Notice how the safety guy has no idea how Ricky is able to authorize all these purchases and that Ricky has good in-depth reasons on why it is this way, even threatening the safety guy's new responsibilities... Ricky being the owner confirmed once more!
My boss put a really heavy emphasis on filling out daily reports of what equipment has what issues. I spent 15 minutes every day writing the same problems down over and over and over again for years. "Needs oil, needs hydraulic fluid, need grease, brakes do not function, no backup alarm, roll cage missing roof, no horn, leaking fuel line, needs replacement filter..." etc etc etc. Finally one day one of the machines didn't start. When someone told him he came running out of his office in a panic. Quickly paid another company to tow it away and look it over. The next day he told us we were going to have to start filling out daily maintenance reports. So I asked who was reading the ones we were already filling out. He wouldn't admit it but they were going straight into the trash can. I told him I had asked for permission to purchase things like oil and a grease gun and was denied so I assumed he had it covered.... Funny how that works. Office workers will pinch pennies to make the quarter look good so they get a bonus even though long term it will cost the company tens of thousands of dollars. Then when any "surprise" costs show up they will invariably blame the workers.
Actually, the worst part of it is that those office workers arent getting a bonus either, most of the time its JUST the guys at the top, the ones entirely removed from any work, who get paid better for cutting corners like that.
Sometimes superintendents might get a bonus, but usually the bonuses start coming in at the project manager level. And since he is the highest level that is somewhat in the field, if can stretch your imagination this far, the rest of those upstream are the ones that get the bonuses. At least that's what I've seen after 30 years in industry and construction work.
@@somejerk5662 i dont know about you. But putting greese in a skid steer or a back hoe is very frustrating when it just wont accept the greese and ya sweating because you in 90 degree heat and this machine refuses to allow anything when it clearly drier the Sierra desert.
As a mechanic and professional equipment operator I can verify this is 100% accurate. The secret motto on jobs is "Pray the equipment stays working during your shift and if it breaks then cover up the fact you touched it." (Blame it on the next guy usually) I can usually fix the equipment good enough so the next guy really thinks he broke it on accident....
I used to do this all the time at an old job of mine. Pretty sure I was the only person on 2nd shift to never get wrote up for breakin any machinery or tools 😂🤣
Used to work with a salesman in the Patch with no mechanical knowledge of engines etc. Every year he'd buy a new lawn push mower for his house. I said just change the oil and put in a new plug and fuel filter and sharpen the blade and you're GTG. He said "the lawn mower shop charges as much to do that as a new mower costs and the new one starts first pull. so, from then as long as i worked with him i got a 1 year old Craftsman lawn mower that i changed the oil on and replaced the fuel filter and sharpened the blade on and ran that bitch another year and then handed it down to someone else and got his1 year old one again. That's the true definition of the trickle down economy right there.
As one of those preventative maintenance guys, this is God's own gospel! Boss won't authorize the 3 days it takes fully rebuild our hardest working machine. So I get to spend 1 hour each day bandaiding the damned thing. That's a full day's production lost every week because "we can't afford the downtime".
Amen! We had a broken wheel on a electric pallet jack for like 8 months had to drive slowly to make sure it didn't throw stuff off constantly they only finally got new wheels for me to replace it when it threw expensive product that shattered on impact then suddenly they were like why weren't we informed had to pull months of logs of it's broken all the way back to it's chipped to it wobbles a bit
Gonna Ship of Theseus that piece of equipment into a new machine. Also, when you explain that losing most of a day once a week is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar more expensive than a three day overhaul. 40+ cumulative days lost per year > one 3 day maintenance period per year.
I worked at a place like that, everybody involved with the machine told them “Give us two days and the parts, then two to three hours one day a week and the machine will work perfectly for years.” they got told we “couldn’t afford the downtime” so instead, they only got to bandaid the problems as they came up. Two to three hours down (at least) *every day* and a breakdown every six months that would take weeks to months getting fixed for lack of parts. The final time it happened over two months before they let me go: We had killed our third motor for the pneumatics in 18 months, mid run. They sent for the only spare motor we had (“we can’t afford to order new parts! Why can’t we run without it?”), which was one that had already died on us and they had had “refurbished”. This was three weeks into “the machine is just a big industrial sculpture” time, and the “go to” guy for the Frankenstiened monstrosity hooked it up long enough to be sure nothing else died in the surge the short that killed the last motor caused. Nothing had, luckily, but they were informed that if they tried to run anything on that motor (as they had already heard from maintenance and some of the rest of us when we heard which motor had been installed) “the machine *will* burst into flames, because the motor *will* overheat and catch fire.” If it did, it was guaranteed to gut every electric and electronic component of the machine outside the control screen, since that motor was installed directly underneath all of that and enclosed by the door to those components. Can you guess what they did the next day? Can you guess what happened four hours into it? The machine was still not fixed when I left.
Ricky has point. The pencil pushers in the office will spend 30k in parts each month because it's broken up into smaller tickets. But they'll refused to spend 20k on a new machine that will last 6 months before it needs any major repairs.
And Ricky had a second point too - they cant find parts for half the stuff in storage. That means any parts you can find are going to be either refurbished, cost an arm and a leg, or will have to be jerry rigged into the equipment. Most of the time its gonna fall in at least two of those categories. Getting all three isnt exactly uncommon either Which not only costs money but a heap of time too. Both of which are often in very short supply on a site
That’s my job. Don’t touch it until it’s broken but my job title is mechanical maintenance. The only job I’ve had where I get in trouble for doing something that I was hired to do!! I love your videos man. They hit the nail on the head every time! Hilarious
Seriously. I don't understand it. Got a apprenticeship as industrial maintenance for 3 months. Duct tape and bubble gum was holding together electrical wires in our machines. I asked and the guy training me said "if you fix it right they'll doc ya, if you don't they'll doc ya. Just keep them happy, well keeping things running." Was what I was told.
@@n3rdst0rm you didn’t do your apprenticeship at Fizzano Brothers did ya? Lol Just kidding but on a serious note it blows my mind that a multi million dollar company operates in such a fashion. But than again that’s probably why they are a multi million dollar company. Idk. But that’s how my company operates just like that one.
@@IloveRoblox215 no but it was a very big company. Ended up leaving as I don't want to be the guy that has Frankensteins monster to grease and clean every day.
@@n3rdst0rm well you made a great decision. Seriously most people in such situation would ride the boat out beings it was a apprenticeship and the fact that you chose to leave because you didn’t want to be a part of the company’s lack of safety and ignorance says a lot about you. I really command you for making that decision.
"Why'd you shut the machine down for 15 minutes yesterday?" "To replace a worn part that's going to break within the next 100 hours" "Just let it break" "And what happens if it breaks and fucks up six other parts in the machine? That's what this thing does when it breaks" "DON'T ACT LIKE YOU KNOW BETTER THAN ME! YOU'RE GETTING WRITTEN UP."
Honestly this hits. I work in a production warehouse and for the last 6 months, two of our three standing forklifts have had severe issues, bordering on being too dangerous to operate. Yet, despite us telling them about the four or five different codes each throws up, and the fact that one will jerk to a stop or shoot forward a foot out of nowhere, they have done nothing to get them fixed, and i honestly doubt they will until they A. stop working entirely. B. cause a work place injury. or C. cause a workplace accident that results in either injury, excessive damage to material, or more than likely both.
Forklift tech here. That’s usually the case. Companies don’t want to spend the money to get something fixed till it breaks or causes an accident because it might be a little pricey then when does eventually do whatever it’s not supposed to they want it fixed on the spot and don’t want to pay for it anyway. It’s an endless cycle.
1. Document the living shit out of your complaints, 2. Quietly ask HR to keep copies of that documentation for you. 3. Don't be the person who gets killed over this.
Gotta love that crap. We'd had lifts that shut down after an impact. The problem was sensitivity was off on all of them. You could drive a couple through a brick wall and they'd never go off. A couple others would go off if you went over a seam in the concrete wrong. Can't tell you how many times people literally burned up batteries.
We have 10s of thousands of vehicles, no joke, some of which have been 300k miles with little more than an oil change every 50k miles. It blows my mind how long vehicles and equipment will run if they run almost around the clock with little to no maintenance.
I have worked at places were the truck turns on when you clock in and turns off right before you clock out. in the winter to keep the heat on or in the summer to keep the ac on spring and fall we just cracked the windows to balance things out. these trucks never got any oil changes they were bought already fucked up from auction they would go years with zero maintenance
Big companies use hours, not miles. Its not worth my time to do an oil change on a vehicle if it comes up by date, rather than by hours. Sidenote: the 3 month/3k miles on an oil change was set long ago by oil companies. They never updated it, its about double the time now with all the additives in it.
As a retired heavy equipment mechanic, Ricky is %1000 right. Run her till she breaks, fix her until parts supply dries up (which is faster now), and trade the old one for a new one. TBH from a mechanic's point of view (mine) the more often it's run, the better it holds up. It was that piece of specialty equipment that sat around a lot that was the biggest headache. 🤔
Diesel mechanic myself and I completely agree. That logic applies to car and trucks just the same as dozers and excavators. Those pretty trucks with low miles from back in the day are the ones that cause more issues.
@@Dsdcain definitely. I have noticed the newer my woodworking tools are the more often they break down and the more awful they are to fix. hell I never bother to grease the motors in anything because new motors are cheaper than getting repairs done.
@@nubreed13 Facts. Don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but things used to be built to last, and be able to repaired by the average "Joe" so to say. I've literally (hate using that word, but can't come up with another) spent my entire life since I was a kid, fixing one thing or another. Learned from my dad and uncles, and heck, even friends of the family. Older things were just built to last. Brand loyalty was more important than selling new "units".
