Well not sayen Jon that i am a bad arres but the NEW drivers today would never drive what we did . Those old trucks were not what these KIDs drive today. Us OLD guys got the job done . With what we had to work with. How many times have you pulled a hill at 7-maybe 15 MPH on a hot summer day with the drivers door open and standing on the fuel tank with your right foot glued to the floor because it was so hot in the cab . Or during the winter setting in there freezing and scrapping ICE off the inside of the windows all bundled up from head to toe . Same way with the old equipment on the old dozers you were lucky to have a sun shade over ya and in the winter side cretins or as some call them a heat houser and a winter fan . In 63 the owner bought a new Dozer for me to run and it was the first one in the company that it came with a cab , Rops with heat and A/C it was a D9G and the vary first power shift we got . It came in by rail as we had a rail siding at the main shop for moving equipment long distances faster then we could truck . Back in like 79 i was coming out of Chicago and about half way across In. some guy was asking if anybody knew where Ca-Dizz was Well he kept this up for about a half and hour or so when i finally asked him to just spell it and what state he was looking for this was . So he spelled it out and it was CADIZ , Cadiz Ohio Yep i know where it is whqat are you looking for in Cadiz , he tells me CONSOL. Main yard or maintenance, or what mine ?? Strip or Deep. He tells me main yard . Yep i know When i started to tell him how to get there he was getting really confused . So i told him that i would lead him wright to it . I was headed for Pittsburg and yea i could have stayed on the toll road there are about two dozen ways off the toll road to Pittsburg . The shortest distance to CAdiz off the pike is US 250 . A nice scenic drive shell we say But not what todays drivers want to be on . We got off the pike and i told him to stay close and i would not lead him astray Well i took him writh to main yard and he informed me that i was NUT and he refered to our fine hyways as GOAT paths. I have hauled coal up out of that country for years and if he wanted to see GOAT PATHS i could show him more then he ever wanted to see . We don't have the big mountains of the west but our little humps and bumps will suck the horse power out of the baddest trucks fast to the point that you have to skip shift and even with big power there are hills that it is still 10-15 MPH up over them . The one long hill that i have hauled many loads of coal up over even with my own truck that would put more power to the ground then a turned up KTA 1150 Cummins was a forth gear climb with a wagon load on and that was hitting the bottom at 55 . Then came the day i hauled a 197+ thousand pound continouse miner DOWN that same hill . Lets just say my choice of third gear with a jake was NOT the best . As i could not hold it back and had to turn her loose for the last half of the hill . I have in my time on the raod hauled some really BIG loads , not as big as my one buddy does as he runs one of them 19-23 axle outfits now but i was the one thatt got him into truck driving and trained him on a coal bucket on these OLD goat paths . Also trained a dozen more drivers . When i needed to go back on the road i went to work for a compay that ran coal buckets and most of the upper office people are the same OLD guys that we all use to run together at one time or the other . Yea i had to got to there ORENTATION for two days along with thrity other guys . At the end of the second day I will call him by his old CB handle (Big Zek ) is assigning the new drivers to there TRAINERS that they will ride with for two weeks before they are assigned there own truck . Well when he was done with them he looks at me and said your going to driving GRAND PA's Truck and opens his desk drawer and hands me the key's to Grand Pa's truck > one of the new hires spouts off HOW COME HE GET'S HIS OWN TRUCK now and we all have to RIDE . Zek looks at him and said Well if he does not know how to operate a Coal Bucket there ain't nobody in this company that does because he is the master . Quite a complament from and old friend and fellow driver . I learned from and OLD guy and i rode with the OLD guy for two years as a flagman . Back in the OLD days when ya moved Oversized Over weight BIG loads there had to be a FLAGMAN in the cab . And Old John my boss was the grand master of training both on the trucks and also on the heavy equipment along with turning wrenches . Welding was learned from two of the best . Am i tougher don't know if i am tougher , I am a vetern , i am ex airborn ranger i have been shot once and hit with shrapnel three times and i was one of them shell we say Ground hog hunters that worked alone away from the rest . I have worked hard all my life except when i was a parts manger .
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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