Mpatch

joined 2 years ago
[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Oh I agree there. Fuck the oil sands, garbage low quality oil that takes a massive toll on the environment, a low quality oil incomparison to other types. Cost way to much to extract. And costs way to much to refine. Hell i think there is only like one refinery in the states that even has the ability to refine that garbage. If gasoline sold for 1.10 per L or less, there would be no profits.

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bud, how can you not tell that that is not a ball hitch or pintle hitch? It's tow stinger, Mr. Farm. Also, the attitude of beat-up trucks is long gone. Turns out you can get more customers and sales when you don't show up looking like Harry and Marv.

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I guess you also didn't notice the tow bar in the back. Huh. Trucks tend to sit high. So when you load them the truck levels out. Instead of squatting down in the rear. Also I don't know if this truck is a legit tow truck but if it is, say you had a family of 5 or 6 are on a road trip in your grand caravan. Get into an accident with a dumb shit wild deer/fucking phesant/ windigo w/e or brake down cause budy guy at the last gas station was dumping a bit to much home brew corn gas in the tanks. A regular tow truck fits only 4 people. Plus driver. So now you got to wait for another veichle. Out there shits so remote that could be 30 min or 2hrs depending on the stretch of road. Now you got this pigfugly monster. Your Pacifica/oddesy/Siena is on the hook. You and your family are all in the warm cab and no one is freezing. Because it's January. Yeah I forgot to mention it January in Alberta -30ºC

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey dipshit there are only 4 places in the world that have oil sands. Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Venezuela. So ther is no need for shit like this in Europe. Also the natural resource exploration pales in comparison to the rest of the world. Because Europe imports most of their natural resources from places that use "emotional support veichles". Also in europe, more often then not your job site isn't going to be 500km+ away from your origin. I've been in a many vans, fuck if I'm going to sit in a cramped ass tin can for 8hrs listening to road noise on an uncomfortable ass captains chair. When I can just sit in my lazy boy recliner in a quiet cab where I don't have to yell to talk to guy beside me.

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (14 children)

No ground clearance on van, gona get stuck in the mud. less payload on van, can't just drop a skid of what ever or extra long things like hydraulic cylinders into a van with out akward fucking around. less tow capacity on van, notice the tow bar on the back... What are you gona put a welder, diesel cans, gas cans, pales of hydraulic oil for equipment/ slip tanks, pumps and what not into the van too with the occupants? What about the greasy and oily ass clothes. Throw em in the van too? So they stain and fill the cab with VOCs?

This is a purpose built one off, and alot of you are out of touch with how work gets done. Not evey job is hauling standard 8x4 drywall. Alot more trades work than just slinging plaster around.

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Simple. It's not a few seconds. I can save 20 minutes by doing 15 over, during the day, going the speed limit get caught at every red light. During late night, with no traffic going 15-20 over, I get all the greens. Literally saving me 20min. It's no estimate. There's a fucking clock on the dash.

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah but think of the beach bonfire you can have. You don't need to even bring fire wood

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Have you ever been in an escalade?

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Engines were probably idling down because they had anticipated this. The guy tried to jump up on one engine. Likely thought he could jump on the front lip of the other engine, not realizing the sucka sucka those things have even low speed.

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

They probably had the engines shutting down at the time. Last time, I saw a story of a guy getting sucked in. Was a loading worker. The engines were full idle and only a trickle of blood was the only remains recovered.

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does it know pride month is over?

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Nah wasn't missing the point, I just don't want any fucking creative people/ hobbyist reading that they can go to home depot and make a smelter in their back yard by just by staking some cinder blocks and a rosebud torch on butane. To many folks, take what they read as flat out gospel these days and don't do the due diligance to look further.

The pan it's self though it's garbage. The value of it vs the risk to personal health. Nah. Realy at end of the day what do you get after all that work to clean it a piece of cast iron that fries food the same as another cast iron? And a cool story about how you had to clean the lead of that pan before it was "safe to eat" lol

 

It's been there for months now. It happend shortly after I painted the walls. I'm jot going to fix it because why. Kids will slam the door again anyways. Rather a hole in the wall than having to replace hinges or a door.

 

Need some help with overcoming the initial hurdles of a learnjng curve. I'm in a fake it till I make it type situation right now. We acquired most of the equipment that a machine/fab shop would have and most of them, there is plenty of information online to learn from. Except for the horizontal boring mill, and I am struggling. The tooling all needs to be made up for it. Nothing I can purchase direct. The spindle is a MT6. My supplier can only get me reducers to MT5. And setting up parts is quite time consuming.

Any advice or know how on being able to turn a profit on this machine would be appreciated.

The machine is a TOS W100 in mostly good working order. Apart from the boring head dropping 0.020" if I cut in reverse travel after forward travel cutting.

Thanks

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