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Feb. 5th, 2010 06:57 pmGas gauge for dumptruck appears entirely dysfunctional OR it is the only vehicle ever made that can run on E indefinitely in which case it is well worth what we paid for it and perhaps we should not be parking it with the keys in it quite so often.
First draft of road done, first six inches or so off road. Snow is falling at about an inch an hour, will hit road again at midnight, when there should be another six inches. (We are supposed to get about twenty, total.) Road was solid dirt before snowfall so has a good base for plowing. Snow is light and fluffy. Assuming plow continues to run with truck on E, all will be well there. Maybe.
I bought (in advance of need) additional salt today. That was not expensive.
I also bought decent aluminum ramps for the snowblower. Those were a hundred bucks for the pair -- I got the not-foldable ones because the foldable ones were either (a) very flimsy looking or (b) seventy dollars per each. I sprang for aluminum as my wrists have to last another twenty years or so in this job. I will see how the ramps work tomorrow, when I am a motivated learner who does not want to shovel twenty fucking inches of snow off of the sidewalks (629, made of plow roll with large hedge adjoining; SSt, wide enough for me to sunbathe on and also made of plow roll; 200-218, oh how I hate thee and thy longitudinal cracks and lack of level surfaces; 343-351, shrouded in constant darkness and icy for weeks after the storm) by hand.
The snowthrower has helpful printed directions on it for how to start it. They work nicely. It has other instructions for how to run it but I didn't need those today while I was seeing if I could start it. I will need them tomorrow when I am learning how to run it, but tomorrow is another day. One thing at a time. I expect that those directions will be as helpful as the directions for how to start the thing.
The current project looming on the horizon is midnight plowing. Then the project will be 6 AM plowing. After that, it's getting pickup out the road (should not be terrible once I get it out of lodge driveway which has been plowed once and will be plowed again at midnight and at 6 AM) and to 629 and then it will be time to Learn How to Run the Snowblower with a conveniently-located practice sidewalk before I have to put snowblower on the truck using new ramps and proceed to other sidewalks. If all goes well, I will get a lot of practice putting the snowblower on and off the truck. If things go poorly, we will need a new snowblower and I will be doing rather a lot of shoveling by hand. Personally, I'm hoping for the former over the latter.
I should note that we're big fans of OJT here. Lots of OJT, usually seconds before the hour of need but sometimes about thirty minutes *into* the hour of need. That kind of OJT is a lot less fun, let me tell you.
First draft of road done, first six inches or so off road. Snow is falling at about an inch an hour, will hit road again at midnight, when there should be another six inches. (We are supposed to get about twenty, total.) Road was solid dirt before snowfall so has a good base for plowing. Snow is light and fluffy. Assuming plow continues to run with truck on E, all will be well there. Maybe.
I bought (in advance of need) additional salt today. That was not expensive.
I also bought decent aluminum ramps for the snowblower. Those were a hundred bucks for the pair -- I got the not-foldable ones because the foldable ones were either (a) very flimsy looking or (b) seventy dollars per each. I sprang for aluminum as my wrists have to last another twenty years or so in this job. I will see how the ramps work tomorrow, when I am a motivated learner who does not want to shovel twenty fucking inches of snow off of the sidewalks (629, made of plow roll with large hedge adjoining; SSt, wide enough for me to sunbathe on and also made of plow roll; 200-218, oh how I hate thee and thy longitudinal cracks and lack of level surfaces; 343-351, shrouded in constant darkness and icy for weeks after the storm) by hand.
The snowthrower has helpful printed directions on it for how to start it. They work nicely. It has other instructions for how to run it but I didn't need those today while I was seeing if I could start it. I will need them tomorrow when I am learning how to run it, but tomorrow is another day. One thing at a time. I expect that those directions will be as helpful as the directions for how to start the thing.
The current project looming on the horizon is midnight plowing. Then the project will be 6 AM plowing. After that, it's getting pickup out the road (should not be terrible once I get it out of lodge driveway which has been plowed once and will be plowed again at midnight and at 6 AM) and to 629 and then it will be time to Learn How to Run the Snowblower with a conveniently-located practice sidewalk before I have to put snowblower on the truck using new ramps and proceed to other sidewalks. If all goes well, I will get a lot of practice putting the snowblower on and off the truck. If things go poorly, we will need a new snowblower and I will be doing rather a lot of shoveling by hand. Personally, I'm hoping for the former over the latter.
I should note that we're big fans of OJT here. Lots of OJT, usually seconds before the hour of need but sometimes about thirty minutes *into* the hour of need. That kind of OJT is a lot less fun, let me tell you.
