thepumpguysc
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- Master Inj.Pump rebuilder
WOW..!!
My old employer really didn't/doesn't know much mechanical wise. Even though I had authorityAlan or the general super have no clue what is involved here. If either authorized this purchase it would surprise me......they have checked with me on EVERY single major thing up to this.
There's a reasonable chance you're going to show up to work one day and find out he's your new boss.Here is what I know as fact on this.
Alan called LMM to go look at this loader in the field.......FACT.
I don't hear anything from LMM til the next day when he tells me this machine needs a new axle........FACT.
I tell him it needs to come to the shop.......FACT.
He tells me Deere is having trouble finding the parts.......FACT.
LMM tells me Alan and the General super has to authorize his parts purchases.......Fact.
I drive in this morning and find a new rebuild complete diff assembly.....Fact.
The machine is still in the field and not at the yard or shop.....Fact.
LMM told me it is not tore down.....Fact.
LMM told me early in the week that he had never been into major components but would like to learn.....FACT.
IF someone authorized this purchase then they are a complete idiot. I won't know until Monday morning.
I called Deere while I was standing there staring at this axle. The parts guy that helped with looking it up was the one answering the phone. He told me that Deere has never looked at the machine and that LMM is the one that told them it needed a complete axle. He also said he didn't know that LMM was not authorized to make those type of purchases but assumed since it was this company thy needed it now. No one from the company has talked with them..........all LMM.
All I know is I'm irritated at the complete stupidity here. I'm just dumbfounded! Someone is going to look like a complete moron when this machine shows up at the shop and I point out that it has a problem on one side and that at this point in time......replacing the entire axle is just stupid unless the entire thing is trashed. We don't have Xray vision. We know little to nothing about what the actual problem is and whether it can be repaired.
I may be wrong but I think LMM did this on his own. Alan or the general super have no clue what is involved here. If either authorized this purchase it would surprise me......they have checked with me on EVERY single major thing up to this.
I will get the details on Monday.
He could have ordered a new machine and just swapped the key over.
I bet the wife would you hire you on the spot. Full time machinist and day care center? Win-win for her. LolI'd rather do this fulltime than repair equipment.
I can send you mine if you’re interested. I’m sure it would be a big relief both for me and for their parents.If I’d have known grandkids would be so much fun I’d have had them first.