Do you know people like this?
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sandman2234
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Bearings on a Craftsman, bushings more likely !!!MikeD74T
And probably plastic bushings at that...
David from jax
ScottAR
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There's a brake rotor on the wall at the store that a regular brought in for us to
see. A lady friend of his "thought her wheels might be making a noise." The pads
wore about halfway through the vents in the rotor. I'm not picking on women either
as I've seen about the same from some men.
One of the guys made it into a clock after the real clock fell off the wall.
We've also got a brake caliper piston with a brake pad welded on it. They drove it
in from about 4hrs. away with a stuck caliper. It's a wonder the truck didn't catch
on fire.
I get questions about once a month on how to cap off a brake hose rather than fixing
or parking it.
Happy motoring
see. A lady friend of his "thought her wheels might be making a noise." The pads
wore about halfway through the vents in the rotor. I'm not picking on women either
as I've seen about the same from some men.
One of the guys made it into a clock after the real clock fell off the wall.
We've also got a brake caliper piston with a brake pad welded on it. They drove it
in from about 4hrs. away with a stuck caliper. It's a wonder the truck didn't catch
on fire.
I get questions about once a month on how to cap off a brake hose rather than fixing
or parking it.
Happy motoring
tommu56
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Go one a little worse the base at the south pole who is the most important person the DR. to the mechanic/electrician?
On top of that they could have to wait 6 months to get parts if its their winter.
tom
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extreme conditions do tend to make things more difficult...
One thing I can not get enough of is watching the astronauts working on the International Space Station...man would I like to have one of those cordless tools...!
IMO, anyone that has ever done any mechanical work (encounterd a "tough nut") has to admire the work they are doing up there and the training they go through just to get the opportunity...
patrick_g
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The three drivers, Curly, Moe, and Larry declined comment beyond Yuc, Yuc, Yuc, Yuc.
Pat
Egon
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Who was the "Smart One" ???
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Belmont where I work has a Napa thats the highest around. I went in to buy a can of air brake antifreeze and I was shocked at the price. 1 quart costed more than a gallon at another store we didnt have an account at. I said yall sure like that stuff and the owner said not as much as you do we didnt give near that price. I set them back on the shelf and bought the gallon with my own money. I was doing a small welding job for a kid that works at the Autozone in town. it was putting lights on his trailer and fixing a new ramp. I asked him to bring a male trailer light plug. He brought a female saying that it even though it fit inside another recptical that deep down pins were male in the femal reciver.
When I worked for Huffman COnstruction out of Mo, we had a foreman that was a 30 year jewler from Wisconsin. He decided he wanted a change and somehow made a pipe foreman. He was a good fella but too soft hearted to be a boss and kinda slow at earth work but had good help to get him along. One month we were rained out and couldnt get alot done. The next months quats still stood plus the burden from the previous. I volunteered along with 4 other operaores to work 2 shifts moving spoil piles and rough grading. he daid yall cant move dirt at night. I told him half the Tenn Tom water way was dug at night and he replied Which half. He was a good guy but acted like he was afraid of his laborers. He could do anything that requires tiny presiced tinkering.
I used my personall pick up and servie truck on that job and I got stuck onday fueling up a crane in the rain. I had enough hose to reach 2 machines and he was walking back to the office. I hollered at him and he said he was going to call a tow truck. I laughed big and told him that we had 4 dozers and 2 trackloaders and tons of chains.
I often would volunteer to help and stay over and run a loader with forks to help the concrete workers or running a crane pouring. I was down on the ground waiting for the next truck and the old hands were there taking break. There was 5 college students getting a credit working on site that were engineering students. They thought they new it all the first 2 days. They had them wrecking forms and some had to have ahilti hammer to bsut them up in a cavity. One was having trouble and asked if there was any thin that would make it easier. This kid had told us he grew up in a concrete family. The old man looked at him and said go to the tool shack and ask for a can of 10 minute 2by 4 rot out, not 2x 6 rot out. Ant to bring back a 2by 4 stretcher. The tool man sent him out from one crew t and theyed send him to another. Instead of catchin on he came back and told us they had probably been stolen.
