May Day-May Day Deas-Plant Need Help

Hi, Slim.
Dunn deel, unless I break a leg - - - - Hell, maybe even then if I kin hav wunna them gator thingys ter git around in. And thank you for the invite.

I have been working with 'cowboys' all my life but never thought I'd be riding herd on a bunch uv 'em. LOL.

D'yer know anybody who will be at the show and LOVES photographing rust and dust? I will have at least one camera, probably two and maybe also a video camera there with me and I cain't run all three uv 'em at the same time.

Cya next Wednesday - yours, not mine.

I asked Barstart if she was coming down, and she kind of sounded like a pony running on one cylinder. Maybe you better call her Deas or post and convince her to help ya will the clicky thingy.-glen

:decision:Well, if I can go, I'll need you to take responsibility for me, Glen. Being the only Single Woman at these things means that no one invites me to anything, and I'm afraid I'm going to be sitting in front of my tent on Saturday night eating Dinty Moore out of a can. :violin:

I can hardly believe you would be stuck alone eating.........
There are plenty of people down there that would take you under there wing 👋
Tractorboy1

Mike,

I'll have to make sure you are a good boy.

very creative :nod:

Hey Deas,

Do you want to cruise around in a 1922 AutoCar, a 1964 B Model Mack, an Electric Golf Cart, a 500cc Polaris ATV, an Off Road Golf Cart with a 750 cc Race Engine commonly known as Blap-Blap(that's the sound in makes when you step on it, then back off because it scares the crap out of you and then hit it again, Blaaap-Blaaap), an Argo 8 wheel ATV with tracks, or a 1954 Willys Jeep? Have to keep staff happy! I had better bring a bicycle for LCM, so he stays on the ground with it.LOL

Hi, Glen.
Too many gears in the Autocar or the Mack and not nippy enough. I'm just a pore, simple country boy after all. The Polaris would certainly get me around AND negotiate most of the lumps and bumps that are likely to be left in the wake of the earthmoving fraternity. but that Argo sounds pretty interesting too. Ain't never played with wunna them B4. Does it have extra seats or is it mostly cargo space?

Whatever LITTLE jiggers are running around the site might need masts and flags for visibilty too. What are your thoughts about that? (That damned safety officer poking his nose in again.)

If that bicycle that you have in mind for LCM has gears, you might need to lock it out of all but the real short one JUST to keep him on the ground. He does sound pretty 'inventive'.

I'm with LCM on your earlier post with all the smileys. Just how long did it take you to sort all of those out and get 'em in the right places?

Just my 0.02.

OK Deas,

Your right I just ordered warning flags on whip antenna's for the little runners, your safety talk brought back memories.

So we got a job in 1984+/- and had to move 400,000 cyd of Blue Bay Mud, real muck. We had a new D-65p Komatsu LGP with 36" self cleaning pads on it, as a clean up dozer and a D7-G LGP with 36" pyramid pads too. It was our push cat. We got 3 @ 621-B's models that we only 3-4 years old at the time, if I remember right. We had like a hundred acres or so, so the game plan was to disc and air, then push to the edge of the pond, push load 'em and short dump up on the levee. We would move forward around every half day- to a day, and keep moving around the perimeter, not to break through. We would get 100-120 rounds on good days and there were some real pain in the but days at the end of the job, getting the greasy stuff out. The job worked, those were the days just before off road haul trucks became popular.

So any-way during the first couple of weeks on the job, my brother, the super on the job, demanded an ATV three wheeler Honda, as the scraper ruts, you couldn't drive a pick up over. We even had "The Mule" running with the 21's. It was a good runner DW-21. Someone before us had broken the shifter off above the floor, so a 2" pipe was welded on. Some one taped a ball on the pipe and had a few rolls of tape on it. The Shifter was about 18" taller than it should have been, reminded me of the King Rat models and cartoons when I was a kid, with the shifter above the roof line of a car, LOL.

So, my brother pulled Ray the operator over with the ATV, and parked the ATV about front tire passenger side of the scraper. He gave him direction after chewing on him, and told Ray to move ass pointing to the right, so Ray took off, hit the turning brakes to the right, and ran over it, making it around 6"-8" Tall. The Big Red 250cc Honda 3 Wheeler that was Only One Day Old, DIED ON THE SPOT.:rip:

The next one, Two Days later, POP had a 10' tall antenna with a red flag on it.:israel: