gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (PODS)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2005-10-06 03:19 pm
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OK, I'm not answering the phone...

Because I now have tomorrow off. In fact, I'll be in the bunker until about 0800 Friday when the trucks head out. :)

Today's run to the back of nowhere went well. I listened to Judas Priest's Angel of Retribution on the trip down, and since I was heading south, I only had to deal with a little traffic. Finding the right entry to this place was a pain, and I met some cows, but eventually found the house.

Note to customer: You are having not one but two trucks massing about 13 tons loaded roll onto your brand-new driveway. While there, we are going to lower your five-ton containers using our wheeled three-ton hydraulic lifts. A few things are going to happen.

1. We are going to leave black marks all over the place. Can't be helped.

2. Because of the layout you designed, we are going to have to roll into your landscaping to drop the pods, reload Podzilla, and get out. Sorry about the four inch deep ruts.

3. Podzilla is loud. Deal. I'm not the one who decided to have the entire family over at the same time as two PODS drivers and a moving truck! Loudness will happen with multiple back-up alarms, our 20HP engines roaring, and movers shouting at each other.

*sigh*

Ah well, he got the pods, and I had an easy day. Tomorrow, I think I'll start laying out my future history.

[identity profile] notthebuddha.livejournal.com 2005-10-09 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
20HP? Sounds a little low. 2000 horses, maybe?

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2005-10-10 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Podzilla is run off a 20HP (on my truck) Honda engine. All it has to do is run the pumps for the lifts and turn the drive wheels (ever so slowly) when I walk it on or off a pod.

My truck's engine is bigger than some subcompacts; but it has all the lovely mufflers and sound suppresion gadgets required by law (it also has a speed governor, whose existence I regularly curse.)

[identity profile] notthebuddha.livejournal.com 2005-10-10 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm. 20HP is in the range of bigger mowers - does it sound much louder than a mower to you?

[identity profile] gridlore.livejournal.com 2005-10-10 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The way it's set up, the engine is right on level with my head, so it is a bit louder to me. And with no muffler, it's loud enough in a quiet neighborhood.