Posted on 05/03/2017 6:05:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
He is hooked, but definitely into the macho side of it at this point. Of course, he’s only 17 and has experienced only training and a few ride alongs. I just hope he finds an understanding wife, treats her well and doesn’t let the stress of what he will see wreck his family.
“It turns out being an artificial inseminator is not easy. If they don’t get kicked by the horse or cow they end up with carpal tunnel syndrome.”
My high school girlfriend’s father died of injuries sustained while breeding cows. A bull caught him in the neck with its horn, and he died several weeks later of infection.
Hell of a way to go.
Her mother never entered, nor allowed anyone else to enter, the master bedroom ever again. She bought a new wardrobe and slept on the recliner in the living room. Sad.
Regulations vary from State to State, but all usually require education, followed by an internship. Here in PA I had to go through 20 months of mortuary school followed by 2 semesters of college credits to get a diploma for embalming/funeral directing. Once you have a diploma, you can state an internship at a funeral home lasting 1 year with a requirement on cases completed under an assigned preceptor. Once that year is complete, you apply for and take your State Boards for licensure. If you pass, you are a licensed funeral director. To my knowledge, at least in my State, a pre-mortuary education apprenticeship is not recognized, nor is it part of the “process”.
That being said, like any other profession people obfuscate the law. Your friend could have been serving an “apprenticeship” by helping out around the funeral home and learning the trade. Any work with remains or in making arrangements with a family would have been out of bounds however. Again though, I personally knew an owner who employed an embalmer for years who had no education and was not licensed.
I’d guess if copper was all they had then that is what they used. Copper will do the job but it will take an immensely longer time than steel. Even with hardened steel they have to be sharpened constantly. The Red granite that is the likely stone to be crisp after millenia is hard as hell. I have to admit that when I see depictions on cable TV of the tools and the way they are thought to have been used in completing types of jobs I do today I’m DAMNED skeptical. The limestone and sandstone yeah, fine, I’ll buy it. But the red granite...I don’t know...
Mostly gravestones, but larger when it comes along. Some of the Jewish work can get biggish.A lot of 9-11, fire dept, VFW ETC
I work with first responders, and I call it the unseen war around us.
6) DEATH DOULA
Doing what the family doctor and the minister/priest did for many families.
very true. Everybody thinks society is this incredibly durable thing. Truth is, society is a thin veneer that covers up human nature. Under the right circumstances that veneer can be ripped away. That’s why the unseen war is fought. To keep human nature in its box.
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Thanks for your feedback.
I did a bit of reading on the relative hardnesses of the materials we're discussing. On the Mohs Scale, copper is rated at 3, and granite is rated at 6 to 7.
I'm not sure what method the ancients used to harden their copper chisels, but I doubt they could increase the hardness of those tools to be tougher than granite.
As far as hardness goes you’d only have to etch the letter in outline and then you could pound away at it with the chisel. It would seem to me though that microscopic examination of many red granite examples would would give up the answer pretty quickly. Metal hard or soft would leave distinct marKs in the surface itself and in the shape of the letter. HARD wold leave a V, SOFT more of a U in the letter. Someone must have looked at this level you’d think.
Speaking of tool marks on ancient Egyptian monuments, that's become quite a hot topic in recent years.
Evidence of high speed core drilling and saw cutting on the stones of ancient monuments and their quarry sites, is all over Egypt. Search for Brian Foerster on YouTube to see dozens of videos with close-up imagery of those tool marks. Its pretty mind blowing.
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