I hosed down my foremen and the GS with a water truck. While they where looking at a full set of plans on the hood of the GS nice clean truck. They knew it was a mistake but where upset about the plans that where plastered to the truck.
HMMMMM...the only dumb thing I've done was to get married!!!!! For the last 37 years!!!
Rick
Got my first job excavating job a few months ago! I was running a haul truck (Deere 250D) back and forth dropping off dirt at a dump area, a good quarter mile from where they were digging. Ran into some mud right up on a creek bank, tried to back out but couldn't (I hadn't been trained on the machine, just told to "get up there and move it!", so I didn't know to turn on the diff lock). Went back, got another guy in the wheel loader. Went back to the truck and it had slipped into the creek! Guess I forgot to set the parking brake. After a few hours of pulling with a Deere 650 dozer AND hitachi 200 AND 120 excavators... we FINALLY got it free. The ice on the creek had caved in the grille, smashed the (fiberglass?) hood, dinged up the air intake, and crushed all the coolers. I volunteered to take a huge pay cut and work it off, but the owner let me go. He probably was right... but I still miss driving it. Sad part was, he never believed me, thought I drove it into the creek for some reason.
Got my first job excavating job a few months ago! I was running a haul truck (Deere 250D) back and forth dropping off dirt at a dump area, a good quarter mile from where they were digging. Ran into some mud right up on a creek bank, tried to back out but couldn't (I hadn't been trained on the machine, just told to "get up there and move it!", so I didn't know to turn on the diff lock). Went back, got another guy in the wheel loader. Went back to the truck and it had slipped into the creek! Guess I forgot to set the parking brake. After a few hours of pulling with a Deere 650 dozer AND hitachi 200 AND 120 excavators... we FINALLY got it free. The ice on the creek had caved in the grille, smashed the (fiberglass?) hood, dinged up the air intake, and crushed all the coolers. I volunteered to take a huge pay cut and work it off, but the owner let me go. He probably was right... but I still miss driving it. Sad part was, he never believed me, thought I drove it into the creek for some reason.
When I was young running a grader with no brakes, grading a logging road up a hill, owner op skidder skidding down the road to a landing at bottom. I met him halfway up the hill decided to get out of his way by backing down, then decided was going too slow tried to shift up, missed, free wheeled down backwards, cut on one side drop on other. Didn't want to put blade down for fear of ripping it off. Had to sit at bottom for a bit to stop shaking, he says " Im not in that much of a hurry".
Watched one of the best cat skinners I have ever known fuel up his d8 then back over the pickup.
I always try to remember where I started, but will only try to help once, if you don't want help I won't. The old adage "learn something new everyday" is a real good attitude to have ( in my humble opinion )