feeling dumb

[Hobert62]

2 minutes ago, Willie dog said:

 

 They are available for a limited time. Rush delivery available just in time for Christmas.  The perfect gift for the Mack Man who has everything and still needs more!!  

 

And doesn't change his own tires. Hehehe

[tjc transport]

 

i do not have to worry about looking for keys anymore. if they are not on top of the desk, i automatically got to the front door. where they are left in the lock tumbler after i unlock the door, and come in the house without taking the keys out of the door. 

after 5-6 months of looking for the damn truck keys at 4 am when trying to go to work and having no luck so grab the spare set only to find the missing keys in the outside cylinder, i now just automatically look there first.

[tjc transport]

On 12/10/2016 at 6:43 PM, fxfymn said:

Let's see.. I was taking the driveshaft out of a 4wd Dodge pick up while it was parked in the driveway which was sloped up from the street. The cross wouldn't free up from the yoke, so I pried/beat on it until it popped out. As I laid there I got to watch the truck roll over me, (Fortunately I was laying completely under the truck so it cleared me) out the driveway, and into a neighbor's tree which was pretty lucky since the next stop was the neighbor's house. Parking brake? Chock? What are those for?

been there, and done the "use the body as a wheel chock" more than once in my younger days too.

Edited December 12, 2016 by tjc transport
correct spelling

[Timmyb]

I remember my old welder stopped working. Wire wouldn't feed or anything, but the fan was on. I looked at new ones for a bit, but thought I'd have my old one looked over first. So off I take it to the welding shop, guy plugs it it and plays with power settings and pow, it starts welding. 

Turns out I had one of the power switches in between settings! 

To look on the bright side it was an easy fix.

[B-42]

2 hours ago, Willie dog said:

I wanted to get more height from the stands without having the top ratcheted up so far that it would wobble....so my "out of box" thinking was a steel wheel....nice wide base for the stand.....easy to find and best of all FREE!  

 They are available for a limited time. Rush delivery available just in time for Christmas.  The perfect gift for the Mack Man who has everything and still needs more!!  

 

You can fabricate a standard version and a deluxe edition wired with a buzzer that sounds when it comes into contact with the wheel you are trying to mount.  Looks like there may be a market for it.

[41chevy]

2 hours ago, tjc transport said:

 

i do not have to worry about looking for keys anymore. if they are not on top of the desk, i automatically got to the front door. where they are left in the lock tumbler after i unlock the door, and come in the house without taking the keys out of the door. 

after 5-6 months of looking for the damn truck keys at 4 am when trying to go to work and having no luck so grab the spare set only to find the missing keys in the outside cylinder, i now just automatically look there first.

Was doing granite blocks for the Orient Point Park access road after Sandy,, about a 40 or so mile ride from my yard to the end of the Northfork of Long Island. I walked 1 mile to the ferry office and called my wife to bring my spare keys for my truck. Waited almost two hours for her. She drove me to the truck and as I walked up to the door there were the keys in the lock.  Could have got away with it if she wasn't right next to me . . .

[mowerman]

Now that's just plain embarrassing.....bob

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[41chevy]

28 minutes ago, mowerman said:

Now that's just plain embarrassing.....bob

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Nah! Embarrassing is ranting about what a holes your neighbors are as you walk in to the house and see them sitting on the couch!

[Willie dog]

1 hour ago, B-42 said:

You can fabricat standard version and a deluxe edition wired with a buzzer that sounds when it comes into contact with the wheel you are trying to mount.  Looks like there may be a market for it.

Think of it like this.......I may have just invented 

 

3 hours ago, Hobert62 said:

And doesn't change his own tires. Hehehe

Or shouldn't!!!

[mowerman]

Nah! Embarrassing is ranting about what a holes your neighbors are as you walk in to the house and see them sitting on the couch!

Pretty sure we have all done real stupid shit always seems to me... Everytime I slip fall.. always has to be one of two people rite there watching rite???. Bob

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[Maddog13407]

was driving a F350 one day in the snow, had it in 4 wheel but wheels not locked in,. anyways got stuck, jump out to lock in the hubs, but never put truck in park, so here I go to lock the hubs in and poof here goes me chasing truck across the field!!!!

