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Full Circle- Back to where I started (almost)

crane operator

crane operator

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Crummy said:
sounds like a scam.
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Its a scam.

Your second day there, they will mention the project in the barn.

It will be a rutabaga harvester, from 1971. Italian built. Disassembled. Serial # 6 of the 5 total ever built. (#1 was the factory prototype).

The guy who disassembled it, left 8 years ago. Not only does he not work there anymore, he's dead.

The parts and pieces removed from it, are in 4 cardboard boxes, 3 five gallon buckets, and two random pallets with the big pieces.

Its also been moved between two different barns, after they drug it out of the shop, so they aren't sure if all the parts in the boxes, go to that machine.

They have the manuals, fortunately not in italian, so you shouldn't have to worry about translating if your italian is rusty. The manuals are in german.

You better hurry up and get down there, harvest is coming and its their only machine for it.
 
Crummy

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crane operator said:
Its a scam.

Your second day there, they will mention the project in the barn.

It will be a rutabaga harvester, from 1971. Italian built. Disassembled. Serial # 6 of the 5 total ever built. (#1 was the factory prototype).

The guy who disassembled it, left 8 years ago. Not only does he not work there anymore, he's dead.

The parts and pieces removed from it, are in 4 cardboard boxes, 3 five gallon buckets, and two random pallets with the big pieces.

Its also been moved between two different barns, after they drug it out of the shop, so they aren't sure if all the parts in the boxes, go to that machine.

They have the manuals, fortunately not in italian, so you shouldn't have to worry about translating if your italian is rusty. The manuals are in german.

You better hurry up and get down there, harvest is coming and its their only machine for it.
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Ich habe einen Doktortitel in italienischer Rutabaga-Harvester reparatur. Sollte einfach sein
 
John C.

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I wonder if something is going around like another bug. My regular client asked me to go through all his fleet and make sure all machines could be greased. So far I’ve gone through 12 tubes of grease, 2 dozen fittings and had to remove and dig out three pin’s grease holes. I think he bought one of those fancy battery guns and wants to play with it.
 
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Crummy said:
I got a referral call for work- but get this, he wants me to do regular PM on their equipment. He feels money spent on regular maintenance is less than what it costs to have equipment go down in the field. Wait, what? You don't want to call me when something breaks and everybody is standing around and push me to fix it when nobody has checked oils, coolant, fuel for a year and/or "it's been running hot/leaking/making that noise for a long time"?
I'm not sure about this, sounds like a scam.
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That's a trap.
 
DMiller

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Yep, the temporary driving job I have taken on is NOT so temporary in the mind of the owner, there are just no volumes of applicants where he does not push to beat the bushes to find potential workers and adds little to the hire on $$ to entice any newcomers. Trash Truck regular driver called his tailboard shagger a 'Handicap' where the kid threatened to quit, the driver is now loading all the route trash himself and is likely to quit, I will not take on full time trash truck running.
 
Crummy

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Here the Post Office, both lumber yards, hardware store, grocery store all have "help wanted" signs on their doors.
The flatbed trucking company at the lumber mill can't keep drivers in seats.
 
DMiller

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As a employer mine is down at least four drivers currently, is now selling the older trucks away as cannot fill the seats. Has dozers, excavators and skid steers or track loaders just sitting where has but two fully qualified operators besides himself, is considering selling many of those off but needs them for when the farm grounds need attention. Not abnormal for a single operator to have a loader and/or dozer sitting on a site with an ex that he had hauled there so can use either machine as needed, not financially prudent where hours billed are over weeks instead of days if had two or three operators performing.
 
kshansen

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Crummy said:
And the rutabagas are rotting in the fields.
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Have a question about rutabagas. What is the growing cycle for them?

I mean if the guy who tore that harvester apart left eight years ago the next crop is only coming up to be harvested this year? Or are they just rotating the crops and only plant the rutabagas once every eight years? Which to my taste is way too often!
 
Crummy

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During the fires here a lot of us 50+ crowd filled seats and now there are a lot of offers for full time jobs. One fellow 72yo drove a water tanker & ended up working 36hrs straight (!) and the owner said "see you Monday!".
 
kshansen

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On the subject of lack of workers. I have to think back to the threats that the top boss in the state for the company made many times back when I was still at the quarry.

If anyone dared complain or just raise a question about the way he did things he would say, "If you don't like it here feel free to leave, there are five guys for everyone of you outside that gate who would be glad to do your job for half the pay!"
 
Crummy

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kshansen said:
Have a question about rutabagas. What is the growing cycle for them?

I mean if the guy who tore that harvester apart left eight years ago the next crop is only coming up to be harvested this year? Or are they just rotating the crops and only plant the rutabagas once every eight years? Which to my taste is way too often!
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Maybe @crane operator can answer that one. I justa fixa da macheen
 
JD955SC

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kshansen said:
On the subject of lack of workers. I have to think back to the threats that the top boss in the state for the company made many times back when I was still at the quarry.

If anyone dared complain or just raise a question about the way he did things he would say, "If you don't like it here feel free to leave, there are five guys for everyone of you outside that gate who would be glad to do your job for half the pay!"
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and that management attitude is a big part of the shortage. I’m not doing a crappy, hard job for ungrateful jack wagons.
 
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