This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

Surprising they have anything that runs or moves.

You need a clone, 2 Vtechs. Hell, maybe 3 or 4.

Joe H

You have no corner on the market for idiots in Oklahoma Vtech. This one happened some years back.
Trust me we have just as many per-capita. This was a real nice smooth bore when I bought it.
State rented it as a fire tender-forgot to open vent. And I have another from today I will post later.

This escapade started three weeks ago when a U.S.Food driver hit something and tore the hoses to air can.
They had a mobile service come repair it in our yard {because I don't do outside work anymore}. Plus he supposedly fixed some marker lights-I don't know how he did it because he never hooked power to trailer.
Then the tires blew out after setting two days in our yard from flat spotting. Then a tire shop came out
and installed some runouts to get it back to the Post Falls Id. yard.
They tried to move it but that wheel end was still locked up and put a red tag on it. This morning arriving
at 5 I could see skid marks on the road heading back into our yard. I went out grabbed one of ours to put
a tracker in and here comes Sergio, Mike can you please help me one of our drivers tried to take off with
the trailer I red tagged. Give me an hour, I'll take a look at it.
Hour later I grab some wrenches and head for the trailer, swing under moved the reversed air lines to
air can {5 minutes}. There you go Serg happy motoring, by the way you need two more runout tires.

Obviously he verified air hose routing the same as he verified marker light function.

Why do people not verify their work? The employee, and the company, get paid by the hour, right? Proper verification makes the service co more money and makes the owner happier when the tires do not get wrecked/have to wait for it to be repaired again?

Can believe a idiot would push the brake charging buttons and drag a trailer into submission. Seen it happen, watched a moron drag a trailer with two destroyed tires and a locked up hub on I70 with two MoSHP attempting to stop him, oblivious to everything. He had just left a t/s I was at to take a emergency dump.

terex herder said:

but was willing to screw the guy over parts. A reman 4 cyl Roosa Master pump for that machine was about $850 a couple of years ago, I doubt if they have gone up that much.

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Current suggested list price from Deere....$2061.18

That is why thepumpguy is busy.

Vetech63 said:

Here's a great idea............lets run this machine around concrete dust clouds without a fuel cap!!! LOL

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And with a Deere 4024 in it.........

I guess HNC is looking to get his job back. The super told me yesterday that he had called several times in the last 2 weeks. He asked me what I thought about that.............I told him I didn't have a problem with him personally and that if they hired him back.........make sure his job had nothing to do with repairing or servicing equipment. I guess he could run a roller or something.

I also got a text message last night from the company truck mechanic that left almost a year ago for a better paying job. Seems it didn't work out like he had hoped and has been looking for a new job the last 2 months. He said he had done several interviews but hasn't gotten any call backs. When I started asking him questions, he said he had been looking on Zip recruiter and Indeed. I told him to apply at places where there are huge signs out in front of businesses that say they are looking for techs since they are all over the entire area here.

His main experience is in trucks and trailers, but he is young and has very little knowledge of heavy equipment. I never really got to work with him to know if he is trainable or not. I gave him a few pointers and suggestions..........and maybe a couple of places to try.

Truck Shop said:

You have no corner on the market for idiots in Oklahoma Vtech.

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We have the market cornered on "Midwest" dumb. Stay out of our territory! LOL

Lol that’s pretty funny. I don’t think anyone has the market cornered on dumb. In my experience they’re pretty well distributed all throughout the land.

mg2361 said:

Current suggested list price from Deere....$2061.18

That is why thepumpguy is busy.

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And the NEW pump would not fix the machine..... Dealership must employ a bunch of part changers.