I worked in a Crown Cork & Seal aerosol plant for almost 17yrs and the "BIG SHOTS" would take on so much work from corporate trying to make themselves look good we actually only had time to do about %25 of our preventative maintenance - then when the Sh*t hit the fan they're all running around like idiots asking the mechanics why the problems occurred and when we told them it was because of the plant motto - RUN IT TILL BREAK'S WE GOTTA MAKE CAN'S - management would be fuming - we just did what we were told - run the lines till they break down then scramble to get it back up and running again
I feel this, i have been working in a chicken plant the last year. We do maintenance every saturday and the same things break down all day or week long. If anything is new we bought it off of tyson after they got tired of fixing it.
@@garylangley5413 yes sir When I started there in 04 we had a decent plant manager - we ran production 3 shifts Mon through Friday and did as much maintenance as we could on Saturday's so back then our equipment wasn't in such rough shape - but corporate wanted production on Saturday's to so they replaced him with a new kiss ass every 2 years that made promises they couldn't keep because the equipment couldn't take the abuse of running 6 days a week 3 shifts and getting band-aid repairs
Our plant used to be like that. The big wigs changed out some middle management and we started doing proper pm's and now our machines run way better. There's still problems, but there's less break downs, we hit our numbers better, workers are less stressed so we catch issues earlier.
@@QuikVidGuy - Except it does make sense. For example, during every war the USA has fought since World War 2, the USA just leaves most of the equipment there instead of bringing it back. Do you have any idea how many jeeps and support vehicles were left after Vietnam War? It's cheaper to buy new ones than to ship it back home to the USA. Another example, every time the Navy's budget needs to be approved they toss out bullets overboard, or find a reason to use up leftover Bullets. Because if Congress sees that the Navy saved money, then they won't give as much money for the upcoming a budget. Congress thinks "Oh the Navy saved money? Good. We can reduce their budget! " Being efficient is NOT rewarded in government. It's punished.
@@TheBigExclusive Or maybe they actually do need their budget reduced if they have so many excess bullets that they can just afford to toss them into the ocean... Systems are there for a reason, everyone likes to complain about them, but they were created by much smarter people than you and me and make sense at the end of the day, stop fighting them.
I mean Ricky's got a point wait for the machine to break down because you don't have the time to do the preventative maintenance, but once the machine does break down you do all of the permanentive maintenance
In my factory, the larger things that need to be getting done during a scheduled PMD, they largely ignore in my area so they can rush back to producing which is the name of the game. On my slitter machine, we have 2 armstands failing and need a high pressure adjustment to prevent it from shutting the machine down and backing out the armstands every 80 meters. We are on PMD right now and they haven’t even scheduled the Japanese that built it to come work on it till our shorter PMD in the fall. So these issues will still persist. Plus I can guarantee that the 3rd armstand on that same side will also start to fail soon along with the other 2 soon. To them, it will only matter when we will be unable to slit the rolls that will back up our aging stand to the point it will shut forming down. Never before.
My car has had a check engine light on for 4 months and has been fighting for its life! 😭 Today the check engine light is now off, my car has repaired itself. 🤣
I have a freightliner that the check engine light came on at 150k miles. My co driver and I ran it til 1.2 mil miles. Traded in it for a kenworth. I miss that old truck
I worked for a man who was BIG on preventative maintenance. The issue was, YOU were expected to pay for that maintenance out of YOUR OWN POCKET and then submit a bill at the end of the year... which would basically be IGNORED forever! I walked off the job immediately after being informed of this. An oil change for a Peterbilt is $250 at flying J, and new tires are $10k EVERY YEAR!
Sad part is that's pretty much how it really is. Almost every shop I worked at unless the machine was getting shut down for something else like equipment changeover . Nothing got done on that bitch. I learned how to do oil changes on bobcats while we are swapping buckets or heads.
Fun fact, to often works that way in IT as well. Seen servers be on for years with nothing done to it. Soon as absolutely had to be turned off suddenly a backlog of work item show up for that unit or ones that also had to idle because they are dependent on it to take advantage of the down time.
@@I_Love_Quokkas I am by no means an avid coder or programmer. But something similar happens in software and game development as well. You'd be surprised at how much shit is just like bandaids being layered over previous spaghetti code because the only other real way to fix that shit is a complete rewrite from scratch.
@@piranhaplantX yep. Ives worked on the Incident management and Change Management fields in IT. Heard some weird stuff on calls before and after the “oops”
Literally describes the BP oil spill "accident" to a T. Lack of preventative maintenance can cause things to go unnoticed. They new something was wrong and didn't do there job, ie regular preventative maintenance. Preventative maintenance is exactly what it is. Preventing the company from having to make repairs on something so you don't have parts break down and cost the company money to get it fixed or replaced entirely. If preventative maintenance is done regularly on a scheduled basis then accidents are almost entirely unlikely to occur.
I agree but he problem is upper management gets pissed and starts asking why equipments shut down and how it's costing them money to have it sitting here doing nothing, and it's not exclusive to construction, almost every company that operates heavy machinery is this way.
I’m on-board up until the last sentence. It varies by the line of work, but you never reach an “accidents are almost entirely unlikely to occur” spot. Still, preventative maintenance can obviously minimize risks. And it can sometimes make any repairs go by quicker (since you already did part of it before).
Depends on the equipment. It was a royal pain in the ass sourcing parts for my welder when it broke. It was down for about 3 weeks while I tracked down parts and had them shipped in. Luckily I didn't need it for a while otherwise I'd have just gave in and sank 1200 for a new one. Price Lincoln electric wanted for the parts was nearly $300. Price for me to find nos parts on ebay $80.
@@randylibby2523 yeah it's really hit and miss for me. My bandsaw still has new parts available despite being 70 year old. Meanwhile my welder is still baking made but the parts cost almost as much as the machine
Sounds like my relationship with my push mower, I think I put oil in it 5 years ago 🤣 it just sits all winter full of gas with no air cleaner, I cover the carb and pull 3 times and it's running, yet I bought a $400 self propelled one 2 years ago and it didn't even last the summer so I welded the wheel back on the deck of the 30 y/o junker and it's still trooping 🤷
That's why I buy 60-70 year old woodworking machinery. I hardly ever maintain them but when they do break it's usually only an afternoon to get it ship shape again. As opposed to my new belt sander which breaks when I look at it funny.
That's right preventive maintenance is as mythical as a rainbow farting unicorn. I've got maintenance tags on machines so old Nixon was still in office
Yup. Literally just cleaned a piece of equipment that hasn't been taken apart for a full once over since the Reagan administration. Previous company never did the proper maintenance so we got stuck with it. Took an entire week to fully scrub all the dirt and grease out.
@@nubreed13 Break out the Magic Paint. Machine breaks down pull it apart paint it put it back together. May not run any better but at least it looks good
I work in IT this is so relatable. Problem is when our stuff breaks sometimes there is no replacement then you have to scramble to find a suitable replacement in short notice cost premium and lots of time trying to recover data.
While I get that the "run it till it breaks, then replace it" method might be cheaper on paper it's ignoring the efficiency loss that comes from the interim period between "functioning correctly" and "utterly unusable". Machinery and equipment doesn't just go from perfectly operational to busted overnight, it slows down, starts & stops unreliably and reacts in ways that require makeshift solutions to account for. there's only a set number of hours in the day and the more time you're having to spend just getting a vital piece of equipment going, the less time you actually have to get the job done which can have a domino effect that begins to impact other parts of a job site.
Always like that Ricky wears the same shirt as the safety guy. Secret love affair of course its deep down. He does what ever he can just to see and talk with him. Definitely a deep relationship.
I work in a factory and I can confirm that this is pretty much spot on. The plant’s main PMD times is how they can figure out how to make the production lines speed faster and increase output while changing out the bare minimum and bandaid the rest to push production. On my areas slitter machine that processes the large rolls off of the forming line is largely ignored and been neglected for years, even with my self and other operators in the area pushing for more to be overhauled on it, of which has to be largely done by the Japanese that originally built it to come out from Japan to work on it. The small things that mainly gets worried about, which is mainly just greased and lubed, is only worried about after they finish gang banging the forming line, get it running and have a mere 15 hours before the first roll is ready to be slit. Aggravating the shit out of us.
and let me guess you get told operator error is the problem. i only ask because when i worked in manufacturing i would run a machine for three months no problem then start having nothing but problems and got told i was doing it wrong because they couldn't figure out how to fix it. seriously what is mor elikely the guys who's been running it for months no problem suddenly doing the job wrong or the maintenance guy just being incompotent.
Yep. Our lead does that and even had some technical service thinking that. I have been fighting back and getting management and engineering seeing that’s it’s more machine issues. Some is lack of good training, again the fault of the lead and such, and he is the other one with the most knowledge of the machine besides myself and others I have trained. They made me the official practical trainer in the area with the lead only doing the final certification afterwards, so I guess I’m doing something right lol
As a mechanical engineer I got 2 questions before I have an aneurysm. #1 what idiot gave safety man the idea that he's got a f'ing clue what he's talking about with machinery? Safety man doesn't even know how often to change his blinker fluid alright. And #2 I'll tell you right now if boss man wants any maintenance done he's gonna have to put more than oil in the budget.
I've worked for companies that only work on equipment once it breaks. Hydrolic pump is cause the controls to vibrate? keep her running till it breaks. Rubber tracks are showing metal inside? Keep running till the track falls off we have to keep in schedule.
Worked at a woodshop that did this. Eventually the metal shop mutineed and we just spent half a day fixing all the glaring problems we'd been having for 6 months. Stuff stopped breaking for a full year after that.
