SOMETIMES YOU KNOW YOU WERE LUCKY EVEN WHEN IT GOS WRONG.

FRIDAY I PULLED UP ON SITE-NOT LEVELED OUT FOR PUMP, SO HAD TO MAKE A LITTLE RUN AT IT. HEARD SOMETHING POP-- SO STOPED IMMEADIATLY TO CHECK, FOUND NOTHING. PACED OFF FROM WHERE I WAS AND COULD REACH EVERYTHING, SO WENT AHEAD AND SET UP THEN DOUBLE CHECKED AGAIN STILL COULDN'T FIND WHAT HAD POPPED AND WAS BOTHERING ME. MUD SHOWED UP 30 MINUTES EARLY FINISHER RIGHT AT TIME OF POUR (IN MY BOOK THATS LATE). RAIN HAD WASHED IN ALOT A FOOTINGS, 40 MINUTES TO CLEAN OUT NOW 4000 PSI MUD HAS BEEN ON JOB OVER A HOUR PLUS 40 MINUTE DRIVE. THEN  HAD A 45 MINUTE WAIT AFTER FIRST 4 TRUCKS. SO HOT MUD ALL MORNING.

   REMEMBER THE POP. WASHED OUT, FOLDED UP AND STUCK IN IN REVERSE TO PULL OUT-- FOUND WHAT POPPED THE YOKE AT BACK OF DRIVESHAFT THE WELD BR0KE..  HOW IN THE WORLD DID SOME PART OF THAT WELD STAY UNTILL I HAD WASHED OUT?  

   SOMETIMES YOUR GOOD-  SOMETIMES YOUR LUCKY...

Wow!! That is lucky. You must have been thanking the concrete pumping Gods.

wow, great story, crazy. Well glad it worked out.

FOLLOW UP....  $650 FOR RE MAKE OF DRIVE SHAFT.  NEW TUBE AND SLIP-JOUINT.AND UNIVERSALS ALSO REAR YOKE.  SHOP SAID OLD WAS APARENTLY NOT MADE BY A SPECIALTY SHOP, TUBING WAS TO LITE,THEY REUSED THE REAR YOKE THAT HAD FAILED WERE IT WAS WELDED BEFORE AND IT WASN'T BALLANCED. GUESS YOU DONT SKIMP ON DRIVELINES.. 

LUCKY--UNLUCKY LOL

Last Saturday I am heading out to do a job. I always swap the machine over to make sure everything is OK before I leave. Today it was not! BLEW a major Hydraulic line. 60mm from the Diffs to the pumps on a long weekend! Called my service provider out of MD (They have the fittings). My wife and I drove down, Spent the night, Had breakfast with my support line and came home to fix it to roll Monday morning. The Saturday Job rescheduled for Tuesday. Got Lucky, Did not loose any work and learned a HUGE LESSON.

" When in doubt spend the money and change the part! "