Sorry to hear this Mark. I would go over and read that forum sometimes. I knew he was sick but didn’t expect to hear this. He seemed like a good man who had a passion for his craft, and for helping others.
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Terry is the person who took the picture you see as my avatar on this site
he was about 71 on around that age.... Terry had things going pretty well
and his plumbing forum was raking in good money from advertisements revenue
so he has plenty of time on his hands to fool around.......
Terry still ran around doing Toto toilets and things but basically
he was gearing down and I got the feeling it was
more like a hobby for him lately.. I sort of put a bug in his ear about what folks
were charging for water heaters in his area ($2800) and how easy they were to do
and he started doing a few heaters here and there...
In hindsight I sort of wish I would have flown out to Seattle a few more times
each summer just for a 4 day weekend or a short spell to go hiking up Mt Raineer again
or hit some other places more often....
Terry said that he would like to visit the mid west some time but I told him that where I
live is basically a boring hell hole compared to Washington and he did not know how
good he really had it living out there.... and that is why I go out there every summer..
Here is a shot from a hike we took with his girl freind Pam back in 2019...
I used to get the union's magazine for years and years and they posted all the deceased plumbers, I tallied them for many months did the math and that's the average. We used to breathe a lot of nasty solder fumes(still do), lead pipe dope, silica etc. Just by walking the hallway of a new concrete building under construction did you ever see the kicked up silica dust in the sun light?
The plumber who got me in the trade died of lung cancer and died a year after retiring (67), he worked his last years for an A-hole company for 10-15 years and they never reached out on his death bed. He worked night and weekend for them. I worked for that company not very long, the first day they told me I was late when I got there 15 minutes before 7, I asked will I get paid to pack the truck from 6:30 to 7, they said no, time starts at 7. Why the F would I work for free?? They also said I had to put materials in my personal truck and supply my own power tools to go on job sites(against convention rules). The next day I showed up 2 minutes before 7 and came in on a bicycle, that was my last day.
Several years later all the employee kids there got caught by the CRA with shenanigan payroll, these kids supplying tools, trailers, fuel, etc. and deducting these from their taxes but you cannot do that unless you are a contractor. The company would take all their receipts and deduct it on the company!! All my life people were mocking me when I standing up for myself...All the kids ended up with 25-30K+ in fines and had to pay back all those deductions to the CRA.
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