Tricks and Wrinkles

[Scrub Puller]

Yair...some good tips there fellers. My how things have changed...I'd love to put some of the young blokes in a cut with cable blades and scoops (pans) and rippers. It 'ud be quite entertaining I reckon. Some of you older blokes would remember that awful feeling when you didn't leave enough slack in the bowl rope and.... well I don't have to tell you.

Mostly when we're working out in the sticks fitting a converter, engine or transmission a proper crane is out of the question and we have to make do with the tree pusher on the other dozer or whatever.

Rather than having a dozer operator trying to operate a D8 blade control with absolute precision it's easier to lift the component with a chain-block and then the blokes on the spanners can adjust that last bees **** themselves. Even with a crane I now always use a chain block between the crane hook and the load. Off the dozer topic but this trick is realy handy when installing engines and machinery in the engine rooms of boats.

 

[CatSkinner77V]

So you mean to tell me that you send home someone who can make your production numbers, because they wont show someone how to do their job?

no hes a consultant in the alberta oilpatch.... they think they are above god hahaha. trust me i know, worked there many winters in my late teens and early 20's

 

[cummins05]

no hes a consultant in the alberta oilpatch.... they think they are above god hahaha. trust me i know, worked there many winters in my late teens and early 20's

God no the boss pretty much. I answer to the client in the end so it gets run the way I want. when i see to D8s pushing and one is doin twice the work the other is cause some old cranky operator wont take two minutes to walk over and say ok this is how we do this watch me . Or push this much that direction. I have seen operators give new guys the wrong grades. Because the new guy was already almost as good as him tell guys to knock over the wrong trees. All my point was if your not a team player on the jobsite for the money the guys up here are paid i can have a just as skilled operator who is a team player brought in to replace to bad apple

And 90 percent of operators forman and supers don't have any problems with consultants unless they have a big mouth and got the skid from one a time or two

 

[amunderdog]

I do not go to many prepared sites.
So a good rule of thumb is to always walk an area before commencing work.
Example:
The other day i was clearing in some woods.
I had been working awhile in an area, everything was going well.
Decided to move into a new area without walking it first.
Drove the dozer into a hidden swampy area.
Just barely caught it and got backed out before it buried itself.

 

[CatSkinner77V]

And 90 percent of operators forman and supers don't have any problems with consultants unless they have a big mouth and got the skid from one a time or two

I never had any personal problems with consultants when I was working in the patch, I was still wet behind my ears and kept my mouth shut. But some of the stunts those guys pulled really errked me sometimes.

More arrogance and political games is all it was most of the time, Years ago, We all got run off a job because the piles on a lease were all green poplar and wouldn't burn worth a hoot. My boss just laughed when we phoned him and told him the consultant run us all off because the green poplar piles wouldn't burn like pine. He said come on home boys, lots of other jobs to do......."If he thinks we sending 3 more operators and another foreman down there for tomorrow morning he is crazy" "Hope he has fun trying to find another contractor who can come in short notice this time of year" And so we all left along with our equipment the next day and left him with a half tore apart lease to look at... and nobody to boss around!

As i grow older now and realize how things work in the real world more and more, I wonder how he enjoyed explaining to his customer why the contractor left and the lease wouldn't be completed on time?

Oh yea one more thing LOL, I was at the Richie Bros. Sale last week in Nisku. Bought myself a bumpersticker at the Airways "Ballet Bar"........

PLEASE GOD! Let there be another OIL BOOM! I promise not to **** it away for the SECOND TIME!

Where do you suppose I should stick that one up?!?!

 

[JDOFMEMI]

............Oh yea one more thing LOL, I was at the Richie Bros. Sale last week in Nisku. Bought myself a bumpersticker at the Airways "Ballet Bar"........

PLEASE GOD! Let there be another OIL BOOM! I promise not to **** it away for the SECOND TIME!

Where do you suppose I should stick that one up?!?!

They have them down here in the socialist republic of California pleading for one more real estate boom