Sometimes I wonder about opening a repair shop focused on tree equipment like you do. Pretty much every tree company beats on their equipment around; then again I think it would just be a headache. I’ve seen flipped over cranes, flipped over stump grinders, flipped over mini skids, crane truck left running all night till it ran out of fuel, ripped off garage door because someone didn’t put it up all the way, snapped grapple buckets, retraction cables broken, etc. It just never stops. It might have been worse when I was in the dump truck industry as a driver. Nothing was safe. Ha
I've never done any type of "large" heavy equiptment repair but nave done a few bucket blades and some bent/twisted things for friends but the best one I've seen is, before I went into the Navy in 1985 I worked in a welding shop here locally and a fella brought in a 14ft trailer, on the top of another larger trailer and asked if we could fix it. "Somehow" the tongue, framing all the steel and the front box was twisted about 80º from being straight from the front of the trailer! I stood in amazement and my boss at the time said, "really"? you really want us to fix this? My bose then explained to the man it would be "much" cheaper if he'd just go buy another trailer! so he left... I really wish I had gotten a picture of that one!!! I almost can't see how he did it....
The picture with the dump trucks box up and tangled in wires reminds me of a situation that happened here one time. One of the owners of a local rock pit, was always ragging on dump truck drivers bad habits, making fun of them if they would break some thing. Things happen, most of the time they are accidents. Well, one day the owner of the rock pit, "Mr. professional driver'' dumped a load and headed out of town, in a hurry. Then, he came to the railroad overpass, YUP, wasn't hard to guess what happened, he forgot to drop his box, and tore it off the truck, leaving it upside down in the middle of a 4 lane highway. The next morning, at the local coffee shop, it was pretty quiet until one of the locals came in who really didn't give a rip, and started laughing and carrying on about what had happened. The owner of the rock pit had a large helping of humble pie that day! A lot of times its just best to keep one's mouth shut, and not say anything, there's a saying,'' what goes around, comes around''And, it came around to Mr pro driver in a big way. Any thing to do with a railroad is pretty , no, VERY serious, and it was an expensive and long fix. I'm betting every time that guy drives under that even now, and its been about 15 yrs he's looking up, one more time.
I didn’t count it but there was coins, pens/pencils and random receipts in there. I didn’t have time to take a pic as it was getting late in the day and I need to get the truck back togeather for the weekend.
4 more rotors calipers pads today......I just sent 11000lbs of junk to the recycler now it's starting over
Customer complaint..loader does not lift. Do a couple tests,then pull the lift cylinders off....first one. ....wheres the seals on the piston??? Oh prolly in da filter
This made me chuckle because I was told that as a toddler I picked up all of the electrical box knockouts and piggy banked them in my dad's skilsaws vent slots. It went poof and my dad chucked it off a roof. Don't recall the outcome but I'm still here.
