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Post by Mort on Jul 18, 2008 8:19:16 GMT -5
You'll never catch me, copper!  |
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Post by BillyCement on Jul 18, 2008 16:23:30 GMT -5
Har har hardy har har!!! (That was a good one, Mort. I didn't see that one coming!).
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Post by LEAD DOG on Jul 18, 2008 22:27:45 GMT -5
You'll never catch me, copper!  |
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Jul 18, 2008 23:12:30 GMT -5
You'll never catch me, copper! Gee, Billy, you look like a union guy in that pic. Hehe |
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Post by BillyCement on Jul 19, 2008 5:13:51 GMT -5
Funny thing is, I have a hat similar to that one that I wear on sunny days.
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Post by advancedriver on Aug 10, 2008 10:21:50 GMT -5
One of our customers is a pre-cast plant (sewer pipes, manholes, dry wells, etc) and we get loaded 10 yards as wet as we can haul it. the run is mostly back roads, easy stops, take your time and get there safe. My meter was reading about 550-600 (9 or 10 inch slump) and I was cruising about 40 MPH (speed limit is 45) and a maintanance van for 5/3 bank passes me on a double yellow in a hell of a hurry, got ahead of me and then slammed on his brakes to come to a complete stop because he forgot his turn is RIGHT THERE! Of course, I have two options, rear end this dumb SOB and shove him into a ditch or light pole, because he deserves it, or slam on my brake and know I have a mess to clean up. I did the right thing, and slammed on the brakes. no less than 2 yards came flying out of the front of my truck (whitnesses said it shot out of my charge hopper straight up in the air like an explosion!) and it completley covers the roof and back of that brand new white van! the guy obviously knew he screwed up and floors the gas and takes off like a scalded dog! It was great! I went to the job, poured out, and the boss man accused me of selling concrete on the way to the job because I ran short! LOL idiot couldnt understand why soo much concrete was on the outside of my truck! i had to take a shovel back to the spill and clean it up. There is still rocks where I washed it down on the edge of the road to this day. that was 8 years ago
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Post by BillyCement on Aug 10, 2008 16:38:02 GMT -5
Before I drove a mixer I drove a dump truck for the same company. I delivered sand, gravel and/or bags of cement. One day I went around a horseshoe bend and lost one of the bags of portland (96 lbs.). It laid there on the shoulder of the road for years. It may have split open but I didn't see a lot of cement around it. I guess it got rained on and no one (certainly not a DPW worker) bothered to try to lift it.
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Aug 11, 2008 15:54:18 GMT -5
There's an intersection out in Newport Beach that's on a hill. There are two left turn lanes, three forward lanes, and one right hand turn lane, and all six lanes have years of spills in them! It's pretty funny.
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Post by BillyCement on Aug 11, 2008 19:26:22 GMT -5
There's an intersection out in Newport Beach that's on a hill. There are two left turn lanes, three forward lanes, and one right hand turn lane, and all six lanes have years of spills in them! It's pretty funny.
Yeah, on weekends I ride with a motorcycle club. I get a good chuckle when we stop at an intersection and I see the unmistakable sign of a mixer spill. Happens all over.  ;D |
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Post by Mort on Aug 11, 2008 19:54:00 GMT -5
Every intersection in Seattle is like that. That city is really steep. There are some hills with no truck signs. I drove up one in a pickup with a 19 percent grade, I thought I was going to tip over backwards.
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Post by mixedupdiesel on Aug 12, 2008 18:35:56 GMT -5
Someone did a sweet one today. Washout water, 65mph, huge group of cars, 2100rpm full discharge down the interstate. covered about 15 cars. Can't say more. (Don't ask why....)
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Post by Mixer Driver 69 on Aug 12, 2008 19:22:10 GMT -5
Someone did a sweet one today. Washout water, 65mph, huge group of cars, 2100rpm full discharge down the interstate. covered about 15 cars. Can't say more. (Don't ask why....) |
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Post by cfconcrete on Aug 12, 2008 20:35:05 GMT -5
Obviously because his lawyer says he can't.... ;D
How fast were you driving again MixedUpDiesel? ;D ;D
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Post by Mort on Aug 13, 2008 20:34:46 GMT -5
Someone did a sweet one today. Washout water, 65mph, huge group of cars, 2100rpm full discharge down the interstate. covered about 15 cars. Can't say more. (Don't ask why....) Sounds like a great pre-layoff thing to do. |
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Post by cfconcrete on Aug 13, 2008 21:38:36 GMT -5
;D ;D
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Post by gant on Aug 14, 2008 13:53:04 GMT -5
we had a guy that worked for us lastsummer that discharged wash water going down the highway on one of our other mixers.. this guy didnt last long..
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Post by Mort on Aug 14, 2008 22:22:22 GMT -5
We have a guy who has people call in all the time complaining about his driving. He is now on the safety committee. ;D
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Post by mixedupdiesel on Aug 16, 2008 10:27:39 GMT -5
No it wasn't me, it was the guy who backed into my water tank.
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Post by Mort on Aug 16, 2008 22:15:04 GMT -5
Has he joined the ranks of the former employees?
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