Showing posts with label Northland Diesel Service. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Northland Diesel Service. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Update...
So I haven't posted in a while because I haven't been doing much lately. I will be starting here in the next few weeks at Farmers Equipment in Lynden so I have been demoted to "delivery boy" at Northland Diesel. I can't blame them, why would they want to train me for someone else? The main reasons for leaving Northland for Farmers Equipment are hours and commuting time. My rig isn't exactly a Prius (not that I want one) so the gas bill adds up fast with a Bellingham trip every day. Plus I will be getting in a lot more welding at Farmers. Anyway I'll keep you all posted as I move along.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Todays doing...
Well this was my ride for the day :) I spent almost the whole day running around Seattle area dropping stuff off for customers. Although I'm not a big fan of diesel cars I must say this VW Jetta TDI Wagon was a very good ride! One of the customers had a shop back in the foothills and that's where this 6-speed diesel really shined! Fun stuff =D
Wisconsin Motor...Take 2
So the Wisconsin motor that Lynn and I rebuilt the week prior ended up spinning a bearing again. I guess that's what you get or a cheap/quick rebuild job. But the good this is it lasted long enough for the owner to take care of a few customers so he wasn't in a bind for time. So this time we pulled the bad motor out and stripped it down. The crank was ruined from the excessive heat but luckily the crank in the spar block looked good so we mic'ed it and it was still in good shape. So we moved all the components from the bad block over and rebuilt the motor on the spar block. Once it was all back together we tested it out and it all ran great. So we ran it at several different throttle positions for about 2/3 of the day to break it in and then returned it to the owner. So far its been holding up well under heavy use.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Today's Project...
Today a customer came in who owns a insulation company and said that the motor that runs the insulation blower/spreader was making a really loud clanking sound and thought that it had thrown a rod. So he pulled his truck in and also dropped off a spare parts motor. My job was to pull the broken motor and then cannibalize the spare motor. Lynn tore apart the broken motor and it turned out that it had just spun a barring on the crank. So we pulled a piston out of the old block and are going to put it in the new block tomorrow when a few other parts come in.
Other than that I spent the rest of the day cleaning up around the shop. We have a customer who is going to bring in three bran-new generators that got damaged in shipping so I had to clear a space for them.
Snowcat Run
So yesterday we did another snowcat run, this time just to check on things. It ended up being quite a eventful day. We started heading up the mountain in the truck pulling the snowcat, the whole time chatting with some loggers on the mountain over the CB. About the 3 1/2 mile one of them asked us where we were heading and we told him all the way to the top. Well he says that they have the road blocked off with their equipment and that he was at the 4 mile coming down loaded. All the turnouts were too muddy to use so Lynn had to back the truck about halfway down the mountain with the trucker right behind us. We eventually got to a place where it widened up enough to let him pass and with a 6-8 point turn we were able to get down the mountain. At the bottom we ran into the ranger who runs that area and to asked if any of the other routes were open, turns out the only one we could take was the longest possible route and always had the worse winter conditions. But we ended up taking that trail. We came across a few downed trees and then the chainsaw decided to break on us so we had to use a ax to cut our way in. But once we were on our way the day went very smoothly from there on...just a really long ride. Once at the top we checked everything, which was all good, and then headed back. It was a uneventful trip back.
The snowcat sitting up at the top o the mountain. It was really nasty weather up there!
Stan was going to chase us up the mountain in this beast but he ended up not being able to go with us.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Half day at work today...
Today was really slow, I spent most of my time moving fuel pump test stands around. We just added another one so we had to move all of them to make them fit. That also included making new water lines for the cooling systems.
In other news, the snowcat will be making another run here in the next week! We want to take advantage of all this good snow were getting. This trip should be a quicker one than the last one because all we're doing is checking the generators and making sure everything is in good running condition.
Sorry that I'm not uploading very many pictures...but when I'm at work I don't feel comfortable taking pictures on their dime. I'm there to work. However when I finally get to working on my boat I'll be sure to take lots of pictures.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Blaine Harbor Trip
Today I went with Lynn to the Blaine harbor to work on a 40-some foot boat. He had been down there a while back and had pulled the injectors and the injector pumps off both the Perkins engines. Today we installed all the re-maned parts and then spent the rest of the day chasing after fuel leaks. As soon as we would fix one another would pop up. But we finally got everything squared away and the engines ran much better, much to the delight of the owner. We couldn't take it for a test spin though...'cause the boat owner was drunk. Good fun though!!
Mobile Generator Project
This was my project for Wednesday, a mobile generator. The customer who is having us build this sells mobile hospitals to the army and such. We are having to modify the door so it will be able to be opened from inside the cart and also attach a second fuel tank. There are other things that will need to be done but that will be further down the road.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Slow day at work...
...but a good one. Did a basic lof on a VW Rabbit and then spent the rest of the day organizing the service truck, running around bellingham picking up parts, assisting the main mechanic, and other small duties.
Monday, January 9, 2012
First day at Northland Diesel Service
My first day at Northland Diesel Service, December 16, 2011.
We took the snowcat up in the mountains to service a generator that ran a tower for one of our customers. Definitely a fun first day on the job!
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