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E3 Chris Jones 1 Word - Holidays
10m · PublishedE8 McHugh Excavating longevity training
4m · PublishedWe will concentrate on different things that are relevant to most positions in the company. So like proper chain down for moving equipment or maybe confined space you know being able to safely enter manholes and take air monitor readings and stuff like that so nobody's ever in danger. Those take. Trench safety you know be used properly utilizing trench foxes so that people would be protected from Keyvan. Those are the kind of things that will train in the winter first aid type stuff more generic things that apply at all jobs. Q executing it provides that training to our own employees. In addition to that the two unions have training centers and a lot of our guys will end up going to the training centers if they have any layoff time in the winter for specific classes. For example the laborers will have a grade reading class or a pipeline class. You know the operators may have a class on running excavator running at doughs or things like that. So you know so there is ongoing training. Once people are in those positions but a lot of times people say hey you know what everybody wants experience. How do I get experience. Nobody will hire me. And our answer to that is we have a lot of different positions where a person can start out. A lot of times running one of our gumdrops might be an entry level position. There's a lot of guys here that started running a dump truck and then at some point decide they want to do something different and we're forgoing an opportunity to go into something different. We hire some guys right off the street that
don't have any industry experience. In fact we just hired one here about a month and a half ago. A younger fellow early 20s he has some experience building houses and doing some other somewhat construction related stuff but not earthwork or pipe stuff just a good hard working kid and we thought it's been good and. We put them into Labor's apprenticeship program. So he'll be in the next four years he will. He starts out. On an entry level apprentice type rate. He'll step up over the next four years to. Become a full journeyman in the.
Laborers Union. But in the meantime he'll get about 100 hours of schooling. Each winter. The Laborers Training Center so he's got some. On the job learning. And some. Will learning. As. He learns himself into a trade that should provide him a good living and a good retirement when he's done.
E6 Bill Temte favorite memory beer neighborhood
9m · PublishedAnd the two railroads. But it was self-contained in that. The interesting thing that has happened is since I've moved I've met a number of the northside LaCrosseer by each and one of them comes Oh yeah yeah I think remembered every Sunday afternoon my dad and make me go to your dad's store.
We'd cut through the whole the yards coming from over on the side of the street and going to the store because he wanted the nice juicy Apple for dessert. And so I talked to them about the nature of the neighborhood nature and our site. And I have not had one word of what or anything just one of them that's just the way it was.
We are our own neighborhood community and within that there was the the north the Roosevelt school I'm that editor eventually and in the middle and then the south and then Indian Hill that's what we used to call it by the river mills. What do you think that there was this thing as Northside pride because you hear people say Northside pride way more than you hear people say Southside pride because we were that neighborhood and everybody within our within our neighborhood area you know we didn't. We knew people wrong the whole north side but we were family and we do things with them for each other and stuff.
And that's what the pride and that's what we shared to me by this one lady that tight knit just two days ago again.
So you're quite often now but that neighborhood community and caring and family may have said this.
She said she'd have to go to my dad's and she's after a while I so I could just go in the back door and get in and go back out now.
Have you seen people kind of come together more in your later years and he did in the earlier years.
Because like I said the Northside Pride was a thing and people are still saying that but define find that people are kind of getting along better now than perhaps they used to when it comes to the city of lacrosse.
The nurse said people now know him very easily feel a part of the greater lacrosse. There wasn't that standoffish because again this whole side didn't want everything to do with her side. And we were happy with that.
You'd give me a couple of names of people that were characters in the back in the day like one arm Brown crazy band type and a half.
These are people who lived in this Northside community who were given a name and one name wrong because he lost his arm in a collision with a tree on a slender toboggan on the Indian hill because people had names that didn't mean they were lesser thought of or anything like that.
Well just nicknames and they're the characters that made you into the person that you are because you knew that right.
Yeah. They were characters but they were characters. And you know I didn't put words to put to it but it was just people who didn't get all upset about that name when I was called Billy or Bill or William didn't make any difference and I told the story about how and maybe I need to collectability the hand of a 50 of class reunion. We're sitting there in one of the lovely ladies of our high school class said Billy why didn't you ever ask me out on a date. And I said Derek I'm going to go back to the name. Billy.
