my buddy MEL...
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Topic: my buddy MEL...
Posted By: shameless dude
Subject: my buddy MEL...
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2017 at 9:37pm
| must be extremely busy making $$$$, or he's p*ssed at me? ain't seen him on here for awhile... |
Replies:
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2017 at 6:41pm
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I don't know if Mel and his brother want the work but Cal Fire has been hiring a lot of extra dozers. This last week 3 fires over 30,000 acres all burning at the same time. As well as after the extra rain they could be way behind on installing septic systems. So even if Mel is real
 at you Dude hope he is not mad at the rest of us. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 10:57am
| maybe they are out there gittin them AC dozers all smokey? |
Posted By: DiyDave
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 6:15pm
| CA prolly has a regulation that prohibits working on forest fire sites, with dozers, that put out emissions... |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2017 at 7:17pm
Have not heard of them really doing that Dave,but they kind or do anyway. Like with government cost plus jobs they always pay by how new the equipment was. As you all know new machines produce more work. Had a super fund clean up of a mercury mine the contractor was offered to move material by local guys that ran older equipment,when contractor found they didn't have the latest models he had no interest. Rented brand new equipment,cost plus.
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Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2017 at 12:40pm
| goes to prove....there are dumb azz's and then there are DUMB A$$'S! lol i'll bet CA don't filter all that smoke caused by the fires they have all the time, and do all them jets and planes and helicopters have emission control on them? |
Posted By: AC Mel
Date Posted: 21 Jul 2017 at 11:15pm
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Yeahhhh.... To Shameless's first comment....Yep... still waitin for that picture? So yes... We've been on a fire assignment..In our back yard...1 water truck....our fire dozer (not an AC) D5NXL...1 day dozer...3 days water truck....more fun than delivering septic tanks...10 minutes from our headquarters....back to real day job now (no structures lost....1000 acres...started from pickup catching on fire on main HWY) |
Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2017 at 12:26am
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Maybe someone on the way back west from Hutch will stop in and snap a picture...... ------------- "If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer" Allis Express participant |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2017 at 1:28am
| you'll just use my pic for a dart board! |
Posted By: Ray54
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2017 at 4:20pm
| Well don't give us such good ideas. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2017 at 10:06pm
| I was actually thinking about hanging your picture in my office, but then I remembered I retired June 30th. Darn memory anyway. Guys -- Don't retire in the summer time, if you have the opportunity, do it in early spring when it ain't so darn hot!!! After working in an air conditioned office for 11 years, it is taking some time to get used to ol Sol again. Anybody here thinking about signing up for social security--- get some professional advice, don't just walk into the office and sign up. I did, found out later the old gal could have signed up differently and took home a lot more bucks. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 23 Jul 2017 at 11:26pm
| I wished I had signed up for it right away...as it is right now, i'd hafta live another 33 years to catch up to what I lost by waiting for more a month |