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It’s finally back together and on the road. It started out as a $500 parts truck for my ex USN all wheel drive FT 900 but it ran great It is powered by a Ford 7.8 diesel The transmission is a Allison MT 643 converted to a MT653 The Ford spring suspension and 4.89 ratio RS 23160 was replaced with a clip from a 2002 peterbuilt. Reyco air ride, RS 23161 with air locker and 3.90 ratio. The interior of the cab floor, back wall, doors and underside of the hood was coated with lizard skin. The interior of the cab floor, back wall and doors were also covered with quite ride solutions kit. The interior has new national esign seats on low profile pedestals with custom brackets that copy the old ford national bases. Factory air was added to the cab. I was able to find a new factory vinyl floor mat for the truck. The truck is riding on aluminum 24.5’s The end result is a very quiet truck inside that will effortlessly keep up with freeway traffic

On a general note I find the section staffing comment very interesting. The navy has done some interesting cost cutting in recent years and it sounds like this cutting has affected staffing and they are now wondering if they went too far. The marines have been pulling F18’s out of the boneyard to have flyable aircraft This is the pendulum affect does impact my business and is caused by the bean counters.

This article is interesting https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/07/16/the-us-navys-top-officer-wants-answers-on-the-bonhomme-richard-fire/ Especially this part “Among the foremost questions in Gilday’s mind is whether the Navy fully absorbed the lessons learned from the fire aboard the Miami in 2012. “Since Sunday, when this fire broke out, I’ve been on the phone constantly about that fire,” Gilday said. “But one of things I did on Sunday was I read the report of the Miami fire back in 2012. There were a number of recommendations coming out of that incident. “One of the questions I have is: Did we fully and adequately implement those recommendations? Because that fire was probably the most recent similar mass-conflagration we’ve had. We learned from that. When we completed the investigation, did we just leave it in the rear-view mirror or did we, no kidding, take it seriously?” That investigation found that over time the Navy had gradually and unintentionally accepted higher and higher risk for fire in the industrial environment at the shipyard, when key fixed firefighting systems are deactivated and compartments designed into the ship to create fire boundaries are compromised by hoses, cables and ventilation ducts running through open hatches. The investigation also found that Federal firefighters at the shipyard weren’t adequately trained for shipboard firefighting. Further exacerbating the issues with Federal firefighters being inadequately trained was that command and control for fires that required assistance from off-board firefighters, which was the case on both Miami and Bonhomme Richard, was unclear and resulted in disjointed firefighting efforts. And the investigation found that there was no single organization in the Navy tasked with incorporating damage control lessons learned into fleet training and procedures.”

I was able to find this https://www.marionbody.com/fe_blog/custom-vs.-commercial-chassis-10-key-differences-to-consider

Actually the Forrestal Fire has been attributed to EMI, electromagnetic interference. Do you remember when microwaves first came out and they would cause static on the television when the microwave was in use. That was EMI

This may be the reason the fire spread “After about 90 minutes, authorities decided to remove all firefighters from the vessel for safety reasons and battle the blaze by remote means, including water dropped from helicopters and sprayed onto the ship via firefighting boats surrounding it on the bay.” This is not the navy way to leave the ship I would think a combined effort involving navy, federal, local firefighters and the ships crew would be the best way to attack the fire. The ships crew would know the ship and its systems that would be vital to keep the fire from spreading and how to attack it Unfortunately In my experience the paid firefighters do not take help from outside there community. Actually they fight it!

Lots of questions Fire suppression system was halon Maybe this is SOP for a ship that is in the yard Was it just bad timing with yard work and weekend liberty

Remember doctors are still practicing Enough of comedy, go see the doctor. I see my dermatologist as often as my regular doctor and the dentist. 6 appointments a year and a procedure every so often is not that bad. Just think of it as routine maintenance! Time to change all of the fluids and look inside!

The ship is in the yard for work. The crew was significantly reduced from 1,000 to just over a hundred. The skeleton crew was probably occupied with rescuing the rest of there small crew and evacuation. The fire suppression system was not operational due to maintenance. Why there was not a significant fire watch on board during the maintenance of the fire suppression system is the real question or was that the duty of the crew that was onboard.

Good advice Another one is “you can pick and choose your friends and neighbors but you are stuck with your family and you need to find a way to get along” The problem with a lot of the millennials today, the 20 year old, is the blatant disrespect they have for there parents and elders. My 23 year old son is this way and wants to change the world. He was surprised when both of his parents hanged up on him and told him to do something and stop yelling at us. I could go on for a while but I will end it here

I did not find any data to support the 400 deaths per year in the 80’s https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Data-research-and-tools/Emergency-Responders/Firefighter-fatalities-in-the-United-States/Firefighter-deaths According to NFPA the deaths were between 114 and 138

Can you post a picture of the drag link

The Australian truck was at Reno last year.

