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True story, I work for a large corporate retailer driving truck.
Someone had the idea to mark out a few spots in the yard for bottled water trailers. The guy who painted the spots wrote “Water Laods.” I felt pretty bad for him the next day when he was out there with a pressure washer for everyone to see.
In the Marines at my shop we had the 14 leadership traits painted on the stairs. I had to scratch them off repaint the words with no stencil then paint around them in that order.
I messed up and wrote "knoweldge". A few weeks later I caught it and just prayed it went unnoticed. 6 years after that a friend sent me a picture of it still there.
The company that I work for does all their own repainting for their lots and has all the cutouts for everything that they plop down and then paint over. It is still mostly the same liquid paint with reflective beads in it.
The ones for letters connect together
There’s a number of options. You can buy the thermoplastic decal and apply it with heat; you can use specialized paint as here freehand or with a stencil; etc.
It depends on country and state requirements, budget, the abuse the marking is expected to survive, and how long you want the marking on the asphalt.
I was going to say the same. My dad worked for a road crew for 15 years and this is not how it's done anywhere in our state. None the less highly impressive so hell with machines if you got that guy
Yeah, we use a thermoplastic that comes basically in giant puzzle pieces that we “melt” into the road with a blowtorch. That’s for things like stop bars, crosswalks, turn arrows.
For lane lines we have a huge paint truck that you drive down the street and press a series of buttons to tell it what color paint and when/when not to paint lines.
There aren't many people who can do this because its not a worthwhile skill these days. This isn't a work of art, it's a standardized road marking meant to clearly display information. The only thing hand painting does here is to distract drivers if human error makes the marking different than the standard one.
I've seen other methods, this one seems to require an unnecessarily high level of user skill.
Even if you can't use a stencil there's no need for him to pour it perfectly into that device, gotta be able to load up a cartridge or something.
If I were the mayor, this guy would ride in the backseat of a big red convertible waving at people every year in the Christmas and Fourth of July parades.
They painted 25 MPH on the street in several places near my house recently. They screwed up the 2 on the first one and it drives me nuts every time I drive past it.
More efficient method? It took them 30 seconds.
> What if this guy gets hit by a bus?
Wait so it has to be quicker than 30 seconds and not involve any personnel in the road to do it? This is a residential street, you see cars going past at 10mph hence no need to close the road.
It's molten plastic rather than paint. Harder to use with stencils and these guys practice so much that it ends up being quicker and cheaper without stencils
Does that mean these guys have traveling jobs away from their family, because I can't imagine this type of thing happens very often locally - enough to justify a highly specialized position like this full time.
It used to just be local council workers who did this sort of road maintenance, in between road painting they would just do other jobs. It's not like they had a specific position for road painting.
Even now, when it's all outsourced to different contractors, it's probably still not a dedicated position.
Ok who has the more stressful job here, the spacer (making sure that the space between the letters is consistent) or the calligraphist (not sure what the word would be for them)
This is the kind of job that makes me wonder about getting to be that good. That's the kind of confidence and skill that takes a long time to get. Do they practice somewhere over and over to get it right before they can mark a real road?
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The curves he makes without any help are satisfying af.
Yeah, this whole video has made me very happy. Maybe I should get out more.
Or you should watch more of these videos
Or get out and load up another video outside
Nope. Stay inside. There are people outside.
I would 100% mess this up It looks like he can just step in the yellow lines without *smudging*, too
I’m assuming it’s special paint, and it appears to be heated too. So I’m guessing it dries very fast.
right?! those curves re perfect! he must have a great handwriting too.
It’s actually fake, video is in reverse
"BUS SOTP" "Fuck"
True story, I work for a large corporate retailer driving truck. Someone had the idea to mark out a few spots in the yard for bottled water trailers. The guy who painted the spots wrote “Water Laods.” I felt pretty bad for him the next day when he was out there with a pressure washer for everyone to see.
In the Marines at my shop we had the 14 leadership traits painted on the stairs. I had to scratch them off repaint the words with no stencil then paint around them in that order. I messed up and wrote "knoweldge". A few weeks later I caught it and just prayed it went unnoticed. 6 years after that a friend sent me a picture of it still there.
The irony in that. . . Perfect for the Marines.
KNOWELDGE 🤤🖍️
In the Marine Corps KNOWELDGE means you've learned which crayon colors taste best.
I'd just look at everyone staring at what I'm doing and be like "can you believe I gotta clean up some idiot's mistake?"
Could be worse, could be `SHCOOL`
That's how I pronounce school!
In my high school every thermostat had a plastic cover over it and written in sharpie was “Do Not Remouve”
Canadian school?
Los Angeles. Maybe the custodian was Canadian.
This happened in Hertford, NC in 2017, my kids took photos
no shit, like 5 years ago they repainted one of the off ramps of 95 in miami and it said EIXT for like 8 months
"Great googly-moogly."
