Doing your job, open deck trailer

Hauled many 410's and I drive up to the trailer then get out and look. Load them 1-2" to the drivers side to offset the crown in the roads.

 

Is that marked with missing concrete or are you talking about the signs.

 

The first piece of equipment I hauled I did as a favour for my brother's friend that owned a pipeline company and his driver needed the weekend off. Prior to that, the only trucks I had driven were oilfield service trucks that were either straight truck pumping and bulk units or semi bulk units.

So what did I get? A sideboom. I had to figure out how to break it down, self-load the tractor and boom, deliver it to a remote site, unload and reassemble it... all unassisted. Was it an all-day affair? Yup. I knew the basics of how to run a Cat, but I had never operated a sideboom and it sure took a lot of thinkin' to figure out how to get it all done.

It sure felt good afterwards though.

 

Graders, dozers, excavators, skidders, ADT's.....butter
I got one regular customer only because I was the first one he called that didn't ask him "are you going to have someone there to load/unload?"
But occasionally even I ask for some help to run through the controls first so I don't dump a machine off the wagon or f it up. Just pushing buttons only works in the movies. I had a spell moving some of these- old ones in & new ones out of the factory. I think every frickin' part on those machines moved.

Sometimes a man has to know his limitations

 

The fact that these guys asked Six to load for them argues that they probably do this a lot and probably get the help they're looking for more often than they get told to take a hike...so you have to wonder about the guys who don't have the stones to tell them no. Someone has been encouraging this behavior.

 

No participation trophy for tracking a machine off the beams?
That sucks.

 

That's a Gomaco control panel, probably a 3600 since it only has three tracks. once you figure it out it's pretty easy but it has a couple of stupid safety features. First time I moved one it took me a minute to figure out that in low range you have dial it to about 20% before you notice it moving.

 

I figured you might be the one to spot it- 3600's. Nice guys where I loaded the old ones out- showed me what was what. Even gave me an air fitting after I tried to pull 38' of the trailer forward with the neck using the air lines.

 

It's nice to see they have one of the buttons marked "Run like hell..."