Let me ask you this. What's that. What's the memory. If you were to if you were to tell somebody about your childhood what's the biggest memory or the memory that sets out the most.
Probably going fishing to brace prairie sitting in the back of the pickup truck of Phil Vitaliy in the car across the street. It had a place for people up front. Mom and Dad. Phil and Mabel vitality and then those four kids and some amount of the fifth riding the back of the pickup truck up 35 Z and then Z as far as who would go. And we'd stay up there two days a week we do this and we'd stay up there all day and a nice lunch would be prepared for us in the cabin which was the cottage and we'd fish from the bank and get a little older. We would push off in a rowboat. Good safe water and fish all day and then get thrown in the back of the truck and come home. The adults have a little more adult fun time. You can figure that one out. Yes it was. So that's one of the things that really members the more memorable part was Christmas at the tempting family. We read organ and my mother played the carols on the organ and as kids learned to sing at an early age. And my dear Dad would put on a Christmas program in the living room of this little bitty house of ours. The main living area and the mother would sit at the organ and play carols and ask kids. We were the three wise men because we had bathrobes that were checkered looked appropriate. My poor dear sister had to play Mary with the little darling baby and we'd stand there and sing Christmas carols and the neighbors would come in the front door
stand on the step out there with the front door open middle of winter. And that was our gift as a family to the neighbors for Christmas and Christmas tree was a masterpiece every year drilling holes and sticking branches until we discovered how my uncle he would get the biggest haul us with the spaces of all the spaces out and pay them back together and have the most perfect Christmas tree you could ever find. It was make your own tree. And most people just had kind of a scrubby tree and put a lot of tinsel hanging tinsel and stuff. Christmas was very special because that involved first of all Trinity Lutheran. Was a wonderful church for many people the church of the North Side. St. James was a Catholic and Trinity was the Lutheran so Christmas and fishing had tried to have these cottage or the two memories that still live very much with me deep in my heart.
You said that your your uncle worked at the brewery. Was there a brewery on the north side or was it just it was just the Highland girls haven and was there was there any small breweries on the north side that you recall those days.
Ol La Crosse Beer song. I've never heard that before. Well it disappeared many years ago.
That used to be the liquor was drinking beer so any parting words fell anything that you want to share that I know that I had maybe didn't ask.
No I've enjoyed sharing memories of the north side with you and with the people who choose to listen to the things I have to say. It's all done from me in love for the north side and my experiences and growing up there.
E6 Masters Services Chimney Chad why inspect inventor clean burn
5m · PublishedOr are the issue. Does your lining crack up to your smoke shelf above your damper crack up did your damper stop working correctly. No. Are there cracks near back wall sidewalls. Does your Lindvall did it come loose to wear behind the opening of the fireplace that goes up through the wall. Is that sealed properly. That's some of the major parts of why you would want to have it should be inspected.
Now when you say that you know the cracking of things I know there's such a thing as a chimney liner to the chimney liners end up helping out Jimmy liners.
Absolutely. Parko to have a good chimney liner chimney liner can also just be realigned with mortar fire fireplace refractory. He resists and more which is the kind of which is the kind of relining that Master Services does.
Okay what about chimney caps. Sometimes you notice that some people have chimney caps other people don't. Are those something that people should have.
You have a prefabricated fireplace. They all have chimney caps as part of code as part of building. If you have a masonry built style chimney it is not code to have one but highly recommended because water damage is water. What causes damages to the mortar joints in the brickwork inside the fireplace flue.
Now I know that the chair that you're in inv. that you came up with a new product that will help maybe revolutionize the whole fireplace industry.
I invented breakdown. Great a little more decorative to the homeowner but more importantly I designed it for the chimney sweep so that he could break it down and carry in his truck and knocking it all scratched up or be hurt when he's riding in the back with van or truck. So what is the purpose of having a great great creates all the airflow underneath fire to have a good controlled fire going in your fireplace.