[Keith Pommerening]

Last week GMC p/u would not start, just click, click. Didn't even dim the lights so it must be starter.  Put a new rebuilt in and click, click.    Replaced the really old battery, click, click.  Then I got desperate and cleaned battery cables, zoom, zoom.  I hate side post batteries.  $200 in parts and only needed pocket knife in pocket.  Then $5 for a beer, gotta feed the stupidity.  Thanks,   Keith

[gearhead204]

I was 21 and was working at the local apple warehouse and was tuning up a 290 Cummins, I was real meticulous about keeping ports plugged with shop rags to avoid debris and tools out of where they don't belong, any ways long story short I left a rag in the cross over pipe. I fired her up and all was great! ....then BANG BANG BANG KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK  ...then PATHOOY what looked like huge carbon flakes started spewing from the exhaust the engine smoothed up and ran fine, the shop foreman  rounded the corner just in time to see the black lint rain that was drifting around the shop and wanted to know what THAT STUFF was...........not one of my better days  

[h67st]

Okay reading all the stories now I have to chime in. When I was in diesel school in 1981, we had a shiny 290 on the engine stand using a 12v fuel pump to feed fuel to it. Lunch time came and no one remembered to unplug the fuel pump. We came back from lunch and fired the engine up, it went to about 3 or 4,000 rpms immediately and then slowly calmed down. Of course, we were all looking for clean underwear when the shop teacher saw what happened, he yelled at us for leaving the fuel pump on.

Then there's the time I came to work one morning at the Cat dealer in Miami FL, I saw about a 6' by 6' white square just below the water in the huge canal in front of the dealer. When I got inside they told me that a tow truck driver picked up our company Ford Bronco from along the highway because one of the u-joints had broken. When he dropped it at our yard, he put the Bronco in park and unhooked the chains. Of course, it was facing the canal and rolled right into it! I imagine his boss gave him quite a lecture about u-joints and how the parking gear works.

[fxfymn]

Part dumb blonde, part just dumb; My niece called her Dad to bring her a spare set of keys for her car because the remote would not open the door. She had the keys in her hand.

[fxfymn]

I was just giving you a hard time about the jack stands, but in all seriousness I would not trust my life to the system you "developed". A good friend was paralyzed, and subsequently killed himself over it, when a set of jack stands slipped on a sloped wash bay floor and dropped a truck on him. A couple of hundred bucks for a real set of stands will look like a bargain compared to a couple of weeks in a hospital.

Even using 6x6 or 4x4 cribbing would be safer.

Edited December 12, 2016 by fxfymn

[h67st]

I agree with fxfymn, good jack stands are invaluable. One of our customers was killed putting shocks on his van because he didn't use good jack stands.

[DCR]

Having spent my entire working career in funeral  service, with the last 20 plus years owning my own funeral home, I have experienced several deaths due to improper support of a vehicle while being under it.  Also, included in this is not properly supporting a dump bed while working on it.  

A friend of mine was killed when his bus came down on him. He was leaving for vacation and decided to check something under the bus while waiting for his wife.  The bus was running and his dog was inside the bus.  He crawled partially under the bus and his dog started running around trying to find him and hit the dump valve for the air. The bus came down on him and was found when his wife came out to leave for their trip.

We can't be too careful when working on equipment.  

[Willie dog]

I agree with the good jack stand and proper support for a raised vehicle. 

I never trust even a hydraulic jack by itself.....the only thing standing between you and being crushed is a .39 cent o-ring.

I used the wheels to give me some more height without having the t-bar up so far that it would wobble. Even a stack of wood blocks can be unsteady. 

The wheels made a good flat base and to make sure nothing moved I welded the stands to the wheels. 

Itoo knew a man who was killed working under a raised dump bed with no support.....it was sad because he was one of those ole timers I learned a lot from as a youngster.  I had just spoken to him that morning and after lunch time he was gone.  The one good thing that came out of a bad situation was I never trusted anything raised without having some type of good support. 

Even though we have all been joking about my "unique" stands , safety is a serious business. 

[fxfymn]

Cribbing and stacking are different. When you crib you alternately cross the wood so every piece is oriented 90 degrees to the ones above and below it so it will not have a "hinge" point to collapse on. You should never stack shoring more than two blocks high, and then only if they are perpendicular to the load, without using the cross method to go higher.

[57 bcr]

Cab overs also,have been known to be widowmakers. We don't think about this too often because "hoods" have been the norm for so long. Some old iron enthusiasts,might not have been out of the "Tonka stage" when we had 55-65ft length laws. Please let them know,if you suspect they may not be aware of power of leaky hydraulics. Like Willie said about the .39 cent o-ring,is very true.  Al