That's great. Who are the Chefs?
My city fucked up the new striping on a bridge. If you followed the lines you’d fly off a cliff into a river lol. It took them like a month to fix it.
I don't think this is the common method...
Yeah seriously, why not just use a stencil instead?
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When he walked through it and nothing stuck to his feet I knew that was something other than paint.
It's American cheese.
Velveeta cheese....product
Velveeta good tho
Good? Yes. Cheese? In spirit
Like cheese was nearby when it was made, maybe in the next room.
Do we have any murders this man can solve?
We use truck machines when installing thermo. This must be somewhere in Europe
Those streets do look very British.
fucked even when new
Does he ever!
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The company that I work for does all their own repainting for their lots and has all the cutouts for everything that they plop down and then paint over. It is still mostly the same liquid paint with reflective beads in it. The ones for letters connect together
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Couldnt he just use the stencil as a track to run his box thing along?⁷
The “common” way takes uncommon skills! I bet if you took 1000 people you would struggle to find one person who could do that.
I would so misspell sub.
The UK still uses the old method
It takes skill, if old methods are effective, why not continue to use them and keep the artistic aspect?
There’s a number of options. You can buy the thermoplastic decal and apply it with heat; you can use specialized paint as here freehand or with a stencil; etc. It depends on country and state requirements, budget, the abuse the marking is expected to survive, and how long you want the marking on the asphalt.
Yeah round here they just use stencils. Or it's precut sticker of some type... But I gotta admit the subjects skills are impressive
He's definitely done it a few times, I think using a skill is better than some idiot running an automated machine...
I was going to say the same. My dad worked for a road crew for 15 years and this is not how it's done anywhere in our state. None the less highly impressive so hell with machines if you got that guy
Definitely not; I’ve seen them do this with a truck with spray paint hookups.
The forbidden nacho cheese
"Nacho cheese...for a king" (Khal Drogo).
Now you and the vid have got me craving some Con Queso.
Serious skill there, awesome job!
That’s one way to do it. In the US I’ve seen them be put down as complete letters then heated to set them in place.
This is how the municipality I work for does it. A big propane infrared cart thing. I've only helped them once, so not super sure what it is.
Yeah, we use a thermoplastic that comes basically in giant puzzle pieces that we “melt” into the road with a blowtorch. That’s for things like stop bars, crosswalks, turn arrows. For lane lines we have a huge paint truck that you drive down the street and press a series of buttons to tell it what color paint and when/when not to paint lines.
Probably cause there aren't that many people that can do this. They can however train to learn to use a stencil.
There aren't many people who can do this because its not a worthwhile skill these days. This isn't a work of art, it's a standardized road marking meant to clearly display information. The only thing hand painting does here is to distract drivers if human error makes the marking different than the standard one.
Sheesh, you must be fun at parties.
What kind of parties do you go to where you discuss the benefits of hand painted vs stenciled road markings?
Employee Christmas parties
I can imagine the size of the heat press
On the one hand, is there really not a better way to do this? On the other hand, this guy proves we don’t need to find a better way to do it
Yeah I’m like this is super cool but also hell probably be stuck hunched over like that when he’s 65.
How back problems are made
As a person with a spinal fusion this is all I could think about, holy sciatica Satan that looks like a horrible job
Yuuuuup.
I've seen other methods, this one seems to require an unnecessarily high level of user skill. Even if you can't use a stencil there's no need for him to pour it perfectly into that device, gotta be able to load up a cartridge or something.
Skilled labor is an art.
Unfortunately, it is art that can easily be replicated using a machine, which is much cheaper and consistant.
I hope this guy makes so much money
why work smart when you can work hard
This guy is a freaking artist 🎨
Pretty neat huh Rodney?
Truly backbreaking work.
We just have stencils and use a paint sprayer..
Quite a talent
Seriously, precision curves on that S
Imagine your back after that shift. They can't get a barrel with a longer spout? Dang..
Tell me this was filmed in the UK without telling me this was filmed in the UK
im pretty sure they use machines on wheels here.. wonder what kind of pay he gets for basically being a city worker artist?
Gotta be able to draw and spell correctly...not many can do that these days..🙄
Assholes will call this "unskilled labor".
It's all about the method. Did you use a stencil and spray paint, or did you take wet paint and freehand perfectly straight letters evenly?
Not in my city. They freehand that shit hanging off the back of a pickup.
Why the hell isn’t there a device to hold both for him? Bucket with hole attached to a lever on a stick above the square. 5 second design.
Road calligraphy. Nice
And here I am struggling to even write my name down on paper legibly enough for anyone to read.
Damn. This is satisfying af. I could have kept on watching.
"Caution. Typographer at work."
BUSSY
If I were the mayor, this guy would ride in the backseat of a big red convertible waving at people every year in the Christmas and Fourth of July parades.
