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Post by Phil on Jun 11, 2009 14:37:56 GMT -5
Me neither. Me thinks I'd rather smell a skunk over either of these situations. For sure. A skunk smell is bad but there's no comparison to the spilled outhouses. |
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 12, 2009 0:47:01 GMT -5
On reconsideration......
I stink....errr, think, Phil wins the Nobel Feces Prize - for dealing with, what most of us couldn't ever deal with; like a man; even though he cried a little bit; and then puked some; and then drank a Dr. Pepper; .....and then puked it up.....
[Picture Edit: I couldn't find a cool enough trophy award .jpeg to post. So, just close your eyes and picture the most awesomest trophy ever!..... and that's what I'd've posted!!]
I got new video: of the near death - and resurrection of my moving picture taker.
I don't know what happened.
Filming one second. Froze the next.
It took 6 hours for the battery to die before I could get home and plug it in to reboot.
It took 8 hours for it to figure itself out after that.
It's good to go, now, though.
Hopefully.
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Post by Blastgirl on Jun 12, 2009 1:54:48 GMT -5
I like watching equipment. A bulldozer or payloader loading a truck is just fascinating to me. ;D
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 12, 2009 2:16:13 GMT -5
My mum and I would get along wonderfully.
I would call her a "Caterpillerophile" (it's Latin, trust me..).
She said that, "After watching 'Maximum Overdrive'", she'd developed a fascination with semis and various heavy equipment.
Meh.... I only got my CDL-A just so I could honk the air horn...... lol.
Not really.
I did it for money.
...and the air horn... for real.
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Post by Phil on Jun 12, 2009 11:59:07 GMT -5
Uploading right now. Not the flowers but the woods shot is uploading right now.
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Post by Classicblast on Jun 13, 2009 10:24:55 GMT -5
That's a bottom dump trailer just like the tiny Tankas I had we would fill them up with sand and open the bottom hatch and the sand would pour out underneath. Does the real thing work as well as the toys?
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 13, 2009 20:06:07 GMT -5
I think Tonka has the upper leg... lol.
Actually, this is what they call a 'live bottom' trailer.
The flakes/gravel/sand/body parts/etc go into a 'V' shaped container that has a conveyer belt at the bottom.
There's several bars at the bottom to keep the material agitating as it's used and to stir it up so that only a small portion of it flows out of the rear - in a controlled manner.
It's pretty neat to watch but, the hydraulic hoses tend to leak and leave big puddles of oil on the ground.
Speaking of "Neat to watch":
The other day I was sent to a factory that make, bottles and labels those '5-Hour Energy' pills.
I got to sit there and watch how they put the pills into blank bottles and how the bottles are brought along a conveyor system to get shrink wrapped with the plastic labels.
One machine can do 1,200 bottles in a day - and only takes up 8 square feet of space.
It's pretty fascinating, really.
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 22, 2009 19:47:33 GMT -5
Watch me speak, publicly:
My company recently had a Golf outing with a banquet afterward.
This is my very first public speaking event.
You get to watch my speech/intro and both of my videos.
I had to break it down into three parts.
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 25, 2009 21:16:19 GMT -5
A sad day for all of us at InOnTime.
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Post by Blastgirl on Jun 26, 2009 0:40:22 GMT -5
That truck doesn't appear to be in bad shape. They shred the old trucks or that was an expression meaning they're putting it out to pasture?
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 26, 2009 1:32:06 GMT -5
It really means that this truck is going to go into a shredder (compactor)....
Unlike the four-wheelers, a commercial vehicle can't even have a little bit of cosmetic damage (dents, scrapes, stuff falling off/taped into place) without the Weigh Station workers throwing a fit.
It has to look like it did the day it rolled out of the factory.... OR ELSE!!!
#60 is a continuous electrical nightmare.
-A head light goes out: turns into a ground problem.
-A tail light goes out: turns into having to rewire the entire rear of the truck.
-A turn signal goes out: turns into having to replace the entire steering column....
Number 60 was also involved in a "Truck/Low Bridge" incident two years ago [which involved ME going down to Chicago and spending 6 hours "dealing with the problem"].
....may have started some of this stuff.
So, the box is only two years old.
..BUT(!), after a million miles, you have to start expecting some problems, anyway.
I'm sad to see 60 go.
It was one of my first trainers.
And, it rode nice, for a straight truck.
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Post by Blastgirl on Jun 26, 2009 1:48:36 GMT -5
I would have figured they would sell them at wholesale auctions. What about the box that's only two years old do the reuse that or is the whole thing going to be destroyed?
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Post by Mahnarch on Jun 26, 2009 2:00:24 GMT -5
We don't really have the space/resources to hold onto a box at the moment.
I think that our maintanence company is going to try to sell it to some contacts before the big "Heeve-Ho".
........of course, "Store Credit, Only!!"
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Post by Phil on Jun 26, 2009 10:32:12 GMT -5
I know what it's like to have an old beast that you just are happy with. That is a lot of miles even for a box truck and it surved its purpose well.
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Post by thunderbird on Jul 1, 2009 3:59:09 GMT -5
Trucks and machines are a big deal to me too. Having to retire a familiar truck is a sad time but they just don't last forever.
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Post by Phil on Jul 1, 2009 14:17:50 GMT -5
All the industrial guys can relate to the loyalty to a company truck.
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Post by Mahnarch on Jul 1, 2009 22:31:47 GMT -5
60 was "white outed" a couple of days ago, and went to the dealer's lot.
I shed a tear.
It may sell but, I doubt it...
It's in pretty rough shape.
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Post by Mahnarch on Jul 14, 2009 0:38:50 GMT -5
I'm an......*gasp!!*.....Atheist!!
I also shot a couple of deer.
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