+1 well done Mr. Scott

Welcome to the club Mr. Scott. You have always kept it professional and well deserved.

grats Mr. Scott

Congrats Mr. Scott, glad to have you hangin with us.

Gotta love those fed engineers, congrats my old friend, well deserved.:thumbsup:

Congrats Mr. Scotty.

its a trap mr scott!!!

lol

gratso!!!

Congos to Mr. Scott, keep up the good work, :)

Well done old man! ;)

+1 to Mr.Scott!!

Thanks very much guys, but I still don't really think I did anything to deserve it.:)

@ threeDhero - And thank you for coming to OCA. It gives team CP more breathing room at #4.;)

Quite the contrary Mr Scott, you giving the team support and being a cool cat is highly regarded around here. Good people get noticed.

we love you mr.scott

Now, let's not get all blubbery...:taunt:

Snipped from my visitor messages:

Thank you all for having me.:)

:hug: Well deserved. Your're a great guy to know.

Congratulations :)

Congratz bro! You are a great guy. :thumbsup:

+1
helping me fixing my broken stuff! :thumbsup:

:rofl:

Congrats Mr. Scott!

That's a big reason why I'm proud to be a benching team mate of his. Knows his stuff, does it with class and clearly won't BS you.

I know he's busy right now with Snowzilla bearing down in his area and that brings up another thing:
Those of you that know him well enough know he literally puts his life on the line doing what he does for a living at times.
Just something else he does for others to help out as he's able to. :cool3:

Excellent MOTM! Ten times that. Mucho respecto por el Scotto :)

That was espanol BTW for lots of love for Mr Scott (for you northerners)! Excellent suggestion and win!

Wish you were on our team, but glad that you hang out here even though you are not :)

Ah yea, all you OCA cats from CP are the shiznitty bombdiggity (kool dudes) but fess up Bones, whats our boy Scotty got himself into as far as work?

Gynecologist in a psychiatric ward...:ohcrap:

Ahhh.... I thought he was a Federation engineer putting his life on the line for galatic peace :blink:

Very nice. Graz Scotty!

qft......:scared:

Isn't that a redundant statement?

:laughing: I don't know about "life on the line" but, I'm a construction heavy equipment operator/mechanic. That includes the big trucks too. Of course that's during the "green" season up here. We also have a "white" season, as I live in the Great lakes snowbelt region. So in the "white" season, we do snow and ice management. Not driveways either, I mean full size malls and the like, along with subbing out to the county for a lot of lesser roads and highways. I'm a three county supervisor, although you couldn't tell. I"m a "hands on" kinda guy, and along with my supervisory tasks, I'll still climb into a tri-axel Mack with front, left, and right blades and a 25 ton saltbox on the back and take care of a few hundred miles of highway, or run a Cat 500 wheel loader with a 20 foot snow pusher and clear a couple thousand acre shopping mall. It makes no difference to me. I'm fully capable of doing either and everything in between. "Life on the line" would be more like what Kal does.

Plenty of snow to go around this year bro .......... :ohcrap:

I am about sick of it :shock:

It's white gold to me. :good:

Strap on the chains and go after it, I have a friend who owns a small excavating company and has the same opinion of snow........ :thumbsup:

I'm thinking about all the idiots you've undoubtedly ran across (hopefully not into) doing your job.

Some jobs really are as stated and I used to risk my well being everyday with what I was doing once, namely operating a 769C Caterpillar truck in a Limestone quarry on a mountaintop.

Between the numerous caves we uncovered (Sometimes the cave's roof was the road we had been driving on until it collapsed!), high explosives we were around, heavy amounts of lime dust everywhere, steep grades (Fun when wet - You'll SLIDE down with 40 tons of rock loaded on your ass = :ohcrap:) and the conditions in general, it's a wonder we didn't have anyone killed and I did have some close calls on a few occasions myself.

In my case, what I did didn't affect folks directly but your job does. I know Kal's does too and it's even riskier than what the both of us do but it's for the good and benefit of us all.

Without guys like Kal around willing to risk it all, I don't know how we'd come out.

I wish I could share half the shit I've been thru with you guys, but with attorneys lurking everyone, I can't risk talking about some of the god awful crazy shit that make for THE BEST STORIES EVER! over a couple a cases of beer of course :toast:

Whatever it is that you do for a living, just be safe, adrenaline junkie or not, your family needs you.

Sweet Jeebus Bones you are old!! Hell 777C/D was old news back in the 90's. I went away for a few years and now the 992G (electronic control) is old. Lemme guess... hmmm 769C..... that was late 70's early early 80's (or longer)??

Actually many of those are newer than you'd think but the model was produced for a number of years.
Drove these in 93-94 and they were still in production at the time under that model name, we had one that was almost new when I started working there.

No, I'm not that old but old enough. :confused2:

don't worry 57yo isn't that old.....

Nah, not that old man. (44) :D

im gonna kick someone's ass for calling you old...coz you ain't old @ (**) :D

Ya I know. Was just bustin ya balls a lil. I remember they were still making "new" 777C models not too many years ago. Now it is what... D model? Here in the coal industry bigger means newer though. When CAT makes a newer bigger model the smaller ones are old news. There are some areas that still run 773/777 trucks just because of the size of the job. Anything smaller than 773 the cool thing to use is swivel trucks now. Heck a D9R/D10R are too small and for reclamation now. Its either D11R's or Komatsu 575's for the pits.

I never drove anything larger than a common license would allow. Which in PA is quite a lot, but no HM. CDLs needed for that.

BackHoes/Front loaders, BobCats, flatbed Harvester and a triax Drywall truck. (that was fun tooling down the highway looking DOWN at the OTR guys). Nothing on your scale though. On one hand it must be a lot of fun, on the other hand... snow is awesome and your winter job is to remove awesome. Must suck.