#83 Diesel Tech Toby Grace joins the guys
Modern Craftsman
Modern Craftsman
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🗓️ 8 September 2019
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
Toby Grace, Tyler's better looking younger brother brings an outside perspective to the guys. He talks about the challenges he faces being a diesel repair tech, the limitations of growth in the auto repair industry, and the parallels to the construction industry.
Where to find our Guest:
Toby Grace @toptechtoby on Instagram
Where to find our hosts:
Nick Schiffer @nsbuilders on Instagram and YouTube
Tyler Grace @TRGHomeconcepts on Instagram
John Hourihan @heresjohnnyh & @vintagebuilders on Instagram
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Music:
"Dessert" by Nate Gusakov
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| 0:00.0 | So on this modern craft and Monday we actually have one of my younger brothers he's |
| 0:15.6 | an identical twin Toby better race yeah actually the rest of my brothers are |
| 0:21.2 | kind of funny looking. |
| 0:22.6 | But he is a mechanic or a technician, |
| 0:27.9 | and he hops on to kind of talk about the parallels |
| 0:31.6 | of what he does and what we do in the issues within the industry |
| 0:35.6 | and kind of limitations on growth within the industry and I feel like it was a |
| 0:41.8 | pretty good conversation. |
| 0:42.8 | It was nice to have somebody on, you know, |
| 0:45.0 | outside of the construction world. |
| 0:46.9 | So it'd be interesting to hear what you guys think about it |
| 0:49.1 | and how it relates to us in the industry |
| 0:52.1 | and hopefully we help, I don't know bring some you guys will enjoy it. |
| 0:57.0 | So today we have on Toby Grace, who's my younger brother. He went, well why don't you |
| 1:07.4 | tell us a little bit about your path to where you are. So why we brought you on is |
| 1:23.0 | because you're in the trades and we want to have a little bit of a different perspective of trades, not just construction, not just carpentry. So you're a mechanic, a technician, you've worked on over the road trucks, |
| 1:28.7 | and now you're working on heavy equipment, |
| 1:31.0 | I guess all sorts of equipment. |
| 1:33.2 | So I guess maybe if you just touch on your path |
| 1:35.6 | to getting there, you know, is this what you knew |
| 1:38.1 | what you wanted to do? |
| 1:39.2 | Do you have direction in high school? |
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