• Thank you for visiting HeavyEquipmentForums.com! Our objective is to provide industry professionals a place to gather to exchange questions, answers and ideas. We welcome you to register using the "Register" icon at the top of the page. We'd appreciate any help you can offer in spreading the word of our new site. The more members that join, the bigger resource for all to enjoy. Thank you!

Search results

  1. JohnnyCarcinogen

    Help, I’m ac dumb.

    D8T waste handler chucks ice cubes at idle, operators complaining that it doesn’t AC when worked. AC had over double charge when we finally got a real robinair machine. Replaced low pressure switch. What are my next steps to **** up the operators besides “I didn’t have AC in Iraq.”?
  2. JohnnyCarcinogen

    How to repair a faulty A/C in less than 30 seconds

    Where I work, we have 2 Cat 836 trash compactors. We have a H model that has about 12k hours, and a K model that we're leasing to eventually break enough to buy. As soon as the city told us the K model was "on the books," we started running that. Since the chief complaint about the H from the...
  3. JohnnyCarcinogen

    Keeping maintenance records

    I'm the "lead tech" in a shop where I have 3 years of experience and the secondary has damn near 30 years of experience of old school wrench turning. He knows nothing of computers, and will retire this year. I know nothing of old-school wrenching, but have been using computers since the C64...
  4. JohnnyCarcinogen

    Cherry here.

    Hi. I'm a "Heavy Equipment Technician II" with a municipal landfill. I have 3 years of OTJ experience at my job, plus an Associates paid for by the tax payer (mmmmm, GI Bill) in Diesel Technology. I enjoy the hell out of my job turning wrenches on trash equipment, hate operators for being...
Top