We've all been to different places where somebody is trying to start a fire and they're dropping a few four letter words. Smoke is roll back him. Is there is there a proper way to actually get that fire lit and not have the issues of you know the smoke detectors going off like like your grandma's doing some bacon again.
Well obviously there is a learning curve whenever you move into a new house or how you're going to start your fire. I mean there are people who have no gas pipes and there they have holes in it. Start the Fire with gas. I always recommend if you don't have to use a firestarter Barik they come there just little 3 or 4 inch breaks that you can put in underneath the fire or underneath the wood and light those and they'll light up the fire pretty good fairly quickly. But if you're having smoke coming out of the house that's a whole nother issue that may not have nothing to do with how you're starting your fire.
Is that an issue that that master's services can help me with Chad.
Well thanks for asking Bob it is a very big issue in the industry because a lot of people don't know their fireplace and there are so many things gimmee learned by having us show up to where we can show you the best way to light your fire. Now we will not light a fire in your house due to liability reasons but we can tell you how the best way to light a fire in your houses and generally generally it's making sure that your damper is open. We won't know if your fireplace works and if it smokes until you've actually had a fire there's no. Unless there's obvious things that the fireplace was built incorrectly which you can have a perfectly good fireplace and chimney that doesn't burn correctly so you could put a perfect fireplace inside of a monster room and the air pressure in that room isn't pushing up against the back wall to create a raft going up the fireplace. So there are many things that can be done after Markoe ways are different ways to start fires to get it to draft a lot of times you'll realize the smoking issue is only the beginning until the pressure of the House and the and the pressure outside is pulling in the pressure inside pushing that once it's created smoke will stay in firebox and go out the chimney when you first start to fire. Like many people will start the fire too close to the opening of the fireplace not towards the back wall. Well the smoke is just going to go to the point of least resistance so plenaries resistance might be coming into the room because they have the fire to close or they might
be having too much wood to start the fire creating too much smoke for the chimney to handle and then boom you guess its drafting well. But it's also coming into the into the house because you're having to build a fire for that firebox.
E2 Chris Jones 1 Word Balance
10m · PublishedE6 Eco Gardens by Washburn LLC Podcast
3m · PublishedAs far as Blueberry so you can definitely do the mulch thing around the root zone like we talked about putting these green leaves and healthy grass clippings around the root zone and in the spring then that's when you would remove those from the raspberries there are some varieties and you'll have to be careful about some varieties you can just part through and looked all the way to the ground. People that I know that just run their lawnmower right over the raspberries and they come back beautiful the next year. Some raspberry varieties though you may not want to ruin that short fruit tree. Hopefully the apples and big ones are harvested right now but as far as pruning goes fruit trees always prune trees 25 percent or less is that healthy for a mature tree. Winter I think it's the best time of her in those fruit trees. The old adage is you should prune them so that you can throw a hat through it but we want to get that fruit tree enough faith in the inside so that if there is fruit on the inside of both branches then the sunlight can get through them. And it also helps the airflow too.
What about for our perennials and are annuals and our flowers that we plant in our backyards.
Well at this point I would be for an annual is out you may have already started to fall out just because they're starting to feel pretty bad just simply because they take a lot of water. Well I mean they only have so long to live. Being an annual so those I would put in your yard waste bin or put them wherever you put your compost pile as long as they are disease free. It's about perennials so pruning back your perennials some of them maybe you are pretty good. That'd be balm if it got that powdery mildew on it that kind of thing. You can leave some of them and especially like the NHS which would be triple cornflower. There's a lot of seeds and those types of plants like a season and the birds will eat those as long as they're there and throughout the winter you know I say let it stand and drink a lot of lawns in the upper Midwest Sarah I have crippling Charlie and a mine included.
Is there a way to get rid of that or is this a good time of the year to tackle the creeping Charlee issues in our yards.
Yes it is absolutely a great time to try to tackle the creeping tritely problem right now because of the cooler days and the not so intense sunshine the cuticle of the Creeping Charlie Bean that is so waxy right now it is less likely to resist the chemical being put into it. Because our creeping Charlie and our plants are starting to think about going into dormancy.
