Certainly not fun. The leveling kit can wait until another day.

 

I didn't even feel like going back to the garage in the rain, to shut off the lights. And touch the sticky varnish...

 

My '86 F250 decided to eat up one of it's lifters on number four cylinder. Not a pretty site. Haven't seen the cam damage yet but it can't be good since the bottom of the lifter was missing about 1/8". I have the cam nearly out. Should have ot after work tomorrow nite.

 

George I would have had to work on the truck on the street and partially in the gutter. Not fun when it is raining and when trying to make sure I wouldnt be hit. I keep a few traffic cones at home for when I have to work on it just as a warning.

 

Ouch, that does not sound like it will be a good site.

 

The 351W I am working on has under 50 thousand since it came from Jasper. I bought the truck with it in there. I was kind of surprised when it started clacking away. I hope the bottom end hold together after I redo the top.

 

Hey Shaun, I had a good one Friday night and it is the reason for me bailing out so quickly. The fire department got toned out for a hazardous condition with electric wires down just down the road from my house. I was the first on scene and when I got there, there was a mess of spaghetti hanging from the telephone wires in the middle of the road. Ended up that a utility pole got struck be a vehicle, whipped that pole hard enough that it snapped the top 10' off which included the transformer. It also snapped the primary wires that ran to the next pole, hence the spaghetti and then it also dropped the primary wires going to another pole. It also dropped the triplex house service to two houses. Needless to say we were out on scene for about 3.5 hours waiting for the electric company to get on scene, secure the wires and remove them from the road. They were saying that they would be there until at least sunrise getting the pole, transformer, wires and triplex services replaced.

 

That is a heck of a scene for sure Neil. But I understand.

 

Shaun, the last time a saw a mess like that was from the last ice storm that we had back in 2003. The only thing missing with this was down trees.

 

Scenes like that are never fun. Always takes awhile to clear them.

 

Glad you guys could handle it! Primary wires are nothing to mess with!

 

No they are not Spur. I have seen too many of them brought down in my area. the one cemetary I worked at we would get the occasional guy that would take out one of the poles and part of the wall in front of the cemetary.

 

You are correct Spur. Generally what we do is secure the scene and stand by for NYSEG to get there. The local shop was about 5 minutes away from this scene but that was closed several years ago and now everything comes out of Geneva. So when we call them, we always figure at least an hour for them to get on scene.

 

Neil we usually see at least 30 minute eta in our area for gas and electric

 

happy April fools New York!!!