What dumb thing did you do today?

Been a miserable week for me for sure. 3 days in the ice, with the flue. If that wasn't enough I've been having problems with the air system on my truck. I'm sure it's frozen, but I can't seem to get enough alcohol in it to thaw it. Tonight it finally quit and now I get to be towed. Guess I should have stopped somewhere to have it looked at sooner. On top of that, while I was underneath putting alcohol in it I managed to pour some right in my eye. It hurt right away.

Too late now but you should have serviced your air drier. Alcohol isn't good on your system.

Jon I am DARN glad that we sold the other semi trucks. We had one two years ago that the air dryer went bad on it. The complete air system was full of water and it froze up. I had it towed to the shop. The tractor set inside for two days and the air tanks still had ice in them. I had to remove both of them and wash/melt the ice out of them with my hot water washer. Flushed all of the air lines and replaced the air dryer.

It seems like the new air dryers are not lasting as long as they used too. If we get much over a year out of them before they quit working we are lucky.

I liked the older ones that had the big spin-on replaceable cartridge on the bottom. I have not been able to find then for several years now.

Hope your repair bill is not too high and you start to feel a little better. The flu in a truck on the road is not fun.

We rebuild all of the air dryers on every truck every fall. Cheap insurance.

hope you can get that truck thawed out ,, and while that is happenin ,,hope you are able to get a nice hot bath and some Theraflu ,,..I assume you are not home ,,,??? where are you, Jon ?

btw jon,,my dum thing I did was break the yoke of the adjustable arm to the eagle hicth on the 800 ,, hooked the log chain rite there and broke both loops out like it was made out of glass ,,.jon ,, don't be to hard on yourself ,,

Indianapolis, looks like a day or two to get in too. Guess I'll be spending the little woman's Christmas money on a motel room.

That is really tough Jon, Where are you? When I had my truck a friend told me to get a product with a name like ----merthiolate---- or something like that . You remove a fitting from one of your air tanks and pour it in, and it evaporates slowly and it just sits there in the air dissolving moisture. I got it at the IH dealer and I had no problems after that.

Let the shop fix the truck, drink the alcohol and get some rest!
Hope you feel better soon!

I hope you are well by now. I've had the puking flu while on the road and it's miserable. There's no other way to describe it. I don't know if that's the type you had, but any kind of flu on the road isn't fun.

Sometimes when I watch Ice Road Truckers I think about the air system icing up but they have dryer air up north so maybe it isn't as much of a problem as I think it might be. I don't have much water in the shop air compressor in the winter compared to summer when I'm draining it all the time. JIm

I wonder if your eye feels like mine does right now.

Caught a bad case of pink eye. Family doctor said worse he has ever seen. Left eye is glued shut from discharge. Have appointment with eye doctor in the morning.

"What dumb thing did you do today?"

Unusual, but none today. BUT...I have a plan. Get this and tell me what you think of this, and its planned:

Every year, I wait until Christmas Eve, specifically at 11:00 AM on Christmas Eve to START my Christmas shopping. Its tradition. I tie a couple of shopping carts together in tandem, and start my shopping when most people, usually women that are there to get the last few small things, and I get into their way, and they are usually irritated that I'm there, in their way with no clue what I'm going to get for anyone when I start. By the time I get home that evening, I am beat up, clawed, scraped, bruised, shirt torn, and in a bad mood, but hey, its tradition. Now get this for dumb. THIS YEAR, I'm going to do my shopping this weekend and finish it all this weekend, a couple of weeks before Christmas Eve. What is so dumb about that? Because that's when dumb kicks in. On Christmas Eve at 11:00 I wlll be in the stores as I am every year and have been for decades, but instead of shopping, I'm just going to get in the way of shoppers dancing around, pointing, and singing "I finished my shopping, I don't need to be here, but I'm here to get in the way, hahahahaha and naananaananaana" as they are trying to get in line at the cash register and stuff. How stupid do you think that's going to be? Huh? Come home with my shirt torn? I will be lucky to make it home with a shirt or eyeballs at all. Heck, it might even get me tossed in the clink, but you know what's really important? Tis' the season, and my shopping will be done....hahahahaha.

Think you do dumb things? Huh? Huh? No one tops me when it comes to doing dumb things. I am the king of dumb things and am darn good at it.

Mark

got up and went to work, instead of keep warm at howm...lol

I have not done anything dumb today yet but there still is time.

I'll look into that, thanks. I've always used
alcohol and had good luck, but this is the first
time the problem was in the tractor.

Jon, I never do anything dumb :shock: , then again I'm not a native of MN :twisted: .

Rick

I understand where you're coming from. I too used to have a drinking problem and on occasion got alcohol in my eye instead of my mouth. A few more years of practice and you'll get it right like I have.

I drove 700 miles for no reason.

Replace air dryers once a year and the alcohol is hard on the air system. Went to a class bendex said never use it. Drys out the rubber parts in the system.

NOw that wasn't very nice!!!! You tryin to hurt my
feelings? LMAO

I drove 1 1/2 hours on bad icy roads to get to the doctors office, Got inside only to find that I was there on time and the right day BUT the WRONG month!

When an 1 1/2 drive home on the same bad roads thinking about it. I got home and my wife asked ware I had been all this time. I told her what I had done and she never said a word, I got the LOOK!!!! Some days it don't pay to get out of the bed. Bandit

I brought in a quart size bag full of fresh venison jerky to share at work thinking it would last all day - gone by 10am.

Well, the flu would explain your jokes. ;-)
J/K, keep those coming, and hope today is better for you.

Had a neighbor once, who drove from Houston to New Mexico. Then he realized he went the wrong way and got to drive all the way back.

Then couldn't understand why he didn't get paid to drive all those miles.