I am a machine operator in manufacturing and we do PM's once a week, and we always break down with in a day or 2 after the PM. This video hit the bull's eye 🤣🤣🤣
Yupp, Technicians in any field can second that one. As am auto mechanic, side by side trucks. same year, same model. Ones prestine, has barely any issues, minor leaks here and there. Other one is heading to the boneyard.
This is giving me print shop flashbacks. Freaking bosses and their spending a dollar to save a dime nonsense. The worst part was that we actually did have the whole paperwork program, training, and time needed mapped out to do preventive maintenance.... and then they looked at the workload those weeks and decided that running a 15 million dollar machine 24/7 made more sense that week. And then got angry with us when we told them their multi-million dollar machine don't run as good no more. So when did we do maintenance? When the machine broke. When could we actually catch up on maintenance? When it broke so bad our maintenance crew had to tag out for an actual engineer to fabricate a solution whole cloth.
That is a skill that will last a lifetime provided you keep practicing. Im not a welder anymore but I still use my machine for repair work all the time at home.
Had an F250 crew cab longbed at work that had no working tail lights, reverse lights or rear blinkers. It took 3 years, several complaints to supervisors, multiple stops by police and finally failing an inspection before the problem was fixed. Some asshole wired the lift gate wrong which caused it to blow fuses.
Refuse to use it. It's not legal to drive Literally just make them order you to use this truck in writing. Paper trail. What are they going to do? Fire you when you have a paper trail? Stupidest decision they'd ever make.
@@AugustusTitus I got a little secret for you guys they make hydraulic hoses in different pressures. But if you go down to the local auto parts store they probably only sell 3000psi not 6000psi . Buy a factory hose then only buy hoses that are made by the factory or a hose supplier that’s got high pressure hose
You know, this is how the army works too. Sometimes you have to let things break just to get parts. I remember I had been putting how a light bulb needed to be replaced for years, and was never e even ordered parts for. Hell even the things that were broke down, stayed broke for years. I was thinking they just use most vehicles on base to train new PVTs. I really wonder what our maintenance guys did all the time, because they always seemed to have the same vehicles in those bays.
I knew an Army Master Sgt. He was stationed somewhere BFE. They had this pile of scrap that was supposed to be a Jeep. The couldn't requisitions a replacement because the "had" a vehicle. Well he and his buddy were jump qualified trainers. They practiced air dropping that Jeep. He mentioned it took the three tries before they got the parachute to fail. They then wrote up a training loss report and got sent a brand new vehicle.
Went to belk when the debit cards were transitioning to the chip versions, they were using a computer from the 90’s trying to mesh it with the new card readers and the receipts were dot matrix 😂 We stood in line for like 20 minutes for 2 people purchase a few items each, then it took us about 10 minutes to get checked out. Companies ignore how much bad equipment costs the company because it doesn’t get recorded on reports, then when they need thousands of dollars to replace computers they get uppity
I work at Kohl's and recently found out some interesting information. A previous generation of our handheld scanners were Windows based and didn't run for shit. Then we got new Android based scanners and I told my manager 'that should be better because Android isn't locked down like Windows, easier to code for". The new scanners have been getting progressively harder to use as apps crash or they act like they aren't communicating with the server. I found out through a former supervisor who became a manager at another store (who was recently on a committee with the company's tech people to explain issues we were having) that instead of writing the UI and the apps for Android, they simply just ported the Windows apps over. What's happening now is every time they update and add new features, the system can't handle the workload and causes all sorts of crashes and other issues, effectively slowing down productivity. So, not only will it cost them the original amount of money to "save money" by doing something cheap, it's going to cost them more because they have to re-write the UI and the apps from scratch... which is what they should have done in the first place.
I mean it's absolutely true. I used to mow public land for the city and we just ran those mowers into the ground. All they got was new fuel. And it sucks buying new stuff all the time because it's such a waste of resources. Also, I feel some accomplishment once I've finished maintaining equipment, even simple stuff like cleaning and applying the new layer of that greasy stuff to slow down wear and tear. Iunno, I like looking at stuff working like it should and knowing my effort paid off. Also, it's stupid dangerous sometimes, like when the mower blade is so old and brittle that hitting a rock the size of a golf ball was enough to snap one of the blades off and jam it diagonally between the port that coughs out the grass and the ground, making darn sure you don't keep moving forward.
Years ago I had a position as a pm man on a paper machine, one of the easiest jobs I ever had ! Because when it was running good, the last thing anybody thought about, from the laborers, to the plant manager, was shutting it down !
I used to work on a steel factory in Europa. Specificaly on the tracks where 2000+tons of trains with molten metal drive over. The only thing we did was corrective maintenance, and oiling al the switches. We would go trough 20L of oil in a week. That was our PM and shit still broke down.
I love this video. I've been saying for about 2 weeks now that my machine at work wasn't running correctly. It finally completely broke down and took at least 4 people and about 2 and a half hours to fix. I've also only been there a month and have seen at least 3 machines hauled away to never be seen again.
I worked on a farm once, we did not have PM’s. We just had UPM’s. Unplanned maintenance. Like simple things, such as going to check the compressor in the morning and noticing that the bottom on the oil reservoir is in a million pieces on the floor. Happy Monday.
This video is spot on for my company, except for the buy new part. They wait til it breaks and we're without before they realize they shouldn't have scabbed it together the previous 3 times 😂
If we turn in a service request on equipment because of a noise or vibration or something, the maintenance forman tells us to keep running it til something breaks. Then he'll know what it was lol
I work in an Amazon site and our semiautomated workstations have a lot of conveyance that's connected to our main sorter, and it in turn is connected to everything else. I feel like all of our maintenance is reactive. Work stations being offline for weeks at a time. Hell, a whole side of a Product storage floor has been shut down since the site was a year old and is being cannibalized to keep the other side running. We just finished our 6th year of operation. This. Video. Is. Truth
What's really fun is how Amazon decided to handle maintenance and repairs, which has turned the RME team into glorified rolodexes. They call the repair guys. No, not the actual repair guys, the manufacturer that will in turn contact a local authorized branch of the repair guys. Then scheduling gets kicked back and forth while Amazon, CBRE, and the manufacturer argue about who's footing the bill and where the parts are coming from and when they can afford time to shut down the already broken piece of equipment, and since none of this gets properly conveyed you get maintenance and repair techs driving hours to a job site with parts in hand only to be told [manufacturer] has not yet authorized the repairs, so CBRE can't let the techs work, and now the charge needs to be refigured based on a wasted trip, and then [manufacturer] authorizes the job but doesn't relay this back to RME so they're caught on the back foot when techs show up again and now have to scramble half the maintenance team to get the proper paperwork filled out, LOTO completed, and whatever else needs to be done for safety and access, while the techs sleep in their truck waiting to do the repair that could have been done on the first trip in fifteen minutes.
Yep. This is pretty much my daily fight. Conversation I was recently privy to [paraphrased] Mgmt: Why is the line not running? My boss: Machine broke down. Mgmt: Well fix it. My boss: Remember those spare parts I told you we needed to order 6 months ago because of the 16 week backorder/lag time? And remember how you said we didn't need them? We need them now. Mgmt: *surprised pikachu faces*
ricky is correct though. it takes weeks or months to repair some of the old stuff because they have to find the model number, part number, find someone who still makes the part and then spend weeks waiting on it to show up or spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to have it shipped overnight.
I get your point but you're already thinking on break-fix. With a good PM schedule and shop, commonly breaking parts are kept on hand. No need for rush shipments unless something unusual happens. Depending on the machine, PM will also find problems long before they stop the machine. Often enough time to fix the problem, or order the part ahead. You shouldn't need to find the model number, either. A good PM system should also have model numbers ready. I used to be the preventative maintenance guy. Saved the company a fortune. Easiest job I had in ages.
@@WukongTheMonkeyKing yes that is how all companies should work but i can tell you that from personal experience when i was younger, that is not how many of them work. for example training for articulated haulers says to check the tires, oil, hydraulics and other things of problems before you start. doing this day to day would require that either the employee gets to the site early to do these checks probably not being paid for it or get there when they are supposed to and do them thus causing things to get behind.
@@teacher555555 i gotcha. I mistook is for aught. In our shop, the pre-check was paid as part of the shift, and separate from the PM stuff. The boss was efficiency minded, and hated the idea of saving an hour now to lose a day later.
@@WukongTheMonkeyKing most big companies can operate like that with having the time to prevent things from happening but most small companies dont which is kind of a good thing that if you have a small company, it will be the same guys on the same site over and over and they will know what issues are on the site, what problems could happened and what can be done to stop issues from happening. so most of the time they all do, do something preventative stuff but not like you are supposed to.
Can confirm, As a Welder working with many rickys I am the only one who keeps his tools seperate and oiled...... Shoulda seen what fredericos box did, let me tell you that poor welder blew its panel off. Shoulda turned it off and blown it out every day, that and not flung shavings into the panel......
Can confirm a lot of farmers operate this way. Problem arises mid planting/harvesting season, it gets a "temporary fix" until winter, winter comes, bigger tasks are at hand, cycle repeates next year and so on until the whole machine is one big "temporary fix". When it does finally break down it will most likely end up sitting in that spot for months to years to come.
Yep. That’s why every farm has at least one tractor and a few implements parked where they broke down, usually with a tree or shrub growing through it.
Irony is the really old equipment usually still has parts available. Watched someone try to source new piston rings for a 2 year old generator. Nobody sells them so he had to buy rings for a 1960s Honda motorcycle instead.
"It's cheaper to buy new stuff than to replace the parts" Sadly this is true for many things, which is probably the reason so much stuff goes to the landfills.
