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283: Jack Nix—You Can't Lead from a Pickup Truck

Nov 15, 2022

01:24:21

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Advanced Construction Robotics With Tie Bot

01:56

Work Ethic

01:31

How Much Work Is Out There?

03:28

Introduction

2min

Jack Nix

2min

Field of Greens - The Healthy Elixir

3min

Is It a Category One or a Tropical Storm?

2min

What's Scarier Than Hurricanes?

2min

Hurricanes, I'm Not in the Cone of Death

2min

I've Been in the Eye of the Storm Your Whole Life, You Work in Construction

2min

The Artistry of Ironworking

2min

You're Doing That, Jack. It's Not Even in This Language, Jack

3min

10.

How Do You Get Ahead of Them?

2min

11.

Do You Carry All Your Steel on Your Shoulder?

2min

12.

How to Catch the Bars a Whole Nother

3min

13.

Black Rifle Coffee

2min

14.

Bridge Decks - It's the Hardest Job

2min

15.

How Do You Build a Bridge?

2min

16.

Do You Have a DOL Apprenticeship Program?

5min

17.

The Apprenticeship Program for Rodbusters, Reinforcing Ironworkers?

2min

18.

How Much Work Is Out There?

3min

19.

The Same Problem in Residential Construction

3min

20.

Are You Trading in One Skill?

6min

21.

Is This a Business Model?

2min

22.

Advanced Construction Robotics With Tie Bot

2min

23.

Embrace the Technology With at Least One Arm

2min

24.

What's the Best Iron Worker?

3min

25.

Is There a Substitute?

2min

26.

The Importance of Tools on a Job

2min

27.

Work Ethic

2min

28.

Do You Still Think There's a Skills Gap?

4min

29.

Is There a Teacher Shortage?

2min

30.

Shelby Erectors - The American Success Story

4min

31.

I'm Doing What on a Much Smaller Scale Than You

4min

32.

I'm Not a Housing Guy. I'd Better Love My Builder.

2min

33.

The Greatest Bridge on Earth?

4min

34.

Why Would You Resist a Tying Gun?

3min

35.

Is That Jennifer You Were Waving To?

3min

Jack Nix, chief operating officer of Shelby Erectors and reinforcing ironworker (a.k.a. rodbuster), talks about his appearance on Dirty Jobs, what it takes to tote steel and bust rod, and how it feels to have all your hard work covered up by cement.

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