STATigerFan

Fill your pot to about half with water. Maybe the 4th or 5th hole in the basket. Then add one 4.5lb jar of seasoning. If you want them more on the salty side add more seasoning or some straight salt. You can put some liquid crab boil in there too, I usually put 8oz per sack. Water level vs amount of seasoning is what most people mess up when they boil and aren’t experienced. Like others have said, washing them well is really important too. Boil for 3 minutes ish from when it starts to bubble again, but a good rule of thumb is “boil until they float, soak until they sink”.

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Don't take any offense to my post, but you are wrong here.

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None taken.

I’m just speaking from about 20 years of experience lifting weights. My flat bench workout was 405 for 8 reps and incline was 365 for 8 reps just a couple years ago. I don’t go that heavy anymore. I have never had a shoulder injury. Never. It is true that you will have impingement if your elbows are flared. But it is also true that you are using too much of your front delts to push the weight, easiest way to tell is you will have tighter delts than chest after pressing. Also why the bar should not travel straight up and down. You are pressing the weight from your shoulders if your elbows are too wide. Lay on a bench and put the bar on your chest. Tell me where it starts when you flare your elbows vs having them at about 45 degrees out from your body. This is why he’s feeling it everywhere but the chest. He probably learned wrong from the beginning, his chest is weak so he uses too much shoulder to press, or maybe he already have an injury that doesn’t allow him to lift properly. He needs to have someone that can watch his form and knows what it should be to help him. That’s the easiest way to fix it. You can look at videos but it can be hard to judge your own form.

I’ve used the guy on Siegen 3 times. The first 2 times he did a great job. The last time he cracked the paint and I had to get it painted. I don’t think it was entirely his fault, it was a difficult dent. Problem is he didn’t tell me he cracked the paint and he made the dent look worse and even creased the metal inside the dent. So when I called another guy, Bayou Dent Repair, not realizing the paint was cracked and he was the one that told me it was cracked. Usually they won’t mess with the dent if the paint is damaged but he said he would try if I was ok with it. Bayou Dent Repair was able to get about 90% of the dent out and it looked much better. He said that if I would have called him first he thought he could have gotten it much better than the end result and didn’t even want to charge me to work on it in the end. I gave him some cash anyway. He came to my house and worked on it in my garage. He showed me little things in the dent where the last guy pushed it wrong. He really seemed like he knew what he was doing and never asked me who worked on it before him. I’d recommend them before any of the other dent repair guys I’ve dealt with.

I used this same setup on a Ram. It was a major upgrade for sure. Definitely recommend. I have a Sierra now and use the diode dynamics one because I don’t keep the receiver in because of the silly tailgate. It’s a good improvement over the stock lighting too but not quite as bright as the morimoto one. More expensive too. Completely plug and play though.

Recommended at 150k or 200k miles depending on the LM2 or LZO. I’d bet they are conservative with those recommendations too, though I wouldn’t chance it.

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In the prior thread about plant baws, you and I actually agreed on everything.

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Yeah, I think most of us agree and are reasonable people. You honestly seem like someone I wouldn’t mind grabbing a beer with. ?? Got some crazies on this site for sure though. ?? I just go into those threads to help the conversation when people are asking about plants baws and stuff. I have done it for a long time and know a lot of people in the industry in different plants.

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I just find it slightly amusing when those threads pop up that a lot of blue collar plant types have this heir of nobility to their jobs while looking down on every other industry, especially white collar jobs.

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I have not noticed this, but I’m not in a white collar industry so maybe I’m oblivious to it. I agree with your statement about respecting everyone’s profession. From the information I have seen you post you definitely have worked your arse off to build what you have. Definitely respect the hell out of that!

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brag about pulling in 200k compared to a 9-5 office job, they often fail to mention they are working massive OT to do so.

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I think when they don’t mention the overtime they probably think it’s already understood. Base salaries are around $90k to $130k when you’re topped out depending on where you work, but there are operator jobs that make $200k base salaries, the nuclear plant is one. I’ve heard it’s incredibly stressful though since it’s government regulated.

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You must be ornery from all that shift work.

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Nah, not at all. I’ve been off most of December. I enjoy shift work. Been doing it for over 20 years. Got a great family that doesn’t want for anything and a great job that lets me give them whatever they need. Life’s good.

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This was from my second post in this thread. Quit with your false narrative. You already upped his total 10K in 2 days.

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Nah. You got me mixed up with someone else. You quit with your false narrative.

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One guy I work with was trying to hit $300k and we had free rein on the overtime. He couldn’t get past $285k though. He worked around 1700 hours of overtime that year.

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$285k is rare. There aren’t many people that will get there. He literally had to come in 4 hours early and stay 4 hours late on a lot of days.

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The big difference is I can step back now and make 400-600k a year with 30 hours a week of in office time. I’m also still making money when I’m not at the office.

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That’s great! But definitely not typical of most small businesses. It’s definitely a lot of time away from the family with shift work plus a lot of overtime. Seems like most people, where I work at least, slow down on overtime once they have families. It’s not always the case because some people spend outside of their means and then they have to work overtime. That’s always a bad practice and can happen in any field.

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That’s kind of my point. However, anyway you slice it, it’s 900 extra hours of work a year. Most of the guys I know get used to that OT and build a lifestyle around that money and when it dries up they’re fricked. On the surface 150-200k sounds great. When it’s shift work and involves more time away from my family and less time to do what I want, it’s really not worth it. Add to that the amount of anxiety around layoffs and constant restructuring. Tough lifestyle.

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I agree, it can be a tough lifestyle. Especially when you overspend and make your expenses so much that you have to work overtime. But being a small business owner is often times even worse for less money. You can’t just stay home and let your business “run” in most cases and you will do that for a lot less money. It’s all relative. Most of the time, for the amount of labor and the things you do, it’s a great job. You can’t over extend yourself in terms of debt, I see it happen all the time. Then you are forced to be away from your family. If you can’t support your lifestyle on $100-150k a year in Louisiana you have a spending problem, not an earning problem.