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[Churak]

TOSd...OT essay...

[secureresources]

Bob. There aren't too many posts here

at the Hub that get me to laughing; but, your escapades with the equipment puts me into my funny zone.

I guess I will have to make a search of your posts when I am not smilin'.... LOL.

Sounds like you are kinda handy with the hands and the tools.
Congrats. There aren't enough of us around. One of the best compliments I ever got in my life was, "You would have really been appreciated by the guys in the CB's during World War II."

Note: The Construction Battalions/Cb's/SeaBees (1942) parallel the US Army Corps of Engineers , they have been mis-identfied by our media as National Guardmen operating construction equipment helping to "dig out". They too support many functions of our military (Naval,and Marine Corp. and assist the USA and AirForce) they are deployed for humanitarian and front line operations.

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Thanks for the good times. An old trick to get lubricant to those places hidden by sheet metal is to take some 1/4 inch plastic tubing and place one end of it at the point needing the lubrication. The other end goes somewhere outside of the sheet metal. Fasten the tube with those little ties, and plug the end of the plastic on the outside of the sheetmetal. It can be used with aerosol, or if it is downhill, you can just put in some oil.... Can save time and money. Some new trucks are being set up like the old 56 Mercurys with automatic grease systems. Paint is worth a $1000 a gallon on auction day. And a bit of oil can be even more profitable.

Later.

[By Any Other Name]

"the [backhoe] seat [was] quite heavy"

re: "...then ended up having to remove the seat, which is quite heavy."

Maybe Bob,

Just maybe the seat has a space-age memory foam cushion inside.

You being the last person to leave a history, causing it to be 220 lbs heavy.

Imagine if 4 lb fung_derf
was the last to sit upon it, then you could of used one finger to lift it,
and if mr derf happen to get a hair-cut by Capt_Nemo's wife, a 2 lb mr derfie.

But gracious, you could of gone to a negative seat weight if the reports
of Mr Churak being of a blimp size
filled with hot-air are true, as the seat would float upwards by itself
and you might need the likes of ONEBGG to hold it earth-bound.


. Rse

[waterwisp]

"Pimp My Backhoe" !

May as well go ahead and slap a bad ass sound system in that sucker while you're at it...complete with a REALLY HUGE Sub-Woofer.

Maybe a DVD player with several 9" LCD screens situated all around the cab.

Why not a GPS system ?

Gotta have some Chrome Rims ! In fact, gotta have lotsa Chrome...EVERYWHERE !

Don't scrimp on the new interior...maybe a nice Recaro seat with leather Tuck-N-Roll !

One of them Italian MoMo steering wheels would be kewl !

This could be the start of an ALL NEW Show on the Discovery Channel.

Move over American Chopper !

Move over Monster Garage !

Pimp My Backhoe ...is coming this Fall !!!

[Dallas]

Thanks for your help Bob!

[Mariner*]

Thank you so much Bob for the addition of a dictionary onto the spell checker.

Love it!

May the dirt under your tires always remain firm with plenty of support.
Zen and the art of backhoe maintenance.