Do something that leaves people scratching their heads wondering how you did it in the first place.
So I get to the job site first thing this morning to load out a little Hitachi 135 excavator. I detach, get out all my chains and binders, and hoof it over to the excavator on the other side of the job.
Battery's dead, someone left the ignition in the ON position. One of the foremen show up and we try and jump it off his crew truck, no dice. I learned how to spot a 24V system today! We'll need two trucks for this!
Grab the lowboy tractor, raise the gooseneck as high as she'd go, so I wouldn't catch any manhole rings on the asphalt base.
We get the excavator started, I start driving back to the rest of my trailer, make a left turn going maybe 10mph and the gooseneck slides right off the tractor frame and takes the fender with it.
I shoot the photo above to my boss and give him a call. "How in the f#@$ did you do that?"
It ended up being okay in the end, we took off the fender, use the excavator to put the gooseneck back on the frame, and I roll on.. after a wizz quiz of course...
My pride is a little hurt, but I figure that if this is the worst thing that I've done in two years of driving, I'm doing okay.
Anyone do something like this before?
So I get to the job site first thing this morning to load out a little Hitachi 135 excavator. I detach, get out all my chains and binders, and hoof it over to the excavator on the other side of the job.
Battery's dead, someone left the ignition in the ON position. One of the foremen show up and we try and jump it off his crew truck, no dice. I learned how to spot a 24V system today! We'll need two trucks for this!
Grab the lowboy tractor, raise the gooseneck as high as she'd go, so I wouldn't catch any manhole rings on the asphalt base.
We get the excavator started, I start driving back to the rest of my trailer, make a left turn going maybe 10mph and the gooseneck slides right off the tractor frame and takes the fender with it.
I shoot the photo above to my boss and give him a call. "How in the f#@$ did you do that?"
It ended up being okay in the end, we took off the fender, use the excavator to put the gooseneck back on the frame, and I roll on.. after a wizz quiz of course...
My pride is a little hurt, but I figure that if this is the worst thing that I've done in two years of driving, I'm doing okay.
Anyone do something like this before?