Work thread

i saw one shopping at walmart the other day that topped that

 

Freightliner one color wiring?

 

Mack granite. Not as bad as a Freightliner!

 

GPS problems this morning

 

I work a job where I ignore my coworkers all day on purpose. I am not interested in getting to know anyone I work with. Basically I commute 72 miles one way a few days a week (used to every day) and telework from home the other days. So whenever I'm in office I actively avoid everyone. Anyone who is sociable with me I purposely call by the wrong name. I recently turned 41 and my wife gets on to me about eating better so I do that at work with my blender. I wait until they start into conversation with each other and then fire it up until my smoothie is blended to perfection, which is determined by the length of their conversations.

I had to attend a "team building" meeting a few weeks ago (before the 4th) and it was socializing, games, etc. It was horrible. I snuck out early and no one was the wiser. If I'm going to play games and be silly I'd rather do that with my 2 and 7 year old daughters, even if it's Barbie dolls. As cranky as I sound I'm really not outside of work, and there is a couple of guys I like but they're older and ready to retire and they work elsewhere on base so I don't see them as much. But I have nothing in common with the 20-early 30 something's in my office.

My job in a nutshell:




What I envision when I retire in 18 years:

 

With this 100° heat I'm working on a/c's every day. John deere mini ex

 

Pusher axel bushings on a Mack dump truck.

 

8’ 10” wide at the bucket. Legal width is 8’6”.

just enough….



Heading to North Dakota. And not even getting a reprieve from the heat.

 

Fixing to set this one in.

 

My son welds the triangle shape pieces at the ends of the booms for Manitowoc.

 

That's a fine job he's doing. We have a Manitowoc here. They rebuild them in Bauxite Arkansas

 

Should see the yard in Manitowoc WI…

This is the grove yard that Keen operates out in Pennsylvania.



some cranes that were loading out at a site in Ohio.



and some drone shots of a crane being loaded in Los Angeles that came back to Iowa. The previous owners had cut the self loading supports off the house frame. Made for a royal PITA to load out.

 

Waynesboro PA?

 

Shady Grove…

Google Maps


Most likely the same place since it’s what, 4 miles away.

 

Shady Grove is more accurate. I kinda think of Waynesboro as the whole area out to I81
I used to go to a scrapyard in the Taneytown (area) that scrapped out Grove crain. Talk about a gold mine of a scrapyard!

 

Just think of how much those cranes cost….


And then all the ones you see all over the place.

I could drive a day and probably see a billion dollars worth of that crane iron alone and not counting the construction equipment on sites with them.

 

On today's episode of how'ed that happen? Drive pump on a sheep's foot roller.

 

Since I can't post pictures of work I just have to use memes.

 

I hear ya knocking… bearing in the follower seized.

 

Oh and I have this fun to deal with.