I'm slowly figuring out the roads in my city so that I can basically race along surface streets to get where i need to go. It's bloody insane. It's summer and people forget how to drive. GAAH. I feel like I'm the only person on the road whose brain doesn't get scrambled when it's 100* outside. Which amazingly it's only 93, but feels hotter.



Where do you live again?

 

can tell you never played StarCraft lol

if you see a laser dot...RUN!!! damn ghosts and their nukes!

 

Central Arkansas.

 

i use to work somewhere that had 10 ton fork lifts that had no issue picking up a car or truck with normal forks. i know my dad picked up his truck one day when the bosses were not around and my dad wasn't even an employee.

 

Back when I was in high school I worked part time at a small foundry out in the hills. The owner decided he needed an off road capable forklift that he could use around the farm and foundry so he built one out of a ton dually Chevy truck.

I got to help make it. We cast most of it on site. I don't remember how heavy the counter weight was but it was well over two tons of iron. He had turned up a large piston hydraulic pump and some huge hydraulic rams that had decent lift but it took a lot of oil to fill them and make them go to full extension.Even with his high volume heavy duty pump you had to wait quite awhile for the rams to raise.

When he was finish he probably had the only forklift with a 454 V8 in it. He could lift a railroad box car with it when it was finished.

About a year after it was done there was a train derailment and while the railroad was waiting for a crane to get to the site he went over there with his machine and set a bunch of the cars back on their trucks.

It could go darn fast too, a lot faster than was safe for such a heavy machine. It had rear steering just like smaller fork trucks. The rear end from the pickup turned out to be to light so after he bent the original we used a straight, one packed with green sand, as a pattern to cast a much heavier tube to hold the differential and axles.

He had to fill the tires with concrete because it was so heavy that the tires would pop if he picked up much weight.

 

apparently i am $278 closer to ordering parts for my trucks. i was talking with my dad today and he was telling me that there was a bit more money in his account than there should have been and he was talking with the teller and apparently it was some tax credit thing so i decided to check my account and there was some extra money. now hopefully with that and what i get for my birthday i should have enough to get what i need.

it also sounds like i may have to pay for my fork lift license renewal out of my own pocket and get work to pay me back later.

 

 

Some pretty good flooding in Downtown Galax, I was in Troutdale yesterday afternoon doing a wireless install, if not I probably would have been in Galax driving through the water

 

The neighborhood watch has really gone downhill with everyone afraid of being the next Zimmerman.

 

Mowed the pond today, lol.... Looks like crap, grass may never dry out...

I think were at 21 days of rain.... F'in bullspit man...