had a trying week as a o/o

well i recently quit my other job and am now a full time o/o belly dumping.

last week we were working on lifting a section of hwy 83 north of max nd that was flooded over. it was very hard on a truck until we got the lift built across the flooded section of road where you would drop off the lift down into the water was mush with rocks mixed in the clay we were hauling. ripped a fuel line off my truck one day was able to patch it up on the side of the road got a fitting made up in close by town and had to plug a hole with a bolt to limp into Minot to get a easy out to get a broken fitting removed. all in all wasn't a bad break down 4 hours down time and around 100 bucks also lost a shirt and a pair of pants after getting soaked in fuel. also ripped up a side skirt on my truck pretty bad on that job. the loader operator also dropped a giant clump of clay in my trailer that woulden't come out the bottom on another load. then once we got the grade up above the water level and some class 5 hauled in on top and the job was getting easy they decide to drop all the belly dumps off the job and just keep the side dumps on to widen the lift out.

so then after they dropped the bellys off the job that we were working on they wanted to send me to new town nd to work on the hwy 22 project. that job is on a Indian reservation. in order to work there i would have to buy a $1000 tero permit. i had to decline the job as i know money is going to get tight shortly before the checks start coming in as it is.

so i head to back to the house this morning. but then the upside. i ended up getting a call that they are needing some trucks to haul scoria up by Waterford city to a oil feild location. so ill be heading out there tomorrow. hopfully i have better luck moving forward

 

well this week is starting off better than last week was. so far nothing broke....lol

put a ton of miles on today nearly 600 miles on the day. ran a lot of good paved roads.

did have one kinda funny scratch your head moment though. we were dumping some scoria over some wet clay dirt not real soft but real slick. i lost traction in the last 5ft of my dump then the grader operator comes to push me out and as soon as he touched the back of my trailer he spun out and got stuck as well. so both me and the grader were both stuck. they had to send a loader up to pull the grader out to push me out...lol. good thing i was being paid by the hour...lol

i would take some pictures but i have a way of always ether forgetting my camera or forgetting where i put it in the truck if i don't forget it at home.

 

some 11r's will defiantly be going on in the future but for now i have good tread on all my lo pro's just can't justify pulling them yet to gain a extra 2in ground clearance. the front 4 drives are the lowest at around 1/3 usable life left when they are gone ill probably swap all 8 drives out even though the rear 4 should still be above 50% at that point.