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

[DMiller]

Only belts I ever got into were on the quarry conveyors for rock or the concrete plant, all sucked, multi man jobs and paid terrible. Bad for butt whipping days.
The concrete companies around here have conveyor trucks, always hitting them with a acid wash back after a run, almost as bad as chipping concrete from those mechanics.

 

[Vetech63]

I took off a few days, left last Wednesday. Back to work today. This gem was towed into the yard right when I was leaving.

TOWED being the key word.

 

[DMiller]

WTH!!!

 

[mks]

Some can break an anvil

 

[DMiller]

With a crayon

 

[Truck Shop]

This gem was towed into the yard right when I was leaving.

Seen that kind of issue before-normally caused by {going too fast out of turn 3 going into turn 4}.

 

[thepumpguysc]

Damn.. they could have at least unloaded it..

 

[Welder Dave]

It's hard to tell if that's poor welding or something broke really bad.

 

[DMiller]

Appears to be a knee action torsion axle, bolt is still holding PARTIALLY the Right Mount, likely as I have seen the welded to frame axle bolts sheared or have been broken awhile on Left side, failure of one on Right and it popped out, there would have been PLENTY of cascading warning this was FUBAR, FOR AWHILE.

 

[Welder Dave]

Amazing they could even drag it into the yard.

 

[Truck Shop]

Amazing they could even drag it into the yard.

Just a little more throttle is all-it hopped around back there like a mad dog.

 

[AllDodge]

My guess is it came in on another trailer

 

[Truck Shop]

My guess is Elvis dropped it from a UFO.

 

[cfherrman]

My guess is they hauled it in reverse

 

[Truck Shop]

Who cares-it's there.

 

[Vetech63]

Broken bolts on the left side of the rear axle, front bolt on the right side. It happened about 2 miles from the shop............they just continued to tow it like you see. I guess they didn't want to wait on me, so they fixed it themselves while I was gone. At least I didn't have to screw with it LOL

 

[kshansen]

We are in no rush as long as it's ready for Wednesday morning at 7:00AM!

 

[JD955SC]

We are in no rush as long as it's ready for Wednesday morning at 7:00AM!

“Truck’s on the way” the boss says “I told them it’d be ready first thing in the morning”

 

[Mike L]

Ugh! Flashbacks from working at the dealer. “Hey, how much longer you got on that machine?”
” uh, all day today and some more in the morning. Why?”
” Well the lowbed is on its way. It looked like you were close so I called them. Better hurry “

and then it becomes all hands on deck to get this thing out the door. Then in 2 days it comes back or a field truck had to go correct something that got missed. And then we all played the blame game. Good times.

 

[Vetech63]

And then we all played the blame game.

I love the blame game. "You said you would have that done this week."
"Yeah, well my parts didn't show up on time. Go talk to the parts guy."
"Well, the freight ran late. Go talk to the freight guy."
"Um...the factory didn't get it ready to ship on time. Go talk to them."
"Your parts department didn't get the order in on time. Go back and talk to them."
"The tech didn't get the order to me in time.......go talk to him."
"Oh Lord..........F%^& It."

I don't miss the dealers one bit.