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DAE ever count how many times they've tapped a riser?
I was cleaning up my station yesterday and found an old tally sheet stuck to the back of my furnace log. I'd been marking it every time I tapped a riser on our big gray iron pour line. The count was 1,247. That's a weirdly specific number to just stumble upon after maybe two years. It mattered because I realized I'd done that exact motion, with the same 8-pound hammer, over a thousand times without really thinking about it. My buddy Jim saw me staring at the paper and just said, 'Yep, that's a lot of whacks.' Has anyone else found a random count of some tiny, repetitive job task that added up to something silly?
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dixon.iris15h ago
My back hurts just reading that number.
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julia_anderson12h ago
It's just part of the job, right? You do the same thing a thousand times because that's what keeps the line running. Making a tally sheet for it seems like overthinking. The number is big, but it's just work. It doesn't have some deeper meaning.
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