Where is everyone #5

I like the Chevy!

What does he have built in the corner of his shop? Looks like an office? That is kinda neat.

 

Dang, totally slipped my mind. Refresh my memory .

 

I was hauling 48k of precast burial vaults on the flat on a rainy night, all my glass fogged over. Everything was fine until a passenger in the fast lane waved me over furiously. Got out and sure nuff was on fire. I put it out with a gallon of $2 juice mix, spared the extinguisher. 2 troopers, 2 fire trucks, ambalamps, various others showed up and eventually left. Couldnt even get any service people on the phone and i was parked a foot off the road on i-40WB with no way to move. Unfortunately there was a ripe carcass right where i broke and had to fix myself.

Cause was the trailer getting shoe only brake jobs over the years when it needed drums too. Im just a hired hand and i wasnt aware this could happen until now or id have been on it. I believe the S cam was pushing out so far to reach the drum that it "cammed over" and bound in the braking position so that one corner dragged brake until it was glowing red.

The big spring stretched like a phone cord, oil seal and abs melted, air lines to levelling valve melted but bag lived, Thank the Lord. All my bags were aired out and frame parked ontop the tires so i couldnt move even if i caged the cans. I had no choice but to fix it right there.

I cut back the air lines to the levelling valve, unmounted the valve from the trailer so it could reach the hose stubs. Then i had to reuse the crushed brass ferrulles by trimming off the plastic hose and melting the scraps out of the ferrule. I slid each ferrule up onto a pair of needle nose pliers like a mandrel and worked them forever to enlarge them to slide over fresh hose again. Took about 20 minutes to resize but it worked. Relocated the valve and was able to air up the bags manually.

Then i pulled the slack adjuster off and used a hunk of copper wire to tie up the bottom shoe but it kept falling down and just resting in the drum. Didnt cause any trouble but there was a lot of checking and scale dodging for the 250 miles home. Be real easy for the ride height valve to max out the bags or rest the deck ontop the rubber. Very hard to gauge ride height from the seat. The fix took me 3 hours of squirming under in the rain but it felt like a week. getting home was half a day but i made it.

I have to deliver the tanks monday before we can jack the trailer up but im gonna see to it new everything goes on there. I saved bossman a fortune so he can afford my parts.

 

Machine shop... lathe, milling machine, cnc burn table, shear, metal brake (to 1/8”), powder coating oven, just “stuff” like that.....

 

lift that came off the ch

 

Actually this is a area with a vending machine, and another section with a bathroom. Over head is like a office with storage.

 

The area behind this Jeep is where all the metal working machines are.....

 

....in Snohomish County.


.......hope I don’t catch a virus or something.

 

I'm not sure what to think. Of course that's not unusual.

 

I'm just shy of 32k lbs empty.

Then there's Ron with a higher empty weight than I'd ever want to gross with my little girl.