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Post by Butcher on Mar 28, 2024 17:51:11 GMT -6
This week I got asked to run a different mine site that I have never been to. Totally different materials, place is a shit hole due to lack of supervision and the previous loader operators neglect to the site and a scale house bitch that has a bad attitude. Luckily the scale house bitch is still off for the winter since she seems to make her own hours and corporate aint got the balls to do anything about it. Well anyways, Monday and tuesday were painfully slow due to weather. Yesterday and today kicked into overdrive. Thats cool, load 10 or 12 trucks, drive the loader to the scale and ticket them out. Over and over all day long. UNTIL I had 1 owner operator bitch cuz he had to wait to long to get loaded cuz I was doing 2 jobs and I should get some help to run the scale house. I know the guy and he is a jerk that way but he tripped that trigger and the fireing pin hit my mouth.I wanted to drag him outta his truck and put the boots to him but I grabbed my cb mic and lit in to him good. Made me mad enough that I finally did call for some help. Tomorrows Friday and I hope it goes smoothly. Thats my rant for today. Sorry but thanks for listening.
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Post by billinohio on Mar 28, 2024 17:55:43 GMT -6
This woulda made an enjoyable video……
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Post by 504 on Mar 28, 2024 18:14:08 GMT -6
I knew a guy that got run off of the road on his way to work one morning.By noon a truck driver crawled up the loader ladder, and asked why everybody else got loaded the first time and he had been shorted, and had to come back, or overloaded all morning. When he was told about the car he ran off the road that morning, he just got back in his truck and went home.
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Post by Erstwhile on Mar 28, 2024 19:27:11 GMT -6
You couldn't just drop a bucketfull on his cab?
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Post by olfolks on Mar 29, 2024 7:03:10 GMT -6
I have seen that happen a few times lol and I have seen a jerk drive not get loaded at all , loader man loaded around him sitting at the pile . He left all mad after 3 rounds of other trucks got loaded around him
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Post by bgoathill on Mar 30, 2024 19:16:22 GMT -6
I don't often use a wheel loader to load trucks, usually it's a crawler loader or an excavator. I've found that if you lob in a 2-or 3- yard bucket full of gumbo clay, or better yet a two- or three- ton chunk of concrete from 20 feet out, that turns out to be a real attitude adjustor, for better or worse. On a totally separate but vaguely similar topic, I mentioned I was nearing my 30-year anniversary at work. Yesterday they threw a "surprise" party for me but I've known about it for a couple months now. They had a game called Travis Trivia. It was a guessing game about all my statistics since I've worked there. But they only have the computer files from when they went digital in 2003, just the last 21 years. Apparently I've had 310 coworkers since then. Wow. All the numbers were just nuts, I didn't even realize. Nearly 45,000 hours of operating time in various machines, 5000 hrs heavy haul lowboy, over 2500 separate jobs, and what really amazes me is the 13,500 hrs in that hellhole of a shop. No wonder I hate it so much. But they did give me a 24 pack of Pepsi, 40 Wal-Mart pies and a nice engraved knife for my years of loyal service. But that's why they pay me the big bucks and I get to drive the big truck.
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