It's a salary position (and the salary is very good), there is a retirement match, and a bonus tied to crop production. I've known the owner for a very long time, he does a good job of putting people in positions that "fit" persay, and the people in company are all good and decent people. As I have learned at previous employers (ahem... Utility) these are very important things.
The newer shop in Mount Vernon is 2 bays and heated, it's setup pretty well but I need to work on the security and update some shop tools. Lots of work to do before it's setup the way I want. On the East side I have a brand new pole barn with concrete floor but I'm limited by tooling and there's basically no parts availability for anything within a few hours drive. Because of that my CDL is becoming useful, major repairs I can just load on the drop deck and haul back to the home shop to work on.
I've been working on center pivots lately, welding galvanized pipe 12 ft in the air with a stick machine is not the easiest welding I have ever done. Supposedly they bought a second pivot that will need to be hauled in and setup, I'm not sure when that is happening though.
My equipment hauling setup, 53' drop deck and a 2005 International 9400i, I have a fair amount of seat time in this truck already... Had to haul our Kubota back over to Scholtens for a warranty repair, lost 3 teeth on a constant mesh drive gear and they're not really sure why, last I heard they were leaning towards a manufacturing defect in the gear.
I hauled back the rear section of a Kuhn rotary rake on that trip, someone left out a roll pin last time they rebuilt the track and rollers, bad things proceeded to happen. As I am learning everything German is cheap to buy parts for...
I need to have a discussion with our equipment operators about checking gearbox temps while they're running... I suspect this is going to be another someone didn't put it together correctly, we'll see when I get it hauled back over and torn down. I would have loved to see the thermal image of this while it was running.
They spent thousands of dollars to get the A/C fixed last year and it hasn't worked since, I of course took the truck over to the East side and was a little grouchy that I didn't have air conditioning. It took about 3 minutes to find the problem. It amazes me the things that some shops will miss.
Nothing to see here... None of the lights worked, I can't imagine why...
My most recent project is setting up a sprayer, no pictures of that but it's been an interesting project. Had to go through and re plumb chemical lines, fix hydraulic leaks, replace wheels that were the wrong offset, etc... I need to wire the new console/flow rate controller and GPS but the wire harness didn't get shipped with the console so now I'm waiting on that.
