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MACK E-6 · Apr 9, 2018

Lepton1 said: ↑

You mean you forgot to blow in the breathalyzer? All Korean equipment has a breathalyzer to make sure you are powered by kimchee.
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Kimchee breath alone could probably run the engine.

Rubber duck kw · Apr 10, 2018

REO6205 said: ↑

We'll hope that he doesn't get a curb & gutter machine for awhile.
One of our drivers went to move one of the big ones last year and he called me to come help. I wasn't much help. That thing had four wheel independent steering, tilts, squats, ups, downs, sideways, diagonals, feeds, discharges, and about a hundred other features.
I'd never seen a machine that would move in so many directions at once with absolutely none of them being the way we wanted it to go.
The problem was, all the functions were controlled with toggle switches, about four rows of them, and none of them were marked. One row was spring loaded, the rest were a mix. The only thing that having me there did was to make two of us who were confused and frustrated instead of just the driver. We figured we were about one toggle switch away from disaster.
We finally gave up and called the owner. He was really great about it. He sent an operator out. It turns out that the machine had had a fire a couple of years before and their shop had rewired it themselves. The operator knew what all the switches were so nothing got labled. There were also some switches in odd places that were necessary to making the machine go.
The next time we moved that monster we had a better handle on what to do and when to do it without breaking anything expensive.
And the switches never did get marked.
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I think that's about typical for a company fixing there own stuff. Put every toggle switch we can get our hands on in a week on it somewhere. Now only 2 or 3 guys know how to run it, job security.

MACK E-6 · Apr 10, 2018

Rubber duck kw said: ↑

I think that's about typical for a company fixing there own stuff. Put every toggle switch we can get our hands on in a week on it somewhere. Now only 2 or 3 guys know how to run it, job security.
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I encountered a backhoe like that once. The contractor somehow tied a kill switch into the light switches as an anti-theft measure.

Rubber duck kw · Apr 10, 2018

MACK E-6 said: ↑

I encountered a backhoe like that once. The contractor somehow tied a kill switch into the light switches as an anti-theft measure.
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Yea there was folks supposedly did that with trucks in the 80s or so

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