Joseph Cummings

Yeah there is cloud point, and there is pour point. Your fuel supplier will supply you with those temperatures if you ask. But I get guys who claim their truck shut down while running for hours in 20 degree weather, and that they looked in the tank and saw "jello". And I get there and the primary filter is all bound up with water. I don't know about now, but years ago "anti-gel" additives didn't treat for water (I've never bought the stuff). If I treat for water, and add a little biocide to prevent the algae I never have a problem. Actually without water contamination the algae will never get started as it lives in the interface. I don't know why none of them can't grasp it, it's pretty simple. I think it's because they are allergic to reading or something and they just go with a story some clown in a truck stop told them because he had a drop visor, low hanging bumper and a gazillion chicken lights (That makes him the wisest one) But anyway, 64 years on this earth, and grew up in a garage family, and I've yet to see this "jello" that they all think happens. It just doesn't get anywhere near cold enough around here for the fuel to get below the "pour point"

I've never seen a truck or piece of equipment with "Gelled" fuel. I've heard lots of drivers and mechanics BS cockamainy stories about tanks full of stuff that looked like grease and other shit. But every time I get there i find water or ice. I'm sure gelling happens somewhere, but not in any of the areas I've operated in. I've poured sloppy water out of filters right in front of them and they still keep saying "gel" like it's the only word they know. After doing this full time for 50 years, and slaving for family in a garage for the first 14 years of my life, I've come to the conclusion that about 87 percent of truck drivers and mechanics are dumber than a box of rocks, and big time liars

Set up real nice too. 29,000 axle. You can lift lots more with that than a tandem. Keeps the fulcrum as close to the tailboard as possible

Jamacains think about stuff very different. In about 1990 I met a Jamaican welder when I was working on a water treatment plant and we got to be really close friends. Hard worker. Could operate equipment and drive a truck too. When we were working and things went all kinda wrong it wasn't my problem, it was OUR problem. (I was the site supervisor). He brought some other Jamaicans around, one a carpenter, and the other a laborer and they were very proud of showing you how hard they could work. Over the years we got pretty close, knowing each other's families, holiday visits and all. Before my mother died and was bedridden he used to come visit her and sit by her bedside and tell her stories about growing up in Jamacia, walking to town to go to the store, hearing a car coming and hiding in the ditch in case it was the "Blackhearts" climbing trees to get fruit, and how if you had a can of corned beef you were on top of the world. He used to have her laughing and laughing. Sadly cancer took him in 2013. Started in his prostrate, went into remission, came back about 2 years later, and spread to his bones. I think he was only 57. I don't know if all Jamaicans are like that, but all the ones I met from his village were all about honesty, working hard, and their children. And they were defiantly not Black, they were Jamaican

Making such a big deal about waterboarding. If you do it right they don't die. They can't talk if you kill them, it defeats the whole purpose

Meanwhile in North Carolina

And this is how the money was spent

Something to think about while you are doing a bearing roll in, or laying under a trash truck on a dump with a mattress wound around the drive shaft

1936 REO Speedwagon

Ransome Eli Olds and a REO car

Used a little Continental flathead

Reo built them. green one is a 36, red one is later

That is just an internet picture, there are some around but I think production was under 1000 made ever. That horse transport guy out by West Chester had one, I think he was named Ralph Smith. Lou Kleber in Bensalem had one with a wrecker body, but that was like 50 years ago. Not sure where it ever went. A guy here in Hazleton has one in pieces. Somebody has to have one, maybe Gearhart or Joseph Equipment might know where there is one Here is an earlier one. A 1936. This guy has it https://www.stahlsauto.com/automobiles/1936-mack-jr-pickup-truck/

You can buy a used one

Seems LA has a lot of DEI mechanics too. Have you ever visited a municipal garage? Or bought used equipment at a state or municipal auction? Real mechanics at those places are few and far between. I have known a few good ones, but not many.

Really an interlock is cheap. I spend that much on a white pizza with spinach and ricotta. The worst case when installing one is you have to move a breaker to a lower spot to make room for your generator breaker. Like an hour of work tops

If this showed up, they would say it was unsafe for drag queen firefighters to drive wearing stripper shoes

I can tell you that beginning in about 1980 all 672 cubic inch Mack engines were built with a Dynatard camshaft whether Dynatard equipped or not. I found out the hard way in about 1982. I tried to adjust the valves on one while it was running. You can't do that if the engine has a dynatard cam. It misses and pops and spits and has you scratching your head for a bit. Earlier engines, if you wanted an engine brake, you had to either install a dynatard cam, or use a jake brake

Never knew he worked for Marmon @Geoff Weeks https://www.pbs.org/video/clessie-cummins-hoosier-inventor-6kpuk6

Yoi should ax them how much it cost to register an amberlance

Yeah, like what killed John Griffin's family at 3 AM when the power came on after Hurricane Sandy. @yarnallknew him. Big time Brockway guy That happened about a mile down the street from my house. Seeing it made my blood run cold https://patch.com/pennsylvania/bensalem/two-die-in-storm-related-fatal-fire

Yeah and you will be back feeding the transformer, meaning that you will be energizing the primary which in most residential areas is about 7,200 volts. So if there is a primary wire laying on the ground somewhere in the neighborhood, touching it is deadly, not just a little shock. Transformers work both ways