What I play with all day...

[yellowcuda]

Get your mind out of the gutter, this is what I get to fuel and move and play with all day, or at least some examples of them.   Anyone have pics of what they play with all day...work I mean

[bluesfool]

Well, this is what I used to play with anyway...I retired from the navy 2 yrs ago. Now I just play with some windows and vinyl siding...lol

[73dodge]

Well, this is what I used to play with anyway...I retired from the navy 2 yrs ago. Now I just play with some windows and vinyl siding...lol

Hey man where were you stationed I have a buddy that is a LT on those now. He's been attached to P3's for 6 years now and was in Rota for 3 years. I know that's a small tight nit group you might know him.

[2fast4u]

    LOL Shelly!!! I see that your doing a very good job of C.Y.A. to keep the riff raff out! 

  Well I don't think a picture of a computer and/or auto parts for GM/JEEP & Honda are very exciting to anybody!  Thats all I mess with all day at work.....now when I go home I still mess with a computer....of course thats why I'm here...LOL!   


2fast

[Duey]

Shelley, those are some nice bizjets...way to rub it in [not flying that is...]!

I'm flying a desk right now but here's me a few years ago while I was in the cockpit regularly...

Cheers,
Duey

[Shakey]

I get to play with all types of vehicles / equipment, when I am not in the office.

[Silver R/T]

fun and probably pays good too I presume

[RD]

Shelley, those are some nice bizjets...way to rub it in [not flying that is...]!

I'm flying a desk right now but here's me a few years ago while I was in the cockpit regularly...

Cheers,
Duey

a shithook?  eek.... those things would always fall out of the sky when I was in the Army.  Your a brave man duey!

[Chryco Psycho]

I play with Mopars all day so pic any picture on this site !!

[derailed]

I get to play with all types of vehicles / equipment, when I am not in the office.

now that looks like fun

[yellowcuda]

Shelley, those are some nice bizjets...way to rub it in [not flying that is...]!

I'm flying a desk right now but here's me a few years ago while I was in the cockpit regularly...

Cheers,
Duey

Don't feel too bad, I don't fly them either.  I only get to fuel them and tow them around.  We get to hitch a ride on maintenance flights occassionally though.

[41husk]

What I play with all day is not nearly that big, but I tell everyone it's much bigger than it is

[alenglish]

central office at your phone office  Big Al

[andy74]

a summer time pic of the store,and my baby girl!

[4402tuff4u]

Two ring horse cranes at 400 ton lifting capacity each, barge mounted. Photo's show how we get a 25 ton cherry picker from one location to the other. Second photo shows us setting 114 ton pile cap on top of concrete cylinder piles.

Can't wait for the gynecologist member here to post!   

[dodgecharger-fan]

That's in the City where I live!

[dodgecharger-fan]

As for me, I play with this kind of stuff all day:



The only propellers around here are on top of beanie hats.....

[Beer]

Wow!
Another former P-3 guy here!
VP-10 1990-1994 NavCom/Tacco



Now I am in charge of this at nite; well at least for 1/2 the year that is...

[TeeWJay426]

At least parts of it anyway....

[CB]

It ain't that big of a toy as some of you guys play with   

[69_500]

sorry no pictures to post here from me. Then again I guess I'll have to find another job first before I post anything.

[yellowcuda]

It ain't that big of a toy as some of you guys play with     

No pictures of the bodies?

[69_500]

Yeah I was hoping for more of an action photo of the Hurse.

[yellowcuda]

At least parts of it anyway....

So do you blow things up?  Some days I want to do that.......

[HAZZARDJOHN]

I play with my *mumbles*Swingline Stapler!*mumbles* This is me at my cubicle:



Actually I design Electrical Substations! It is as exciting as it sounds

[Duey]

Shelley, those are some nice bizjets...way to rub it in [not flying that is...]!

I'm flying a desk right now but here's me a few years ago while I was in the cockpit regularly...

Cheers,
Duey

a shithook?  eek.... those things would always fall out of the sky when I was in the Army.  Your a brave man duey!

RD, actually anyone whose flown one far prefers the beastie over a tail-rotor helo.  I also have over a thousand fligth hours on Twin Huey UH-1Ns and although they're nice and dependable, always felt more comfortable in a 'Hook!