I mean…one big lump or the parts to build a dozen of that lump, it all ends up in a scrapyard/dump. Then the company I used to work for shows up and takes it to try to Frankenstein it into a machine to make IVs.
Yeah companies found out they make more money if they make it almost as expensive to repair something as it is to just sell a new one and of course they don't build things to last any more so you have to buy more often instead of like one thing every 10 years
@@jacksmith-vs4ct I am still on the lookout for American manufactured products that I will only have to buy once. I will pay more to buy way less often.
Yup, sad but true. Not only paying for the parts, but the time/labor in replacing them, especially if they don't have a dedicated mechanic. Hire a contractor, or get your productive workers to spend their time learning/doing it. I think most places will wear the fuckers out, then trade them in for new, or newer refurbished machines. A lot of smaller contractors just get rental equipment to avoid the maintenance headache, but at least 1/4 of the rental stuff is dogshit. It's a fight to get the rental techs to replace fluids while they're out there to fix some other problem, too. Recently, with United, we went through 4 machines to get an excavator that works, and 4 augers, the last one being brand-new in packaging, to run some holes for poles. We spent at least a full week wasting our time waiting for the machine. More, if you include the slowdown from the earlier machines that only halfway worked.
He ain't lying ! We used to rebuild everything when it was worn out or broke. That stopped 20 years ago when the number crunchers figured out it was cheaper to replace the peice. Pumps, gear boxes, electric motors, hydraulic, or pneumatic cylinders, pretty much any mechanical component is now just pull and replace. Thats why it's getting so hard to find qualified maintenance people that can fix these these in a pinch, or when you don't have a replacement on hand. The hands out here today haven't been exposed to the inner mechanics of the equipment and that makes it harder for them to troubleshoot problems or how they occur.
The sad thing is in most cases he's not wrong about it being cheaper to buy something new than to get it fixed. Tried to fix a psp years back just opted buy a new 1 cuz I kept gettin told it would cost me more to fix it by the repair people & all it needed was a new screen. Hell it cost me 600 plus dollars to fix my old 300 to 400 dollar piece of junk laptop a few years back.
Maybe quit breaking your screen lol. What, are you throwing your shit when you lose your game? Do you blame the system rather than just accept the fact that you suck at video games.
This is exacty what happened at my Dishwasher job at a restaurant. I used to work there, got laid off due to co vid and then I came back a year and a half later to see the dish machine...broken. But it wasn't broken at least. I knew it was broken. somehow. But nobody cared. I tried to tell someone. Cause nobody maintained the dishmachine. Someone was supposed to make sure it was maintained at least a month. Seven months later...the dishmachine finally breaks and they needed to call someone to fix it. Meanwhile, the dishwasher had to wash every single dish. Also, my friend from the other job that I washed dishes at. Great restaurant, btw. When I told him about it. He said, they weren't supposed to do that. If the dish machine breaks, you gotta close for several days until the dish machine gets fixed. Someone had one job and failed. At least, the day after when they finally ordered a part for the dish machine, they fixed it with no problem. I feel bad for the morning dishwasher when he had to put all the unwashed dishes through the dish machine. But guess what? That whole shit could have been avoided if someone had been doing their job to make sure the dish machine was maintained...
Amen brother that was my old job. The excuses companies give is to dum to understand. It was always the motor burning out and not working. 9/10 video. It would be 10/10 if the boss was involved. Let’s the boss give a bad reason to fix them.
i work in trucking every time we send something in for PM that shit breaks down 2 weeks later and has to get taken off routes anyways so im like wttf was the point of taking it off for PM if it breaks down for shit that should have been caught during PM
This man is not lying at all. I dont have a assigned truck because we cant keep a truck on the road long enough to assign it. One of my trucks has been in the shop 8 times for running hot in the past 6 months. Another one was in such disrepair they sold it for scrap because They didnt want to bother with fixing the long list of issues it had. Trucking as a industry is really crappy. The suits sell 3 trucks off for scrap and it takes you a year to even get them to talk about replacing it.
As a maintenance technician of +20 years i can tell you it’s more costly to not do it and be down for days, weeks, months… or even worse buying new equipment. The numbers don’t add up in the end. 😗
I.... I think this is the most accurate one I've seen. Also I seen those Rockford Fosgate boxes on that shelf, now I'm both curious and impressed by that alone
As some one who does preventive maintenance this is.... painfully accurate. They don't take it down until they HAVE TO if it breaks they send it down the road to the next sucker then buy a new one if the machine will be down for longer than 3 days. I remember getting this beat to hell excavator, hydraulics were shot, oil was more like thick syrup than oil and oh yes the haudralic tank was half empty which meant leaks. Said I needed a couple guys more and we should need to do an overhaul to get it back to "original service specifications." So they sold it bought a brand new one and had me do the maintenance check on it to make sure the parts were all there, stripped the parts that were missing off the old one make a note in its service life and I think we sold it to a construction company. Pretty sure the old timers actually use to do overhauls
that's right. only one rule works practically in the cement factory i am working" if its running its good'... nobody stops the factory for preventive maintenance
Fuck this hits close to home. It was a major project and notable accomplishment, as in the site director made a big deal of it, when maintenance finally asked scheduling to set aside some time for preventative maintenance.
Petroleum pipeline station technician here…. I love it when contractors don’t take care of their shit…spend 2 days working on it….THEN try to charge me for having the equipment on site, And for the two swampers that spent two days fumbling around trying to fix piece of equipment that they have no idea how to work on!
If you dont schedule your machine for maintenance, then it does it for you
Same with one's body
Sounds like advice from someone responsible for maintenance and not actual work. 😆
Yup during the jobs that make the most money with the tightest time crunch
"built in assistant" feature is how the dealer adds an additional $10k on for you. it will let you know when it needs serviced...😂
🤣 I'm always telling supervisors thay🤣
Notice how the safety guy has no idea how Ricky is able to authorize all these purchases and that Ricky has good in-depth reasons on why it is this way, even threatening the safety guy's new responsibilities...
Ricky being the owner confirmed once more!
FACTS
I'm still waiting for the episode where we meet Ricky's parents; who actually run/own the company.
I want this to be official he should keep hinting at it but never just come out and say it or the entire mystery and suspense would be over though.
@@thezohan1975 👀....
only reason he aint been fired already
My boss put a really heavy emphasis on filling out daily reports of what equipment has what issues. I spent 15 minutes every day writing the same problems down over and over and over again for years. "Needs oil, needs hydraulic fluid, need grease, brakes do not function, no backup alarm, roll cage missing roof, no horn, leaking fuel line, needs replacement filter..." etc etc etc. Finally one day one of the machines didn't start. When someone told him he came running out of his office in a panic. Quickly paid another company to tow it away and look it over. The next day he told us we were going to have to start filling out daily maintenance reports. So I asked who was reading the ones we were already filling out. He wouldn't admit it but they were going straight into the trash can. I told him I had asked for permission to purchase things like oil and a grease gun and was denied so I assumed he had it covered....
Funny how that works. Office workers will pinch pennies to make the quarter look good so they get a bonus even though long term it will cost the company tens of thousands of dollars. Then when any "surprise" costs show up they will invariably blame the workers.
Can I get a witness ⛪️ preach it! 🙌
Facts🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌
Actually, the worst part of it is that those office workers arent getting a bonus either, most of the time its JUST the guys at the top, the ones entirely removed from any work, who get paid better for cutting corners like that.
Like if it isnt a Tax write off 😂😂😂
Sometimes superintendents might get a bonus, but usually the bonuses start coming in at the project manager level. And since he is the highest level that is somewhat in the field, if can stretch your imagination this far, the rest of those upstream are the ones that get the bonuses. At least that's what I've seen after 30 years in industry and construction work.
I’m 100% convinced that Preventative Maintenance is just replacing the sticker with a new date. This video is spot on!
The maintenance is the sticker! Duhh lol
Dont touch it unless its broken
What you said
Poptart gone trucking checking in Yall
🤣👍
Our company just goes through the pickups and resets everything..oil life, etc.
The fact that Ricky is the ONLY one that changes the oil on anything is actually impressive 😆
😂
It's a great excuse to avoid doing something more labor intensive.
@@somejerk5662 you ain't lying 😆 😂
@@somejerk5662 i dont know about you. But putting greese in a skid steer or a back hoe is very frustrating when it just wont accept the greese and ya sweating because you in 90 degree heat and this machine refuses to allow anything when it clearly drier the Sierra desert.
@@pride2184 greasing is another story, changing the oil is mostly easy labor
As a mechanic and professional equipment operator I can verify this is 100% accurate. The secret motto on jobs is "Pray the equipment stays working during your shift and if it breaks then cover up the fact you touched it." (Blame it on the next guy usually) I can usually fix the equipment good enough so the next guy really thinks he broke it on accident....
The good ol art of Jerry riggin so that it lasts until the next guy uses it and doesn’t know the secret method to make the Jerry rig work
I used to do this all the time at an old job of mine. Pretty sure I was the only person on 2nd shift to never get wrote up for breakin any machinery or tools 😂🤣
Used to work with a salesman in the Patch with no mechanical knowledge of engines etc. Every year he'd buy a new lawn push mower for his house. I said just change the oil and put in a new plug and fuel filter and sharpen the blade and you're GTG. He said "the lawn mower shop charges as much to do that as a new mower costs and the new one starts first pull. so, from then as long as i worked with him i got a 1 year old Craftsman lawn mower that i changed the oil on and replaced the fuel filter and sharpened the blade on and ran that bitch another year and then handed it down to someone else and got his1 year old one again. That's the true definition of the trickle down economy right there.
Hell, sounds like a good deal to me.
