The weather man gave these guys a little surprise this morning...but if they hadn't been up there all nite they would have never gotten wet.
Yep these guys are the tuffest...lets see your tuff guy signpainter pics.
[ February 06, 2003, 09:43 PM: Message edited by: Monte Jumper ]
Posted by Bill Biggs (Member # 18) on :
Very Dimensional Monte, Good Work, but you ought to bring those guys in after 5:00 otherwise you are gonna owe a lot of ot. And the IRS will get you for working them too many hrs. LOL Bill
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
Your sign still looks great Monte! The snow looks even better, wish I were heading to Fred's w/ stopover to check out your shop. Maybe someday.
[ February 07, 2003, 03:35 PM: Message edited by: Doug Allan ]
Posted by Mike Languein (Member # 319) on :
This may seem like a cold response, but those guys appear somewhat stiff . . . and, well, wooden. Not to mention a little unbalanced.
Kinda hard to tell really - I'm having some 'snow' on my screen here . . .
Dang! It's chilly tonight - must be 60. Or less.
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
Hey Mikey - It got down to 42º here in the desert tonight. Thank god for those seat warmer thingies in my car or I'd have darn-near froze to death!!! Brrrrr!
Posted by Neil D. Butler (Member # 661) on :
Nice shot Monte,.... So how is the new shop working out for you? Is it all you hoped for?
Posted by Monte Jumper (Member # 1106) on :
The shop is all we asked for amd more thank you for asking.
I can actually remember a job or two in Colorado when the conditions were very much the same,once we actaully went out on a job and broke 1/2" ice from the stringers of a billboard in the rocky mountain foothills just to put up the faces...(took my Jeep with a trailer to get to it thru a foot of snow)busted our asses (literally) to get the job done by a deadline that had to be met then spent 3 month chasing the guy for the money.
Aint life grand?
[ February 07, 2003, 08:29 AM: Message edited by: Monte Jumper ]
Posted by Tony Vickio (Member # 2265) on :
This is sign artist Steve Hughey from Corning, NY. This shot was taken at Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama. I took Steve with me to do signs before the DieHard 500. We were working 4,000 sq.ft. sign, painted on the asphalt in front of the Media Center. We worked in the sun this day for hours! Broke a new $3,000.00 airless sprayer! And........Steve hates to get paint on his hands!!! I worked him into this state! After looking at this photo, I actually felt bad! Tough??? I report........you decide! Posted by Jeremy Vecoli (Member # 2278) on :
You can send your problem customers to me anytime! Hard to see, but I do wear my black 1-Shot T-shirt to class. Posted by Don Hulsey (Member # 128) on :
Monte,
I don't have pics, but I have a story.
Three years ago, I bid the job in June. It was a wall job, 30' to the bottom, 11' x 41' logo, with latex paint. I bid the job planning to use a man-lift.
The bid was accepted in November, and had to be comp;eted by the end of the month, as the new business would open December 1. We had a very cold November that year.
I explained to the general contractor that latex paint has a tendancy to freeze when the temp is below 10 degrees, but he sais it HAD TO BE DONE. I said if he could warm the wall I could paint it.
They built scaffolding, covered it in plastic, and set 4 propane heaters at a lower level. When I went in that morning it was 4 degrees(it got up to 8 later in the day). I wore insulated coveralls, with a hooded sweatshirt, flannel shirt, jeans, and longjohns. By 9:00 I had removed the coveralls, sweatshirt, flannel shirt, and longjohns. I finished the wall in jeans and t-shirt(and was sweating).
As I finished painting, and started picking things up, the contractor started my car so it would be warmed up when I got to it. He also voluntarily paid an extra $1000.00 for the inconvenience.
Some days your the ball, but some days you get to be the bat.
Posted by Janette Balogh (Member # 192) on :
I heard the closer you get to the sun, the quicker you tan. What better way to spend a sultry warm summer Saturday in the heat of Florida eh? Who needs the beach when you can have a billboard!!!
Weekend High Yes, and Dave was with me that day, luggin' ladders, and I even got him working a paint brush too! .... Whatta trooper!
