What I play with all day...

[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.