Chainsaws in Florida. Buy a new one for each major storm season. By December the rings are worn slam out. It won't start come June.
Haha that's beautiful
damn thats some real trickle down economy...... LMAO
Goofballs like him are the reason I can afford nice things XD
As one of those preventative maintenance guys, this is God's own gospel! Boss won't authorize the 3 days it takes fully rebuild our hardest working machine. So I get to spend 1 hour each day bandaiding the damned thing. That's a full day's production lost every week because "we can't afford the downtime".
Amen! We had a broken wheel on a electric pallet jack for like 8 months had to drive slowly to make sure it didn't throw stuff off constantly they only finally got new wheels for me to replace it when it threw expensive product that shattered on impact then suddenly they were like why weren't we informed had to pull months of logs of it's broken all the way back to it's chipped to it wobbles a bit
😂😂😂 one of my coworkers likes to say piece by piece we’ll have new equipment
Gonna Ship of Theseus that piece of equipment into a new machine. Also, when you explain that losing most of a day once a week is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar more expensive than a three day overhaul. 40+ cumulative days lost per year > one 3 day maintenance period per year.
I worked at a place like that, everybody involved with the machine told them “Give us two days and the parts, then two to three hours one day a week and the machine will work perfectly for years.” they got told we “couldn’t afford the downtime” so instead, they only got to bandaid the problems as they came up. Two to three hours down (at least) *every day* and a breakdown every six months that would take weeks to months getting fixed for lack of parts.
The final time it happened over two months before they let me go: We had killed our third motor for the pneumatics in 18 months, mid run. They sent for the only spare motor we had (“we can’t afford to order new parts! Why can’t we run without it?”), which was one that had already died on us and they had had “refurbished”. This was three weeks into “the machine is just a big industrial sculpture” time, and the “go to” guy for the Frankenstiened monstrosity hooked it up long enough to be sure nothing else died in the surge the short that killed the last motor caused. Nothing had, luckily, but they were informed that if they tried to run anything on that motor (as they had already heard from maintenance and some of the rest of us when we heard which motor had been installed) “the machine *will* burst into flames, because the motor *will* overheat and catch fire.” If it did, it was guaranteed to gut every electric and electronic component of the machine outside the control screen, since that motor was installed directly underneath all of that and enclosed by the door to those components.
Can you guess what they did the next day? Can you guess what happened four hours into it?
The machine was still not fixed when I left.
🐊
Ricky has point. The pencil pushers in the office will spend 30k in parts each month because it's broken up into smaller tickets. But they'll refused to spend 20k on a new machine that will last 6 months before it needs any major repairs.
And Ricky had a second point too - they cant find parts for half the stuff in storage. That means any parts you can find are going to be either refurbished, cost an arm and a leg, or will have to be jerry rigged into the equipment. Most of the time its gonna fall in at least two of those categories. Getting all three isnt exactly uncommon either
Which not only costs money but a heap of time too. Both of which are often in very short supply on a site
Not to mention the "certified technician" that these companies send in order to repair anything because you're not allowed to open anything anymore.
Different budgets
I think you might want to proof read before you post.
@@blakedavis2447 nah. It's more this way
That’s my job. Don’t touch it until it’s broken but my job title is mechanical maintenance. The only job I’ve had where I get in trouble for doing something that I was hired to do!! I love your videos man. They hit the nail on the head every time! Hilarious
Seriously. I don't understand it. Got a apprenticeship as industrial maintenance for 3 months. Duct tape and bubble gum was holding together electrical wires in our machines. I asked and the guy training me said "if you fix it right they'll doc ya, if you don't they'll doc ya. Just keep them happy, well keeping things running." Was what I was told.
@@n3rdst0rm you didn’t do your apprenticeship at Fizzano Brothers did ya? Lol Just kidding but on a serious note it blows my mind that a multi million dollar company operates in such a fashion. But than again that’s probably why they are a multi million dollar company. Idk. But that’s how my company operates just like that one.
@@IloveRoblox215 no but it was a very big company. Ended up leaving as I don't want to be the guy that has Frankensteins monster to grease and clean every day.
@@n3rdst0rm well you made a great decision. Seriously most people in such situation would ride the boat out beings it was a apprenticeship and the fact that you chose to leave because you didn’t want to be a part of the company’s lack of safety and ignorance says a lot about you. I really command you for making that decision.
"Why'd you shut the machine down for 15 minutes yesterday?"
"To replace a worn part that's going to break within the next 100 hours"
"Just let it break"
"And what happens if it breaks and fucks up six other parts in the machine? That's what this thing does when it breaks"
"DON'T ACT LIKE YOU KNOW BETTER THAN ME! YOU'RE GETTING WRITTEN UP."
Ricky doing the preventative maintenance? That’s like the devil handing out sacrament 🤣
Ricky buying new equipment? Dude HAS to be the owner.
@Xenia © what's here bitch ?
Honestly this hits. I work in a production warehouse and for the last 6 months, two of our three standing forklifts have had severe issues, bordering on being too dangerous to operate. Yet, despite us telling them about the four or five different codes each throws up, and the fact that one will jerk to a stop or shoot forward a foot out of nowhere, they have done nothing to get them fixed, and i honestly doubt they will until they A. stop working entirely. B. cause a work place injury. or C. cause a workplace accident that results in either injury, excessive damage to material, or more than likely both.
Forklift tech here. That’s usually the case. Companies don’t want to spend the money to get something fixed till it breaks or causes an accident because it might be a little pricey then when does eventually do whatever it’s not supposed to they want it fixed on the spot and don’t want to pay for it anyway. It’s an endless cycle.
1. Document the living shit out of your complaints,
2. Quietly ask HR to keep copies of that documentation for you.
3. Don't be the person who gets killed over this.
@@MrFelblood depending on who is the HR person, that can put a target on your back
Gotta love that crap. We'd had lifts that shut down after an impact. The problem was sensitivity was off on all of them. You could drive a couple through a brick wall and they'd never go off. A couple others would go off if you went over a seam in the concrete wrong. Can't tell you how many times people literally burned up batteries.
@@MrFelblood don’t talk to hr.
We have 10s of thousands of vehicles, no joke, some of which have been 300k miles with little more than an oil change every 50k miles. It blows my mind how long vehicles and equipment will run if they run almost around the clock with little to no maintenance.
I have worked at places were the truck turns on when you clock in and turns off right before you clock out. in the winter to keep the heat on or in the summer to keep the ac on spring and fall we just cracked the windows to balance things out. these trucks never got any oil changes they were bought already fucked up from auction they would go years with zero maintenance
@@imchris5000 sounds like the ones we send to auction
And yet if I don't change the oil and fuel filter in my truck it'll probably blow up
@@MrJdub454 yeah I’ve never understood it myself either.
Big companies use hours, not miles.
Its not worth my time to do an oil change on a vehicle if it comes up by date, rather than by hours.
Sidenote: the 3 month/3k miles on an oil change was set long ago by oil companies. They never updated it, its about double the time now with all the additives in it.
As a retired heavy equipment mechanic, Ricky is %1000 right. Run her till she breaks, fix her until parts supply dries up (which is faster now), and trade the old one for a new one. TBH from a mechanic's point of view (mine) the more often it's run, the better it holds up. It was that piece of specialty equipment that sat around a lot that was the biggest headache. 🤔
Diesel mechanic myself and I completely agree. That logic applies to car and trucks just the same as dozers and excavators. Those pretty trucks with low miles from back in the day are the ones that cause more issues.
Yeah I beat on my 70 year old bandsaw like a rented mule and when it does break I can usually fix it with $20 of parts and a flat blade screwdriver.
@@nubreed13 Gotta admit though a 70 year old saw is way easier to work on than a new one if yer being honest. 😎
@@Dsdcain definitely. I have noticed the newer my woodworking tools are the more often they break down and the more awful they are to fix. hell I never bother to grease the motors in anything because new motors are cheaper than getting repairs done.
@@nubreed13 Facts. Don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but things used to be built to last, and be able to repaired by the average "Joe" so to say. I've literally (hate using that word, but can't come up with another) spent my entire life since I was a kid, fixing one thing or another. Learned from my dad and uncles, and heck, even friends of the family. Older things were just built to last. Brand loyalty was more important than selling new "units".
I worked in a Crown Cork & Seal aerosol plant for almost 17yrs and the "BIG SHOTS" would take on so much work from corporate trying to make themselves look good we actually only had time to do about %25 of our preventative maintenance - then when the Sh*t hit the fan they're all running around like idiots asking the mechanics why the problems occurred and when we told them it was because of the plant motto - RUN IT TILL BREAK'S WE GOTTA MAKE CAN'S - management would be fuming - we just did what we were told - run the lines till they break down then scramble to get it back up and running again
I feel this, i have been working in a chicken plant the last year. We do maintenance every saturday and the same things break down all day or week long. If anything is new we bought it off of tyson after they got tired of fixing it.
@@garylangley5413 yes sir
When I started there in 04 we had a decent plant manager - we ran production 3 shifts Mon through Friday and did as much maintenance as we could on Saturday's so back then our equipment wasn't in such rough shape - but corporate wanted production on Saturday's to so they replaced him with a new kiss ass every 2 years that made promises they couldn't keep because the equipment couldn't take the abuse of running 6 days a week 3 shifts and getting band-aid repairs
Our plant used to be like that. The big wigs changed out some middle management and we started doing proper pm's and now our machines run way better. There's still problems, but there's less break downs, we hit our numbers better, workers are less stressed so we catch issues earlier.
Same exact shit happened at my old job. It's the reason why it's my old job.
Damn glad I didn't take a job there. Buddy of mine is working maintenance there currently.
It's very scary when Ricky makes more sense than the safety guy.
except he doesn't...
