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    Flow gauges

    Nice score. You did very well on that one.
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    Ford F550 vs 5500 options

    If you are buying new I'd consider dealer support as much as the brand. Waiting 3 weeks just for your truck to get looked at for a simple sensor issue sending the thing into limp mode gets expensive.
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    This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

    If you want to replace that rack with the latest model it's not going to ask for alimony.
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    Good healthy carnage

    Yes, yes and yes. The way this mine works we have fixed plant mechanics (me) and electricians. If they got word I opened up the electrical cabinet to see if the lights on the PLC were lighting up I would be on the next boat out of here. We only have 1 PLC guy, he's on the complete opposite...
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    Getting paid

    I think the original poster wants to work on over the road trucks. On this side of the pond we have a lot of truck drivers who will break down and start calling every road side guy till one answers, once the guy gets out of bed at 2am and shows up they will try and negotiate down the bill before...
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    Good healthy carnage

    I'm about 99% sure it's either a sensor, wiring, or PLC card causing it. Even when not going to uncharted territories it does it, right around the time operators started noticed the pump speed going nuts is when we started eating poppets like candy. It ate another 2 nights ago. The head...
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    Welders, the robots are coming for your you...

    $95k for a programable robotic welder that doesn't require you to be a CNC programmer and is available from your local welding supply. I see this thing getting a lot of work doing things like repeat bucket jobs if they'll fit on the table. It won't completely replace a guy though will allow...
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    Good healthy carnage

    This is a fixed mounted concrete pump used for pumping paste (concrete mixed with tailings) back fill in an underground mine. It uses poppet valves for suction and discharge instead of a rocker valve like a truck mounted pump. We've been washing out pressure poppet seats, discs, and nose cones...
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    Getting paid

    There's a decent facebook service truck group, don't make a new post just read one of the 800 on the same subject. Are you planning on over the road class 8 truck field service type stuff? Driver's of particular nationalities will attempt to negotiate/ low ball before and after you start the...
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    Working in the Heat

    I don't envy you guys, 80 is brutal hot up here in southeast Alaska. We are hiring underground mechanics, it's usually in the 50's in the shop year round, live anywhere, fly up for 2 weeks of work and fly home...
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    Major shovel Fail.

    One day I mentioned to one of our upper managers we were thinking about making a sculpture of a monster out of miss ordered parts on the mill bench. We had corporate coming for a tour in a couple days and they would for sure be curious what this proposed sculpture was. A mid level manager piped...
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    Picketmaster

    Isn't that another take on a rivet fan for a lot more moolah? https://aircraft-tool.com/shop/detail.aspx?id=FS01
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    shock absorber rebuild

    It sounded like they do a little bit of everything and take on some pretty odd ball projects. Shocks/ struts are really just hydraulic cylinders with valving/ fluid ports in the piston. I'd imagine if you can find someone to rebuild them you are looking at $500-$1000 minimum in labor. Finding...
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    shock absorber rebuild

    How much do you want to spend? Adapting something like a rebuildable/ valveable off road shock might be able to be made to work. ADS might be worth calling, Fox and King have both gotten way too big to care about the little projects, bilstein isn't into stuff like this, FOA has quality issues if...
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    KCP truck mounted concrete pump issue

    Got a copy of the hydro schematic you could post? I've beaten my head against the rib a bunch working on our schwing concrete/ paste pumps underground here though I believe the truck mounted stuff is slightly different than our junk. KCP's website sure doesn't tell you much about them.
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