ooh ooh that smell

[treemandan]

Allright you stank ass sob's; who has got the nastiest truck? You know you mother####ers be rank like a pair of used underwear up for sale at the Salvation Army.

Man, I thought I had mice in my dump truck again but it turned out to be a pair of gloves. Whoo boy!

But not only that all the dust and crap that gets in can really ruin a truck. If you have carpet I suggest you rip it out. All those chips get into things like blower motors and lay on intake manifolds. I just saw a burnt up skid loader today. Keep an eye on that sort of thing fellas when you change the oil. I usually don't wash the outside of my trucks as often as I clean under the hood.

 

[komatsuvarna]

Keep the left over gravy and biscuits out from under the seat too. Makes for a nice monday morning Gag, expecially when your hungover from the night before.

 

[treemandan]

Sorry, but my wife came home and showed me her new swimsuit... so that accounts for the last 2 minutes.

But what I really want to say, aside from telling you stanky bastards to wash is don't mess around.
I know that a lot of guys fear the State inspection but in all essence that is your friend. Even some of the guys that do the inpsection think they are helping when the skimp and let things go.
Things like aftermarket wiring is often done poorely. Scotch Loc connectors, hot wires passing through the firewall without a grommet, patching into the wrong fuse; these are things best not done. if you are going to add a curcuit or repair one do it well.
I had a guy push his car into the shop and ask for a jump. So I put the charger on it, next thing the car was on fire due to a rig job with the radio.
Also take time to inspect the nooks and crannys. Just cleaning out the mound of chips that has compiled over the rocker panels will help keep rust at bay. That stuff just lays in there, stays wet and ruins the truck.
Mice do bad things too and we all have em. They rip up the carpet and make a nest on the intake, that's fire city.
With the equipment its just as bad if not worse. That skid loader I saw burnt up was downright scary. Maybe a neglected fuel line, loose wire.
Over the winter I took my Dingo apart and spent hours cleaning out all the crap underneath. Stuff was laying up against the hyrdo motors, that hold heat in. It may not start a fire but the lack of heat dissapation could burn up a motor internally.
Same with saws. I recently cleaned of the cooling fins of all my saws. They were pretty packed up, that means they are not working right.
Heat is an enemy, do what you can.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Are you OK, Dan? Starting to worry about you.
Jeff

 

[treemandan]

Are you OK, Dan? Starting to worry about you.
Jeff

Once I saw a guy fill the cracks in the tires, which were on his Topkick, with black silicone. he wasn't even broke, he had money.

I suppose from the smell of the gloves and the sight of the burned up skid loader today I am a little freaked out.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Once I saw a guy fill the cracks in the tires, which were on his Topkick, with black silicone. he wasn't even broke, he had money.

I suppose from the smell of the gloves and the sight of the burned up skid loader today I am a little freaked out.

You are scaring me , man.
Jeff

 

[Slvrmple72]

Everynight with the air compressor I give everything a quick blow off with the air nozzle. Makes a big difference in daily performance especially on these humid days.

 

[treemandan]

You are scaring me , man.
Jeff

You should be.

 

[JCONN]

My one truck is only used by my lawn mowing crew and I have been super busy that I have not looked in or at it in two weeks. I had to take it to my buddies garage and back up to his dumpster and use a pitch fork and coal shovel to clean it out. I have moved 3 yards of mulch faster then it took to clean that pig pen out.

Does any one elses employees drink un godley amounts of energy drinks. These clowns must drink 3 or 4 a day and wonder why they have no money they are like crack heads with that crap. I had more cans then the supermarket has on there shelves.

 

[pdqdl]

I guarantee nobody has a nastier truck than my Mack. It's never been washed in the last 5 years, and it only drives back and forth to the landfill.

Oh yeah! It's a trash truck; and it gets loaded with about 460 trash bags every week. Maggots are constantly falling off the frame in the summer time, they grow on the juices that get squeezed out of the trash.

Mr. DOT absolutely NEVER pulls it over so that he can check to see if the air brakes are properly adjusted.

 

[treemandan]

I guarantee nobody has a nastier truck than my Mack. It's never been washed in the last 5 years, and it only drives back and forth to the landfill.

Oh yeah! It's a trash truck; and it gets loaded with about 460 trash bags every week. Maggots are constantly falling off the frame in the summer time, they grow on the juices that get squeezed out of the trash.

Mr. DOT absolutely NEVER pulls it over so that he can check to see if the air brakes are properly adjusted.

Allright, now we have maggots, that's great! Anyway, PD, into some extracuricular activities are you? Picking up trash? What's up?

 

[pdqdl]

Here at PDQ [Professional, Dependable, Quality], we are just economic sluts. We will do whatever we can to get paid.

