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Kyle18fan said:
Pro mechanics dont bust knuckles, that stuff is for rookies :bsflag::D
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True what was I thinking.....
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DOH!!!!
 
kymartin6 said:
LOL........... Funny you should mention that Naz...... I have spent all day today preparing for tommorrow. We have a large 4 wheel drive tractor 2 hours north that was just delivered. The new guys in the shop didn't tighten the outside dual wheels correctly. One has fallen off and the other 3 have slid on the axle. All 4 have to come off and the hubs replaced. It's in a muddy area with little access. I have been cutting up railroad cross ties all afternoon and loading them and 3/4 drive tools. I have to go try to drive the inside tires up on the railroad ties to get the outside tires off the ground. I cut a bunch of them because the tractor is so heavy, it will just keep shoving them in ground until they hit solid. Tremendous job all because the newbies didn't do it correctly the first time. Supposed to be a high of 33 degrees, 10 mile an hour wind with snow, sleet and rain. I sure dread it.
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Damn kmart, please be safe.
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kymartin6 said:
LOL........... Funny you should mention that Naz...... I have spent all day today preparing for tommorrow. We have a large 4 wheel drive tractor 2 hours north that was just delivered. The new guys in the shop didn't tighten the outside dual wheels correctly. One has fallen off and the other 3 have slid on the axle. All 4 have to come off and the hubs replaced. It's in a muddy area with little access. I have been cutting up railroad cross ties all afternoon and loading them and 3/4 drive tools. I have to go try to drive the inside tires up on the railroad ties to get the outside tires off the ground. I cut a bunch of them because the tractor is so heavy, it will just keep shoving them in ground until they hit solid. Tremendous job all because the newbies didn't do it correctly the first time. Supposed to be a high of 33 degrees, 10 mile an hour wind with snow, sleet and rain. I sure dread it.
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Holy crap and by your self??????? Wow that's asking a lot of one mans back......
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Wow that's pretty bad the newbies couldn't even get that done right and that's about the easiest deal they have to do.....
 
Naz said:
Holy crap and by your self??????? Wow that's asking a lot of one mans back......View attachment 16168 Wow that's pretty bad the newbies couldn't even get that done right and that's about the easiest deal they have to do.....
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I will have another guy (26 or so years old). He's really pretty good. I just have to keep an eye on him some because he sometimes gets in too big of a hurry.
 
kymartin6 said:
LOL!!!!!!!!!! I see you ain't got no easy job either........ :(
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It can be a challenge, operators and drivers can tear stuff up that cant be broken ............. I dont envy you working on ag equipment though, thats not easy work
 
Kyle18fan said:
It can be a challenge, operators and drivers can tear stuff up that cant be broken ............. I dont envy you working on ag equipment though, thats not easy work
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LOL on the operators and drivers!!!! ;) They don't care because they don't have to work on it. It's never their fault either. It just broke. Or, 'it's a piece of crap'. Yeah..... I know where you are coming from Bud...... :booya:
 
kymartin6 said:
I will have another guy (26 or so years old). He's really pretty good. I just have to keep an eye on him some because he sometimes gets in too big of a hurry.
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Oh that's good you have a helper that's too much for one man to do......Those tires and wheels have to be super heavy...
 
kymartin6 said:
LOL on the operators and drivers!!!! ;) They don't care because they don't have to work on it. It's never their fault either. It just broke. Or, 'it's a piece of crap'. Yeah..... I know where you are coming from Bud...... :booya:
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I have seen stuff that defys the imagination...........a boom on a new Cat backhoe snapped completely in half etc' etc':rolleyes:
 
Kyle18fan said:
Yep, we dig a lot of solid rock out here and it leaves jagged edges on buckets and stuff, you can just be walking by one of them and slice your arm or leg wide open.
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Dayum i'll stick to Trucken well if I could.....tore my back up in 84 and finished it in 87...
 
Naz said:
The boom on a back hoe that seems hard to do they try to move a block on concrete or something that's crazy...
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I never got an accurate story on that one .............. that operator was looking for a job the next day, the hydraulic cylinder was the only thing holding the boom on and it was bent, I have no idea how he did it, me thinks he may have done something real dumb
 
Kyle18fan said:
Lots of truckers end up with back misery, not sure why but I have known several
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Yuppers cause too much of it sometimes is not just driving.......I was unloading 30K a day by hand for some years that will do it,the jumping off docks and the trailer......theres a bunch od stuff that's no good on the back....Back in the 70's the trucks were not like todays....
 
Naz said:
Yuppers cause too much of it sometimes is not just driving.......I was unloading 30K a day by hand for some years that will do it,the jumping off docks and the trailer......theres a bunch od stuff that's no good on the back....Back in the 70's the trucks were not like todays....
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I done a little bit of trucking years ago. Just enough to know it wasn't for me. I couldn't stand the pressure of the traffic and getting into tight places. I had my (chauffers license as they called it back then) since I was 18..... now called CDL's...... I turned mine in 5 years ago. Told 'em I didn't want 'em anymore. They looked at me like I was crazy. I really don't.
 
kymartin6 said:
I done a little bit of trucking years ago. Just enough to know it wasn't for me. I couldn't stand the pressure of the traffic and getting into tight places. I had my (chauffers license as they called it back then) since I was 18..... now called CDL's...... I turned mine in 5 years ago. Told 'em I didn't want 'em anymore. They looked at me like I was crazy. I really don't.
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The traffic does drive you nuts the only way it kept me sane I was usually on OT on the way back to the yard.....The tight spots I liked that they would tell me you can't put that there oh yeah watch me..... I had a buddy that could back up the rear trailer to a dock with out breaking up a set of doubles now that's not easy to do all those pivot points......I loved trucken just one of them deals it in your blood as they say....
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Naz said:
The traffic does drive you nuts the only way it kept me sane I was usually on OT on the way back to the yard.....The tight spots I liked that they would tell me you can't put that there oh yeah watch me..... I had a buddy that could back up the rear trailer to a dock with out breaking up a set of doubles now that's not easy to do all those pivot points......I loved trucken just one of them deals it in your blood as they say....
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Knew a guy years back in Wyoming that pulled triples, they only allowed them on certain roads and I dont think they tried to back them up
 
Kyle18fan said:
I never got an accurate story on that one .............. that operator was looking for a job the next day, the hydraulic cylinder was the only thing holding the boom on and it was bent, I have no idea how he did it, me thinks he may have done something real dumb
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Yup I think your right on there......
 
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