Anyone want to see a good time… come watch American Remodeler’s. Staring me, My brother and my father! hahaha. Its a clone of American Choppers just with hammers instead of welders! My father has run a constuction/remodeling company for 30 years. They are the ones that in the 60-70’s built ALL the Vannpatten houses in all the Clifton Knols, off Ushers, Grooms, 146, Etc. Now he is remodeling them inside and out. Some house he has personally put 3 roofs on!
anyways, its a small crew. My dad manages it and physically helps on the builds when need be, his foreman (also worked with him since day one in the 60’s/70’s) is one of the best carpenters in the area, but is the polar opposite of my father… so they battle all day every day. The other guy has been with them for 10+ years and like to drink and smokes 10 packs a day lol, hes is very chill and a hell of a cool guy to be around. He is also a hell of a builder, and is the middle man and just gets it done. Then there is my brother/me (when i was there). The other two guys are practically family, so its a tight knit group. We all mess around, shoot the shit, have a great time doing the work, yet still hunker down to get it done when need be. Like Shady said, at the end of the day, pop the fridge at the shop and grab a beer, sit on the tailgate and shoot the shit.
At times we all get pissed off at eachother and want to throw the other guy off the roof, like any good family would do! lol Rest of the time its awesome, nothing like having the ability to tell your supervisor, foreman or boss “get the fuck outa here man, I am doing it this way.” or “You want to do it your way, feel free to climb up on the pick and do it yourself”. lol Rest of the time its fun and games at times. Target practice with the nail guns, nailing down their pouch to the saw horses when they arnt looking. lol shit like that.
Good family business are the best and worst jobs you will ever have!