Let’s see them work benches

My workbench and winter shootin table

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Must be nice to have a lathe but take that key out of the chuck, Mister ☠️
When I was in trade school if the instructor caught you with the chuck wrench in the chuck and it wasn't being used you had to wear one around your neck the rest of the week. It definitely made you remember to take it out.
 
chuck wrench in the chuck
We had nothing at trade school for this, but at my apprenticeship if you started a lathe with the wrench in the chuck, you had to buy a round of beer for the entire shop.
And the apprentice lathe shop was like 25 lathes.

Yes this was a public "job " at the Danish national railways, you see many drunk or sleeping people there in a work day, and there was plenty of little shops around the place where you could buy beer / soda / ciggies and whatever.
I will admit that one Friday i had to take the bus home, CUZ i was too drunk to drive.
But that was also a X-mas lunch with 2 older guys mainly doing brake work on trains, we had all the traditional good X-mas food, and they only did the strong beers + then Snaps and so on.
6 hours of that and the world was spinning for this little guy ( i must have been around 20 then )

PS. a few did that wrench in chuck thing,,,,, not me of course i am just crazy but not insane.

PPS: coming out of that education after + 1/2 year which was customary to give the good apprentices, i stopped outside gate and swore a oath to myself that i would never again work for anything public / government, and i have of course kept that promise too.