In this case, it means servicing all the trash cans in the KC area for the local bus lines: the KCATA. I have had the contract for about 8 years now. They like us, it generates about 2 grand a week, and the work is done by one man in three days worth of work. So it's worth dealing with the stinky job.

You want to talk disgusting? The worst can I ever serviced was a can [that my FORMER employee had not been doing] that was at least one month old. It had about a 40lb dead dog in it, that had been covered with 2 yard bags filled with grass. Sadly, the drains in the bottom of the can were plugged, so the whole mess had been fermenting in water for god-only knows how long. Dead dog, grass clippings, all soaking in water without any oxygen...most people probably couldn't get downwind without loosing lunch. We really earned our $4.25 when we finally serviced that can. The only way to get it all out of the 55 gal concrete barrel was one disgusting chunk at a time.

It's times like that that help me really appreciate 50' up in a sycamore tree.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Dang! Thanks for grossing me out!
Jeff

 

[treemandan]

Here at PDQ [Professional, Dependable, Quality], we are just economic sluts. We will do whatever we can to get paid.

In this case, it means servicing all the trash cans in the KC area for the local bus lines: the KCATA. I have had the contract for about 8 years now. They like us, it generates about 2 grand a week, and the work is done by one man in three days worth of work. So it's worth dealing with the stinky job.

You want to talk disgusting? The worst can I ever serviced was a can [that my FORMER employee had not been doing] that was at least one month old. It had about a 40lb dead dog in it, that had been covered with 2 yard bags filled with grass. Sadly, the drains in the bottom of the can were plugged, so the whole mess had been fermenting in water for god-only knows how long. Dead dog, grass clippings, all soaking in water without any oxygen...most people probably couldn't get downwind without loosing lunch. We really earned our $4.25 when we finally serviced that can. The only way to get it all out of the 55 gal concrete barrel was one disgusting chunk at a time.

It's times like that that help me really appreciate 50' up in a sycamore tree.

Doesn't sound to bad, the side work that is but I tell you I would have tossed the whole dam can in the truck.

 

[jefflovstrom]

Doesn't sound to bad, the side work that is but I tell you I would have tossed the whole dam can in the truck.

Put your glasses on, where did the can come in?
Jeff Oh I see. So he is picking up trash- got it. My bad. Ha.
Jeff, Take your glasses off.

 

[pdqdl]

Doesn't sound to bad, the side work that is but I tell you I would have tossed the whole dam can in the truck.

No you wouldn't! Each can weighs 600-800 pounds. They are made with CONCRETE. 55 gallon "cans" with about 2 1/2" thick walls. I've never weighed one, but the bus line sets them in place with a small crane. Occasionally one gets knocked over, and it is a serious grunt for two guys just to set them back upright.

And that doesn't count the weight of 40 gallons of putrid water and dead refuse...

 

[treemandan]

No you wouldn't! Each can weighs 600-800 pounds. They are made with CONCRETE. 55 gallon "cans" with about 2 1/2" thick walls. I've never weighed one, but the bus line sets them in place with a small crane. Occasionally one gets knocked over, and it is a serious grunt for two guys just to set them back upright.

And that doesn't count the weight of 40 gallons of putrid water and dead refuse...

Where there is will there is way ( bobcat) and trust me, I don't know who you found to hog out that can but he must be one tough SOB.
I would have told the bus company to lift it into the truck.

 

[pdqdl]

I did it.

I always end up doing the dirty work. The tire they can't get onto the wheel after two hours of pounding, the dirty job nobody else will do, the technical job that none of my guys can figure out.

In that particular case, I was servicing the entire route, because I had just fired the guy who was cheating my customer by not servicing all the cans.


Always remember this about a dirty job: It helps to remember that despite the toilet paper, most folks put their hands somewhere dirtier every single day, and they never complain about it, either. Also: no matter how bad it is, it always washes off eventually.

 

[treemandan]

I did it.

I always end up doing the dirty work. The tire they can't get onto the wheel after two hours of pounding, the dirty job nobody else will do, the technical job that none of my guys can figure out.

In that particular case, I was servicing the entire route, because I had just fired the guy who was cheating my customer by not servicing all the cans.


Always remember this about a dirty job: It helps to remember that despite the toilet paper, most folks put their hands somewhere dirtier every single day, and they never complain about it, either. Also: no matter how bad it is, it always washes off eventually.

I might have been able to clean out the can but it would have taken me a few tries. I know I would have yakked and I would have snorted bleach afterwards to get the smell out of my nostrils.

 

[treemandan]

We've got.....or had....four outdoor cats....Well one has been missing for about a week and we were picking blackberries across the street......and guess who I found?

Slight off topic I know but.....









All that was left was fur and bones.

I wouldn't eat that #####.