Duey

[yellowcuda]

Jonathan is playing in a K-max as we speak (spends a lot of time playing in those) and he used to fly a Bell 205 or (private huey), Bell 407 and many others.
K-max is the weirdest:

[SirNik73]

HAZZARDJOHN,
you and i seem to be playing the same game!!!!!
i draft electrical desgins for Pump Stations, Lift Stations, and other goodies for water and wasetwater.

not exactly plains or rockets... but o well

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Heres mine.....Natural Gas Powered.   We have 320 of 'em in my depot (The Jackie Gleason Depot) in Brooklyn NY.

Actually I dont get to play with(fix) them anymore......now I get to point my finger and tell someone else to fix them.....I miss fixing them though

[HAZZARDJOHN]

HAZZARDJOHN,
you and i seem to be playing the same game!!!!!
i draft electrical desgins for Pump Stations, Lift Stations, and other goodies for water and wasetwater.

not exactly plains or rockets... but o well

Yep it's not Planes and rockets! I graduated as a mechanical Drafter, but I took the first Job out of college and here I am! I have three years experiance in this field now. I hope to get a career design something mechanical that excites me in the next few years.

Have a great day!
John

[bluesfool]

73Dodge: I've been stationed in Maine, Spain, Iceland, Florida (very briefly though), and Pennsylvania. In my whole 20 yr career, I only spent 5 days on a ship  The rest of the time was spent flying in the P3 as an acoustic operator. What squadron is your buddy in?

Beer: VP-10 was my first squadron! I was there from '85 - '88. You never could have told me back then that I would reflect on those days as "the good ole days"! Here's our crew patch:

[Shakey]

Heres mine.....Natural Gas Powered.   We have 320 of 'em in my depot (The Jackie Gleason Depot) in Brooklyn NY.

Actually I dont get to play with(fix) them anymore......now I get to point my finger and tell someone else to fix them.....I miss fixing them though

Do you service any Orion's or Nova's there Chris or is it strictly a New Flyer fleet?  Are all of the buses CNG?

[Brock Samson]

 I juggle phones, machines and e-mails all day,. sometimes,..  things happen..   

[TruckDriver]

Well, most of you know I drive a dump truck. We haul mostly asphalt. I took these today.

1st pic is of the Sussex, Wi. asphalt plant we were hauling out of today. It is a new plant this year. They moved the old one that was here to a different town west of here. This new plant can run up to 700 ton a hour (only running about 320 ton a hour today). It has 5 - 300 ton silos, 2 truck scales, and 10 feeder bins which you can't see hidden behind the plant. The ashalt temp averages between 250 to 350 degrees depending on the plant manager and the plant your at.
2nd pic is when I was getting ready to load.
3rd pic is one of our trucks getting loaded. We usually get 3 drops from the silo. Each drop for one of the quad axle trucks is about 7 to 8 ton a drop. You have to be alert when you load as I seen a few guys screw up and get dumped on the cab instead of in the box. Needless to say, hot asphalt is not good to paint and fiberglass hoods.

[TruckDriver]

4th pic We were running 2 pavers today. Normally we don't. But on state jobs and roads that have passing lanes like here, we run two at a time. That is one of our trucks that was bought last year. Mine looks the same, but I got more crome If you notice the way the crew is dressed, it was only in the mid 30s today here. That's my forman on the small paver by the tank truck.
5th pic This pic I took when I was in the 2nd smaller paver. We were not moving at the time.
6th pic Just a shot of the road we were doing, state hwy 175 in Addison, Wi.

[Brock Samson]

Hey Telvis!!!  one of these fellers you?..

[derailed]

  Nice ride dodgechargerguy, I still drive part time haulin the hot stuff into the batch plants in the summer so i dont get rusty

[Highbanked Hauler]

 DodgeChargerGuy,how much is hot top per ton now?Back in the late 60s I  worked for an outfit that did driveways and parking lots and if I remember right it was $7.00 per ton.

[TruckDriver]

DodgeChargerGuy,how much is hot top per ton now?Back in the late 60s I   worked for an outfit that did driveways and parking lots and if I remember right it was $7.00 per ton.

I lost track when the fuel prices sky rocketed, But a load of Super Pave is around $500 - $525 or so a load. So around $20.00 a ton or so. They make a LOT of Super Pave asphalt here now. It's super sticky and lasts a lot longer then regular asphalt. The state uses it on everything now. So do a lot of major businesses for parking lots. I know too the concrete is cheaper then asphalt now. But those prices again are for the high end mix. The cheaper grade 1 to grade 4 mix, privet binder/recycle mix is even cheaper. They try not to run pure virgin mix unless it is requested.

