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Post by BillyCement on Feb 11, 2009 20:02:00 GMT -5
 Mid to late 60's Ford F-9 with a 6 yard Challenge barrel. Photo taken around 1977. Click on the photo for a larger photo. Yes, that's a painting of Snoopy on the engine cover. |
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Post by gant on Feb 12, 2009 8:59:28 GMT -5
looks like a real "gem" I bet you wouldnt wanna go back to that thing..
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Post by BillyCement on Feb 12, 2009 16:08:47 GMT -5
looks like a real "gem" I bet you wouldnt wanna go back to that thing.. |
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Post by Peterbilt on Feb 13, 2009 15:01:35 GMT -5
wow thats ready-mix history right there how long have you been driving mixers
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Post by BillyCement on Feb 13, 2009 16:52:05 GMT -5
wow thats ready-mix history right there how long have you been driving mixers |
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Post by Peterbilt on Feb 13, 2009 22:00:51 GMT -5
wow thats a long time i think you got at least 10 more years experience then anyone in our whole company
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Feb 14, 2009 14:24:02 GMT -5
^^^ That's true, JC. 1041 is our #1 driver. He's been with Robertson's for 20 years.
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Post by Mort on Feb 14, 2009 17:03:04 GMT -5
We've got a semi-retired guy who started in September of 1971. Richard Nixon was president, the Vietnam War was going on, and Walt Disney World in Orlando opened.
Our top full timer started in 1976.
I've given Billy and others enough of a hard time about their age, so I won't even mention that my parents got married in 1974...
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Post by BillyCement on Feb 14, 2009 17:45:14 GMT -5
We've got a semi-retired guy who started in September of 1971. Richard Nixon was president, the Vietnam War was going on, and Walt Disney World in Orlando opened. Our top full timer started in 1976. I've given Billy and others enough of a hard time about their age, so I won't even mention that my parents got married in 1974...  Well, the way I look at it, any day above ground is a good day. When you consider the alternative, getting old isn't so bad. But, I do miss the days when I was more concerned with the joints I smoked and not the ones that are hurting (I just know that this is getting deleted). |
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Post by cfconcrete on Feb 14, 2009 18:10:32 GMT -5
wow thats ready-mix history right there how long have you been driving mixers 1977 Billy......I hate you crabby old timers who think you know it all. You know, all you old men who started before me, before May 1978....... ;D |
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Post by BillyCement on Feb 14, 2009 20:25:23 GMT -5
I started with the company in 1974. I drove a dump truck for them until 1977 when they put me on a mixer. 1977 Billy......I hate you crabby old timers who think you know it all. You know, all you old men who started before me, before May 1978....... ;D  |
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Feb 14, 2009 20:33:22 GMT -5
"But, I do miss the days when I was more concerned with the joints I smoked and not the ones that are hurting (I just know that this is getting deleted)"
The post made it through. 
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Post by gant on Feb 14, 2009 21:06:47 GMT -5
hey mort my parents were married in 84 I graduated HIGH SCHOOL in 03
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Feb 15, 2009 0:43:46 GMT -5
^^^ That's true, JC. 1041 is our #1 driver. He's been with Robertson's for 20 years. . Its funny i met this driver out of plant 3 who has been with the company when Dennis Troesh was a driver. When i was doing gps we got to talking. When they got the new 1 series back in 2005 he didnt want one unless it had a continental end with no AC it took them months to find a decent one. He got what he wanted |
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Post by concretejoe on Feb 15, 2009 2:20:47 GMT -5
Ouch! Well, the way I look at it, any day above ground is a good day. Yes sir, I woke up today. Some people didn't get to do that. When you consider the alternative, getting old isn't so bad. But, I do miss the days when I was more concerned with the joints I smoked and not the ones that are hurting (I just know that this is getting deleted). I've always said that I wouldn't mind being that young again. I just don't want to be that stupid. |
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Post by cfconcrete on Feb 15, 2009 12:29:28 GMT -5
1977 Billy......I hate you crabby old timers who think you know it all. You know, all you old men who started before me, before May 1978....... ;D I'll drink to that, my brother.......... |
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Post by cfconcrete on Feb 15, 2009 12:31:55 GMT -5
We've got a semi-retired guy who started in September of 1971. Richard Nixon was president, the Vietnam War was going on, and Walt Disney World in Orlando opened. Our top full timer started in 1976. I've given Billy and others enough of a hard time about their age, so I won't even mention that my parents got married in 1974... I'll drink to THAT too Billy........Gonna be a foggy afternoon I see.... ;D |
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Post by Peterbilt on Feb 15, 2009 15:42:06 GMT -5
the guys that have been in the business so long have any of you had kids that have followed in your foot steps and are mixer drivers
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Post by BillyCement on Feb 15, 2009 19:31:35 GMT -5
No, my son went into landscaping. He owned his own business for awhile. He sold it and went to work for a friend's tree service. Now he's laid-off for the winter.
