EDC - What's In Your Pockets?

[Setanta]

flashlight and box cutter

[Pinkpan]

Always travel light.
Card holder and key holder home made by my friend Greg triumph leather.
And my lovely Lucifer knife.

[A Former User]

Night shift on an Iron Ore Mine, EDC.

[goosehd]

@Aussie-Ben What kind of Ore are you mining? Deep or surface?

I grew up in and around coal mines which were mainly deep mines when young and transitioned to surface mines as I got older. My uncle worked around mines most of his life.

[A Former User]

@goosehd whoa yeah, you wouldn’t get me underground. No thank you. Hats off to ya mate.
I could imagine it’s hard work being down there chasing coal
I’m above ground in mechanical maintenance. Iron Ore is what they dig up.
It’s only just starting to heat up. Still 30°c at midnight though. But the 45 - 48 degree days are inbound soon.

[goosehd]

@Aussie-Ben …not for me either. One good advice from my Uncle was don’t get into mining. Sad fact that every year I was in school, somebody’s dad, uncle, or brother was killed in a mine related accident. Late 70’s and early 80’s. Convince you pretty quick that it was or wasn’t something you wanted to get into.

[goosehd]

Things got quite a bit safer when they started surface mining. The other issue is that companies were horrible at paying employees…pay was great when you got paid…then they would close up the office and disappear one night. Some guys went without pay for weeks while being promised that pay was coming tomorrow…and then it didn’t.

Happened to my Uncle more times than I can count…

Hopefully mining is a bit better where you’re at! It’s a damn good job…but some shady practices around Virginia and West Virginia.

[A Former User]

@goosehd That paints a pretty tough life of being a miner.
The industry does have a very dark past

[mclaincausey]

And present

[northsouthdenimguy]

[Anesthetist]

@northsouthdenimguy nice carry there

[northsouthdenimguy]

@Anesthetist

Thank you. I was going through my “Catch All” a few moments ago and just realized I bought a Ship John brass pen recently that I need to add to the EDC. ‍️ i’m constantly searching for a pen so figure this would help me out. It’s pretty small.

[chrisjohnnick]

@northsouthdenimguy just looked at your leather keychain. I’m in Cumming right now with family for Christmas! In-laws are in Buford and sister and brother-in-law are in Cumming.

[northsouthdenimguy]

@chrisjohnnick

That’s cool when I first moved to Georgia over 30 years ago I lived in Cumming for about six months. My parents lived there for many years.

Dad Joke in 3 2 1…

Why does Alpharetta like living next to Cumming?

Because it’s always coming.

Edit: a little backstory on the key fob Harker Leather Works is based in Cumming Georgia he makes really cool belts and small goods. A while back on the Discord we were talking about where we live and I jokingly said that I used to be a Cumming man which I think prompted the design.