Really wish ppl would stop bringing me trucks with hydraulic fluid in trans

Orpedcrow said:

The summer time was nice, when all the rice started crawling out and raining on your face while changing a rear brake chamber.

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My summer job was a garbage man. I bet we have some similar stories.

You guys haven't lived until you crawl under a gut waggon that has been sitting in the sun for a couple of days to adjust the brakes. The stuff that drips out of them will make every one in the shop gag when you walk back inside with just one drop on you.

454cid said:

I've done dishwasher soap, but I've never heard of anyone mixing diesel in...what's that do?

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fight oil with oil. Seems like the diesel worked well since it has detergents in it and it’s also petroleum based. I thought it wouldn’t kill seals like mineral spirits. Seemed to work well.

0xDEADBEEF said:

My summer job was a garbage man. I bet we have some similar stories.

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I drove a garbage truck for 1/2 of a summer. Went back to concrete trucks. eff that, the smell is horrible.

618 Syndicate said:

I drove a garbage truck for 1/2 of a summer. Went back to concrete trucks. eff that, the smell is horrible.

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The worst route I had stopped at a daycare center. The smell of baby **** on a hot summer day has got to be up there on the list of worst smells.

618 Syndicate said:

I drove a garbage truck for 1/2 of a summer. Went back to concrete trucks. eff that, the smell is horrible.

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Many decades ago used to take stuff directly to the dump, they'd let you in with your pickup truck, trailer, etc. No idea if they still do that. You drive right up on top of the hill along with all the garbage trucks, earthmovers, etc. and offload your crap. Really unpleasant. Gives you a different perspective on waste.. what you purchase/consume/use/throw out.

Richard

0xDEADBEEF said:

The worst route I had stopped at a daycare center. The smell of baby **** on a hot summer day has got to be up there on the list of worst smells.

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For me it was the fish bait, fly and worm supplier. Rotten fish and insect waste in 100 degree weather made me chuck more than once.

someotherguy said:

Many decades ago used to take stuff directly to the dump, they'd let you in with your pickup truck, trailer, etc. No idea if they still do that. You drive right up on top of the hill along with all the garbage trucks, earthmovers, etc. and offload your crap. Really unpleasant. Gives you a different perspective on waste.. what you purchase/consume/use/throw out.

Richard

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Did just that today. Once a week in winter, twice a week in summer

You guys ought to go to Kodiak Island during Herring Season. The boats delivered the herring to the docks in about a 15% brine solution. Then the cannery brings it up to 100% brine to soften up the herring carcass so they can rip out the roe without damaging the pouches (skanes?). The roe is brined again, dried out, and shipped to places like Japan (it actually tasted pretty good). A company known as Bio-Dry (or something like that) used the carcasses for dog food filler but, their plant was too small to keep up with the production so, we had 1000s of plastic 4'X4'X2' totes full of rotten fish stacked all over up and down the streets by the docks.
The whole island stunk during Herring Season and 3 weeks after.
Then we'd buy new clothes with a part of our crew share.

95burban said:

I speaking about the rotela.

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Wrong additive package for a gasoline engine. It'll work...but it's not ideally suited, people think (tell themselves) that it is.