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Speaking of winter and snow I just ordered 40 sets of singles/tire chains and 6 bags of cross links. I just can't wait to get those chain repair tools out:cussing.
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I need to find a good mechanic, you need a job RZ? 
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Appreciate the offer... but my plate stays pretty full right where I'm at.I need to find a good mechanic, you need a job RZ?
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I was more or less kidding. I have a young guy in the shop that went to diesel school for two years and has been working in the shop for 2 1/2 years. Worthless!
No ambition no drive, the third one like that. I hate to start over with another dud.
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No ambition no drive, the third one like that. I hate to start over with another dud.
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Been taking time off from here to let other people start threads and others reply. And It's been busy at the shop also. My birthday was last week
and I just sat on the patio after going to work at 5:30 to 4:00 and then went to bed. 60 and tired.
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and I just sat on the patio after going to work at 5:30 to 4:00 and then went to bed. 60 and tired.
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Happy belated!! We sure appreciate your input here!!
Heck, we should have all got together and had a big party. Here's to Mike, :beerc
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I see what your doing trying to get me to post, most chains I just throw in the scrap bin.I see he posted on HEF, so he must be done crimping crosschains by now.
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It worked, didn't it? :avidI see what your doing trying to get me to post, most chains I just throw in the scrap bin.
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They work pretty good in mud and on slimy clay too. There's one place I have to get into once in a while (clay pit) that chains make the difference between driving in or being dragged around by a dozer.What are these tie chain things?
We ain't got then down south.
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Most I ever chained in one day-fourteen times. It was clear roads in the valley but I-82 and I-90 were iced 1/4 the way up. Towed and recovered for 28 hrs straight.
What a day that was, cars and trucks were wrecking like it was a pin-ball machine.
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What a day that was, cars and trucks were wrecking like it was a pin-ball machine.
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There was one time in the early '80s, James and I were headed for Burlington with a load of feed corn, we got to Easton and the chain up sign was out.. No problem just chain up. Some rotten bastige stole my chains the night before. So there I sat. Then... I saw the most awesome sight of my trucking career, 3 graders passing off to each other and 2 sand trucks right behind, I just jumped in behind them and got to where I was going.
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I'm by my self this week in the shop. My main partner Gayle is gone hunting from Sunday thru Friday and the worthless one gave a one week notice this morning.
So I told him to load his crap up and hit the road. Took a job working on garbage trucks, is he in for a life lesson or what. His experience with hydraulics is zip,
automatics is zip, electrical and any major engine experience is also Zip. I expect him to return with hat in hand, but I'm somewhat of a hard ass so coming back
won't happen.
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Hopefully for him, he doesn't mind maggots and stink. I went on a service call on a garbage truck a few years back (Allison issue) and decided I would never do that again. Uggh. The only thing worse was the yard goats at the old IBP slaughterhouse in Wallula that smelled like dead critters no matter how much they were steamed.I'm by my self this week in the shop. My main partner Gayle is gone hunting from Sunday thru Friday and the worthless one gave a one week notice this morning.
So I told him to load his crap up and hit the road. Took a job working on garbage trucks, is he in for a life lesson or what. His experience with hydraulics is zip,
automatics is zip, electrical and any major engine experience is also Zip. I expect him to return with hat in hand, but I'm somewhat of a hard ass so coming back
won't happen.
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Yeah, I'll take a manure truck any day before a slaughterhouse.
I'll try that, it seems to make sense.
2 words... Rendering Truck. Nuff said. gag.
Agreed!! When I was a teen I worked at the local grocery store and once a week the rendering truck would come to empty the fat barrels. The driver had a grubby apron and slime covered gloves and the stench coming off the truck would make you want to puke!! I can't imagine having to lay under it on a hot summer day!
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No that's not Nuff said. I had to change out a trailer brake valve on a trailer that was hauling Blood Meal. It took me 1.5 hrs because the fittings were so corroded.
The whole time the trailer was oozing and dripping goo all over me. Hell I had it in my ears down my neck and from wrists to arm pits. Walked into the parts room
afterward, I had three people almost driving the porcelain Buick. Had to strip down and wash up with dish soap, even then it didn't get rid of the stink. Oh what a smell
it was.
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