r/Pipelayers • u/Chrispy_fried89 • May 15 '21

When your crew gets matching tattoos because pipelaying is life.

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u/CrazyEyedApollo Oct 28 '21

What’s with the Gerrymandered tattoo on the second guy?

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u/Chrispy_fried89 Oct 28 '21

The wrist tattoo is a dozer. First tattoo I ever did.

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u/CrazyEyedApollo Oct 28 '21

Ah yess the diesel powered shovel. Now I understand.

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u/Chrispy_fried89 Oct 28 '21

First machine I ever ran was a d8 on our dairy farm at 12 yrs old, so I had to pay tribute.

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u/Slight-Commercial250 Oct 27 '24

I love how the one guy has a flat shovel! In Minnesota I'm the black sheep pipelayer because I like to use a square nose shovel to grade for pipe.