What if it Snows?

Ive seen many, many bollards broke out of the ground and whatever they were protecting smashed. All were made of nice heavy wall steel pipe, filled with concrete... Set only about 12 inches in the ground.

When I was working at the fertilizer plant we had a new part of the plant built. The boss asked me to take care of putting in the bollards because we could do it cheaper than the contractor wanted to do them.

4 bollards were needed. So I ordered two 20 foot lengths of 8 inch pipe with 3/8 inch wall thickness. When the pipe arrived I cut them into 10 foot lengths amd went to tell the boss I needed a post hole auger... He asked "What the hell for?" So I explained and showed him the pipe. He ptoceeded to explain that I as waisting money and that he wanted me to cut the pipe down to 6 foot lengths and set them 2 foot in the ground with a shovel.

Before he was done lecturing me on how I was doing it wrong I had already found 4 or 5 images of failed bollards online. Then I asked him how long he wants the brand new $200k worth of equipment to remain functional, and shiwed him the pictures...

He grudgingly had a rented post hole auger for the slid steer on site the next morning. 2 weeks later the first impact completely destroyed a set of duals and an axle. About a month or 2 after that the belly of a tank trailer was ripped out. The brand new $200k equipment remained unscratched. All of a sudden he was glad HE had insisted on setting 5 foot of each bollard in the ground...

 

3 spots left all in a row here, on sight side back.
Hurricane Express takes middle.

Is this becoming a trend?

 

Maine is better. No need for AC here. The highest it has been is 85*. Oh and it is 64* outside now.
I pity those of you whom have to use the engine or apu to sleep tonight. Plenty of free parking here.

Gravity. Its where all the goodness goes to. Tho personally I like to take the fries and throw some grated cheese on top and nuke it in the microwave for 30 seconds.

Night all.

 

Still warm with truck off.
When I lie down I’ll pass out and not wake til alarm goes off.. I hope.

 

Is that why, what was once firm and perky... Eventually becomes soft and saggy?... To much goodness???

 

In landstar speak what is a “qualification center”….?

Asking for a friend……

 

I think that is the group that does the driving record check, references, and verifies experience/endorsement type stuff.......

 

My friend has his own numbers….. what do they want to see invoices or a note from his mother?

 

If that. .02, .03 my guess. I ran mine that way for over a year once. Radiator was bad anyways. Had to run it in summer. I’m sure I could have bought 3-4 fans with the extra fuel I burned. Only real issue is the extra dust and dirt sucked into the Cac , radiator and engine. Might want to rinse it off every chance you get.