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They can also just cut out the bottom part of the I-beams and add an attractive gravel surround to really raise the resale value of the crossing!
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palecur posted:They can also just cut out the bottom part of the I-beams and add an attractive gravel surround to really raise the resale value of the crossing! Good for attracting ferails.
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Oct 19, 2019 02:22
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Stuck the landing
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Oct 19, 2019 02:25
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No loving way he could do that twice. Bet no one saw him get it like that, either.
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Oct 19, 2019 02:26
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my dude over there going "how in the ever-loving gently caress did you manage this, Frank"
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Oct 19, 2019 02:30
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razorrozar posted:my dude over there going "how in the ever-loving gently caress did you manage this, Frank" And frank very physically reenacting it while trying not to laugh.
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Oct 19, 2019 02:31
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That dude is gonna be a work place legend. If he doesn't get fired.
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Oct 19, 2019 02:44
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Oh and to contribute, found this at work today. 
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Oct 19, 2019 02:49
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It's a grade 8 bolt, what's your problem? 
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Oct 19, 2019 02:51
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On my phone, it doesn't look straight.
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Oct 19, 2019 02:54
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That's a lock nut, too, talk about being hard to please.
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Oct 19, 2019 02:59
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I agree and found it funny. Even funnier: the entire steer rail has to be replaced because the wobble caused by the bolt wore the bottom king pin hole to destruction. Gonna be over $3k by the time it's done.
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I did some dumb poo poo to get the truck back out of the bush. I once had to wire in my work lights on the side of an oilfield road because my trailer couldn't make it over a set of train tracks. I once wrapped hose clamps and a coffee can around the flex pipe between the ARD head and DPF of a C15 Cat because the Dealership wouldn't sell me the part. After limping the truck in, they ended up replacing the crossover flex pipe instead of the downpipe flex pipe, meaning i ended up sleeping in the truck in a walmart parking lot waiting for the only service truck in the province with the part on hand to show up. I once chipped a tooth pulling an air fitting collet off the air line to patch together a hose melted by a broken flex pipe with my teeth because i figured i could keep working with a leaking exhaust. I ended up spending 4 hours fixing all the damage sandwiched between two 15 hour days I once chained up in the ditch after overshooting a turn on an icy logging road, and didn't lose a minute. I once basket chained with the back end of my trailer hanging over a creek because i was the first truck in and the consultant said we "probably wouldn't need chains" I once got yelled at by a consultant , at 8am at the tail end of a 15 hour shift hauling water at -40*c for not waiting for the waiting for the well testers to come out to guide me backing up straight across an empty location, but something in the way i said "okay" told him that if he didn't back off i would turn him inside out. propane doesn't even boil at -40*c. We had to heat the propane tanks with It's own torch before we could use it to thaw the valves. I wish there was a job that would pay me to drive those roads that wasn't so destructive and demanding 
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Oct 19, 2019 03:20
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Powershift posted:I once had to wire in my work lights on the side of an oilfield road because my trailer couldn't make it over a set of train tracks. all of these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain
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Powershift posted:I once chipped a tooth pulling an air fitting collet off the air line to patch together a hose melted by a broken flex pipe with my teeth because i figured i could keep working with a leaking exhaust. I ended up spending 4 hours fixing all the damage sandwiched between two 15 hour days That was one hell of a chip 
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razorrozar posted:all of these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain I've got some pictures, but i've lost a lot. Like, you ever wonder how much extra heat a 12 liter diesel moving 105,000lbs or a propane torch produces at -40*c?    not much -40*c sunrises are different as well.  PainterofCrap posted:That was one hell of a chip A chip off the ol' block e: i think i've said it before, but at -40*c you might as well be on a different planet. You can pour a cup of liquid propane, rubber becomes brittle. You savour any bit of heat you can find. It's bullshit, but there's a certain excitement to it. Powershift fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:That dude is gonna be a work place legend. Both is entirely doable. I had a former coworker come back from lunch very drunk, get into a physical altercation with building security, and get fired on his third day on the job. We spoke of him with amusement for years.
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Minus 40C feels like you're walking on the Moon without a spacesuit.
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These are the people we need to send to mars How do you haul water at -40? It's stuck frozen in the tank right?
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MisterOblivious posted:That's what I've got my money on. Yeah. If that's the case, we should still get the occasional truck peel, just fewer of them. A semi trailer is, what, 13'6"? Assuming they're not actually raising the *tracks*, there's no way they're thinning those bridge beams by two feet. So I'm guessing about 6 inches which ought to let the dumbass Penske trucks clear it, but dumbass semi drivers will still get nailed.
