Scary Business!!

Mark Chisholm

Mark Chisholm

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Well, some of you probably know this already (at least the 7 phone calls, 4 dozen emails and 20 or so private messages I replied to do), but our server crashed on Friday. The whole site was down all day, but was back online late Friday. The forum was another issue. For a while we weren't sure if we'd lose some posts during the restore.

Thanks to Raphael Webscapes (our web-team) we are now back up 100% and don't believe that we lost much (if any). Just to let you all know, they called me after hours Friday, worked with the server company until it was back online (thanks to the server guys too) and were working Saturday with plans to work into Sunday if need be. It seems that we are not the only ones who care about this site!

Tom mentioned something to me about how this server crash was the equivelant of our storm work for the web team. /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Thanks Barb, and the rest of the web team! You are a class act! That is exactly why we use your services! /forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
Yeah, the server's back up. How about your bucket truck. any luck with that? Wait, it already was up, did you get it down? Hahaha!
 
It's good to see you're back online. I was starting to go through withdrawl. /forum/images/graemlins/icon310.gif And to the Tech's.... /forum/images/graemlins/applaudit.gif
 
Yeah Glen, I almost forgot about that. Talk about a bad day. On the way to the site Friday morning, one of my buckets broke down. The air compressor wouldn't build pressure for the brakes. So, it was abandoned on the side of the road outside a fenced park that we were working in. I took the crew inside the park and started them pruning there while I went with one guy back out to get the other bucket working.

What I did was buy a check valve, install it in one air tank and then add a fitting for a coupling on the end. Then I pumped air into the tanks from a compressor in a friends truck. That got the pressure up, released the spring brakes and then I was able to drive it into the park.

Then I drive in further to check on my crew. The other bucket was 45' up and not moving? He said it just stopped. I checked all and it was not something simple. After troubleshooting and takling to FEVA (manufacturers) I decide that the splines on the hyd. pump stripped. The bucket is 1.2 years old! They said it happens all of the time? Talk about frustrating. Anyway, shot a line up to Smokey so he could self-rescue. They climbed the rest of the day.

Then I come home to find TreeBuzz crashed! Man alive!/forum/images/graemlins/headpop.gif

I was able to get the other bucket home by pulling over once to recharge the air tanks on the side of the road. Now it is fixed and ready for Monday. On Sunday I met the Terex repair guy out at the park to fix the other truck. With 15 pennies jammed into the pump, the centripetal force spins the pennies and pumps the pressure. Very easy fix. It works enough to get the truck racked up and the riggers up. But, I still need a new pump and PTO assembly since one ruins the other. Big $$$ to fix! /forum/images/graemlins/mad.gif

Funny thing was that Smokey was the one driving the 1st bucket when it broke, then was in the second when it broke! Like Trump says...."You're Fired!!!!" /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Thanks for reminding me Glen! /forum/images/graemlins/smirk.gif


On the better side, I used having to go out to the park on Sunday to get the truck fixed as an excuse to have a picnic and play date with the family. It was a pretty nice, sunny day here so why not! When life throws you lemons- shoot some tequila and bite 'em! (I say anyway!)
 
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