It's not scary at all, it's typical! That's almost how it goes too. It's sad, not scary
@@QuikVidGuy - Except it does make sense.
For example, during every war the USA has fought since World War 2, the USA just leaves most of the equipment there instead of bringing it back. Do you have any idea how many jeeps and support vehicles were left after Vietnam War? It's cheaper to buy new ones than to ship it back home to the USA.
Another example, every time the Navy's budget needs to be approved they toss out bullets overboard, or find a reason to use up leftover Bullets. Because if Congress sees that the Navy saved money, then they won't give as much money for the upcoming a budget.
Congress thinks "Oh the Navy saved money? Good. We can reduce their budget! "
Being efficient is NOT rewarded in government. It's punished.
@@TheBigExclusive Or maybe they actually do need their budget reduced if they have so many excess bullets that they can just afford to toss them into the ocean... Systems are there for a reason, everyone likes to complain about them, but they were created by much smarter people than you and me and make sense at the end of the day, stop fighting them.
@@johngibbs781 how come everybody is calling the preventative maintenance guy the safety guy?
I mean Ricky's got a point wait for the machine to break down because you don't have the time to do the preventative maintenance, but once the machine does break down you do all of the permanentive maintenance
Yep
You weren't listening. Don't waste time fixing something you can buy brand new
@@bobschiebel3325 yeah, I'm GoInG tO bUy A bRaNd NeW pIeCe Of EqUiPmEnT that's just needs a new fuel pump
In my factory, the larger things that need to be getting done during a scheduled PMD, they largely ignore in my area so they can rush back to producing which is the name of the game. On my slitter machine, we have 2 armstands failing and need a high pressure adjustment to prevent it from shutting the machine down and backing out the armstands every 80 meters. We are on PMD right now and they haven’t even scheduled the Japanese that built it to come work on it till our shorter PMD in the fall. So these issues will still persist. Plus I can guarantee that the 3rd armstand on that same side will also start to fail soon along with the other 2 soon. To them, it will only matter when we will be unable to slit the rolls that will back up our aging stand to the point it will shut forming down. Never before.
@@carlsteffens Just wait until you see the price of the fuel pump 😉
the real question is, how did safety man not see this comming when he heard ricky was in charge of that
Safety man has an optimistic disposition
Safety man is dumb.
Ricky has to be doing *something* useful to stay employed, even if it's using maintenance as an excuse to avoid real work, right?.... right?
My car has had a check engine light on for 4 months and has been fighting for its life! 😭
Today the check engine light is now off, my car has repaired itself. 🤣
My old Jeep XJ is similar. Turn it on, light comes on even though I cleared it last time, listen for any new sounds, all good? Carry on and send it.
I have a freightliner that the check engine light came on at 150k miles. My co driver and I ran it til 1.2 mil miles. Traded in it for a kenworth. I miss that old truck
Congratulations
If that little light is on, it works just fine 🤣
Nah, sounds like your check engine light is broken
I worked for a man who was BIG on preventative maintenance. The issue was, YOU were expected to pay for that maintenance out of YOUR OWN POCKET and then submit a bill at the end of the year... which would basically be IGNORED forever! I walked off the job immediately after being informed of this. An oil change for a Peterbilt is $250 at flying J, and new tires are $10k EVERY YEAR!
Sad part is that's pretty much how it really is. Almost every shop I worked at unless the machine was getting shut down for something else like equipment changeover . Nothing got done on that bitch. I learned how to do oil changes on bobcats while we are swapping buckets or heads.
It gets scheduled but when that time comes something with a higher priority trumps the maintenance
@@scottjones7279 Yeah usually something that broke down because It never got greased and oiled.
Fun fact, to often works that way in IT as well. Seen servers be on for years with nothing done to it. Soon as absolutely had to be turned off suddenly a backlog of work item show up for that unit or ones that also had to idle because they are dependent on it to take advantage of the down time.
@@I_Love_Quokkas I am by no means an avid coder or programmer. But something similar happens in software and game development as well. You'd be surprised at how much shit is just like bandaids being layered over previous spaghetti code because the only other real way to fix that shit is a complete rewrite from scratch.
@@piranhaplantX yep. Ives worked on the Incident management and Change Management fields in IT. Heard some weird stuff on calls before and after the “oops”
Literally describes the BP oil spill "accident" to a T. Lack of preventative maintenance can cause things to go unnoticed. They new something was wrong and didn't do there job, ie regular preventative maintenance. Preventative maintenance is exactly what it is. Preventing the company from having to make repairs on something so you don't have parts break down and cost the company money to get it fixed or replaced entirely. If preventative maintenance is done regularly on a scheduled basis then accidents are almost entirely unlikely to occur.
I agree but he problem is upper management gets pissed and starts asking why equipments shut down and how it's costing them money to have it sitting here doing nothing, and it's not exclusive to construction, almost every company that operates heavy machinery is this way.
I’m on-board up until the last sentence. It varies by the line of work, but you never reach an “accidents are almost entirely unlikely to occur” spot.
Still, preventative maintenance can obviously minimize risks. And it can sometimes make any repairs go by quicker (since you already did part of it before).
@@silver5866 that's why I said *almost*.
Sadly that is almost true, cheaper to buy new than too fix the old. That's what my wife told me. 😂 😂 😂
You're old, I'm new.
Depends on the equipment. It was a royal pain in the ass sourcing parts for my welder when it broke. It was down for about 3 weeks while I tracked down parts and had them shipped in. Luckily I didn't need it for a while otherwise I'd have just gave in and sank 1200 for a new one. Price Lincoln electric wanted for the parts was nearly $300. Price for me to find nos parts on ebay $80.
@@nubreed13 I understand, we have several tractors and a lot of farm equipment. Getting harder to keep them running.. Be Safe.
@@randylibby2523 yeah it's really hit and miss for me. My bandsaw still has new parts available despite being 70 year old. Meanwhile my welder is still baking made but the parts cost almost as much as the machine
Sounds like my relationship with my push mower, I think I put oil in it 5 years ago 🤣 it just sits all winter full of gas with no air cleaner, I cover the carb and pull 3 times and it's running, yet I bought a $400 self propelled one 2 years ago and it didn't even last the summer so I welded the wheel back on the deck of the 30 y/o junker and it's still trooping 🤷
That's why I buy 60-70 year old woodworking machinery. I hardly ever maintain them but when they do break it's usually only an afternoon to get it ship shape again. As opposed to my new belt sander which breaks when I look at it funny.
It isn't empty till it stops leaking.
Yeah, thats how you know it always has fresh clean oil lol. Just like gramps said in nam, If that heli aint leakin dont ride it!
I had an entire crew at a ink manufacturer in S.C. that considered the preventive maintenance done if they filled out the paperwork !!!
That's right preventive maintenance is as mythical as a rainbow farting unicorn. I've got maintenance tags on machines so old Nixon was still in office
Yup. Literally just cleaned a piece of equipment that hasn't been taken apart for a full once over since the Reagan administration. Previous company never did the proper maintenance so we got stuck with it. Took an entire week to fully scrub all the dirt and grease out.
@@nubreed13
Break out the Magic Paint.
Machine breaks down pull it apart paint it put it back together. May not run any better but at least it looks good
I work in IT this is so relatable. Problem is when our stuff breaks sometimes there is no replacement then you have to scramble to find a suitable replacement in short notice cost premium and lots of time trying to recover data.
While I get that the "run it till it breaks, then replace it" method might be cheaper on paper it's ignoring the efficiency loss that comes from the interim period between "functioning correctly" and "utterly unusable". Machinery and equipment doesn't just go from perfectly operational to busted overnight, it slows down, starts & stops unreliably and reacts in ways that require makeshift solutions to account for. there's only a set number of hours in the day and the more time you're having to spend just getting a vital piece of equipment going, the less time you actually have to get the job done which can have a domino effect that begins to impact other parts of a job site.
Always like that Ricky wears the same shirt as the safety guy. Secret love affair of course its deep down. He does what ever he can just to see and talk with him. Definitely a deep relationship.
So many write ups he got the Tshirt.
@@kramnull8962 love that reply. He got a free t-shirt. Lol
I work in a factory and I can confirm that this is pretty much spot on. The plant’s main PMD times is how they can figure out how to make the production lines speed faster and increase output while changing out the bare minimum and bandaid the rest to push production. On my areas slitter machine that processes the large rolls off of the forming line is largely ignored and been neglected for years, even with my self and other operators in the area pushing for more to be overhauled on it, of which has to be largely done by the Japanese that originally built it to come out from Japan to work on it.
The small things that mainly gets worried about, which is mainly just greased and lubed, is only worried about after they finish gang banging the forming line, get it running and have a mere 15 hours before the first roll is ready to be slit. Aggravating the shit out of us.
and let me guess you get told operator error is the problem. i only ask because when i worked in manufacturing i would run a machine for three months no problem then start having nothing but problems and got told i was doing it wrong because they couldn't figure out how to fix it. seriously what is mor elikely the guys who's been running it for months no problem suddenly doing the job wrong or the maintenance guy just being incompotent.
Yep. Our lead does that and even had some technical service thinking that. I have been fighting back and getting management and engineering seeing that’s it’s more machine issues. Some is lack of good training, again the fault of the lead and such, and he is the other one with the most knowledge of the machine besides myself and others I have trained. They made me the official practical trainer in the area with the lead only doing the final certification afterwards, so I guess I’m doing something right lol
As someone who works in a steel plant the “don’t bother maintaining until it breaks” line of thought is uh…accurate.
As a mechanical engineer I got 2 questions before I have an aneurysm.
