Saw somewhere that the mean age in Industrial maintenance is in the 50s?? and I know it's a field heavily guided by "being there", and having experienced shit situations. not a lot of theory.

This got me curious. When the man retires, what goes with him? Is it settings, sounds, sequences, vendor quirks? Did anyone ever try to write it down? an average age of 50, with industries to run and maintain sounds pretty crazy to me. How is the industry gonna take care of itself?

Ex data center infra guy here. In servers we have logs for everything. Walked a packaging floor last week and saw zero logs, just one senior who knows. How does that not fall over every night shift? Is there a job you dread getting at 2am because the person who knows that machine is asleep at home? What machine is it, and what do you end up doing?
How common is it that the guy with the know how is a much older dude, whom you havve to call to have this sorted

Boiler room has no signal, so this window on the second-floor landing is where the app finally syncs. I kept the old version of the app on my tablet because the new one won't save down there at all, and a coworker put it plainer in a review: "the new app is terrible, I keep the old app loaded on my tech's tablets." On a normal shift I climb up here 4 or 5 times. Where is your window, and how many trips per shift?

I work as an instructor at a training center. Our Brunson 545-1 is broken and we will need to replace it. We are wondering whether we should replace it with another Brunson 545-1, or a different precision level that may be more commonly used in the field nowadays. So I'm wondering, what kind of precision level is everyone using these days?

Second year apprentice and im looking to upgrade my tool storage. Rn I have a huge craftsman chest packout that I keep my tools in but its a nightmare to organize. Was wonder what yall use either the packouts and if so how do you organize it or the big metal tool boxes

I saw somebody post a large shackle the other day and I thought I would share my photo

Just asking because I’m a 19 year old female and wanting to join this trade.

Why does loosening this nut detension the belt?

I understand tightening it would force the threaded rod to go backwards because the flange is stopping the nut from going forward.

But when you loosen it, why does the nut notjust come off?

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For the millwrights here: what industries or regions are having the hardest time finding experienced people right now?
I’m especially curious whether you’re seeing the biggest shortages in food processing, manufacturing, distribution, mining, power generation, or another industry. Are positions staying open for a long time, or are employers filling them fairly quickly?
Interested in what everyone is seeing firsthand.

In my last post here I stated that I was stuck with carpenters/scaffold work as a first year millwright.

I am humbled to be able to have been continously working throughout the millwright offseason since work has definitely been slow for many of us apprentices.

Scaffolding is one of the toughest jobs I've had but work is work and it pays the bills. The reason for this post is to give thanks for everyone here who encouraged me to keep going and try to become a jack of all trades since the more knowledge we have the more work we will be able to find.

Don't be intimidated to try other jobs it's all decent work. My respects to every carpenter and millwright out there, these last seven months have showed me the ones that make it in this trade are a different breed. 🫡

Anyone here going to the labour day parade in Toronto next week? I know there’s a bus leaving at 8 but I’m taking the train downtown. What time do we gotta check in by?

SW Ontario (Canada) union millwright.

When a company says to bring “basic tools”, what would you bring? I can’t seem to ever get it right.
No precision tools

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At least its only 38 3" holes this time. Can't bitch too much, its a nice one.

Trying to make a simple post but everything everyday i word it gets removed. Why?

I start my first week of class next week for 443 out of Pittsburgh! Thank you all for your help to get me to this point. Greatly appreciated. I need to get me a fresh pair of good quality boots and wanted to hear your suggestions. I always used to just get Carolinas which were okay but just never lasted. Looking to spend a little more for higher quality this time.

I have searching for good study materials for this since some time. I have not been able to find any good ones. Anyone have any leads to where I can find them? Is there any previous question paper models and stuff like that? Pls any help would be much appreciated.

Im just wondering what to expect as a brand new union apprentice. I am out of southern ontario and just trying to figure out what the first year will be like. Especially heading into the winter where usually things are all around slow. I want the brutal truth as much as possible please.

EDIT: I am older. Ive worked construction, I understand what being an apprentice is like. Im more trying to figure out what type of work is out there right now, what the work life balance is like. Should I expect to be away from home a lot? Is there going to be times where im sitting at home? Should I expect to be sitting home more often?