Above 1200 Sq/FT The Salvage Garage

[xtremek]

You must be on a hot roll. I hope things are going really well, and no news is good news.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

He is busy playing truck tetris.

 

[Strouty]

Nothing has moved at all, been busy with non shop related **** that makes me feel like I have not done anything.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

Well, that sux.

 

[Orionrising]

theres a clark on facebook marketplace down near you, if you havent seen it.

 

[Strouty]

You mean the one that has been listed for 32 weeks? If so, yes, if not, send me a link. That one was offered at $10k for a while, it is a $3500 forklift, on a good day. If it had a cab, it would be worth a bit more, but the guy wants way too much.

This morning it was really humid, I was in the crawl space under the house at the Hill, I was literally dripping. My knee is killing me and I still have more to get done, the rain is starting and will be pretty strong through the afternoon, hope to get home before it gets too late and too wet. While doing errands this morning I saw a sign in front of Applebee's, they were looking for help, one of the benefits they offered was "Daily pay", seems like a logistical nightmare.

 

[cbacres]

You mean the one that has been listed for 32 weeks? If so, yes, if not, send me a link. That one was offered at $10k for a while, it is a $3500 forklift, on a good day. If it had a cab, it would be worth a bit more, but the guy wants way too much.

This morning it was really humid, I was in the crawl space under the house at the Hill, I was literally dripping. My knee is killing me and I still have more to get done, the rain is starting and will be pretty strong through the afternoon, hope to get home before it gets too late and too wet. While doing errands this morning I saw a sign in front of Applebee's, they were looking for help, one of the benefits they offered was "Daily pay", seems like a logistical nightmare.

I’ve seen postings down here offering $1500 sign on bonus for cooks!

Smaller mom and pop places post days that there’re closed because help didn’t show up.

Nothing like I’ve ever seen before.

 

[harley jim]

My stepdaughter works for an employment agency she has about 500 openings. People are calling and asking who is paying the highest sign on bonus and how long do they have to work to receive the bonus.

 

[walrus]

30 dollar/hour for hotel housekeepers near Bar Harbor right now and still can't fill openings.

 

[rvieceli]

I’m in the Midwest, talked to a guy yesterday about this he’s in food service/ cafe. He says this is typical.

he manages to find 10 people looking on the jobs websites. 7 don’t answer their phone or return messages. Three say they are interested. One of those doesn’t show for the interview. Of the two left, one of those doesn’t show for training at all. The remaining one comes for one day and quits

Ron

 

[Orionrising]

its sold this one was 3k

 

[Strouty]

That was a good price, probably best that I didn’t see it.

 

[walrus]

WTF, this is on 2nd page? I think the humidity up here has Strouty down and out. Doesn't appear its going to break anytime soon with Henri headed our way.

 

[Strouty]

I have better things to do than sweat my balls off........

 

[Firebrand]

Well after Sunday you’ll need to swim your balls off!

 

[Strouty]

I doubt it will be that bad, you will probably get it worse.

 

[Firebrand]

Well I’m going to be out in it as I need to deliver my older son to college over in Biddeford on Monday.

 

[mybigwarwagon]

Do forklifts float?

 

[Strouty]

I am going to have to say no, but maybe I am wrong. At least I don’t have to worry about flooding at the Hill, I am guessing I could survive a decent sized tsunami.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Hello, any one check in today?

 

[xtremek]

I'm guessing S is buried in a mountain of paperwork.

 

[1Garageman]

There hasn't been anything exciting happen here for a while now.

 

[harley jim]

Wait for it!!!

 

[Strouty]

I got a paper cut and haven't been able to do anything.....

 

[jack stand]

Itll heal by fall, come on winter!

 

[Strouty]

Stop it!

 

[walrus]

Pictures of snow are uncalled for, the fact we have lost 2 hrs of daylight is depressing enough

 

[Strouty]

So true, the darkness seems to sneak up on you, then BAM, it is dark at 5 o’clock….




I actually got to do something today, well other than office work, my Buddy had a customer bring a truck to his shop and he needed me to bring Perk over so we could maneuver the trailer and unload the no operational truck. Worked well, but I will say if tomorrow is supposed to be hotter than today, well, it is going to ****! I am drenched and want to take a shower, but I haven’t even gotten gone yet, just got back to the Hill and I am about to head out.



Really short ramps! They had to remove the air tank to get it on the trailer, then we caged the brakes loosely so there was still a bit of drag, Buddy pulled with a forklift while I let the winch out, worked slick, once again I didn’t get enough pictures.

 

[xtremek]

The storms just rolled through. But today was a hot and humid mess. It was so nasty that just walking into house from the shop got me sweating profusely.

 

[Strouty]

I think that will be here tomorrow, I have to go to the Lake and mow, going to be bringing my swim trunks and a towel.

 

[steaks&anvils]

I think that will be here tomorrow, I have to go to the Lake and mow, going to be bringing my swim trunks and a towel.

Here in the Denver suburbs, I have seen snow the first week of September. Big wet flakes that only barely stayed on the grass for a few minutes. But it was snow.

 

[jack stand]

Is that your s/a trailer or your buddies?
I must have missed that episode.
Nice handy size for a lot of stuff but vehicular loading needs help.

 

[Strouty]

Not mine, it was the owner of the truck that we unloaded. Looks nice, but very old, 1950s.

 

[jack stand]

Old fire truck? Looks very clean.

 

[Strouty]

I don't know the details, but I didn't see any obvious remnants of a fire truck. The truck was a 1973, almost the same truck that my Dad had when I first got my CDL. This one has a Detroit 6v53 and it isn't running, they want to get it running and add Jakes to it, they spent almost $6k on the Jakes (used). I guess they are dedicated to the truck.

 

[xtremek]

It looks really clean. Doubt they'll ever get their money out of it, but things like that aren't done to make money.

 

[NickH]

Wow, I haven't seen one of those with a Detroit in them, they usually had big gas motors. Seems like a lot of $$$ to put into it unless there is sentimental value of some kind.

 

[jack stand]

The sound, it's worth it! At least for a short ride, like 10 minutes

 

[NickH]

The sound, it's worth it! At least for a short ride, like 10 minutes

True! We have one left in the firehouse, it'll be a sad day when there is no more Detroit scream to be heard!

 

[harley jim]

I love those old loadstars, we had about a dozen of them at one of the trucking company's I used to work for. Ours had 671s with road rangers.
I always thought they would make a cool pickup style hot rod.
There is nothing like the sound of a Detroit going through the gears,