Joseph Cummings

You see stuff like this, and realize we have become the world's biggest sissies. When you see them in some of the other videos and they are breaking equipment, it isn't because they are stupid, it's because the money is so big, that it just isn't that big of deal

I delivered trailer mounted equipment to the Lipari Landfill down in Pittman NJ. Same deal, I couldn't set foot on the ground even to drop and hook. And they washed my tractor before I left. That was a big superfund site. The town of Pittman had a big cancer cluster in the 70's. If I remember right there was a lake there and the stuff got in the lake that people swam and fished in

Here is a great free book on Lead acid batteries. It's old old like 1920. Goes over all the rebuilding and repair https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29718/pg29718-images.html

Back in the 80's and 90's my Polish cousin, ran his whole demolition company with Illegal Polacks. He was giving them like 100 a day and they worked here for a couple of years living cheap, and then go back to Poland with 50 or 100K saved up. From what they told me American Dollars went a long way in Poland, and if you had 50 or 100k in US Dollars you were a very wealthy man

What do you think guys like George Racho, or Booty would think of those Pakis?

Joey, again I'm not saying 'All". I just don't like the way all this is going. They are trying to make everything out to be a super high tech repair that can only be done by guys that grew up in a monastery, shaved their heads, flogged themselves and fasted for one month a year. And this super high tech only exists in somebody's fantasy. You don't know how many times I see mechanics do stuff like spend 10,000 rebuilding an engine for a shop forklift that That you'd be able to buy a good running replacement forklift for maybe 5,000 or less. The engine might have nothing wrong with it but a leaking valve, or one chugged out cylinder, or just need rings bearings and valves because it's old. But they don't want to do that, they want to act like some part that might be worn half a thousands under isn't good enough for the shop forklift that might get run 5 hours a week. It's like they don't get that they are building a 4 cylinder B Cummins for a POS obsolete forklift and not a race engine for Barny Oldfield And the worst part is, even with their high tech BS talk, the shit doesn't run right when they are done

Here is a banjo alignment. But people freak out if you do it

But they totally are. I see trucks down for months for an in chassis, nobody will do their own head work, they replace whole alternators over a diode trio or a broken brush holder, they all swear up and down that it's "Illegal" to straighten a dump that went over and twisted the frame or to weld up and fishplate a frame crack, When you talk to them they seem to specialize in making some kind of high tech excuse. They say you need a "clean room" to do fuel injector work. They think every fastener needs a torque wrench, but can't tell you the last time their torque wrench was calibrated. I hear stuff like all frame welds must be done by a "certified" welder. I can only assume they teach them this horse crap in tech school. It's like they just don't get that downtime is money, and lots of money. The hell with it anyway, they are all going to starve to death worshipping The Snap-On Jerk Off and jacking their carrot to Big rig with chrome and chicken lights pictures

Yeah some of those older plants and a lot of large boilers ran on #5 and #6. That stuff was almost like tar. 4,5,and 6 has to be injected into the boiler with either compressed air or steam to get it to atomize. You can't high pressure atomize it like how a home oil burner does. Waste oil heaters do the same thing, they preheat, and then air atomize. BTW you can get an air atomizing nozzle and adaptor from Delvan for a regular home heating oil gun. but it takes a few more modifications and equipment to get it all to work well burning waste oil

Someone else has the ball. I got to look into paying the FET before I go much farther. I got kinda banged up on a really nice truck before, Older and no miles, but only had a manufacturer's certificate of origin. If I remember right I had to pay full FET based on the price when new

This Life Magazine about Hoffa's ties to Local 107 has a picture of my "mentor" in it. Bootleg coal hauler from back during the Great Depression, walked with a bad limp from burning his brakes out coming down 309 to Philly and crashing over the side of a hill. They were a tough breed

They do still make offset elephant pads don't they?

Yeah I remember that, but what does it have to do with aligning anything, unless it's a bent housing? Are we going back to having a wishbone. a 3/4 race cam in my Merc, or putting Ardun heads on my Flattie?

I don't know, but it all seems to be falling apart. Young guys can't start early because God forbit someone under 18 touches a power tool. No young guys are coming in, old guys like me are ageing out of the workforce. Guys in the middle are quitting in droves. DEI has companies putting women with college degrees in charge of maintenance of trucks and machinery. HR ladies chasing away anybody good and hiring the guy that make her panties the moistest or whoever checks off the most DEI boxes. Screw it, let it all fail

What the hell is that?

I can't imagine it'd come out pretty. You might as well do something like this

I've had guys with modern well equipped shops send me parts that were machined wrong too. And you should have seen the idiots that worked at RMP that rebuilt stuff for Ford at their plant in Jersey. Their stuff was notoriously bad in the 80s and 90's

Yeah something crazy like that. There was a low RPM version at one time that turned like 94 RPM or something lol. There was a guy in Longmont Co that made fuel injection parts and he also did custom orders, like if you wanted to change the cam profile, or the barrel and plunger diameter, nozzle spray pattern, etc.. I got to talking to him one day probably 30 years ago and he told me he made parts for a Sulzer RTA. Three injectors per cylinder, and when he machined the tips, he got almost 20 pounds of chips from each one. Back then they were all optimized for 4 bunker fuel, \now within so many miles of shoreline they have to burn #2 so I'm sure things have changed a bit, Although the 4 was preheated to reduce the viscosity for a better atomization so maybe not

In Tullytown? Did you know Kasperitis? He was always in there, he had equipment parked in their yard. Kasperitis used to have a junkyard in Croydon Pa. They were using a crane mounted on an AC Mack I think well into the 80's

Or something like this Wärtsilä- Sulzer RTA

Yeah that was pretty long ago. They all left Mountaintop in the 1950's except for Kenny Rouchey. I know he was still in Mountaintop in the 1990's They were all sort of half azzed friends with Sonny

I had to move a big compressor one time. One of those ones on 4 wheels with an axe that steered on the front. I only had my tractor because I dropped the storage trailer I hauled out on the jobsite. I was only going like 5 miles with it. You want to talk about getting squirrelly, I got it up to about 20 MPH and it was trying to send me off the side of the road. I had to ride up the shoulder at like 5mph the whole way. I'll never try that again. So you put 18,000 on a single axle tractor? And permanently mounted? I wouldn't have thought you'd need that much. But I guess that put the tare weight of the tractor with the weight box affixed at around 30,000, axles could be at 12 and 20k being there was no real tongue weight when hooked to the trailer

All while still in their pajamas and slippers Girl without a Hijab painted on the back must be the Pak version of the chrome naked chick you see on mudflaps