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Haywood

10-11-2007 11:11:53




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Charlie was a Driver of drivers when it came to tractor recovery.

He was instructed to go to a Resort and pick up a Ford 801 series tractor that was not running. So off he heads in the Ford L8000 Roll off with the 20,000 lb winch. He finds the resort and heads into the office and asked where the tractor is? The guy points to the boat launch! Charlie suddenly realizes his boss failed to give him all the details again!!!!!

Off his clothes go to his Shorts and into the water he goes with one end of the chain and hooks her up to the tractor in about 12 feet of water.

Out she comes and Charlie loads her on the Truck.
Charlie is one of the toughest guys I know. He has overcame many obstacles in his life and still manages his sense of humor and is a very honest man. I really enjoyed working with Charlie.

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Jeff-oh

10-12-2007 11:32:49




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 Re: Drivers tractor recovery story in reply to Haywood, 10-11-2007 11:11:53  
That funny graet story



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the tractor vet

10-12-2007 08:27:21




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 Re: Drivers tractor recovery story in reply to Haywood, 10-11-2007 11:11:53  
Sorta reminds me of when i worked the oil patch . Got a call from a drilling co. to reclame a drilling location . We had just hired a new dozer operator that told us he could do anything so i send him out to squezzs the pits and back fill and replace the top soil and level the location back as close to org. as he could . Sent him and a one week old J D 750 B thirty miles to the location about and hour later the phone rings and this guy calls me and sayes he is stuck ????? Now this loaction is high on a hill drier then a popcorn fart and he is stuck ??? Ok so one lowboy is in the lot and there is one more 750 setting sooooo o I load the 750 and head up to the location . Unload and run the dozer back the lease road and start looken and i don't see him don't see his pick up or dozer . Got thinking about is and thought that he may have gone to the wrong location as there were about ten of them on this one road alone , So drive back down to the lowboy and just about ready to load the dozer when he pulls in in the pick up . I ask him wheres the dozer ????? he tells me that it is back there in the blow pit , WHere i was jsut back there and i did not see it he says again in the pit . SO back we go and go over to the blow pit and yep sure enough it is in the pit , In the middle of it . This guy realy had no idea how to squezz a pit and instaed of pushen dry dirt in anhead of him and forcen the mud out the other end whiloe building a dry dirt bridge ahead of him NO he backed out into the middle and tryed to push it out . All that was sticking up was the top of the ROPS and the top of the muffler . The rules of the patch were if you stick it you hook it. I worked for three hours to get close enough so we could get that 1 1/8 inch cable to it then it took two more dozers to drag it up and out on to dry land then two 90 bbl. water truck loads to wash it off . Then two days with our mechanic and a day with the dealers mechanic changing all the fluids and cleaning out everything we could tear apart before we fired it up . Needless to say one operator was looken for a new job.

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john_Bud

10-12-2007 05:35:14




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 Re: Drivers tractor recovery story in reply to Haywood, 10-11-2007 11:11:53  
Charlie's boss has a funny sense of humor!

jb



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