[Chryco Psycho]

I help out a friend & drive Dump loading asphalt as well from time to time as well

[derailed]

heres a pic of the ride I use to drive for a guy part time after I sold the Marmon hauling fuel oil and asphalt. He sold it and bought a pair of daycabs.

[TeeWJay426]

At least parts of it anyway....

So do you blow things up?  Some days I want to do that.......

No- they don't let me near the dangerous stuff. Work with the guidance and control sections- electronics on the front end, and hydraulics in the back. Here's what I play with in my spare time, serving the town:

[Charger1970]

Nice thread Shelly. I work on Lear Jets, Gulfstream G-1 and G-3's. 

[yellowcuda]

Really?  Are you at PDK?  I notice you are from Georgia.  I am at LZU, Gwinnett County!

[Charger_Fan]

I know too the concrete is cheaper then asphalt now.

That must be why they used concrete when they rebuilt our freeways around here before the Olympics.

I work in a large Motorcycle/ATV/Watercraft/Snomoslug shop. If I can remember tomorrow, I'll take pics of our store.
Most of you guys' jobs sound much more fun than mine...I need a job change.

[69_500]

I wasn't aware that you did that kind of work there Chris.
You weren't ever a driver were you?

[Lowprofile]

Here is my office and my Home away from home.  Oh yea, and a pic of one of the other trucks pulling one of our retired trailers back to the yard.  Don't know who ownes the Charger next to it. I think it belongs to someone who works at that arena we were playing at that day.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Heres mine.....Natural Gas Powered.  We have 320 of 'em in my depot (The Jackie Gleason Depot) in Brooklyn NY.

Actually I dont get to play with(fix) them anymore......now I get to point my finger and tell someone else to fix them.....I miss fixing them though

Do you service any Orion's or Nova's there Chris or is it strictly a New Flyer fleet? Are all of the buses CNG?

Yep at my depot we run Orion V & Orion VII's.  Nothing but trouble. A lot of issues have been retrofitted/reworked with the Orion VII's 

The Orion V's were originally Cummins CNG powered.   We have since repowered then to Detroit Deisel Series 50's CNG powered.

Yes the whole fleet is CNG.  Much cleaner than the diesel.  Worked at another depot a while back that had Deesel RTS & Nova's as well

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

I wasn't aware that you did that kind of work there Chris.
You weren't ever a driver were you?

Nope never a driver, thank God!  Those guys put up with too much crap IMHO.

Always in the maintenance area for me!

[Shakey]

Heres mine.....Natural Gas Powered.   We have 320 of 'em in my depot (The Jackie Gleason Depot) in Brooklyn NY.

Actually I dont get to play with(fix) them anymore......now I get to point my finger and tell someone else to fix them.....I miss fixing them though

Do you service any Orion's or Nova's there Chris or is it strictly a New Flyer fleet? Are all of the buses CNG?

Yep at my depot we run Orion V & Orion VII's.   Nothing but trouble. A lot of issues have been retrofitted/reworked with the Orion VII's  

The Orion V's were originally Cummins CNG powered.     We have since repowered then to Detroit Deisel Series 50's CNG powered.

Yes the whole fleet is CNG.   Much cleaner than the diesel.   Worked at another depot a while back that had Deesel RTS & Nova's as well

What major issues did you have with the V & VII's?  Was it mostly the engines or did you have a lot of issues with some of the smaller components on the bus? 
Never had any VI's to work on?  I know they (Orion) are working on the VIII as we speak but with Daimler taking over a few years back, the design process involves a lot more people now on both sides of he Atlantic - imagine that! 

Are you aware that the old Nova RTS facility has been purchased and a new company has been formed?  Millennium Transit will start manufacturing the old Nova RTS's with their first order for New Jersey Transit starting next year.  I don't think that all of them will be painted this way, just some!   

I might just come an see you one of these days.  I'll call it a fact finding mission and we can see how far we can push the envelope with my expense account.   

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Mike, the VII's mainly have issues with smaller design aspects as well as some larger components (mufflers, steering boxes, hydraulic fan motors and other multiplexing programs)
A lot of the engine troubles are inherent to the CNG aspect of the fuel system.   They run much hotter than diesels and are very finicky with the fuel management as well.
We've been through 2 designs of mufflers (actually melt the steel because of exh temps) 4-5 different designs of exhaust blankets (we have 4 or 5 40ft flower pots in the depot because of fire....real scary on a CNG bus)
Also on the engine side, the low psi regulators (drop the working psi to the engine from 3600 psi down to 110 psi) have been reworked 4 or 5 times as well.
We have outside vendors doing warranty work on the engine side (Atlantic Detroit Diesel)   The MTA bought a 5 year warranty on the New Flyers and only a 2 year on the VII.....all of our buses are almost off warranty now.     This is where the fun begins.   Sadly, out of the 60 or so Maintainers in my depot (thats their title...not mechanics) only a small handfull are decent diagnosticians....all the rest are parts changers.     The parts changers went out with the old RTS 04 & 06......now those were REAL buses!     Black smoke belchin', 8-71 blown, run forever beasts!     I've seen small animals get sucked into the blower screen to stay running!

