Oklahoma

denick

Well we're on our fourth day in Oklahoma. It's a nice place. joasis is a good guy. His wife is really nice. I'll post more when I get back. The dirt business is different here from what I have seen.

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Nick

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jmic

[QUOTE=denick;432717 joasis is a good guy. [/QUOTE]

Just keep him away from your cell phone.

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tgeb

LMAO

Glad to hear you are having a good trip, Nick.

You'll have to fill us in on what is different about the dirt business out there when you get back.

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threaderman

Dodging the Tornados for one!

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denick

We were at the cattleman's just before that one on Thursday night.

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Nick

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Cole

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joasis

Maybe you clowns can find a comedy forum to join.....

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denick

I'm back!

Home sweet home!

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Nick

"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving" Albert Einstein

rino1494

Nick, what in the hell were you doing in Oklahoma ?? You can't make any money when your iron is sitting.

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denick

rino,

The iron was sitting last week anyway. We were waiting for what is hoped to be the once and for always final change order to be signed and get a deposit.

The guys tore apart a 61' Rogers lowbed and sand blasted it. We put the first coat of paint on it today.

So, Oklahoma! So different but so the same. Earthmoving wise it seems, with the bigger spaces many more dozers and motor graders. I saw bottom dumps working for the first time. They were dumping a heavy clay and didn't seem to slow down too much to dump. I did see 2 tracked loaders, a 977L Cat on a demo job and joasis's International. Which is alright for it's age. On the roads I saw more tandem axle dumps than anything else. Some trailer dumps and 1, 5 axle dump with what looked like 2 steerable lift axles? The excavators I saw were on the large size 300 size and up, mostly on highway projects. A majority of what I saw was newer looking. John Deere and Caterpillar seem to rule. This is just what I saw over an area about 80 miles long?

I probably couldn't get a job there! There wasn't one cliff side to work on that I saw!

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Nick

"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving" Albert Einstein

page

wow!! didn't know us okies were so different..hope you enjoyed your stay here good luck to all !!

Vinny

There must be a sickness that we all have in common.

I'll bet we all do what Nick did. Go away somewhere and look at the exact thing we do day in and day out.

I know I do. I go to the Keys every winter and while I'm there, or at an industry conference accross the country, or in Aruba, I'm always looking at the pavement thats being installed. Admiring the color or make up of the aggregate. Looking at work techniques. Watching for the simalarities in a crews interaction on a work site in Southern California and seeing the exact same things in my crews. When I was on vacation in Aruba 10 years ago I actually went as far as picking up a shovel for a while when I was watching a back road being paved just so I could see how the mix was. They probably thought I was nuts.

I hope i can get cured some day when I retire. A sickness like that can kill

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rino1494

The Keys, Aruba, So Cal......I should have gotten into the paving business.

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denick

Page,

Welcome to the site. Glad to have you around. Please join in the conversation.

Things are very much the same in Oklahoma, Page as here in CT. The differences were a point of interest and thought.

Oklahoma is Okay!

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Nick

"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving" Albert Einstein