Can we talk about hitting 1,000 feet of tube on one job? Didn't think it would happen

I was on a job down in Beaumont last month, a big refinery turnaround. My partner and I been working together for about 5 years now. We got assigned a section of boiler tubes that needed replacing, figured maybe 600 feet total. By the end of the second week, we had rolled in 1,020 feet of new tube. That number just hit me different when I counted the delivery slips. Has anyone else hit a mileage total on a single outage that surprised you like that?

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schmidt.grant9h ago

Bring up those numbers to my dad and he just shrugs, says he's seen a million miles of pipe in his life. But I started noticing it in other places too. My uncle brags about driving 200,000 miles on his truck, and my buddy counts every mile he hikes. People like having a big number to point at, something that proves they did a whole lot of something. Your 1,020 feet is just your version of that, a concrete way to say you really put in the work. It's satisfying to be able to hold that number in your head and know exactly what it took to get there.

lisa8391h ago

My brother got obsessed with tracking his steps a couple years ago, hit 5 million total before he got bored of it. I do the same thing with my garden - I carved a notch for every tomato plant I've put in the ground, and I'm at 487 now. It's just nice having a number that SHOWS the work instead of having to explain it.