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Heffer posted:These are the people we need to send to mars When you're done loading, you suck half a pail of methanol into your pump to make sure that doesn't freeze. You leave all your valves open so the water flows back and forth, and never stops moving. Most importantly, you ignore speed limits because cops ain't getting out of their car at -40. Everything freezes from the outside in, so as long as you can keep it flowing back and forth, you have a small straw to suck through. There is usually a steamer on location, so you can blast your frozen valves with hot steam, but in the job i mentioned, a truck hit the ditch, another truck went to take his load off and froze up himself, so the steamer went out to try to save them and the steamer froze up, so we were left with propane tanks and tiger torches. By the time we got done half of the valves were broken. I don't know how they managed to keep going, and don't really care TBH We actually ran into an issue switching from water to kerosene mid winter. Ice built up on the outsides of the tank, we drained down the water, loaded up with -5*c kerosene. Then the temp rose above zero, the water melted and settled to the bottom of the trailer where the pickup is, and despite being loaded with a fluid that isn't frozen, the trailer was froze up. I ended up having to unload my front compartment, then suck the rear out through the drain line. All the trailers also have air valves, so if you have any moisture in the air system, that freezes and your valves are frozen shut, You can physically jam the valve open with a pipe wrench but you also have to climb up on top to open your hatches, or else you'll suck the trailer in. e: also, below -30, the truck doesn't get shut off. I started the truck once at -27 and it covered everything within a 30 foot radius with soot, and i had to sit there freezing my rear end off with the clutch in because the transmission fluid is solid. I loved the challenge of the insane roads, and insane temps, but hated almost everything else about the job.
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Heffer posted:These are the people we need to send to mars Not just -40. -40 CELCIUS. Yes, I know.
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ncumbered_by_idgits posted:Not just -40. -40 CELCIUS. You have to specify or Americans get confused, even if they are the same. This is gonna sound crazy, but i miss the mud    e: This is what happens if your air lines are frozen and you jam a valve open without popping the hatches, if you're lucky.  e: i thought i lost these     I shut down that night at 2am, by the time i got going again in the morning, the ditches were full of vehicles for almost the entire length of the highway. I only got in by determining where the highway was by the position of the signs and memory, and trying to drive down the center of it. Powershift fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Oct 19, 2019 |
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Oct 19, 2019 04:06
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Please stop, I'm having Fort McMurray flashbacks. I can hear the Newfie accents.
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Antioch posted:Please stop, I'm having Fort McMurray flashbacks. I can hear the Newfie accents. hey der by yous don't be talkin no poo poo bout no newfies
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Powershift posted:You have to specify or Americans get confused, even if they are the same. Hey now, some of us know this stuff and would like to get on the standards the rest of the world is. Grrr american exceptionalism.
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Powershift posted:hey der by yous don't be talkin no poo poo bout no newfies i dated a girl from nova scotia for a while and i used to tease her by calling her a newfie. she got so mad
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razorrozar posted:i dated a girl from nova scotia for a while and i used to tease her by calling her a newfie. she got so mad My favourite Newfie thing is that if you mention Newfoundland their accent gets ten times thicker.
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Since the debate has been settled between raising the bridge and lowering the road I think it's time we got back to airframe parachutes and treadmill runways.
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If the treadmill was fast enough the parachute wouldn't deploy.
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Antioch posted:Please stop, I'm having Fort McMurray flashbacks. I can hear the Newfie accents. My ex-fiancee was from Ft McMurray. Very OSHA.
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Oct 19, 2019 05:17
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Ft McMurray howareyanow?
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Powershift posted:propane doesn't even boil at -40*c. We had to heat the propane tanks with It's own torch before we could use it to thaw the valves. This and taking a torch to diesel lines in a light plant because the fuel company sucked always scares the hell out of green hands.
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https://i.imgur.com/EfuPgQV.mp4Super Soaker Party! posted:Good for attracting ferails. That is a drat good pun.
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DiHK posted:Since the debate has been settled between raising the bridge and lowering the road I think it's time we got back to airframe parachutes and treadmill runways. Stop; I can take only so much infrastructure week.
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Sweet Christ I never want to work in negative-stupid temps ever again. I was in the army in Fairbanks, and training wasn’t suspended until it was -50F. Ranges where you leave your weapon outside, because if you bring it in the metal is cold enough to condense whatever little humidity is left in the air and become a rusty mess? Check. Your face cover falls just slightly, and you don’t notice until you go to shoot and you’ve suddenly got a frostbite streak across your cheek? Check. Can’t turn off your vehicles because odds are good that the batteries, oil, or engine block will freeze? Check. You hit a cold snap, and the air in your tires contracted to the point that your tires are both flat and frozen into a flattened shape, and have to be driven to break them back into being round? Check. The difference between summer and winter temps isn’t so bad in a lot of places (maybe 30-40F where I live), and you should still keep an eye on your tires when the season changes. The cold snaps in Fairbanks could go down to -70F, while the baseline temp was somewhere around -20 (with heatwaves to above zero, sometimes). Add in the tire going “flat” because the air inside was too cold and contracted, then the tire freezes in that flat shape... God I hope I never have to go back to that loving state. e: it was so cold that road salt was no longer an option. In Fairbanks they used actual gravel instead, with predictable results for everyone’s windshields 
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Icon Of Sin posted:Sweet Christ I never want to work in negative-stupid temps ever again. I was in the army in Fairbanks, and training wasn’t suspended until it was -50F. This reads a lot like the rants my friend in the Norwegian army would send me, except add more complaining about HK416s just falling apart in the frozen environment.
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Platystemon posted:https://i.imgur.com/EfuPgQV.mp4 Lmfao
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That's a great demonstration of potential energy stored in metal. What's the more scientific term? Spring tension?
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