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[rebel-builders] Sobering numbers

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Mike Davis

[rebel-builders] Sobering numbers

Post by Mike Davis » Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:16 am

If you worked 8 hours a day with a 1/2 hour off for lunch(or 7.5 on the
project each day), and worked 7 days a week, with no holidays or vacation...
you'd have 2737.5 hours at the end of 365 days! That's a fair job... we
probably don't want to share this kind of information with our non-building
spouses. ;-)

Mike D

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Kimball" <mkimball@gci.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:19 AM
Subject: [rebel-builders] Sobering numbers

My builder's log shows that I racked up over 2700 hours of build time to
get
to first flight. I know there's a fair few hours not logged too. To get
some perspective, if you quit your job and work 8 hours a day, 5 days a
week
for a year, that's about 2100 hours. Of course, the non-standard engine
installation added a significant amount of time. Just got curious about
how
long 2700 hours is.

Mike


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Charlie Starr

[rebel-builders] Sobering numbers

Post by Charlie Starr » Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:16 am

I quit keeping an accurate and detailed log of hours and tasks after about
the first 2500 hours (and I worked at least 3 more years after that). I
think I spent too many hours on the logs and details that could have been
devoted to building. I did take lots and lots of pictures to support my
work, however. Thank goodness for digital cameras and computers.

It's amazing just how much time we spend at this (hobby?????) -- but isn't
it worth it in the end!

Charlie Starr SR 065
----- Original Message -----
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Subject: [rebel-builders] Sobering numbers

My builder's log shows that I racked up over 2700 hours of build time to
get
to first flight. I know there's a fair few hours not logged too. To get
some perspective, if you quit your job and work 8 hours a day, 5 days a
week
for a year, that's about 2100 hours. Of course, the non-standard engine
installation added a significant amount of time. Just got curious about
how
long 2700 hours is.

Mike




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mbetti

[rebel-builders] Sobering numbers

Post by mbetti » Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:16 am

I built a pretty nice 3 bedroom house from start to finish, poured basement to plumbing to trim. Grand total hours was 2500. I compare it to my airplane project all the time.
Mike Betti
771E

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:35:06 -0500, rebel-builders@dcsol.com said:
I quit keeping an accurate and detailed log of hours and tasks after about
the first 2500 hours (and I worked at least 3 more years after that). I
think I spent too many hours on the logs and details that could have been
devoted to building. I did take lots and lots of pictures to support my
work, however. Thank goodness for digital cameras and computers.

It's amazing just how much time we spend at this (hobby?????) -- but isn't
it worth it in the end!

Charlie Starr SR 065
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Kimball" <mkimball@gci.net>
To: "Rebel Builder's List" <rebel-builders@dcsol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:19 PM
Subject: [rebel-builders] Sobering numbers

My builder's log shows that I racked up over 2700 hours of build time to
get
to first flight. I know there's a fair few hours not logged too. To get
some perspective, if you quit your job and work 8 hours a day, 5 days a
week
for a year, that's about 2100 hours. Of course, the non-standard engine
installation added a significant amount of time. Just got curious about
how
long 2700 hours is.

Mike




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NormIsler

[rebel-builders] Sobering numbers

Post by NormIsler » Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:16 am

In a message dated 10/10/2006 3:49:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
mbetti@up.net writes:


I built a pretty nice 3 bedroom house from start to finish, poured basement
to plumbing to trim. Grand total hours was 2500. I compare it to my airplane
project all the time.
Mike Betti
771E


But can you put floats on it?

Norm Isler
Elite 702E




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bransom

[rebel-builders] Sobering numbers

Post by bransom » Sun Feb 19, 2012 11:16 am

But can you put floats on it?
Norm Isler
Elite 702E
I agree with the above...
I've definetely had my frustrations and moments where I felt like passing
my pile of aluminum on to someone else. I know this isn't practical. But
most of the time I'm still crazy enf to enjoy whereever the hell I am in
the 2xxx hours. I might even enjoy flying it too. :)
-Ben




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