cuttin edge
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We have a contract doing site work for a city wellness center. Rink, gym, pool. We are a sub contractor for a large local construction company. It's shaping up to be around 5 years work.. Construction here is mostly seasonal, and most of our company is laid off for the winter months. Mostly between late November, to mid May. With this project, there a lot of us still on the payroll. There is no grader work, but I had been running hoe, and dozer up until around January. Most of our truck drivers are older, and really prefer to be off for the winter months, so drivers are scarce. I am a trucker as well, so I said I'll grab a truck, if you can get another operator in. They bring this guy in. In his 40s, he works at the quarry. The property is in an old sandstone pit. Beautiful material, a shame really. One area is a 9 meter, so almost 30 foot cut, so it's pretty hard digging. A 470 Hitachi, and a 350 Linkbelt digging, and another 350 Linkbelt with a ripper tooth ripping. Anyway this quarry man. I have been watching him, and you talk about an under used man, in the quarry. He out loads the 470. I backed in to the 470 with a tandem truck at the same time as a 350 John Deere wiggle wagon backed into him on the 350, and the rock truck was loaded before me. His side of the cut is smooth and consistant. I messaged the crusher forman, and he said he is an awesome operator. He can run anything, and when it comes time to change screens, he is the first one to pitch in. But he has a bad drinking problem. Other than that he said, he would be perfect. He said there have been many times when he had to take him back home after his wife dropped him off. Too bad. So much going on with drugs these days, you sometime forget about the bottle getting someone anymore.
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