How'd it go today?

You need to live out in the country Andrew. I had to run my wife around to get a dress and get my hair cut for the funeral today. My Wifey always likes to be late for these things and it stresses the rest of us out. The party after the funeral was pretty good. My kids are really cool, and so are their cousins. I always feel like I should say something at these funerals but my BIL was one very underutilized human being, so it's hard to find something nice to say. Kind of a trying day and tomorrow is busy at work.
 
If you can't say much that is nice about a person at their funeral, there must not have been anything at all nice to say about them when they were still alive.

Got a funeral to go to myself, my farmer neighbor's wife died yesterday.
She was a rather dark woman, and I don't mean complexion wise.
 
I ate one slice of cheese pizza at the mall yesterday and I am down for the count. Cancelled my work, sent my employees home and have just let the phone ring. I can't believe I am suffering from a cheese pizza hangover. I think I am swearing off cheese forever now.
 
Hope you get over that soon.

Sounds like food poisoning. Probably an employee who neglected to wash his hands after... well, you know. :barf:
 
Yup.... Probably forgot to wash after the chicken :P
Sorry to hear that Darin.. Hope you feel better tomorrow.

Day off with the kids today as I kept it open in case I was climbing more today... So Katy and I are going to drive over to Oakhurst so I can keep her company at an appointment.
 
I started on my job 20 something miles away when the accountant called and said she needed additional info for something that has to be filed tomorrow.

I knocked down 15 or so little pines, got them stacked and ready to chip, and limbed up the gums so I can flop them past the power pole.

Nothing like driving 40 minutes to work 40 minutes eh? I'm heading back now.
 
Did a lightning protection job on a big spruce this morning, and dead wooded two thorny honey locusts after lunch. Gonna split a little firewood and call it a day.
 
:lol: Drove back out there, got there as it started to rain. Took a nap on the porch hoping it would slack off, woke up an hour later and it was near bouts pouring so I put the check in the bank and came home.
 
Spent the day playing groundie for two other foremen today. I forgot how easy most of our groundsmen have it. This was the easiest day I've had in at least a year.
Got home and results from CA test arrived from ISA in mail. Passed. Score was 83. 8):big-dance2:
 
Finished up a SRT and Rappel course today. The guys did pretty good. One of the guys who is supposed to be experienced had difficulty with some pretty basic knots, he got schooled pretty good by the greenhorn with a month of experience.
 
Spliced the Velocity today. Tight eye, full fid bury. Turned out nice.

During the splice I broke some NE tech cord. Happened when I buried the core. I think the metal edges on the handle cut through it during the pull. You could see where something had been wearing on it.
 
Good deal, Skwishey. Now tell me why I lose all air pressure overnight, but cannot hear any air leaking when I turn the truck off and the air pressure does not drop at all in the first 30-45 minutes after shutting off the truck. I can shut it off for lunch and when I restart it the air pressure is right where it was before. But overnight it drops to zero, nothing, nada.
 
Is this a trick question? Cause you should be blowing your tanks off every night.

You lose all air pressure? You will have three reservoir tanks on your truck, even if it looks like only one. Your wet, primary and secondary. You either have seperate gauges or a combo gauge with a green and red indicator. And you're saying all of your air pressure in both systems bleeds off overnight?
 
First thing you should be doing is identifying your tanks(reservoirs). The 'wet' tank is the one that air will go into from your compressor(or from the air dryer if you have one). The way to identify your wet tank if you can't follow the lines easily is that it is the tank or part of the partitioned tank that will have a safety valve(pressure relief valve) on it. Your primary and secondary parts won't.

When you blow off tanks you always want to blow off your wet tank first and then you can watch your gauges to see if your primary or secondary system bleed down. They shouldn't but this is how you check your one way check valves that the primary and secondary have installed to stop air from bleeding back to the wet tank.

If you're losing all your air. You have a leak, there's no other way it can happen. And if your one way check valves are working properly then you must have a leak in the primary and secondary if you're losing all air. That's why I mentioned checking the check valves first.
 
Yup, every last bit. Both front and rear tanks.

And my tanks have automatic bleed valves to bleed off any condensation automatically. There are no petcocks to drain the tanks manually.
 
In my 28hrs of air brake training, nothing was mentioned about auto bleed valves at all. We covered all types of tractors all the different manufacturers of air brake parts/components and nothing about automatic bleed valves. You are not referring to the exhaust port on the air dryer are you? As was taught to me this weekend all reservoir tanks have bleed valves and you need to bleed them down all the way in order to get all the moisture out. So you're saying your truck does that then automatically when you park it or something? Because it could never do it while you're driving/running as you'd have no service brakes.

When your truck reachs max air pressure and the compressor goes into unloading does it make a large exhausting of air noise? If so it has a airdryer and it's controlled by the governor to automatically vent each time the ompressor goes to unloading(when max pressure is reached). This is a precautionary item which helps to keep moisture and gunk out of your tanks but in no way makes it unnescessary to drain your reservoir tanks.

How do the auto bleeders work? As I was taught in class you have to bleed the tank right down to nothing as often when a bleed valve is opened you'll get a spurt of moisture and then the air will have pushed the water aside to escape so until the air pressure gets down the water is just pushed aside and still in the tank.
 
If you can't manually drain your tanks you have no way of draining your wet tank to test your one way check valves in your primary and secondary tanks. That procedue is part of the pre-trip inspection required daily here. So if you can't do that then your system would be illegal here. One thing I was taught and I guess it only applys here is that all reservoirs(tanks) have to have a drain valve, all of them. I've been under/over a half a dozen different trucks this weekend from my own bucket to dump trucks to long haul highway trucks and they all have had manually operated drain valves on every tank. My truck from the states has three 'wires' that come up and are mounted in easy reach and pulling those blows off my tanks.
 
I've never intentionally drained the tanks except when working on the system. I had forgotten that it was part of the pre trip (which I haven't done since getting my license). When I bought the truck, the pressure would drop to 30-40 lbs overnight. I fixed a couple leaky fittings and it then held 80-90 lbs overnight. After about 7-8 months it no longer held pressure overnight. My last mechanic changed out the air dryer because he said it was 'bad' but nothing changed and I still lose all pressure overnight.

Sorry to derail this thread over this, I'll just take it to another mechanic one day when I can find an honest and competent one.
 
Not to derail further Brian but if you don't test your one way check valves then you have no way of knowing if they're working properly or not and you could be essentially running a single instead of a dual air system. Blowing your tanks off is a simple procedure and will save you money and increase safety over time. No matter how dry you think it is the air coming out of your compressor is upwards of 400f and when it cools in your holding tanks moisture will be collecting whether you run an air dryer or not.

I'd still be interested in hearing how the the auto bleeders work? I'll be touching base with my instructor over the next couple of days and will ask him about it. Ex-military man with who's been instructing commercial driving for over 30years now. The guy really knows his stuff. I'll also ask him what is most probable about your bleeding off problem. My bucket has sat for over three days before with the tanks full and not lost anything measurable on the gauge from either system.
 
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