On the Road Again

[DMiller]

Enjoy the Light Weight work Nige, a little breather never hurts.

 

[Nige]

I love that, lol. Of course it seems to me that my Dad thought I never did anything right. Probably his was the same with him. Ah well.

I think it's a dad/son thing TBH.

 

[Nige]

Well I clean forgot the photos I promised to upload until now.
Here's the bucket going on the shovel. After getting everything lined up an IT38 was used to push the pins in. The main pins weigh about 200kg each.

 

[Nige]

The shovel and the next-to-last truck all ready to go...........



And on the ready line.

 

[Nige]

The last one coming back into the assembly area from the welding shop having had the body installed.



And on it's way out to work a couple of days later.........



Here endeth the lesson ...........

 

[DMiller]

Lots of Large Heavy stuff
Impressive Nige in any man’s consideration

 

[Nige]

I dunno. Maybe it's just the fact that I'm used to it after having been in that side of the industry for so many years but I find working on big stuff easier than working on small stuff for the simple reasons that a) components are not shoe-horned in, and b) usually the location is tooled up to work with equipment of that size. Everything from cranes, jacks, lifting gear, torque tooling, etc, etc. All you have to do is ask for what you need and someone produces it.

 

[DMiller]

Makes it too easy Nige

 

[Nige]

I'll take easy over hard any day of the week........

 

[Bls repair]

Not touching that with a 20 foot pole

 

[seatwarmer]

mantenga el distanciamiento social = maintain social distance ? If my very rusty Spanish is correct.

 

[Nige]

mantenga el distanciamiento social = maintain social distance ? If my very rusty Spanish is correct.

You are correct. All 6 trucks had slogans put on the headboard that were Covid-related in one way or another.

 

[seatwarmer]

You are correct. All 6 trucks had slogans put on the headboard that were Covid-related in one way or another.

Happy to hear a so called 3rd World country is taking Covid seriously. Around here in this dump 80% of the population reckon they won't get it.

 

[Nige]

Happy to hear a so called 3rd World country is taking Covid seriously. Around here in this dump 80% of the population reckon they won't get it.

Having worked in Serth Efrika in the past I understand your frustration but it would be good in a certain way. It would at least give Darwin a chance to throw a bucket of bleach in the gene pool.

In an effort to mitigate the effects of the 2nd wave of Covid the entire country is on curfew. Mon-Fri that means that all businesses have to close at 5:00pm and everyone has to be off the streets by 8:00pm. Weekends everything closes at 12 noon and everyone has to be inside no later than 3:00pm.

 

[Welder Dave]

There are a lot of people that think they are immune to it and masks are a bad idea. Pfizer wants Canada to offer tax breaks. That would certainly explain why Canada's deliveries of the vaccine are being delayed. Trying to to get the pandemic under control should be the first priority not corporate greed. Thousands of companies are going under and Pfizer wants tax breaks when they stand to make billions on their vaccine. There's also reports that less wealthy countries aren't being shipped as much vaccine. If there's even an ounce of truth to any of this Pfizer (or any other vaccine producers) should be held accountable!

Pfizer pitches Canada for tax breaks in upcoming budget | CTV News

 

[Nige]

Sing your song somewhere else Dave. It’s getting a bit wearing.....

 

[DMiller]

STL College of Medicine Professor and lab experimenter has come across a Nasal Mist Vaccine much as developed for Flu inoculating children. Uses a Inert Common Cold Virus as transporter and so far NO Needle jabs, NO Second Injection and lasts up the three times LONGER as a vaccine. Many news sources are calling it Non Viable as the Fed has spent BILLIONS on the existing vaccine. This could wipe a lot of High End pharmacologic developers profits away.

This article is from back in September and the local news ran with it yesterday interviewing the scientist that developed it at Wash U.

St. Louis-based Precision Virologics and India's Biotech leader Bharat Biotech obtain rights to intranasal COVID-19 vaccine technology (prnewswire.com)

 

[hosspuller]

I've had the first shot of the Pfizer vax. I don't deny Pfizer will make billions of $. Moderna is charging twice Pfizer's per dose price.

So what, there's billions of profit. It's very much like the oil companies with billions in profit. Big risks need big profits. Several companies have abandoned their covid vax. That's a bunch of money down the drain for them. No one is reimbursing them.
Here's Merck's loss >>https://www.barrons.com/news/pasteur-institute-merck-abandon-covid-19-vaccine-01611577507

I and most people want their product regardless of the cost. Try driving without fuel.

 

[John C.]

I second Nige's comment about the whiny crap. Big machines don't get sick from bugs. I thought that was what this thread was about.

 

[hosspuller]

Big machines don't get sick from bugs.

Unless they're electronic or software bugs ... My New machine is full of electronics. It tells ME what to do ... "Wait, I'm warming, I'm busy regen'ing, Too hot to work, PTO overspeed, Not in neutral, Sit your butt down, Water in fuel, Can't breath, etc. "