And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I worked for Marathon LeTourneau in the late 80's. We made a dump truck that held 200 tons. They were cracking frames in a fleet overseas. They loaded them fine during the day, while the engineers were checking everything over. They snuck back out a night, and those guys were putting 300 tons on them, and running them full tilt boogie. Sorry, no warranty repairs for that...
Don't make'em like they used to....
ReplyDeleteHave driven a cat 769c. Cant tell the size of this one, it may be a bigger machine. Either way, that would scare the hell out of you.
ReplyDeleteThat's not going to buff out
ReplyDelete"Don't worry.
ReplyDeleteWe'll get Bubba to weld up that cracked housing."
said the head maintenance engineer/cook just before sending it back out on the job.
If you have an AAA membership no problem.
ReplyDeleteI worked for Marathon LeTourneau in the late 80's. We made a dump truck that held 200 tons. They were cracking frames in a fleet overseas. They loaded them fine during the day, while the engineers were checking everything over. They snuck back out a night, and those guys were putting 300 tons on them, and running them full tilt boogie. Sorry, no warranty repairs for that...
ReplyDeleteHey, Elmer. Get the jack out from behind the seat, will ya. We got some fixing to do.
ReplyDeleteIt "happened" slowly at first, then graduated to VERY QUICKLY!
ReplyDeleteHappens in Russia all the time.
ReplyDeleteTake some work to determine the exact failure, but a definite "Oh, schiff!" moment.
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