Posted by Lotti Prokott (Member # 2684) on :
Did anyone notice the little sign on the right in Tony's picture? Priceless.... Posted by FranCisco Vargas (Member # 145) on :
Monte, those are some tuff sign painters there for sure I would say one of my tuffest jobs was when I helped P-King in Birmingham, AL http://franciscovargas.com/signage.htm it's the bottom right corner picture
Posted by David McDonald (Member # 3433) on :
Yeah, and what Nettie forgot to mention was the wrought iron fence buried in the shrubs under the sign... the kind with the pointy spikes all along the top... like if you fall on it, you get skewered and you die. Now that's tough baby!
Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :
I love your sign Monte!
Hey Cisco.......I was thinkin' about you when this post started. You are a crazy one....hanging from those ladders....and lifts. And you do some great work!
Posted by Tony Vickio (Member # 2265) on :
Lotti, you noticed! While we were working on the banking, lettering the retaining walls, the Motor Sports Hall of Fame Museum has tours of the track. There is a service road around the outside of the track, used by the tour busses. They would stop the bus so people could look down at the high banking between the corners. There we would be, lettering the walls!. It was like we were in a zoo! People would look at us, point and talk among themselves. We made this sign and put it on the fence where we were working.....it was a hit! The sign behind Steve was made for the Sign Office at the track. We called ourselves "High Wallers". It is 5 stories from the ground to the top of the banking at Talladega, we were lettering the walls, so the name.
Posted by Janette Balogh (Member # 192) on :
Hey did I mention that was on our first date? hahahaaa.... just kidding.
After Lotti pointed it out, I checked out that sign. Too funny, ... good story with it Tony.
Cisco, whatta team you guys (and gal) were on that job. I remember watching the live footage of that. You'd never find me up that high! You're one wild (and yes, talented) monkey! Cisco, we are "doing Duval" this month. Please email me some recommendations on "shouldn't miss" sights in the Keys if you have any in mind for us.
Good thread Monte. Keep the photos and stories coming folks! Nettie
Posted by Neil D. Butler (Member # 661) on :
Man I thought the photo was a painting, it has painting written all over it, someone should paint it! It has a norman rockwell feel to it, am I the only one who sees this? What a shot!
Posted by Tony Vickio (Member # 2265) on :
Lotti, you noticed! While we were working on the banking, lettering the retaining walls, the Motor Sports Hall of Fame Museum has tours of the track. There is a service road around the outside of the track, used by the tour busses. They would stop the bus so people could look down at the high banking between the corners. There we would be, lettering the walls!. It was like we were in a zoo! People would look at us, point and talk among themselves. We made this sign and put it on the fence where we were working.....it was a hit! The sign behind Steve was made for the Sign Office at the track. We called ourselves "High Wallers". It is 5 stories from the ground to the top of the banking at Talladega, we were lettering the walls, so the name.
Posted by FranCisco Vargas (Member # 145) on :
Well, thank you Cheryl for the nice compliments. You also do some great work!
Nettie, let me check into my album so I can remember the names of some of the places. Wish I could go back Key West it was one FUN place, I ran out of money over there, so I had to go do the hustle and find a job in two days I think I made $550 bucks in one spot, I think it's called Roberts Plumbing, I didn't design it, it was a repaint, but I was able to make it home, what a long drive that was. Once again thanks for letting me make a pit stop at your place. And all of the rest of you...
Hey Tony, I like that title "high wallers" they called you, pretty cool
Posted by Jon Butterworth (Member # 227) on :
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH! Monte, is this the scene I'm going to hit in 3 weeks time?
At the moment it's 6am and 65F here !!!!! I just walked down to get the morning paper in bare feet and shorts!!!!
Talk about "cultural shock", I don't know if I can hack the "chill factor" hahahhahahhaa
Dare not show the pics to Sue .... she will freak out.
Our "toughest" job recently was painting "MILLMERRAN" in 8ft high letters across the roof of their airport terminal out west from here. It was hitting 105F in the shade at 11am when we finished. (started very early!)
But when yer having fun, who cares about the weather
Seeya soon
Posted by timi NC (Member # 576) on :
Tony I see you have lettered those walls too! I can remember back in the eighties we would have the bikes testing all the time there,and all those Winston signs on the wall being so long ppl have no idea how elongated they have to be to read at those speeds on tv,....I hope you don't have to letter all the pit road retaining walls that say winston, seems I remember them going on for almost a mile repeatively on the wall on pit road,....do they still have the double stack scorebords we used to paint in the infield? Seems I remember the part that was just the sponsor ad being a 20'x80' and or maybe half that with the scoreboard itself being the other half,two of them ?
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