Where is everyone #5

Something I have had good luck with if the truck is going to sit 2 or 3 days near 0 degrees. If you have a Davco type filter with the filter facing up and a knob on top, I open that top knob and pour in a bunch of fuel treatment (usually 911) and put it back together. Make sure you don’t damage or lose the O ring. Start the truck and run for a minute or two. Then go back and refill the filter again with treatment. Seems to work.

 

Lol yeah I run into blowhards like that as well delivering to jobsites. I get all my dunnage free but i don't care. Its mine. And im going to need it. They got how many hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment at a jobsite . They can sprig for a couple 4x4 hardwoods.

 

Hospital coffee is enuff to kill a mule .

 

Went to Louisville for the National Farm Machinery Show last weekend.

 

Current situation. Kwik Trip finest premium diesel fuel.

 

Dang wtf..Gelled up?

 

Yep. I got 911 and power service in it as well. Not even going to try it till it warms up.

 

That's crazy. I know my day is coming, BUT, I've been fortunate to never have any of my equipment gel up with exception of a fuel tank on my hoe that leaked rain water in at the fill neck. That wasn't really even gelling, more pure frozen water in the fuel filters.

 

Back in the '60s I used to load regularly, when at home, out of Stanton Ironworks, between Nottingham and Derby, which actually made steel and concrete pipes of all sizes.
1st thing over the weighbridge where they gave us a little ticket with details of pipes and sizes on it with customer name and destination, also were told exactly where in the large site to go to get loaded. Once there there was a very high pyramid of timbers and underneath it all was a hole which led to a little shed. When you arrived, 4 troglodytes crawled out of the shed carrying carry boxes of 6" nails, hammers and nailbars and at that point your job was over until told to rope up. (No straps back then).

The trogs had a brief huddle over the note and then shot off in all directions returning with exact sizes of timbers, long and short and very short and threw them all onto the bed. Then a mobile crane arrived, another huddle then the ants were scrabbling all over the bed nailing beams and scotches in exactly the right places. At that point the crane returned with the first pipe and within 20 minutes it was all done and final nails hammered in.

My turn to be the expert and very soon, all roped down I was off to the weighbridge for the final weigh and to receive the delivery notes, then off into the wide blue yonder already turning over in my mind who to ring for a backload that suited me best when I was tipped. Very happy, carefree days,

 

Well I hate that. How cold is it? Did you get going?