Funny thing is that Daimler owns Atlantic Diesel as well so they're shooting themselves in both feet!
The MTA has put many a company out of business before.....I believe Atlantic is next!

Never had any VI's here, only V's and they have been retrofitted so many times they cant print up wiring diagram revisions fast enough!

RTS was a real bus when GM owned it.  Couldnt kill them.   The NOVA design is still much better than these low-floor crappers we have.  NYC streets are killers on them.  Because of the low profile tires on the New Flyers you wouldnt believe how many rims/tires we go through a week!   Good Year will never go out of business as long as the MTA is around!  (We're actually starting to convert the New Flyers to use the Orion VII tires now to try and allieveiate some of the damage)   oh did I mention that we got these buses in '99 (N/F) and NOW they are converting the tire sizes???

Here's the newest member to our fleet. The Hybrid electric model.   The MTA has about 50 of these now with about 300 more on order.   Dont have any at my location though



PS---Mike, where do you work???   Orion?

[John_Kunkel]

One of my babies.

[NHCharger]

One of my babies.

WOW.
John, could you give a tad more info? Do you maintain, fly or design that bad boy?

[RD]

I work with the first, to help the second.

[John_Kunkel]

One of my babies.

WOW.
John, could you give a tad more info? Do you maintain, fly or design that bad boy?

Used to maintain them, retired now. The one in the pic (FB111A 67-0159) was asssigned to our engineering flight test outfit at McClellan AFB near Sacramento; it has been repainted camo and resides in the museum there.

[gunner22]

i got you all beat, i get paid to beat meat.
Ben

[TruckDriver]

i got you all beat, i get paid to beat meat.
Ben

Boy, I bet that makes you a cut above the rest. You know, something you can really hack

[yellowcuda]

Should have known this title would hit the gutter sooner or later....can't believe it took so long!

[greenpigs]

It was clean because I stayed away.

[BB1]

Just another desk job that moves at 70mph. It's only 18,000. Horsepower.  

[dodgecharger-fan]

18,000 hp and it only hits 70!???

You should lose some weight off of that thing and maybe look into some different gears.     

[greenpigs]

And 493 thinks he has problems

[Blusmbl]

I don't play with this one anymore, but I usually never have a unique supply of vehicles to "manage".

[The Ghoul]

ok the last two arnt pictures of the ones i get to play with. and the last one is a model, i couldent find a picture of a real one!
Mostly I get to jockie CAD programs for teams that are trying improve these critters.

[73dodge]

Sorry not as cool as a F111 or a choo choo but it's a paycheck

This is the 15th one of these I put in this year

[cvuk2500]

I used to play with Tanks, but now I play with machine tools:

[rollingthunder]

another one of those 70 mph 12000 hp desk jobs.

[charger_72_318]

Sorry not as cool as a F111 or a choo choo but it's a paycheck

This is the 15th one of these I put in this year

[Todd Wilson]

another one of those 70 mph 12000 hp desk jobs.

A bunch of mainline queens!



Todd - grumpy old switchman!

[Todd Wilson]

Hef asked me to post this for him.............

[derailed]

another one of those 70 mph 12000 hp desk jobs.

A bunch of mainline queens!



Todd - grumpy old switchman!

For some reason i still prefer to be an extra board slut on those fat relief jobs claiming all the glory

[rollingthunder]

another one of those 70 mph 12000 hp desk jobs.

A bunch of mainline queens!



Todd - grumpy old switchman!

don't feel bad Todd if it wasn't for the grumpy old switch man there wont be any mainline queens to make fun of.

[Charger_Croatia]

I have to deal with owners with those toys.
Trust me - IT IS NOT FUN AT ALL! (see space around engine)

[73dodge]

Sorry not as cool as a F111 or a choo choo but it's a paycheck

This is the 15th one of these I put in this year

Um, what seems to be the problem? don't like SUN servers or IBM eServers?

Don't be fooled that is actually a PBX VoIP phone system