The forks just look like they were reinforced The attachment could be homemade or It could be produced kit or modification. There really is not a good way to tell for shore. I have three Gannon earthcavators, rolling box blade, one is a very early one based on the remains of the tag and that one looks like it was fabricated by hand. The other two have a much more refined fabricated parts.

In 2018 64 firefighters died and the 5 year trend is fewer than 70 per NFPA With an estimated 1,115,000 firefighters in the us this makes the firefighter death rate 5.56 per 100,000 In my industry 1008 died last year. With a rate of 9.5 per 100,000 I have personally stopped counting all the people that I have known that were killed on the job. To us it’s just part of the job. Everybody I work with including my self have PTSD to some degree

I did look into the actual total death numbers and what I found was that your 2.8 million number is very accurate, and reflects the projected number of deaths in the US for 2020 What I did find is that between March 1 and April 25 there were approximately 550,000 deaths recorded in the US of these 50,000 met the criteria to be caused by covid 19. So this works out to an average of 25,000 deaths per month This is substantially less than the 40,000 deaths per month that are attributed to smoking

My dash is tan Can you send me some pictures of what you have

I am interested in a kit for my 1975 Mack. What can be done about the dash? I have a nice used one to install but I think it will look bad with a truly new interior.

Hillary should have been sent to Leavenworth for what she did with all of the classified material when she was Secretary of State

Actually it is as precise as the predictions I work in a very precise field and all these numbers are voodoo science

I could not handle the ridiculously slow pace of government work. Everything that should take an hour was milked to two or three. I had a sore throat from shooting the shit that much. There was only so many ways I could come up with to waste time. It was insane. I read books. Played video games. At one job I had all my work done by 9am and had to find something to do for the next 6 to 10 hours. Nothing has changed in 30 years I run across government crews that want to shoot the shit for a long time. I have inspectors bulk up behind my truck and guess what they want to do. If you ever wonder why there are multiple trucks parked along side the road with flashing lights on and no work being done, the private crews are trapped by the government crews because we asked a question. The professional associations are run by the government employees because they can do it when they are on the clock.

Is the headliner the full headliner or is it meant to use the plastic shelf in the front?

Sounds like your a firefighter How does working a 24 hour shift equate to 53 hours a week? It should be 48 hours. It also sounds like you only have to work 7-5 each day, the rest of the time you are on call. Your description of a 24 hour shift is a 10 hour work day and on call for 14 hours. Doesn’t sound to bad, unless you work in the hood. Most of the firefighters I know fall into two categories. The overtime whores, one of my old employees brothers was this way and made about $170,000 a year. The second group run a side business since they only work 2 days a week. Where I grew up the firefighters were volunteers. They did everything on there own time and still do. The area of the government that I worked for is still run the same way. They base there manpower staffing on 50 year old technology but use 20 year old technology. If there was any incentive to get more work done a lot of the issues that I face daily would be eliminated.

This thread is so entertaining, it always makes me laugh which is hard these days since I am practicing social distancing and working my ass off on both my personal and work projects. Now back to my reply if I can remember what I was going to post Union jobs do have decent pay and benefits. The way that I have seen unions work in this country is. They take a group of fair worker who beg to get into the apprentice program. The purpose of the apprenticeship program is to teach them the union way and if they learn a trade thats a bonus. They learn that it is more important to protect there job and the job or the other union members than to actually do the job. As an employer hiring works by calling the union hall and requesting a person. The hall then dispatches the next person on the list and you have to work him for a day. Sometimes it can take a week or two to get a keeper. I was on the joint apprenticeship committee for decade and got to see how truly poor the apprentices are. Government hiring is different. They list a position. You take a test and that is graded. A list is generated that ranks the applicants by minority points and test score. The manger then can interview the top 3. Usually the person that is hired does an acceptable job until there probation is over and then they just become lazy. After college I worked for a government agency and we would get all the work done in under 4 hours without breaking a sweat, then after lunch it was nap time and we were the crew that did the most work. I have found that the really intelligent people that know there job are non union business owners. Now I make just as much money as when I worked for a union shop, have excellent benefits and work about 1,000 hours a year. I can take time off any time I want to go visit my family or for vacation. COVID 19 has been great for business. Less traffic No meetings, virtual meetings as necessary. Rates are up Social distancing is great The wife working from home is great The only thing I miss is restaurants and traveling.

Have you placed a wanted add here? A U model cab is probably the same as a DM