Pakistani truck repair trade -- fascinating!

[goodfellow]

Pakistanis are some of the most skilled craftsman in the world. They are excellent machinists, metalworkers, and gunsmiths who often work with very basic tools to accomplish complex tasks. This YouTube channel highlights the truck repair trade and it is fascinating. Many of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers used similar techniques to accomplish tasks that were necessary in the fields and Great Plains where parts were scarce and expensive.

This guy rebuilds truck batteries -- in the US the EPA and OSHA would put these guys in jail, but in Pakistan this is everyday business.

.... and radiator core repair work

[oldnslo]

Sadly, despite the upbeat music, the battery rebuilder will probably have another 5 years of life, but will shorten the life of his family too as he drags home lead to the house, food, laundry.

(shaking my head)

[slip knot]

There was an Asian heavy truck guy on facebook. mesmerizing, Just watching work my back would get achy.

[jabberwoki]

OOOF can you imagine what his blood test would come back like.

When I was in Cuba I saw a guy casting forks in a market with scrap.
Gotta do what ya gotta do I suppose.

[bonneyman]

Well, I applaud the ingenuity and hard work but dang that is toxic work. 

[highland512]

Who needs a bench vice when you have a perfectly useful left foot. 

[Rusty]

[goodfellow]

That AK disguised as an M4 is a brilliant piece of craftsmanship. Chambers 5.56x45, and uses an ultra-reliable piston instead of direct impingement; what's not to like. SIG probably got the idea for their piston AR design from these guys. --LOL

[Rusty]

Think of it, an M4 that could survive the sands and dirt in the hands of third world peasants.

[bonneyman]

Amazing what determined souls can do with hand tools. 

[Rusty]

I saw a few 1911 and Browning clones that were hand crafted in Vietnam. They made most of the factory production of the time look really bad.

[nonhog]

Love the ingenuity! Since becoming ill with Psoriatic Arthritis a couple years ago I've been extra careful around chemicals.
Just the other day I got yet another diagnosis. Parkinson's WTF? Nothing I can do but soldier on. I ask the Doc what should I not do? Hoping he doesn't say "stop drinking beer" I get a pass on that but he did say don't weld. Now I don't weld much but I do enjoy laying down some bird crap now and again. He says its the Manganese it produces that gets in your lungs. Interesting! I see a mask in my future for welding, I don't need to make matters worse. Ugh. Be careful!