SHIT-tastic day at work

LaidNeon · Post by **LaidNeon** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:07 pm

A couple weeks ago i got bumped up to being the tire man since our other guy got hauled off to jail for violating his probation. Anyways yesterday an injector went out on the tire truck. WHICH REALLY REALLY SUCKS!! This means we have to use our flat bed truck that has no lift gate or air compressor. So getting tires in the back of this thing is a huge pain in the ass cause these tires aren't light. We had a loaded truck down with 2 flats on one side of one axle in the rear. Since we don't have a compressor we tap into the air tank on the trucks. well to do so we have to kill the truck & put in an air hose fitting. Got that all put in & went to crank the truck so it could build up air pressure......................well needless to say the bastard wouldn't start. Incase you forgot, its loaded!! The drum needs to spin to keep the concrete mixing, otherwise it starts to cure. We tried jumping directly on the start with a screwdriver & nothing. we even tried it on the solenoid on the firewall & still nothing. We don't have jumper cables on our truck cause well we are tire guys. We called a mechanic to come help us & he coached me into moving the lever that controls the drum to the stand by position. Then try starting it all over again. Still didn't change anything. He shows up almost an hour later with cables & we get it started..........................this is the good part. Remember me saying i moved the drum lever...........................well turns out that position was too far, so it was in discharge mode! We poured out almost 2 yards of concrete in the parking lot of a gas station!!

--CLIFF NOTES---
- Old tire truck broken, using a non tire man truck
- No air compressor
- rigged mixer so we could use air tools
- mixer no start
- moved a lever
- got it started
- discharged concrete into parking lot

WykedHellFire · Post by **WykedHellFire** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:45 am

damn dude, sounds like a really bad day for you, hope it gets better.

optlo · Post by **optlo** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:43 am

thatll buff right out

oklamopar · Post by **oklamopar** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:31 am

At least you got it started before mix got hard.
Fridays on the way.

Mr Josh Zombie · Post by **Mr Josh Zombie** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:23 am

i like the cliff notes, haha.

Yea, shitting days happen. We all keep going though.

hansken_yo · Post by **hansken_yo** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:54 am

was it a Munday?

LaidNeon · Post by **LaidNeon** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:29 am

technically no, but it was on tuesday & we had monday off

rOniN · Post by **rOniN** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:56 pm

ouch...at least you will know what to do next time. Hope everything works out.

grambo · Post by **grambo** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:38 pm

Dan, sorry about your bad day. It made me laugh though. Probably made a few of us feel better about our crappy days.