oops .... forgot to change the oil
I've never been overly concerned about oil changes although I am pretty good about changing the oil in my F350 with full synthetic every 25k km. However, some of our other vehicles can get a little ne...
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My uncle Alaska Bob, RIP went to Alaska in the 1960s to work in the oil patch. His last gig was on the North Slope at Prudhoe Bay 10 days on and 10 days off.
He was a mechanical genius and pioneered the evaluation of lubricants with lab testing and under the microscope. It saved the companies he worked for millions of dollars. They had all kinds of trucks, drill rigs, snowcats, bulldozers, road graders and other equipment running in the harshest conditions possible.
He had a million stories, but one of the good ones was taking a snow cat 250 miles across the pack ice in winter. He had another Inuit guy with him in another rig. They lost an axle out there in a blizzard. They cannibalized some parts from the other rig and fixed it in -45 degree conditions. Just another day at the plant.
He was a mechanical genius and pioneered the evaluation of lubricants with lab testing and under the microscope. It saved the companies he worked for millions of dollars. They had all kinds of trucks, drill rigs, snowcats, bulldozers, road graders and other equipment running in the harshest conditions possible.
He had a million stories, but one of the good ones was taking a snow cat 250 miles across the pack ice in winter. He had another Inuit guy with him in another rig. They lost an axle out there in a blizzard. They cannibalized some parts from the other rig and fixed it in -45 degree conditions. Just another day at the plant.
