mitch504
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Well I was a paramedic and captain of a heavy rescue for over 20 yrs, so I am sure I can out gross-out all of you; but, mechanically, I hate cars and pickups the worst.
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What is the one type of machine that you just hate repairing.........
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old-iron-habit
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Not a traditional construction machine, but it makes building construction machines possible. One time when home for a few days between projects, I volunteered to work with my tools on a short term taconite plant shutdown when the company was short of manpower. To show them I was just one of the guys and not afraid of doing a sh*ty job, I took two young guys and we tackled changing out the grating in the shakers. It took a crawl of 60 feet up the angled enclosed chute to get in to them, dragging each 2' X 2' square 4" thick grates in by hand and rope and sliding the 1-1/2" thick worn ones back out. All day pinching the toes into the walls to keep from sliding around. I could hardly walk after two long days, but we got them done in ahead of average time. I could have probably passed for a minority for the two weeks it took to wear that taconite off.
HardRockNM
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That'll do it. I really do not care for working on screens, especially those that rely on side clamping rails to align the screen cloth and put it in tension. Cramped, sharp, loud, often wet, and even more fun if there's enough of a drop out of the discharge end that fall protection is required.
ih100
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Walking floor manure spreaders. The chains never break when they’re empty. Also anything in the front drum of a vibratory soil compactor, or in the engine bay of a Manitou telehandler.