#1 what idiot gave safety man the idea that he's got a f'ing clue what he's talking about with machinery? Safety man doesn't even know how often to change his blinker fluid alright.
And #2 I'll tell you right now if boss man wants any maintenance done he's gonna have to put more than oil in the budget.
Would you recommend synthetic blinker fluid? Idk if it's worth the extra money. Since I upgraded to premium air my tires seem to last longer...
Mechanical engineer eh?
Like HVAC Mechanical?
If so, I got an entire skeleton worth of bones to pick with you lol
I've worked for companies that only work on equipment once it breaks. Hydrolic pump is cause the controls to vibrate? keep her running till it breaks. Rubber tracks are showing metal inside? Keep running till the track falls off we have to keep in schedule.
Worked at a woodshop that did this. Eventually the metal shop mutineed and we just spent half a day fixing all the glaring problems we'd been having for 6 months. Stuff stopped breaking for a full year after that.
I am a machine operator in manufacturing and we do PM's once a week, and we always break down with in a day or 2 after the PM. This video hit the bull's eye 🤣🤣🤣
If it’s done on time every time without a second thought it works flawlessly. I’m a maintenance tech and I’ve seen and worked in both situations.
Yupp, Technicians in any field can second that one. As am auto mechanic, side by side trucks. same year, same model. Ones prestine, has barely any issues, minor leaks here and there. Other one is heading to the boneyard.
This is giving me print shop flashbacks. Freaking bosses and their spending a dollar to save a dime nonsense.
The worst part was that we actually did have the whole paperwork program, training, and time needed mapped out to do preventive maintenance.... and then they looked at the workload those weeks and decided that running a 15 million dollar machine 24/7 made more sense that week. And then got angry with us when we told them their multi-million dollar machine don't run as good no more.
So when did we do maintenance? When the machine broke. When could we actually catch up on maintenance? When it broke so bad our maintenance crew had to tag out for an actual engineer to fabricate a solution whole cloth.
I've been gunning for a promotion to an engineering position for months now, and I'm suddenly having second thoughts...
I'm signed up for welding course because of you 👍
Good on ya man. You can make a good living if you dont mind chasing the work.
That is a skill that will last a lifetime provided you keep practicing. Im not a welder anymore but I still use my machine for repair work all the time at home.
the "hey i didnt do anything wrong, ive done literally nothing today" is both the best defense and the harshest confession
Why do I feel that this is more
“handy tips” rather than comedy🤣
Had an F250 crew cab longbed at work that had no working tail lights, reverse lights or rear blinkers. It took 3 years, several complaints to supervisors, multiple stops by police and finally failing an inspection before the problem was fixed. Some asshole wired the lift gate wrong which caused it to blow fuses.
Refuse to use it. It's not legal to drive
Literally just make them order you to use this truck in writing. Paper trail. What are they going to do? Fire you when you have a paper trail? Stupidest decision they'd ever make.
Quite literally my last log mill job, and good part of why I left. The excavator blew a hose daily, and they just kept putting hoses on it.
cheaper to buy hoses and maintenance guys than to call an engineer and add an accumulator.
@@AugustusTitus I got a little secret for you guys they make hydraulic hoses in different pressures. But if you go down to the local auto parts store they probably only sell 3000psi not 6000psi . Buy a factory hose then only buy hoses that are made by the factory or a hose supplier that’s got high pressure hose
You know, this is how the army works too. Sometimes you have to let things break just to get parts. I remember I had been putting how a light bulb needed to be replaced for years, and was never e even ordered parts for. Hell even the things that were broke down, stayed broke for years. I was thinking they just use most vehicles on base to train new PVTs.
I really wonder what our maintenance guys did all the time, because they always seemed to have the same vehicles in those bays.
I knew an Army Master Sgt. He was stationed somewhere BFE. They had this pile of scrap that was supposed to be a Jeep. The couldn't requisitions a replacement because the "had" a vehicle. Well he and his buddy were jump qualified trainers. They practiced air dropping that Jeep. He mentioned it took the three tries before they got the parachute to fail. They then wrote up a training loss report and got sent a brand new vehicle.
Went to belk when the debit cards were transitioning to the chip versions, they were using a computer from the 90’s trying to mesh it with the new card readers and the receipts were dot matrix 😂
We stood in line for like 20 minutes for 2 people purchase a few items each, then it took us about 10 minutes to get checked out. Companies ignore how much bad equipment costs the company because it doesn’t get recorded on reports, then when they need thousands of dollars to replace computers they get uppity
I work at Kohl's and recently found out some interesting information. A previous generation of our handheld scanners were Windows based and didn't run for shit. Then we got new Android based scanners and I told my manager 'that should be better because Android isn't locked down like Windows, easier to code for". The new scanners have been getting progressively harder to use as apps crash or they act like they aren't communicating with the server.
I found out through a former supervisor who became a manager at another store (who was recently on a committee with the company's tech people to explain issues we were having) that instead of writing the UI and the apps for Android, they simply just ported the Windows apps over. What's happening now is every time they update and add new features, the system can't handle the workload and causes all sorts of crashes and other issues, effectively slowing down productivity.
So, not only will it cost them the original amount of money to "save money" by doing something cheap, it's going to cost them more because they have to re-write the UI and the apps from scratch... which is what they should have done in the first place.
I mean it's absolutely true. I used to mow public land for the city and we just ran those mowers into the ground. All they got was new fuel. And it sucks buying new stuff all the time because it's such a waste of resources. Also, I feel some accomplishment once I've finished maintaining equipment, even simple stuff like cleaning and applying the new layer of that greasy stuff to slow down wear and tear. Iunno, I like looking at stuff working like it should and knowing my effort paid off. Also, it's stupid dangerous sometimes, like when the mower blade is so old and brittle that hitting a rock the size of a golf ball was enough to snap one of the blades off and jam it diagonally between the port that coughs out the grass and the ground, making darn sure you don't keep moving forward.
Years ago I had a position as a pm man on a paper machine, one of the easiest jobs I ever had !
Because when it was running good, the last thing anybody thought about, from the laborers, to the plant manager, was shutting it down !
I used to work on a steel factory in Europa. Specificaly on the tracks where 2000+tons of trains with molten metal drive over. The only thing we did was corrective maintenance, and oiling al the switches. We would go trough 20L of oil in a week. That was our PM and shit still broke down.
I almost choked on my coffee! 🤣🤣🤣 I'm so glad that I found this channel!
Way too close to the truth. Only thing I know of at my job that gets a real pm is anything that needs a calibration to stay ISO compliant.
I love this video. I've been saying for about 2 weeks now that my machine at work wasn't running correctly. It finally completely broke down and took at least 4 people and about 2 and a half hours to fix. I've also only been there a month and have seen at least 3 machines hauled away to never be seen again.
When a guys says he's doing PM. It means he's having a bad day and wants to be left alone.
a lot of hammers amd things that double as hammers get thrown
I worked on a farm once, we did not have PM’s. We just had UPM’s. Unplanned maintenance. Like simple things, such as going to check the compressor in the morning and noticing that the bottom on the oil reservoir is in a million pieces on the floor. Happy Monday.
PM? You misspelled pencil whipping! 🤣
This video is spot on for my company, except for the buy new part. They wait til it breaks and we're without before they realize they shouldn't have scabbed it together the previous 3 times 😂
I fricking love this!!!! Sending love and light from 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
"Buying new stuff is cheaper than fixing the old stuff"... truer words have never been spoken
Not sure why my service truck has an oil change due sticker on the windshield because I change 1/2 a gallon of it every week.
If we turn in a service request on equipment because of a noise or vibration or something, the maintenance forman tells us to keep running it til something breaks. Then he'll know what it was lol
There's nothing worse than an intermittent problem.
That's when I fix the problem. Break the machine. Then it either gets fix replace or used for parts on other machines. Then sent away.
Ricky never ceases to amaze me.......if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
💯 Facts right here. Any equipment at some of the places I've been does not ever stop running unless it's broke.
I work in an Amazon site and our semiautomated workstations have a lot of conveyance that's connected to our main sorter, and it in turn is connected to everything else. I feel like all of our maintenance is reactive. Work stations being offline for weeks at a time. Hell, a whole side of a Product storage floor has been shut down since the site was a year old and is being cannibalized to keep the other side running. We just finished our 6th year of operation. This. Video. Is. Truth
What's really fun is how Amazon decided to handle maintenance and repairs, which has turned the RME team into glorified rolodexes. They call the repair guys. No, not the actual repair guys, the manufacturer that will in turn contact a local authorized branch of the repair guys. Then scheduling gets kicked back and forth while Amazon, CBRE, and the manufacturer argue about who's footing the bill and where the parts are coming from and when they can afford time to shut down the already broken piece of equipment, and since none of this gets properly conveyed you get maintenance and repair techs driving hours to a job site with parts in hand only to be told [manufacturer] has not yet authorized the repairs, so CBRE can't let the techs work, and now the charge needs to be refigured based on a wasted trip, and then [manufacturer] authorizes the job but doesn't relay this back to RME so they're caught on the back foot when techs show up again and now have to scramble half the maintenance team to get the proper paperwork filled out, LOTO completed, and whatever else needs to be done for safety and access, while the techs sleep in their truck waiting to do the repair that could have been done on the first trip in fifteen minutes.
Nooo noo nooo if you put grease in something you will ruin a perfectly good squeak.
Yep. This is pretty much my daily fight.
Conversation I was recently privy to [paraphrased]
Mgmt: Why is the line not running?
My boss: Machine broke down.
Mgmt: Well fix it.
My boss: Remember those spare parts I told you we needed to order 6 months ago because of the 16 week backorder/lag time? And remember how you said we didn't need them? We need them now.
