Ironic, come giggle at my misfortune

[jpdocdave]

so, i bought a new pair of redwing boots last night (best boots btw, wearing them for 8 yrs, everytime i get a different boot, i end up going back)

 

anywho, i've also been buying the same pair for years and they have a steel toe. well, they had a new version of the same boot, that is completely water proof, but no steel toe. i figure good, i don't like the steel toe, it just wears out anyway, i never have my feet in danger anyway

 

......first day in my new non steel toe boots, i drop two heavy flippin brake rotors on my big toe, i can't believe its not broke, hurts like a mudda :wall:

[mnkyboy]

You never need something till you don't have it. :cheers:

 

I always buy the Redwings with the composite toes,i like them alot better then the steel toes.

[Eagle]

Give my regards to Murphy. He and I are old friends ...

[jpdocdave]

:fool: he says hi

 

 

:rotfl2:

[Automan2164]

You never need something till you don't have it. :cheers:

 

I always buy the Redwings with the composite toes,i like them alot better then the steel toes.

 

X2. I love the composite toe because it doesn't freeze your digits in the winter. The steel seems to retain the cold and refridgerate my dogs.

 

And when your driving a relic of a dumptruck as a plow, the floor vents aren't that great.

Rob L.

[whowey]

You never need something till you don't have it. :cheers:

 

I always buy the Redwings with the composite toes,i like them alot better then the steel toes.

 

X2. I love the composite toe because it doesn't freeze your digits in the winter. The steel seems to retain the cold and refridgerate my dogs.

 

And when your driving a relic of a dumptruck as a plow, the floor vents aren't that great.

Rob L.

 

 

Try doing it in a 1979 backhoe.....I covered the broken lower cab windows with cardboard last winter....

[Automan2164]

On the bright side, I am no longer in the plow. On the dark side, I have to fix them now when they come in broken, oiliy, cold, wet, and salty. :ack: And let me tell you, NOTHING comes off those things with out a torch. NOTHING. :fs1:

 

I keep thinking to myself, one day I will have to resort to the torch to remove a wiper blade. :roll:

Rob L.

[mnkyboy]

Ive felt that way too, i work on lift trucks.

 

I get machines from the coastal fish proccessing plants that stink of fish and everything is rusted.

 

we had one account at a pickle company it was bad too,the brine eats metal and everything else.

 

i think worst was a bunch of lift truck from a rendering plant,animal guts stink and do bad things to a machine.

 

ive gotten pretty handy with a torch.

[Automan2164]

Yeah, we hire (for something unbeknowst reason to me) people with absolutely no-common sense. In the past week:

 

I had to replace a trailer jack the other day because they cranked it down so far that it came out of the screw mech. All they had to do was drop the pin and lower the foot, THEN jack the trailer up.

 

A guy who has been working there for 5 years got on a familiar gang-mower, picture a tractor towing 3 7 foot decks to make up 18 foot swath, and lifted the side decks to transport mode with the PTO on. Long story short, PTO shafts don't work at a 90* angle. That one cost $800.

 

Someone didn't put the parking brake on the 35,000 lb front end loader on a hill, and it rolled straight into the back of the pickup I had just re-sprayed the tailgate on from the last accident. That one wasn't pretty.

 

I replaced $1,200 worth of spindle bearings, pulleys, gearbox, PTO shaft, and belts on a 1 year old mower, because they entrusted part-time burnout summer help to grease the mower before use. :fs1: Why? $0.40 of grease would have saved a headache.

 

I have more stories in the past week, but the more I write, the more pissed I get. And since I am on call for FD, it can't be miller time just yet.

 

Rob L.

[HOrnbrod]

I have more stories in the past week, but the more I write, the more pissed I get. And since I am on call for FD, it can't be miller time just yet. Rob L.

 

Yeah Rob, it's beitch to be on-call on a Friday night when everyone else is on Miller time. :bowdown: I'll have another one just for you mate. :cheers:

[Automan2164]

Thanks Don. Just got back from power lines down in a tree. We are borrowing a back-up engine from a town over, and theirs is a pile. I got stuck in the jump seats in that one. Picture riding window side on a bench seat, but in the middle there is an angry, loud, 3,000 lb diesel just dieing to throw a rod straight through the diamond plate. I think the engine is from '83. It gets the job done, but our normal stuff is a little nicer than most. :brows:

 

got to go. Car fire

 

 

Robl.

[Akula69]

I didn't know you were a fire dog Rob....come to think of it, the fire dogs here got a good laugh outa me several months ago:

 

There was an F150 that had a known (according to the redneck driver) fuel leak on the manifold that suddenly became a fire :roll: . I responded for traffic control (as it was in my zone), and the fire jokers were already there. The truck was totally involved, and as I approached the Capt. (an old drinking buddy) motioned me over to the other side of the burning truck. As I passed the damn tires blew and, (thinking the redneck had his rifle in the cab and the rounds were going off) I hit the dirt.

 

They could've pissed on the fire to put it out they were laughing so hard.