E1 Invisible Fence Brand of the Tri-states - What is Invisible Fence
4m · PublishedInvisible Fence Brand of the Tri-States
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E1 Jason Boring - Travel Hacking Ninja
10m · PublishedE7 McHugh Excavating free estimates hiring
4m · Publishedexpect to be paid something for the time. But just look at a project look at over pencil up some price and give you a proposal. There's no charge for that.
What's the benefit of hiring somebody local rather than getting you know somebody that maybe a few dollars cheaper from another community.
There's not a lot of that in the smaller residential work. Of course there isn't some larger stuff some of the public good kind of stuff. There will be folks from out of town building but you know if you ever have a question or a problem down the road I'm always shoes on the other foot I like to hire somebody local someone I know or somebody that I know knows them and I confident that they'll have a phone if I call them if I have a problem come back take a look at it whether it's going to take additional work or additional advice were raised here locally we're not going anywhere.
McHugh excavating hiring at the moment.
At the moment no color we have added some people this year. And I wouldn't be surprised if we add a few more here.
How does somebody go about applying for a job at McHugh excavating.
Well you can either stop in and ask for me or Steve will send our H.R. director or simpler yet I know a lot of people like to just look online at least for the initial step at our Web site. McHugh excavating that com there is a tab with a simplified version of our application. Click the link when you're done send it into us then we can always talk from there. We do have a more extended application we'd need before we hired someone but a lot of times that first more basic application can save a trip in or at least get you on our radar screen. If you've got a little bit of the type of experience we're looking for or at least start the conversation does McCue excavating work around to some degree. Yes we do have a number of our field employees that end up on winter lay off when work slows down and that varies year to year. The last few years we've had quite a bit of work. So there hasn't been a whole ton of layoff but it really it all depends on the winter. We do somewhat to work if it's available some of our stuff can be done in the winter. So for example a septic system can't be done in the winter. The street projects are tearing up the street you know wouldn't be able to get repaved so that can be done in the winter. But there are things that we do that can be done in the winter and when those opportunities hit at the right time of the year and maybe get started in the early fall and continue on into the winter those winters
a lot of the guys were quite a bit of the winter
E5 Bill Temte making forts small houses northside pride
12m · PublishedWELL A friend of mine who lived over on the next street came to me for some reason we got the argument for something and I don't remember what it was.
He got so mad and he took a swing and he hit me in the head and it hurt his hand so bad that he had to go into the host haven't taken care of and he came out. I won't say crying but you know we whimpering because it still hurts so bad apologized for getting so bad and stuff.
Halloween trick or treating. We go on and never do dare. We knew there was nothing we'd be always be careful that we didn't do any damage to anything but we would make it known that we were there and. Maybe throw some toilet paper into the tree or something like that. I was amazed. I don't remember ever. Being with a bunch of guys were damaging something was one of us. The thing to do.
One time one of the streets was being repaired and there's all kinds of cement blocks and stuff. It was Halloween again and it was a side street. So we went out and made a barricade in the middle of it with the stick with the building materials you know if the car had to get around they could and we decorated it so the body would hit it.
So you kind of made you made a snow fort out of a building materials.
What are some other memories you have like that having a baseball and of course the baseball cards softball excuse me feel that the old Franklin but the diamond was here in right field was the principal's office on the second floor and the goal was who could get it far enough and high enough to put out one of the windows.
I was going to say Did anybody ever get anybody get a rack.
But it was one of those you know things that laughable don't get a kick about.
And we actually let her know that that was kind of a fun thing and she's oil is big enough and strong enough to have a ball she knew they would. And.
You know another memory I have is north of KMag. If you go a few miles north there's an old Norwegian church there that still does it really do to Fisks supper or dinner. I don't know if they still do. One time my two brothers guy and another couple people went up there sat at the table and looked around. And here is the elementary school teachers. I'll give one name that a concerned member my Zanders third grade wonderful and wonderful lady that loved every one of us and we all loved her. But she was also a wonderful teacher. But I don't remember the names of the other. But there was either four or five of them sitting there and we sat there and just had the most fun time talking about schooling at Franklin and eating Fisk Yeah you were one of them finally said My brother was sitting on the start on the sidewalk. And when he says to the waiter would you mind stirring the plate here. So it ends up there because no one ever gets by him.
