Kodiak Kid
Idiot with a "power saw"
My neighbor hauls two cord a trip on his one ton Chevy flat bed. I couldn't imagine towing 12k on top of that over 45 miles of twisted mountain roads. Then back empty!
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Sierra_rider
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It's small town here too, population 103 in the closest "town." They stole a bridge made out of a rail car in one night. They would've got away with it too, but they left a big pile of scrap metal in their front yard the next day. After the timber company reported it stolen, one of the sheriffs noticed it during his patrol.Im think'n it's to small a town fir me to get away with that I'm think'n!
It's a terrible thing to do, but I am amazed at the lengths that the tweakers will go to for scrap metal.
It's ironic, but .....lazy people will work so hard to not work.
Interesting.
Noone is disagreeing with that, but everyone knows all the awesome ones come from Sweden, the whole world knows that, the whole universe knows that
.I didn't, but I did get a little talking to by the boss. I didn't take it too seriously, it's not like they ever trained me to run the lift or load a cart on it, so what do they expect. I probably won't do it again.
Someone had asked if it was an insurance claim, probably could have been as there's quite a bit of value in the plants and the rack, but they're self insured so they're eating it.
I kinda got a redo on that stop today, they put it on my route again (it's not normal one of my stops) and I got to "drop" another rack off there lol. It went smoothly today though
.Here I am
.Funny story about that. I have very little experience with chippers. When I first got on here I would have people send me PM's asking questions about their chippers, I would always wonder why they were asking me, then one day I figured it out
. As it says in my signature, "I may be slow, but I'm not stupid" .On top of the actual work they do to not work, can you imagine trying to keep all the lies straight.
That was my experience with an old loadstar from that era. Great hauler and dependable but at 55 she was begging for mercy.
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
6.5???? H3LL NO
Cleaned up a lot of the mess today.
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MechanicMatt
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Depends on the year, I’m partial to 2005
Makes decent power and none of the DEF bs on it.
That's funny, but sad.....
xraydaniel
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Kodiak Kid
Idiot with a "power saw"
He put 6.2 in it.
Sierra_rider
Piss revver
It's not snowing(barely) for once, hopefully it melts some of the snow off my property. My neighbor recorded 62" of snowfall last week and then there was another 12-18" of snow that fell after I talked to him. Luckily, it's compacted a lot since then,
My other neighbor's interior walls and ceiling started cracking from the snow load, so I thought it was a good idea to clean some snow off the roof before it picked up all the weight of the rain that came in tonight. Actually a bunch of stories up here of roofs starting to fail from the snow. Someone's garage up the street even catastrophically failed...roof caved in and knocked the walls down outwards.
My other neighbor's interior walls and ceiling started cracking from the snow load, so I thought it was a good idea to clean some snow off the roof before it picked up all the weight of the rain that came in tonight. Actually a bunch of stories up here of roofs starting to fail from the snow. Someone's garage up the street even catastrophically failed...roof caved in and knocked the walls down outwards.
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
It’s all in the gearing. I’d take that anytime over the 6.2 or 6.5This one is for sale also. GM dump bed. 24,000 miles! 5.7 gas engine with a standard transmission. new deck and framework. Not sure that's enough engine for a bed load of wood or gravel while also trailering 10k to 12k lbs?
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Sierra_rider
Piss revver
Yep, that's it. Also...that gasket does a piss-poor job of sealing at the top. Actually, the problem is more that the boot doesn't put enough pressure on the gasket.
MechanicMatt
Cut Split Stack Burn
KK check the oil pan on the 7.3 they were prone to rot and a absolute disaster to change
Keep it plugged in anytime the temp is below 35
Good power, but like anything else, they have their drawbacks
Keep it plugged in anytime the temp is below 35
Good power, but like anything else, they have their drawbacks
xraydaniel
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When the base gasket on my 892 blew apart I just ordered the repair bits kit for like $12? The gasket material was much better and sealed her up nicely. Thankfully that was all I had to do for 2x892’s.
I would really love to port all my saws. Just need a dremel 4000 or so with all the fixins.
Yeah and the best of them get into county and or city government
Sierra_rider
Piss revver
Get a flex shaft grinder with a foot pedal, you can get them from Harbor Freight, Amazon, FLeabay, etc for less than $100. The footpedal operation is 1000x easier to use than something like a dremel. You can also get right-angle attachments for the flex shaft, that will fit in most cylinders. The right-angle attachment for a dremel doesn't fit in most cylinders.
Careful about getting into porting saws. My journey started when I was just trying to clean up a aftermarket cylinder on an 044 I rebuilt...fast forward a few years and now I have 2 lathes and a mill.
Sierra_rider
Piss revver
Hey, I resemble that remark!
Maybe it's because it's the fire service and not DMV or the building department, but I mostly work with good folks. That being said, it's nearly impossible to get rid of a turd, we just try to make their lives difficult at work.
The biggest thing that irks me with government work is the red tape...I'm constantly trying to improve our facilities, equipment, etc, but the bureaucratic process makes it impossible to ever accomplish what is needed. After the inevitable failure, you get salt rubbed in the wounds, because the boss just throws more on your plate...there are 2 different sets of expectations for people like myself versus the window-licker crowd. Hence why I just try to disappear into the woods any chance I get and go cut and burn stuff...at least I can get results that way.
Deal with a lot up here. It is absolutely baffling how some people are so worthless, though! And then they act all exasperated because they’re always behind on their work. It’s like if you didn’t try to ****ing hide from all the work as it shows up, you wouldn’t be buried!!
