Where is everyone #5

This might explain the limited driving skills of some of the bottom feeder companies. Probably explains the huge push to automatic transmission Trucks too. They can't manage to flip the switch to High Range and move the gear selector over to sixth at the same time without opposable thumbs. Buncha hooved critters need to stay outta our Trucks !

Present company excepted of course. Moose hooves have two toes that can spread far enough apart to work the High Range flipper and the gear shift at the same time.
Scientific Fact. Look it up. I dare ya.

 

I plead the 5th

 

Never have had it myself, don't even think it's been on a Menu where we've eaten

Glad U enjoyed it Oxbow!!

 

First snow we've had here in a while. Still not even 3 inches. But the city sent out the loader with a plow blade and wing on it to clean the street. In a couple months that won't happen. Ten inches and it will take til the next day for a plow to appear. They always blow the budget on overtime early in the season.

 

Thanks, will do!

On the topic of sand boxes, how do they unload those things? Are they just a bottom drop out the bottom of the chassis? Or do they lift them off like a sea can?

 

Morning morning

 

You keep that over in Wyoming will ya!

 

You pull onto location and a big-honkin forklift lifts your loaded box off and then sets an empty one back on ya. Then you go back and load again.

They have a conveyor belt (called a T-belt) that they can set 2 or 3 loaded boxes on top of. Boxes have a slide door on the bottom that lets the sand drop onto the belt.

So ya see, they always have multiple stacks of loaded and empty boxes on location at all times. Which is one of the drawbacks.

And you’re totally at the mercy of that big-honkin forklift. If it goes down, the whole frac job goes down with it. I forget how many thousands of dollars per hour it costs for all that equipment and workers to sit idle, but it sure ain’t cheap.

Course we all know equipment like that never breaks down, right?

I’m not really knockin the system. It does what it’s supposed to do, which is keep the dust down.

 

Looks like they banished you to the back forty.

 

Oh and I never got a chance to respond to this.

That bottom pic is absolutely awesome. Looks almost surreal.

The top one sucks, however. Lol.