Quote Originally Posted by Frank S View Post
A guy I worked with several times, had designed and built some High-tension line stringing equipment then sent it to Brazil. He got a call for help one night from someone down there. it seems they had completely disassembled it in order to haul it to the top of a mountain and couldn't figure out how to put it back together.
SO Bill calls me and asks if I would like an all-expense paid working vacation to Brazil
WHY! I asked knowing the operative word was "working".
The idiots disassembled the 4 spool and didn't follow the disassembly and re assembly instructions I need you to go there and show them how tro put it back together and make it work, because I can't go myself and you are the only other person I know who knows enough about how I build things and will be able to figure out what goes where if they have taken apart something they shouldn't have.
When I got there I found out why they had reduced it to the sized proportions they had. The whole 10,000 lb machine had been hoisted up a 600 ft cliff face 1 part at a time with nothing more than blocks and tackle and manual labor. I was glad they had capped each and every hydraulic line and fitting as they removed them. It still took a couple of weeks to reassemble it though.
So partially using their heads. And definitely using their backs. Hah!