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Jiujitsustudent

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Imagine having to run this stuff? Better have some gloves and plenty of patience:notworthy
wow I havent seen that 1200 for quite awhile, 2001 i think. the 1200 rear load was one of john nesbitts monsters. He converted it to rear load. I ran that machine for few seasons way back when. Sad to see it sitting. It could fill a truck in 33 seconds.
 

Toegrinder

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hey toegrinder your name isnt wheelen is it? I worked for app from 1999-2001 before i moved to las vegas paving

No, I'm Chris. Who are you? So if you went to LVP you must have worked with Dustin Ford? Depending on how long you were there, he went over in '02. His brother was my first foreman at APP
 

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this is dustin bro, what up chris..thats right chris an zak right?...I remember the night we spent at the hard rock i blew a grand or two and was throwing up out the side of your toyota driving down the strip at 8 in the am after a night of partying WATS UP BRO im headed up to northern nevada later this week for a recycle job for valentine where you working bro small world eh. hit me up 702-480-6281 i been in loCAL 12 FOR Awhil i moved back to az for a few years it got slow in vegas but its gettin busy again time to make the big bucks again **** this scab **** makin 20 an hour blows.
 
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milling_drum

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Hey Dustin, I think you saw some of those pictures when you were in the lobby of the Holiday Inn Express in Tucson last year around Oct/Nov. I was the boy running the older W2100....

Say Hello too your Pops for me and thank him once again for giving me a ride back to Phoenix please.
 

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yeah bro, heard you were up workin for kodiak, How do you get around so much bro without a vehicle>>? I have to get a truck to drive to montana or northrn nevada...I just dont see how you do it. ANd i will give a shout to my dad for you..****er owes me 400 bucks lol where you at now?? of course i remember you, you snitched me out for taking the service truck to fix my lincoln..lol anyways looks like your stayin busy, im about one step behind you, i just quit swaine asphalt to go to work for valentine. Good trade off eh? back in loacal 12 makin the big bucks im excited.
 

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Kodiak flew me to Portland from Texas, I was in the oilfields and had gotten stiffed for over $3200 in pay that week...

I never snitched you out for taking the service truck....where did you get that from? I hardly ever talked to Sam while we were out there. Matter of fact the only time I remember you using the service truck was in the parking lot and to fetch a tire one time. Might have been your brothers little pet groundman...

Right now I'm on a job right at the oregon/washington state line on I-5, we are working for Granite Northwest. The milling company is called Ortiz and Associates. They are cutting Valentines grass right in their hometown:) Talked to Billy over at Valentine and he told me to call them, which I did when Kodiak's BS got to be too much and really wasn't interested in working for them. I'm pretty happy where I'm at now for the rest of the season. F**k Swaine, I worked for them for 1 day and that was quite enough. BTW, prevailing up here is around $46 per hour and the union isnt involved, which is fine with me

Is local 12 in NV the same as the Cali local 12?
 

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BTW Dustin, you might enjoy the thread here called "set down" .... I think those are the only pictures I posted from the Tucson days. hahahaha
 

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yeah its the local out of pasadena. I joined back in 2001 when i quit app the first time and went to mill for las vegas paving. Made a **** ton of money up there, we milled day and night year round. Yeah it was probably that mike kid, i had the pleasure of working with him on I-10, smae ole same ole, he hasnt changed and hasnt learned a thing. still diggin holes, cuttin too litte. I watched himn cut a 7" trench on one side, 3 on the other, when we are supposed to cut 3.5 funy, the operator didnt even notice which amazes me i can feel anything over a 2% grade it just feels awkward up there right? so cheers to you bro good to see your staying busy. I dont see how you get around without a vehicle unless they just hand you a truck like they did at c&s. I have to get a car and head up to northern nevada for a recycle job for valentine. i think prevaling there is 57, but im in the union so it will be more like 43 or something, but ovretime after 8 hours in a day gotta love nevada
 

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bwhahaaa that was my brain fart i think...unles they worked on the mill over the weekend. I dont remember, they laid me off and kept that mike fool. go figure. just cuz i didnt have a license. clayton is gettin worked like a dog, app has no work, swaine is a scab low ballin kike jew. paid me 24 an hour for some spot on ground work for that non operator ed.. blah blah blah ill be glad to hit the open road again. heres my cell number bro keep in touch man 702-480-6281 aND ill keep posted on here now, glad i found this plac...funny how i figured out who a few of yall are..ive worked with hard tooth, toe grinder and you, and another few i may know too
 

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you as well bro..let me know how you like it there, i think ill be stayin up in the northwest for awhile, im done with that damn heat...
 

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this is dustin bro, what up chris..thats right chris an zak right?...I remember the night we spent at the hard rock i blew a grand or two and was throwing up out the side of your toyota driving down the strip at 8 in the am after a night of partying WATS UP BRO im headed up to northern nevada later this week for a recycle job for valentine where you working bro small world eh. hit me up 702-480-6281 i been in loCAL 12 FOR Awhil i moved back to az for a few years it got slow in vegas but its gettin busy again time to make the big bucks again **** this scab **** makin 20 an hour blows.

Nah his name is Hank. He is still running ground for me. That was definitely a good time we had in vegas, til you and that piece of **** Dan blamed me for splitting the drum in half on the 1000. I had never been on that machine for all of 5 minutes when that happened. Yet half the bolts in the drum holding the halves together were broke or missing, and there
was no coolant in the drum at all. That was the app way, half ass **** together, except a couple people including your brother and Ken
 

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BWAHAHAHAA I dont remember that..dan was a drugy, wonder what ever happend to him. hank thats RIGHT!!! where you workin at now bro? been milling this whole time? vegas was the ****, best company i ever worked for. always had brand new equipment and made alot of money. I got messed up in the head after I got divorced, but im better now. going back on the road...**** a bitch we dont love them hoes! lol I had a house and a few toys and was makin 100k a year, till she decided life wasnt good enough and took everything i had. i started from sctratch and im just gettin back into the swing of things. mis ya bro hope to see ya on a job site sometime eh?
 

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dan came to vegas with a new truck, a trailer 40k in the bank. he left with nothing, pulling his 15 foot trailer behind the service truck. gambling degenerate. i forgot about him lol loser douchebag i had to set the 1000 in by myself a lot otf times because he was in the 7 11 gambling on the boulder highway, towards the end of that job we were the only two left working
 

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whats up ****ger!! Im so excited about coming over to a real company again. I heard youre bossin for these guys since you got the boot at C&S....is pat there too>? Heard that was som major drama up there...heard these are some good guys to work for. I sent my resume in to brian and he called me within a few hours ready to get me on. So im set to go on the recycle on the 8th or 15th i think in elko...kinda wanted to get on with billys crew, but whatever. I need to get a ****in car though to get up ther, I wanted to just fly up and have someone pick me up but i guess everyone has fifth wheels so ill need something to sleep in for awhile till i buy a fifth wheel myself nexty year,..,.whatever, good to be back in the union and not working <snip - Moderator EDIT>..see ya out on the road soon bro. later
 
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