Usual handbrake in png is a rock placed under tyre. Never seen anything so ridiculous asa man putting a 6 inch stone behind tyre of a 30t dumptruck.
No wait at mcmurdo antartica i saw some of the us navys finest personnell trying to start a air compressor. Being smartarse kiwis we told them to push start it. Lo and behold 3 went round the back to push and the other kept turning the key. We just looked at the sky in disbelief !
Yair . . . When it comes to mechanical things the folks in PNG are "different" and anyone who has spent time there will have their stories.
The plantation where I worked had about fifty tractors growing peanuts, mostly Fergi 35's, 65's and a few Fords. I have seen them come in with the tappet covers and starter motors held on with vines . . . they didn't even need fencing wire to do a "fix".
Cheers.
The boys here think it is shame if they need to ask how to do something, thats why they stuff so much stuff up, yesterday I wanted my best? guy to fit a neutral(clutch) start switch to a tractor, the original had been taken off, i could tell he did not want to, and as it turns out he did not know how to wire it in and did not want to ask. But the new switch did not come with a nut, so I told him to find one. He came back with the switch and said we dont have one, I say wtf, the switch is sealed in one plastic bag and that is sealed in another plastic bag and its not opened!! I found a die to fit the switch and told him if you cant find a nut, make one, they do that often, well low and behold 5 minutes later he had found a nut for the switch, thats when I realised he did not know how to wire it in, if they would get over this reluctance to ask for help they would be so much better off, and the other culture thing, and its goes from managers all the way down it that they will not teach anyone. If you teach someone he may come and take your job!, they try there best NOT to explain anything they know to anyone else.
The one question you never ask ..... "Do you know how to do this?" because you know they know the answer you want to hear is "Yes".
So you have to ask the question in another way like "Explain to me how you are going to do this?"
Oh the joys .....................
How did I become a pessimist ..? Well I started off years ago as an optimist but now I have practical experience .........!!
He wired up the neutral start and did ask me to check it before he put it back together,
It was wired ign on through the clutch switch so to start you turn the key on and when you push the clutch in it started, I suggested that perhaps we should change it!
It might help ........!!Originally Posted by Bala
How did I become a pessimist ..? Well I started off years ago as an optimist but now I have practical experience .........!!
Todays classic,
Radio call from backhoe driver, low hydraulic oil,
me, your not far away drive it back it will be fine,
20 minutes later, from driver, he was half way back, Im begging and praying will you please come and look at it,
Me: Ok So i get there and its got steam rising out of it, leaking radiator hose, so I said to him I will take you back, on the way i said the Hyd oil is ok, I had looked at the sight glass
Driver: no it is in the red of the gauge
Me; thinking the sight glass has no red, and it has no hyd gauge, ask him, where is this hydraulic gauge, is it on the dash,
driver: yes and the needle is in the red telling me it is low on oil.
As i have now had one mechanic and 2 operators get confused about warning symbols and coolant temp gauges in the last 3 weeks it is obvious that the manufacturers are making it all to hard? Need a sat system so I can monitor machines from the office.
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