Mgmt: *surprised pikachu faces*
"Only thing we gonna lose is our jobs if you start shuttin' everything down." Direct quote
ricky is correct though. it takes weeks or months to repair some of the old stuff because they have to find the model number, part number, find someone who still makes the part and then spend weeks waiting on it to show up or spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to have it shipped overnight.
I get your point but you're already thinking on break-fix.
With a good PM schedule and shop, commonly breaking parts are kept on hand. No need for rush shipments unless something unusual happens. Depending on the machine, PM will also find problems long before they stop the machine. Often enough time to fix the problem, or order the part ahead.
You shouldn't need to find the model number, either. A good PM system should also have model numbers ready.
I used to be the preventative maintenance guy. Saved the company a fortune. Easiest job I had in ages.
@@WukongTheMonkeyKing yes that is how all companies should work but i can tell you that from personal experience when i was younger, that is not how many of them work. for example training for articulated haulers says to check the tires, oil, hydraulics and other things of problems before you start. doing this day to day would require that either the employee gets to the site early to do these checks probably not being paid for it or get there when they are supposed to and do them thus causing things to get behind.
@@teacher555555 i gotcha. I mistook is for aught.
In our shop, the pre-check was paid as part of the shift, and separate from the PM stuff.
The boss was efficiency minded, and hated the idea of saving an hour now to lose a day later.
@@WukongTheMonkeyKing most big companies can operate like that with having the time to prevent things from happening but most small companies dont which is kind of a good thing that if you have a small company, it will be the same guys on the same site over and over and they will know what issues are on the site, what problems could happened and what can be done to stop issues from happening. so most of the time they all do, do something preventative stuff but not like you are supposed to.
Holy crap, this is accurate as hell
Can confirm, As a Welder working with many rickys I am the only one who keeps his tools seperate and oiled...... Shoulda seen what fredericos box did, let me tell you that poor welder blew its panel off. Shoulda turned it off and blown it out every day, that and not flung shavings into the panel......
LMAO!!!!!😂😂😂🤣🤣 LOVED THE VIDEO KEEPEM COMING OLBOY!!
Can confirm a lot of farmers operate this way. Problem arises mid planting/harvesting season, it gets a "temporary fix" until winter, winter comes, bigger tasks are at hand, cycle repeates next year and so on until the whole machine is one big "temporary fix". When it does finally break down it will most likely end up sitting in that spot for months to years to come.
Yep. That’s why every farm has at least one tractor and a few implements parked where they broke down, usually with a tree or shrub growing through it.
I mean it really is easier to replace equipment then parts these days.
Irony is the really old equipment usually still has parts available. Watched someone try to source new piston rings for a 2 year old generator. Nobody sells them so he had to buy rings for a 1960s Honda motorcycle instead.
God, this is my job right now. They just passed out PM sheets for this stuff and yep, the machines run 24/7 at full speed.
Maintenance here, can confirm it’s cheaper to buy and replace than maintain
"It's cheaper to buy new stuff than to replace the parts" Sadly this is true for many things, which is probably the reason so much stuff goes to the landfills.
I mean…one big lump or the parts to build a dozen of that lump, it all ends up in a scrapyard/dump. Then the company I used to work for shows up and takes it to try to Frankenstein it into a machine to make IVs.
Yeah companies found out they make more money if they make it almost as expensive to repair something as it is to just sell a new one and of course they don't build things to last any more so you have to buy more often instead of like one thing every 10 years
@@jacksmith-vs4ct I am still on the lookout for American manufactured products that I will only have to buy once. I will pay more to buy way less often.
Yup, sad but true. Not only paying for the parts, but the time/labor in replacing them, especially if they don't have a dedicated mechanic. Hire a contractor, or get your productive workers to spend their time learning/doing it. I think most places will wear the fuckers out, then trade them in for new, or newer refurbished machines.
A lot of smaller contractors just get rental equipment to avoid the maintenance headache, but at least 1/4 of the rental stuff is dogshit. It's a fight to get the rental techs to replace fluids while they're out there to fix some other problem, too. Recently, with United, we went through 4 machines to get an excavator that works, and 4 augers, the last one being brand-new in packaging, to run some holes for poles. We spent at least a full week wasting our time waiting for the machine. More, if you include the slowdown from the earlier machines that only halfway worked.
"Put water in it" was my old boss's preventive maintenance when we use to complain about the genie lifts batteries.
He ain't lying !
We used to rebuild everything when it was worn out or broke. That stopped 20 years ago when the number crunchers figured out it was cheaper to replace the peice. Pumps, gear boxes, electric motors, hydraulic, or pneumatic cylinders, pretty much any mechanical component is now just pull and replace. Thats why it's getting so hard to find qualified maintenance people that can fix these these in a pinch, or when you don't have a replacement on hand. The hands out here today haven't been exposed to the inner mechanics of the equipment and that makes it harder for them to troubleshoot problems or how they occur.
I am Heavily involved in Preventative maintenance. My boss send me the video today. He really nailed this one.
The sad thing is in most cases he's not wrong about it being cheaper to buy something new than to get it fixed. Tried to fix a psp years back just opted buy a new 1 cuz I kept gettin told it would cost me more to fix it by the repair people & all it needed was a new screen. Hell it cost me 600 plus dollars to fix my old 300 to 400 dollar piece of junk laptop a few years back.
Maybe quit breaking your screen lol. What, are you throwing your shit when you lose your game? Do you blame the system rather than just accept the fact that you suck at video games.
This is exacty what happened at my Dishwasher job at a restaurant. I used to work there, got laid off due to co vid and then I came back a year and a half later to see the dish machine...broken. But it wasn't broken at least. I knew it was broken. somehow. But nobody cared. I tried to tell someone. Cause nobody maintained the dishmachine. Someone was supposed to make sure it was maintained at least a month. Seven months later...the dishmachine finally breaks and they needed to call someone to fix it. Meanwhile, the dishwasher had to wash every single dish.
Also, my friend from the other job that I washed dishes at. Great restaurant, btw. When I told him about it. He said, they weren't supposed to do that. If the dish machine breaks, you gotta close for several days until the dish machine gets fixed. Someone had one job and failed. At least, the day after when they finally ordered a part for the dish machine, they fixed it with no problem. I feel bad for the morning dishwasher when he had to put all the unwashed dishes through the dish machine. But guess what? That whole shit could have been avoided if someone had been doing their job to make sure the dish machine was maintained...
Amen brother that was my old job. The excuses companies give is to dum to understand. It was always the motor burning out and not working. 9/10 video. It would be 10/10 if the boss was involved. Let’s the boss give a bad reason to fix them.
I just watched a typical, everyday work conversation with a funny face added in.
i work in trucking every time we send something in for PM that shit breaks down 2 weeks later and has to get taken off routes anyways so im like wttf was the point of taking it off for PM if it breaks down for shit that should have been caught during PM
This man is not lying at all. I dont have a assigned truck because we cant keep a truck on the road long enough to assign it. One of my trucks has been in the shop 8 times for running hot in the past 6 months. Another one was in such disrepair they sold it for scrap because They didnt want to bother with fixing the long list of issues it had. Trucking as a industry is really crappy. The suits sell 3 trucks off for scrap and it takes you a year to even get them to talk about replacing it.
As a maintenance technician of +20 years i can tell you it’s more costly to not do it and be down for days, weeks, months… or even worse buying new equipment. The numbers don’t add up in the end. 😗
" he's the only one I've seen change * inaudible * in anything"
This is so true. I worked for a multi-billion dollar company and it was "run to failure" on ALL equipment!!!
Throw it the gutter and go buy another. (Easy E)
FIRST! Thanks for the awesome vid once again
Edit:
Damn I'm third :( 30 seconds too late, maybe next time lol
Now that's funny as hell 💁♂️💪👊👊😂🤣
Back in the day... when I was in the oilfield, it was: Don't fill it up until it's empty and don't fix it until it's broken.
Ricky must be the owner. The only way to explain all the new equipment without the trouble getting it. Plus he's right about parts lol
I.... I think this is the most accurate one I've seen. Also I seen those Rockford Fosgate boxes on that shelf, now I'm both curious and impressed by that alone
Oh it's always good when the first person you ask says "oh, I didn't even know we did that."
So spot-on...
As an electrician this Chanel gets all the good spots.
"I ain't done nothing wrong cuz I ain't done nothing yet today". Knew it was coming🤣
I wanna be friends.... with this guy he hilarious.... And I watch all his videos....all😂😂
As some one who does preventive maintenance this is.... painfully accurate. They don't take it down until they HAVE TO if it breaks they send it down the road to the next sucker then buy a new one if the machine will be down for longer than 3 days. I remember getting this beat to hell excavator, hydraulics were shot, oil was more like thick syrup than oil and oh yes the haudralic tank was half empty which meant leaks. Said I needed a couple guys more and we should need to do an overhaul to get it back to "original service specifications." So they sold it bought a brand new one and had me do the maintenance check on it to make sure the parts were all there, stripped the parts that were missing off the old one make a note in its service life and I think we sold it to a construction company.
Pretty sure the old timers actually use to do overhauls
that's right. only one rule works practically in the cement factory i am working" if its running its good'... nobody stops the factory for preventive maintenance
Fuck this hits close to home.
It was a major project and notable accomplishment, as in the site director made a big deal of it, when maintenance finally asked scheduling to set aside some time for preventative maintenance.
Petroleum pipeline station technician here…. I love it when contractors don’t take care of their shit…spend 2 days working on it….THEN try to charge me for having the equipment on site, And for the two swampers that spent two days fumbling around trying to fix piece of equipment that they have no idea how to work on!
When the safety man skips over Rickey admitting to doing absolutely nothing 😂😂😂