Week 4

This week I learned that Fruehauf trailers have a tendency to crack in the corners of the roll up door and I got to spend a few hours welding up cracks with E6011 and adding brackets to stiffen the door frame. Once the cracks get bad enough they can but the door in a bind if the trailer is parked on an incline and can keep the door from opening or closing properly. 39 hours this week and 143 for the quarter.

Hmmm...

Score 0-1 in trailer vs overpass.

Week three part two

Well this week I learned that I should have read the fine print in my job description because apparently "gravedigger" was in there somewhere (one of the barn cats got hit by a car). 42 hours this week and 104 this quarter.

Week three

Putting a new door on one of our belly boxes this week.

Week two

Inboard drums make brake jobs really time consuming and I learned that hand packing wheel bearings in 20 degree weather is downright unpleasant. I worked 39 hours this week and so far this quarter 62 hours. The drums were worn to 17" and the limit is 16 5/8" so they were a little over due.

1st week part two

12/30/12 - 01/05/13 worked 23 hours. So far this quarter: 23 hours.

1st week

You can't buy one of these. Had to make one to press the bolts out with but still had to use the air hammer with a chisel to get things moving.

The splines in the driveline slipped and the vibration worked the transmission mounting bolts loose. Broken bolts + stripped threads = new flywheel housing.

Well, 6 hours, a cutting torch, air hammer, broken 3/8" drive impact universal (I used the 3/4 gun on it), 4-ton port-a-power, and a fire extinguisher later... I finally got those bolts out of the engine mount. I learned that sometimes a simple task that should take 2 minutes can sometimes turn into a 6 hour ordeal. And all of this after I pulled the truck in to fix a coolant leak.

First day

First day of class!