Work thread

Burnt up final drive on a track hoe.

 

I got no pics for today. But, the slob next to me took an upper radiator hose off with the pressure tester still attached to the truck and the shop air!

 

Two hour ride in the freezing rain to the site with the shchwing this morning. The a few hours out in the weather and a wet return home. Fun times!

 

Can't like this one!

 

He might learn from this but I doubt it.

 

Got it mostly tore down. Don't have a T90 torx to finish. I've never needed one before.

 

I bet that smells nice

 

Funny you said that. Yesterday after lunch some guys were walking around looking for a natural gas leak. The daycare across the street closed because they were scared. Wound up being this rotten oil.

 

Replacing a wore out idler with a half wore out one

 

My heart goes out to you for fixing and keeping all that equipment running. You're doing some essential and nasty work. We can't get our lazy in house mechanic to do anything at our county landfill, it's usually the old timer operators who end up fixing the majority of our equipment.

Man, those old guys know how to tear apart a bulldozer and put it back together like nobodys business. no telling how many hundreds of thousands of dollars they've saved the landfill over the past 30 years by not having to call caterpillar in everyday. Our mechanic, if you want to call him that, is quitting in December, and things gonna be different with the next guy, we'll make sure of that.

I like to think I'm not one of the ahole operators who tear stuff up all willy nilly and I actually pay attention to keeping things in good condition and try to be gentle as possible on our machines.
But hell, ya gotta tear chit up sometimes if ya wanna get the job done, am I right?? When ya work, chit gets torn up.

 

Big difference between a good operator working it hard and a AHOLE tearin' it up regularly

 

Don't get me started on the garbage truck driver's we have to deal with out here.. they're in a whole other class of their own.

 

What can you expect when they hire drivers for $150 a week and all you can eat......................

 

I agree with you Hickory45 sometimes things just break and sometimes things get broken!. Thanks for the compliment.

 

Stupid duramax! 3" coolant line and you can't get to it. Have to work from the engine bay and through the doghouse at the same time.

 

Cutting edge day here had 5 to do. Then service on a lil fork lift going out for the winter.

 

That a skidsteer bucket?

 

This pump is off a dump truck. Tore it open and it looked like you poured a handful of gravel in it. I just bolted it back together and got a new one.