Engine support

[Frank S]

Nice job, a few of the shops I worked at if you pulled a trans and couldn't have it back in in one day you had to push the truck outside so someone can use the bay. With that I took a couple of old tie rod tubes and made a few different braces. On a Mack I drilled holes toward the ends and could bolt then direct to the shackle area then use a 4 x 6 oak block between the bar and the pan. Other trucks I had different lengths to fit on the leaf springs then use short chains to secure them in place. Of course someone would borrow them and not return them so you spend an hour looking. You always get the ( I don't know ). Thanks Frank.

When I was Contract welder at the Cat Equipment rebuild place, I was forever fabricating special tools for the employee mechanics as well as for the contract mechanics. The crazy thing was I did about as much mechanic work as I did body work or repairs on the equipment. any tools I made I kept in a cabinet to be used again, but everyone else seemed to think they would only need them 1 time I could understand this "MAYBE" from the contractors but not the employees.
One day I was talking with Rolland the owner about something when a mechanic walked up and asked if I could make such and such for him.
What happened to the 1 I had to spend 2 days making for you last month?
I don't Know was the wrong answer to give with his boss standing there. After that anyone who had me make them, special tools had to return them to me to be kept in my cabinet and had to sign them out from then on. most of the time I had 3 of the 8 bays in the welding shop occupied with things I was working on and sometimes as many as 10 welders subbing under me on the equipment.