Vetech63 said:

We have the market cornered on "Midwest" dumb. Stay out of our territory! LOL

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I don't want any of yours, But we have plenty of 53's to export the ones we have
and deposit in the midwest. lol

I'm generally curious what % of mechanics are actually somewhat capable to do even the most basic of repairs without screwing up? It's absolutely pathetic. My mom calls me today, truck making bad noise and got it off the road, runs fine but won't move. Can smell gear oil bad truck will move with some throttle but sounds really bad, rear diff has no cap on it. So I ask has she had it to someone who's touched that recently (I sold my Mom the truck 3 months ago so I knew someone touched it), yep diff just serviced yesterday. Diff is in bad shape, he said he will fix it, guess we'll see if it happens.

Pissed off that he even said to do the diff oil as it was just done 10,000 miles ago so I know it wasn't dirty, and also sold her new front brakes and pads. Said he had the front tires off anyway replacing a torn boot on the CV so why not? Well because the brakes were fine and the truck sees 10,000 miles a year, they would have went probably 2 more years and the rotors were nearly perfect, complete waste of money. I said over and over the truck doesn't need any of those things and if a mechanic says it needs anything tell me first so I can tell you if it's BS or not.

I really want to say to never let him touch the truck again after he fixes it, but I don't always have the time to do everything on her truck.

Last 3 days have been interesting. Yesterday this customer lost a water truck on the expressway. Seems the new employee didn't follow directions when told to go down 11th street to another job. 11th street here is a 4 lane stop lighted avenue @35-40 mph. He decides to get on the expressway with a half full tank, takes a sweeping curve too fast............water slooshes to one side and over she went. Funny thing is the truck is a rental and not even theirs. Driver is in the hospital with a case of road rash because he wasn't wearing the seat belt and was partially ejected from the cab. He's lucky to still be alive. The truck is a total loss. I'm still waiting on pics of it from the job foreman.

Found this nice little mess today

Those are supposed to be threaded holes, and half that size. I spent the day grinding, die grinding, and more grinding until I could get a grade 8 nut to fit snuggly in the holes. I Vee'd the outer area about a 1/4 deep, installed a bolt on both to protect the threads from splatter, then welded them in. It's not the preferred fix but the machine is needed and there aren't any rentals available this size. The weld repair seems to be decent and strong enough to buy me some time getting a replacement drum found.........or a better fab repair by drum removal. It was 108 degrees today and welding made it seem like pure hell. I would have taken more pics but the heat had me just wanting to get this done asap.

The finished product. I left one part decal on for the pic. It adds some color and fashion don't you think? More coming..........I'm too beat to throw more at you all tonight.

Damn Fine job

Yeah = the weather map showed that angry looking red today over your way. Supposed to be nasty yet tomorrow and cool off next week. I'll believe it when I see it- its august after all.

suladas said:

I'm generally curious what % of mechanics are actually somewhat capable to do even the most basic of repairs without screwing up? It's absolutely pathetic. My mom calls me today, truck making bad noise and got it off the road, runs fine but won't move. Can smell gear oil bad truck will move with some throttle but sounds really bad, rear diff has no cap on it. So I ask has she had it to someone who's touched that recently (I sold my Mom the truck 3 months ago so I knew someone touched it), yep diff just serviced yesterday. Diff is in bad shape, he said he will fix it, guess we'll see if it happens.

Pissed off that he even said to do the diff oil as it was just done 10,000 miles ago so I know it wasn't dirty, and also sold her new front brakes and pads. Said he had the front tires off anyway replacing a torn boot on the CV so why not? Well because the brakes were fine and the truck sees 10,000 miles a year, they would have went probably 2 more years and the rotors were nearly perfect, complete waste of money. I said over and over the truck doesn't need any of those things and if a mechanic says it needs anything tell me first so I can tell you if it's BS or not.

I really want to say to never let him touch the truck again after he fixes it, but I don't always have the time to do everything on her truck.

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How the hell is an idiot that can’t even put a diff plug back in going to replace one?!?

I think we need to bring back beating the hell out of such idiots. Violence IS the answer.

This is now known as the 2022 Tulsa Water Truck Massacre

I get to work all day today. I'll do my best not to kill over in this dam heat. It's all work and no play lately.

Can’t fix stupid
Does it all by itself