That's the uniform in which appearance.
So we talked a little earlier about the the little houses and how the house you grew up in.
It's had a couple of different expansions if you will over the years. Could you imagine a family nowadays living into a house basically the size of the room that we're in right now.
No. It had a total of six hundred twenty square feet and one bathroom that also was the laundry room and other things. And they had one sink a shower and a stool. That was the toilet Lowe's kitchen which was half as big as this room. And that's where we eat also. And then two small bedrooms each one about two thirds the size of this room. And then the other was open area which was just a general living space. And then when I guess they got their first TV like it was out of the service and came back. I told the story about the fake TV stories that you know we just lived in and I don't mean the TMT family but we because I think I see I've shared this now with others that live didn't have a bead yet you know six square block area that I lived in. We lived a happy life.
Well first barbershop.
OK. That if you looked out my front window he was in the building right over there and we'd sit there and say Burr's barbershop membership because they have sat in the front of it. That would be nice. They would say that and it was a wonderful place a good place where people would hang the old waiting for their haircuts cause sunburn can garments were there and they were the barbers in almost every athletic team in the West know whatever would come in there for their haircuts. So they look great cool and then all all member the old folks and let him cut his hair. But there's another one down in the corner of the tavern is now where barbershops back in those days kind of territorial.
So you always went to bars and somebody always went to John sales and somebody I went to Smitty's and stuff like that.
You had your barber shop and frankly your barber and you know you mentioned before on George Street. That was the mind of the tavern's from Reon Sam's on the north down to Paris barbershop there's a tavern there now and he was there and then there's the whole building now.
And then the North Star the WW. And I can't think of the name of the other one but they weren't drunken places. There were places where people they had their their bar that they go and sit and talk and have a beer or two you know and that sort of thing. Do you remember your first beer. He was at the WWE tavern and just a very very small class and he was one I said when I'd go over there on a new year's eve and Christmas Eve also but New Year's Eve because Trinity Lutheran those days had a watch service at 11 to 12 Michael so I'd go pick up the in the tenor section at the w w we go down there and go on and one time they said here you deserve one. And you know just the littlest. Oh I know. All three owns classes like this and I don't know that he. Drank it all and they all got a kick out of it.
And a nice glass of Pepsi Pepsi would have them because I know we were on the Pepsi side of the Pepsi Coke for other than the north side of lacross called Just lacross or was it called Southside or was well what was the name of South of North lacross. Well we called it the south side on the north side but it was all the city of the cross and that.
We have heard crowd er side as they were this house I don't mean to put them down or anything but the south side was just spread so far. I can't remember the name of the man who developed what was the village shopping center before he developed that. If you drove up way back in the back corner about where the central football field is.
There was a small restaurant that was as far south as the Cross went.
Basically you know there were some housing and stuff but the that Evoque area ended there and then I can think of the man's name but he then the vote the village shopping centre which created a lot of other development and then the hoses that are south of there particularly on the east side were developed by a developer and he was basically copying the houses that were built up in Minneapolis. He may even come from there. I don't look at them when I used to do the history that I don't remember all that much but that's why so many of them look very much alike. Is that way the North Side is sometimes considered like Old Town and Old Town north because it was the where basically the Cross started and kind of spread out from here well there and the immediate downtown area you know Cass Street King Street Market Street and that sort of thing from there. Yeah there was there that was really the original lacross and the the rich. Don't tell anybody not to ask there was that the original among the patrons were there all of their homes the big ones and chaos and King those buying mansions.
That's where they lived were you ever friends with people from.
You mentioned Onalaska so like Onalaska or Kusum his cousin's mother and uncle he didn't work at the brewery and he'd ride in there and stuff and he died like my father at a very young age. He's my father's brother but the air telephone operation from Alaska was in their living room it was all very small it was just a very very small community all the way through the the fifties kind of a troublemaker.
It's a bit I'm a person who loves to put ideas out there and maybe even get people to think about things
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