So I had som. e experience with a lot of this equipment (both heavy equipment and small engines) from working as a park ranger (maintenance not law enforcement) and a logger, and I had worked in a mechanic shop (which I hated) and I also lied a bunch on my resume. My job is interesting because it's essentially a combination two distinct trades- small engine repair and h equipment repair, though I don't think that's too uncommon.
In terms of education that could help, there are a few community colleges and unions which offer trainings on equipment operation and maintenance but they can be hard to find. most community colleges offer auto shop classes which are a good basis, and particularly learning to work on diesel engines and vehicle electrical systems is good. You will be expected to know how to do some welding, which you can also learn at most community colleges. Both of these also just worthwhile skills to have. Having at least some experience working with/operating the kind of equipment you are maintaining is also important.
https://youtu.be/ieqDlN6_bYQ
Just Petros speech. The line about Stalin is around 28 minutes in, but the several minutes leading up to it are straight fire
The only son seems to be ideologically uncommitted but is also apparently a belligerent drunk. Also works as a crane operator in LA so I don't even know if he'd want to move out here to take over the family business when his parents kick it. He really likes me for some inexplicable reason.
learn everything you can and take zero guff. i'm not as on-the-ground as i used to be, but holy shit, people who can effectively troubleshoot and engage in small engine and landscape equipment maintenance / repair are worth their weight in gold. every place has one and when they leave to do something else, the place is fucked.
I think of myself as some greasy schmuck with an autistic hyperfixation on machinery, basic problem solving skills and a high pain tolerance but Your probably right about this. It's much harder than my old automotive grease monkey days, as the manuals for small engine and landscape equipment are generally lacklustre and there isn't just a YouTube tutorial for almost every imaginable repair.
safe operation
Bold assumption
if you learn how to service and maintain lots of different equipment like that, such that someone can bring you something new but you can figure it out, there's no reason you can't take and use those skills for good when you find an organization that takes contracts restoring wetlands, building affordable eco-housing, pond development, or other custom hire land management projects.
if you take those skills of maintenance, repair and safe operation... and add to them with some basic credentialing in soil science and ecology to help with the pitching, you could eventually recover and repurpose old equipment to take those contracts yourself.>>
I guess that's the dream. cooperative restoration contracting with the comrades. Probably a long ways out but would be really cool.
They never got back to me until I met a member irl and brought it up with them. They did an interview with me, then said they would do a an onboarding course for me. After that they ghosted me lol. I ended up finding other people to organize with as a result
He was driving without a license. He was objectively in the wrong
This is a bad take comrade. If you live in most of the United States, driving is basically a necessary activity. Everyone I know who has ever had a license suspended drove with a suspended license at least occasionally, simply because it was the only feasible way to keep their jobs, access medical care etc. This man didn't create the car centric hellscape which is American infrastructure or the cancer which is the American Court system and should not be judged morally for doing what he needs to navigate these short is actively hurting others. In the context of the USA driving without a license should be seen the same way as stealing food from Kroger's.
The trick about the word authoritarian is that while most people have a strong negative reaction to it, different groups have wildly divergent understandings of what the word means. This leads to confusion and hard feelings. Some people define "authoritarian" based on structural hierarchy, rather than exertion of control. Ask 10 people of different ideological persuasions to define the word and you will get 10 wildly different answers. And also many people define the word on a purely vibes basis, which is quite frustrating Personally I don't use the work much because I don't find it that useful.
Inrange TV I think is just about the least reactionary guntube channel out there. I like that the used the new trump ending though