Howdy Gents

My name is Gene Monk.I`ve been running machinery since I was thirteen years old.My dad owned a small logging company and put me on his dozer to learn when I was thirteen years old.I doubt ya see much of that these days. I joined the Army when I was eighteen years old as a Scout and went on a little trip during 1990 and 1991 when I was nineteen to the Gulf war. I got out of the service in 1994 and went to work running a loader and finish boxblade cutting corners in parking lots for a blade. Worked my way up and was on a blade before long.Eleven years later I was a finish blade operator and general foreman for that company. I joined the national guard in 2006 after some of my old buddies talked me into it.Went in as a 11 bravo,infantry rifleman.I spent 2007 and 2008 as a grunt with Task force 106,101st Airborne in Iraq. I ets`d service this month. When I came home from Iraq in May 08 I took a job working for another company here in central Texas.I started as a finish blade operator,quickly took over as finish crew foreman and not long ago I took over the whole shooting match as general superintendent of sitework operations for a company with 200 plus men. In my time I`ve run a lot of machinery.D-9`s,D-8`s,7`s, 6`s 623,615,613 scrapers,966,950,938 cat loaders,track loaders,excavators but always my love has been the blade. I was cutting bluetops on government jobs at Fort Hood when I was 25 years old dealing with Corps inspectors and just kept at it,got me where I am today I guess. Away from work I love to hunt,whitetailed deer,hogs and predator calling as well as building custom rifles. I also handload all my own stuff and own a decent sized forum much like this one for handloaders,hunters and shooters. www.handloadersbench.com Been married to a great woman for seventeen years and have three great kids. Hope I havent bored yall. Gene Monk