A few years back I ran a reconstruct/paving job on a city street in my home town, working for a large Bay Area contractor at the time. On the last day of paving, my apprentice screedman was going to have to put a crown in the paver screed for the last pass down the center, and being a rookie, didn't have a wrench. So I loan him my 15" Crescent and laugh "don't lose it". Sure enough, end of the day, ummm, sorry, I lost your wrench... So a couple weeks later our dispatcher calls and says come by the office when you get a chance, we have something for you. So a couple days later, I stop in, and on the dispatch counter is a 1' x 2' x 2" neatly sawn chunk of asphalt- with my wrench flush in the middle of it. It had fallen off the screed, and been just under the surface, and exposed itself after about a week's traffic. We had gotten the punch list for the job, and Item #3 was "Remove wrench from southbound #1 lane at Stonehouse Drive". The labor foreman went out to work down the punchlist and cut it out and patched the hole. They realized it was mine when they saw my initials engraved in the head of the wrench, and saved it for me. Still have it out in the shop, in the chunk of asphalt
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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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