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Post by Mort on Feb 15, 2009 21:58:20 GMT -5
Peterbuilt, the semi-retired guy I was talking about was trained by the father of our top driver. Jeff (our top guy) brought in some pictures from the 1960s from when they put his mixer on a barge to an island in the Puget Sound.
My 5-year-old says he wants to drive mixer when he gets older. I wonder if they'll still have mixers by then...
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Post by gant on Feb 15, 2009 22:27:49 GMT -5
my 8 year old is going to be a baseball player/football player.. just like bo jackson or so he says.. hell its better than being laid off in the winter
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Post by Peterbilt on Feb 16, 2009 0:02:41 GMT -5
thats cool Mort my dad was a ready-mix mechanic for 20 yrs so i use to spend my summers driving the golf cart around the yard and going on ride alongs with the drivers and look at me now  To bad the economy isn't like it was back then id be alot happier right now |
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Post by Mort on Feb 16, 2009 12:51:21 GMT -5
I loved Bo Jackson when I was a kid. I must've used his autobiography a dozen times for book reports. I even went to a Royals/Mariners game in the Kingdome specifically to see him hit a homerun. And he did.
As far as my son being a redimix driver, I would love it. I think I would be disappointed if he got one of those no-job jobs, like stock broker or venture capitalist. You know, a job where, after you die, no one knows you were ever there.
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Post by Crazy Mudder Trucker on Feb 16, 2009 15:25:04 GMT -5
I loved Bo Jackson when I was a kid. I must've used his autobiography a dozen times for book reports. I even went to a Royals/Mariners game in the Kingdome specifically to see him hit a homerun. And he did. As far as my son being a redimix driver, I would love it. I think I would be disappointed if he got one of those no-job jobs, like stock broker or venture capitalist. You know, a job where, after you die, no one knows you were ever there. |
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Post by Mort on Feb 16, 2009 16:22:46 GMT -5
I'm not even really talking about it like that.
If you pour a sidewalk, God willing and the creek don't rise, it'll still be there in 100 years. We have some of those in my area.
I'm not saying someone in the year 2109 will walk on a sidewalk that I've poured and say, "there's a sidewalk that Scott poured." But something I did will still be there. And don't you ever walk by an old building and wonder about the guys that built it back in the 1800's?
By contrast, a consultant or a Wall Street bozo may make a company a lot of money, but once that money is spent, where do they go? Into oblivion, that's where.
I like what Mike Rowe said on the Adam Carolla show. "If you work in an office, your day basically consists of moving the papers from your inbox to your outbox. If you dig ditches for a living, you come into work in the morning, there's just land. By lunch time there is something resembling a ditch, and when you go home, by God, there's a ditch there."
I'm getting awfully sappy about the construction business. I need a hobby.
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Post by gant on Feb 16, 2009 18:52:42 GMT -5
^^ You need your wife to slap the piss out of you
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Post by BillyCement on Feb 16, 2009 21:57:40 GMT -5
I know what you mean, Mort. There are a lot of old factories around here from the 1800's. I stand and look at the thousands of bricks in the walls and wonder about the masons who did the work back then. Maybe making $1 a day, probably less. And I have gone to jobs next door to homes where I'd poured their patio or sidewalk or driveway maybe 10 years before. Sometimes the people even remember me. Two years ago I had a guy come into a diner and tell me that I was the driver who poured the patio at his aunt's house. He told me that I drove truck #100 at the time. Well, that was back in the 1980's!! Amazing what people will remember. (Maybe he's a stalker?)
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Post by cfconcrete on Feb 16, 2009 23:20:11 GMT -5
the guys that have been in the business so long have any of you had kids that have followed in your foot steps and are mixer drivers I have 4 daughters, so I'm safe...........  |
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Post by Mort on Feb 17, 2009 13:31:52 GMT -5
^^ You need your wife to slap the piss out of you She has plenty of reasons to do that, this one is the least of her worries. ;D |
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Post by mt9931 on Mar 26, 2009 19:31:58 GMT -5
First mixer truck I drove was a 1971 Diamond Reo C101 66B 6X6 with a underpowered V8 Cummins 210 and a Fuller 10 spd transmission. Eventually got a '74 model with a bigger Cummins V555 engine. The company had some old Mack B-42's that had been re-engined with V6 Detroits or small Cummins C-180's. The old guys would educate me on quad box shiffting across the yard or around the block. Also had some 1967 Riteway's, some of the original front discharge trucks.
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Well, the way I look at it, any day above ground is a good day. When you consider the alternative, getting old isn't so bad. But, I do miss the days when I was more concerned with the joints I smoked and not the ones that are hurting (I just know that this is getting deleted). 
