinner for your co workers?

That's me......"Camp B*tch", as they call me.......

[Richard Chamberlain]

Phil

Whats the current penalty for getting rescued after bogging a machine ?
Is it still a slab of beer or have the stakes got higher ?

[Alan FitzGerald CGCS MG]

Phil

Whats the current penalty for getting rescued after bogging a machine ?
Is it still a slab of beer or have the stakes got higher ?

depends on the depth

[James Bennett]

Phil

Whats the current penalty for getting rescued after bogging a machine ?
Is it still a slab of beer or have the stakes got higher ?

Richard

its a slab of beer at my club.  I didn't know this when, as a volunteer, I bogged the ute in the bottom of the wood pile pit.  They (the greens-staff) didn't enforce the rule, but in hindsight I wish they had.  Its a good rule in more ways than one.

James B

[RJ_Daley]

Yannick, I suppose there must have been one operator in the history of the world that didn't have a long enough chain from the dozer to the silo.  The image I'm getting will keep me in chuckles for  a while.   

I'll bet the folks at the Road Runner cartoons could use a few well told stories for cartoon plots. 

[Philippe Binette]

The return of R J Bautista...

cooking for the crew... we had our cooking rotation this year...

KC: red snapper and the famous "Keith's awesome spaghetti"
JC: bangers and mash
JM: indian food

my meal: the maple apple pork fillet (got to be canadian)... a food quality that brought Jeff Mingay to ask me:

Philippe, that food is awesome, how do you do that, are you gay
my answer: No, I'm french

Hilarious...


on the culinary side
20) Hiding in a bunker during a storm to eat lunch

another one:
21) crossing a mud field while being surrounded by cows.

[Adam Russell]

1) Drink as many beers a day as the number of hours you work that day
2) Lose your only dozer key in the sand
3) Learn to walk back and stare at stuff
4) Quote Tom Doak in a conversation
5) Turn a 5 minute talk into a 2 hour debate
9) Play dirt golf shots over a piece of equipment
10) Pretend you know what's flat
11) Get stuck
15) Become a small town local
18) Wear the same hat for the entire length of a project
19) Quote: don't worry, I'll fix it

Done and Done!
But I'm waiting for this spring to get my work blasted. And is it better or worse if you work six hours and drink twelve?
I do have a few small additions:

Destroy the front window on a bobcat
Spread the wrong seed
Run out of gas
Flood a bunker and name it (Lake Russell,#1, right side)
Curse fluently
Name an unattractive course feature after a boss
Work in a sandstorm
Urinate on every free-standing structure on-site

[Jeff_Mingay]

Penguin,

I can confirm that you've (almost, at least) achieved this "life list"... at a single project 

And, take it from me, Philippe's maple apple pork filet is unreal. No joke.

[Philippe Binette]

Almost all in one you're right...

Those are the believable ones...

Jeff, Imagine Lights Out life list, would drive a lot of people nuts...

[Ryan Farrow]

Phillippe, thanks for reminding me how lucky I am.

I played in the dirt for a couple of months in the middle of nowhere, even though I enjoyed it, I don't miss it one bit.

[Philippe Binette]

Ryan,

for some reason the project I worked on seems to lead me more and more to the middle of nowhere... I hope to find it at some point.