When I was little and dad worked awya from home mom took me and my little brother to see dad on a ob for Wright Brothers Construction. Dad was running a job for them and also running an excavator laying pipe. He had made friends with the Chief of Police i nthat down and they were in front of his house laying 24 inch pipe 15 foot down. The COP asked dad if he needed a laborer and he said yes. The mans step son was a professional college student it seemed. Dad told him he really didnt want to hire him because of their friend ship. he begged a bit so dad told him he would be treated like the others. I ate lunch with dad and the other workers and his kid had found out that the man running the job my dad had only a 6th grade education. He smirked and told dad you should go to college if he could afford it in a smug manner. I remember my dad saying thats funny your the one down in a hot ditck with a rake and shovel and im the one sitting in and airconditioned machine why would I want to do that.
When I worked for Huffman COnstruction out of Mo, we had a foreman that was a 30 year jewler from Wisconsin. He decided he wanted a change and somehow made a pipe foreman. He was a good fella but too soft hearted to be a boss and kinda slow at earth work but had good help to get him along. One month we were rained out and couldnt get alot done. The next months quats still stood plus the burden from the previous. I volunteered along with 4 other operaores to work 2 shifts moving spoil piles and rough grading. he daid yall cant move dirt at night. I told him half the Tenn Tom water way was dug at night and he replied Which half. He was a good guy but acted like he was afraid of his laborers. He could do anything that requires tiny presiced tinkering.
I used my personall pick up and servie truck on that job and I got stuck onday fueling up a crane in the rain. I had enough hose to reach 2 machines and he was walking back to the office. I hollered at him and he said he was going to call a tow truck. I laughed big and told him that we had 4 dozers and 2 trackloaders and tons of chains.
I often would volunteer to help and stay over and run a loader with forks to help the concrete workers or running a crane pouring. I was down on the ground waiting for the next truck and the old hands were there taking break. There was 5 college students getting a credit working on site that were engineering students. They thought they new it all the first 2 days. They had them wrecking forms and some had to have ahilti hammer to bsut them up in a cavity. One was having trouble and asked if there was any thin that would make it easier. This kid had told us he grew up in a concrete family. The old man looked at him and said go to the tool shack and ask for a can of 10 minute 2by 4 rot out, not 2x 6 rot out. Ant to bring back a 2by 4 stretcher. The tool man sent him out from one crew t and theyed send him to another. Instead of catchin on he came back and told us they had probably been stolen.
When I was little and dad worked awya from home mom took me and my little brother to see dad on a ob for Wright Brothers Construction. Dad was running a job for them and also running an excavator laying pipe. He had made friends with the Chief of Police i nthat down and they were in front of his house laying 24 inch pipe 15 foot down. The COP asked dad if he needed a laborer and he said yes. The mans step son was a professional college student it seemed. Dad told him he really didnt want to hire him because of their friend ship. he begged a bit so dad told him he would be treated like the others. I ate lunch with dad and the other workers and his kid had found out that the man running the job my dad had only a 6th grade education. He smirked and told dad you should go to college if he could afford it in a smug manner. I remember my dad saying thats funny your the one down in a hot ditck with a rake and shovel and im the one sitting in and airconditioned machine why would I want to do that.
jdmar
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I remember my dad...Back when "service stations" put oil in your car my dad would wait until the guy strted pouring the oil....then my dad would blurt out "you didn't shake it first!" The looks he got were priceless.
I also remember my 5 yo son explaining to his 4yo brother why 3 wheelers tipped over easier than 4 wheelers. He seemed to get the physics of it all when the corporate world couldn't figure it out years ago. They were riding little plastic pedal toys downa snowy hill at the time. Of course my 5yo had been on a dozer at 18 months and could use cordless tools and pneumatics (yes he was surpervised!).
Peter
I also remember my 5 yo son explaining to his 4yo brother why 3 wheelers tipped over easier than 4 wheelers. He seemed to get the physics of it all when the corporate world couldn't figure it out years ago. They were riding little plastic pedal toys downa snowy hill at the time. Of course my 5yo had been on a dozer at 18 months and could use cordless tools and pneumatics (yes he was surpervised!).
Peter
