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Coke-in-MN 
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Posted: 09 Sep 2016 at 11:07pm |
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When a bad day gets worse -
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Ian Beale
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Posted: 10 Sep 2016 at 3:21am |
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Coke
Something similar from down here.
A Cat serviceman has a WTF moment when he gets an urgent call down to the harbour area of a coastal town. Turned out that they had been using an excavator in the construction of a boat ramp and they'd sunk it with no gear to get it out. The tide was coming in and the theme was panic. So he taped up the obvious entry points. At high tide only the top of the boom was showing.
They got it out the next day with a big on-shore winch and another excavator which nearly suffered the same fate.
The excavator that went under had 23 hours on it - very rapid depreciation!
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DMiller
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Posted: 10 Sep 2016 at 12:32pm |
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Can't fix too stupid to know better.
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DiyDave
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Posted: 10 Sep 2016 at 5:48pm |
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it did manage to feed the operator a mouthfull of dirt, 'fore it waved bye-bye...
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shameless (ne)
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Posted: 11 Sep 2016 at 2:02am |
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bet their lips was a flappin
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 14 Sep 2016 at 2:33pm |
Bet their drawer were full of s__t too
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JohnCO
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Posted: 14 Sep 2016 at 10:26pm |
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There are other videos connected with Cokes, the one of the machine sliding off the lowboy and going end over end down the hill is just horrible, ya know the operator couldn't have survived. There are others nearly as bad. May help me be more careful!
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shameless (ne)
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Posted: 15 Sep 2016 at 4:06am |
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makes you wonder how many minutes of training the operator
was given before he was turned loose on the machine!
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JohnCO
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Posted: 15 Sep 2016 at 12:09pm |
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I'm sure lack of training is most of the cause but then there are just bad days, like the video of the landslide taking out the trackhoe, or doing what the boss tells you. From my limited experience, just working on the flat so far, I can see the operator has to be attentive to what he is doing.
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 16 Sep 2016 at 5:49am |
This kind of stuff reminds me of STUPID. I rode to work with a guy at CAT in E Peoria that worked machine repair. They had a job to do with a brand new JLG bucket. The only way to get to the work was across a pit that had a temporary "bridge" over it. The new boss said go ahead, drive over it, after the operator questioned what the "bridge " would support. The bridge gave way and one axle dropped over the square edge of the cement floor. The new boss called in a D6 that was used to pull scrap trains around the shop and with a chain attached to the JLG, proceeded to order the guy on the D6 to pull. It pulled the front half of the unit out, but left the other half in the pit 
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shameless (ne)
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Posted: 16 Sep 2016 at 8:35pm |
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and i'll bet the workers were blamed!
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Posted: 16 Sep 2016 at 10:14pm |
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Hey Tuck, did you ever know a guy named John Lee?
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shameless (ne)
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Posted: 20 Sep 2016 at 7:19am |
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I know a dude names Lee John....that count?
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CTuckerNWIL
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Posted: 20 Sep 2016 at 7:42pm |
 LeonR2013 wrote:
Hey Tuck, did you ever know a guy named John Lee? |
No, I think there were 34,000 members of UAW 974 at the time I worked there.
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LeonR2013
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Posted: 26 Sep 2016 at 7:04am |
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Well he put over fourty years there, so he doesn't have to worry about retirement money. Plus he's been in Model A's for as long as I can remember (2 days) so he's had the cash coming in from two directions. Good guy though.
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