This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

[DMiller]

Cha-ching Cha-ching!

My thoughts at same
Moment!!

 

[muddog1975]

Well, they f^%$#d up a JD 350D truck while I was gone so that's nice. Got a text message from the new temp super last night about whether he should run the truck today until a gear came in. ?????WtF? Seems someone decided that the air compressor went out and one of the mechanics at the bought-out facility in OKC was sent out since I was gone. While trying to remove a gear from the compressor shaft, he broke one of the teeth off. SO.......I'm being asked if its ok to run like this until the new gear comes in. I have no idea what gear or tooth they are talking about, no pics, no nothing. After a few other questions that I really didn't get much of an answer for...........I told him it wouldn't be a good idea. He replied......."Well, we are going to go ahead and run it. We haven't been able to find a rental and we need it badly. Hopefully it wont f&*k anything else up." Why bother me about it then? An hour later I get the final text saying "If we get the new gear, could you possibly come out and install it? That mechanic is taking forever to do anything." The job is 3.5 hours away.

So, the best I can gather is that the mechanic broke off a tooth and installed the compressor anyway. Now they are questioning whether they should run it until the new gear shows up. I highly doubt the problem is the compressor in the first place. I got tired of texting so I told him I would call him this morning. Now I get to tell him that those guys don't need to be wrenching on the equipment. More details later............

Well???? What happened or has it happened yet?

 

[skyking1]

I fire people who bid work that far away, just sayin on the jd350 truck.

 

[Vetech63]

Well???? What happened or has it happened yet?

Still waiting. I have them in the yard "inoperable"

 

[Vetech63]

Since I know you guys enjoy the quality work of former HNC............I have attached the following for your viewing pleasure. These are of a 524K I went out on yesterday after the customer replaced fuel filters trying to correct a engine loss of power problem. Machine currently has 12213.7 hours

Engine oil filter, last changes on March 19, 2020.............at 10156 hours.

 

[Vetech63]

Same machine.....hydraulic filters. No hours marked

 

[Vetech63]

Hydraulic tank breather filter.............YIKES!!!!!

 

[Vetech63]

The problem was a cut in the injector harness.

Parts will be here today...........repair and full service on this dude. Then a recommendation to replace this machine in a hurry with 12K hours.

 

[muddog1975]

View attachment 262246
Hydraulic tank breather filter.............YIKES!!!!!

Seems like 2018 was the year for servicing!

 

[BigWrench55]

All of that is a product of poor management. I put that solely on the shoulders of the equipment manager. People are always going to try to get away with doing nothing. It takes a good leader to hire the right people and to follow up on the work they do. Trust but verify.

 

[Pony]

That's only 2000hrs on a oil filter.
Maybe he read the service interval wrong, it called for 250hrs and he thought, we're not there yet (2500hrs).

 

[ianjoub]

I have $10k if they want to offload that 524k!

 

[John C.]

Pretty obvious that there was no equipment manager.

 

[Nige]

Pretty obvious that there was no equipment manager.

I would've thought what that company really needed was a maintnenance planner.
By the sounds of what Vetech has posted previously they own enough pieces of equipment to justify the position.

 

[colson04]

I would've thought what that company really needed was a maintnenance planner.
By the sounds of what Vetech has posted previously they own enough pieces of equipment to justify the position.

Is there a difference in work duties between the two titles? I've never worked for a company that had someone that managed the fleet of equipment that wasnt also the mechanic fixing it.

 

[Truck Shop]

Is there a difference in work duties between the two titles? I've never worked for a company that had someone that managed the fleet of equipment that wasnt also the mechanic fixing it.

Correct Colson--Much more effective way of doing things. A much closer eye on what's at hand. Plus the
last thing a company shop needs is a pretty boy who never gets dirty telling everyone else what to do.
Really bad for morale in the shop.

 

[Vetech63]

Correct Colson--Much more effective way of doing things. A much closer eye on what's at hand. Plus the
last thing a company shop needs is a pretty boy who never gets dirty telling everyone else what to do.
Really bad for morale in the shop.

I'm hands on AND pretty

 

[Truck Shop]

Pew----if you say so.

 

[Vetech63]

Here is another from yesterday. A 310SJ loader/backhoe...........here is some back story.

2 months ago, before the well-deserved mass firings, this machine was in their shop with the radiator, shroud and fan removed from it. I happened to be there and saw it in their shop torn down. Since I was there doing paving machine work, I didn't pay too much attention to this unitil I got a call yesterday. The new radiator and fan they installed is damaged again.........exactly the same damage and failure. I had this machine brought to their shop and tore it down yesterday.

The one on the left is the original that they removed. The one on the right is the new one they installed 2 months ago.

A closer look at the damage on the new radiator

 

[Vetech63]

You can obviously see which fan blade did the damage and the fan had been hitting the shroud for a bit. I asked the operator about the noise the fan was making when I first looked at this machine yesterday. He said it had been like that since it was on the job for the last 2-3 weeks.