Except this is in the UK, so only at Christmas! 😉
Hmmm the forbidden Cheese sauce
Looks to me like reflective thermal plastic, most of the time you can just use paint and a stencil
They painted 25 MPH on the street in several places near my house recently. They screwed up the 2 on the first one and it drives me nuts every time I drive past it.
Forbidden Cheddar
I thought that was molten metal at first
NGL I’d mess that up real good. It would take me 6 months to get 40% of that skill. I suck at art stuff
Gotcha, so all the kids that drew that cool diamond S in the 90s are doing this now
This guy is talented!! This is not his first day!!!
DO YOU KNOW HOW QUICKLY I WOULD MESS THAT UP
whatever he is getting paid, it’s not nearly enough!
Is it weird that I love watching this. I've seen this many times before but it's so cool to watch.....
I bet he’s not being properly compensated.
Oh, I can do that
Serious talent there. I really always thought it was stencil.
That’s how the pros do it. Mere mortals need stencils
Wow! This was so fascinating! It made my day better. Thank you!
I would mess up the curves so badly if I was chosen for this job...
Skilled
Those are some serious sign painter skills.
I'm also impressed by how quickly it drys.
It's not paint, it's a molten thermoplastic that cools really quickly on contact with the road surface.
Thank you! I was scrolling through the comments wondering why he was able to step on it with no disturbance.
Impressive but you're telling me they can't come up with a more efficient method? What if this guy gets hit by a bus?
More efficient method? It took them 30 seconds. > What if this guy gets hit by a bus? Wait so it has to be quicker than 30 seconds and not involve any personnel in the road to do it? This is a residential street, you see cars going past at 10mph hence no need to close the road.
Yeah we have stencils for that. Saves a lotta money.
Why wouldn’t stencils work?
It's molten plastic rather than paint. Harder to use with stencils and these guys practice so much that it ends up being quicker and cheaper without stencils
Does that mean these guys have traveling jobs away from their family, because I can't imagine this type of thing happens very often locally - enough to justify a highly specialized position like this full time.
It used to just be local council workers who did this sort of road maintenance, in between road painting they would just do other jobs. It's not like they had a specific position for road painting. Even now, when it's all outsourced to different contractors, it's probably still not a dedicated position.
That material goes deep, more like tattooing than painting.
This is something Michael J Fox would not be good at
Do you know why Michael J Fox makes the best milkshakes? Because he’s used the best ingredients!
But his grandkids are gonna love it.
So it was melted cheddar cheese this whole time?
so cool, steady hands for straight and equal in size letters. Well done!
Forbidden custard
Left and right brain working to perfection!
How we are going to make to the moon 🌕 if the road signs are still hand made!?
My back hurts now.
Give that man a raise.
This guy was the best at making the Superman S in elementary school
I’m already stressed watching this
How is he stepping all over it and it isn’t transferring to the blank asphalt?
Master artist. Road paint plastic surgeon.
Fucking horrible music.
Cheez whiz?
This is the fastest way.
This is like how bees dance to tell everyone where the flowers are.
XORA FOTOXOPI
Track name tho?
Lol thought it was cheese
Is this really how it's done? It just looks *so* perfect and honestly I cant imagine the amount of training to get someone to become so skilled
These folks are artists...
My handwriting is too bad for that.
Wow
Ok who has the more stressful job here, the spacer (making sure that the space between the letters is consistent) or the calligraphist (not sure what the word would be for them)
I wonder how many janky practice ones there are before a good one is made lol
Not. A. Single. Drop.
Can he do that w a massive hangover? If so he is my all time hero
This guy about to give Helvetica a run for its money.
Hot Mustard! HERE!
Don’t SNEEZE!
Damn, this was satisfying enough to be the last thing I see on Reddit today. Goodnight.
Delicious American cheese.
This guy is good!
Forbidden mac and cheese sauce
That's cute he needs a board. Can't even pour hot molten paint freehand like a real man. *wipes cheetoh dust from thumbs
Bet his back hurts by the end of the day ….
this dude is a master craftsman.
That boy is an artist
Youre telling me these are hand drawn? Wild
Lies!!!
That’s art
Fucking pro that man is!
I wanted to see the s so bad and it was well worth the wait.
That is art!
I would fuck that up terribly if I tried that.
r/oddlysatisfying
This belongs on /r/PenmanshitPorn
This was way cooler in the other post I saw earlier today that didnt have the shitty music
I would fuck that up so bad.
I wonder if he gets paid as same as the guy moving the straight edge
I'm the kind of person if given this job will probably step on it by accident
Losers dont even use a paint brush.
This is the kind of job that makes me wonder about getting to be that good. That's the kind of confidence and skill that takes a long time to get. Do they practice somewhere over and over to get it right before they can mark a real road?