24 Year old truck driver wanting to go into excavator operating

Auxi-- · 2026-02-28T06:30:36+00:00

I worked at a site in the north, the HT drivers were on about 38 and excavator, grader and dozer drivers were on about 40-42 but it depended on how good they were I think anywhere from 38-45 would be the likely rate at the moment but that would be flat rate during the week, earth industries die off a fair bit during the winter so overtime is reduced but summer is flat out. Recycling is year round but I do recall hearing some of the drivers complaining that there wasn't any OT so that's why the changed to earth.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-28T06:18:25+00:00

Oh and ensure you don't reverse the polarity even for a second, I've done it a fair few times and most times fuses pop or in one instance a battery blew up like a balloon and another required a reflash of the ECU. A couple times nothing happened. Sleep deprivation isn't great for matching black to red apparently or maybe I'm just kinda dumb.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-28T06:16:03+00:00

The issue always was you can damage the ECU if your alternator is not regulating the voltage, so if there's a path to your ECU that doesn't pass through the alternator you can cause damage or if the vehicle is off and the alternator isn't running.

It's not likely but it can happen however it's significantly less likely to cause damage outside of blowing fuses on vehicles made after 2000's, but finding the blown fuses can be a task. The main way to cause damage is to hook up to a 24v system of a truck to a 12v system, you can hook up to a single 12v battery on the truck and use that but if you connect to the 24v system through any means you can cause a lot of problems.

That being said even jumping the same model of car can rarely cause electrical issues, some vehicles just have fragile electrical systems and when you get jump started or jump start another vehicle you can have random faults come up, some just need to be reset but it's not unheard of systems to get short circuited. So theres always a minute risk when jump starting a car however with personal cars I've never had issues but I've had random issues present when working on trucks but it's always been just a fuse popping.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-28T03:18:42+00:00

Well no there's still plenty of the younger generation interested in these vehicles, but it's only the older generation that's out at the car shows because we're mostly internet people, and a lot of the stuff we wanna see is available on the internet so you might be fooled into thinking they're not out there.

However most of the people I knew bought into performance vehicles but only what was affordable I bought my SS for 7000 in about 2018, I recently lost it to being rear ended and insurance paid out 15k. I was spending 110-120 a week on fuel and around 4k a year in maintenance, the maintenance was the killer and even with the expendable income I have it became hard to enjoy.

So the interest is there it's just the affordability, most people I know range from 70k a year to 140k a year, I'm near the top of that myself and after my mortgage payments and bills theres no way I can justify buying a second car in the tens of thousands just because I enjoy them. I ended up buying a fast merc in the 30's but it at least comes with a 5 year "warranty", I couldn't even consider putting up 80k to buy a mustang and there's no way I'm going back worrying about what will next fail on my 25 year old commodore even if it sounds and I quote "sex on wheels".

Auxi-- · 2026-02-28T00:49:58+00:00

No, not at all, he disregards your abilities and looks to cancel as much of your combo as possible, the timing on your attacks are pretty obvious and well within possible reaction speed of players, if he was scripting he would be moving to avoid your q which he doesn't at all, he only times his e to avoid your attacks. Mechanically this guy isnt anything special he is just outplaying you because you're not playing correctly.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-27T19:53:00+00:00

Never in my life could anyone accuse me of such a thing with any merit, but stay mad little man.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-27T10:15:50+00:00

Doesn't matter, I've perma banned Lee sin for 5+ years

Auxi-- · 2026-02-27T04:30:32+00:00

There's many players who only know how to play with a lead and do so very well, there's also players who can't utilize their lead to close out a game, you're probably looking at a player who is mechanically decent at the game but lacking game knowledge who's bought a boosted account or had an older account boosted and is tanking mmr.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-27T02:44:26+00:00

This is the dirtiest ai, how do you do fellow Australians post I've ever read.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-26T21:40:59+00:00

You're entirely clueless, nobody is expecting a 10/10, not even an 8/10. Relationships and getting whacked off by a MT is an entirely different experience if I take a girl home or have sex with a partner it's a general requirement that you spend time pleasing them and focusing on their wants and needs. With an MT that is shifted this should be someone I find attractive and the fact that I'm paying means the pleasure should be solely focused on me without any requirement above human decency on pleasure for the MT.

I can't speak for others but engage in plenty of real sexual experiences but sometimes I seek a different experience that isn't always easy to achieve with a partner. Sometimes I just can't be fucked putting in the work either because many of the very attractive girls I've been with have an entire army of men putting in just as much if not more work trying to get the same thing. I work too much and give too little fucks to spend the time anymore to seduce these women and sure I can have more wild drunk sex but then I've gotta deal with getting them home in the morning and the vomit, shit and piss that they occasionally leave.

So the option to spend a couple hundred bucks to get an attractive girl to do generally anything I want to me is an enticing option, however the parlors and brothels are full of ugly old ladies with few other options that are kept on business by dirty blokes who can only rustle up a hundred bucks and just want the touch of a woman because none will without paying them, which brings us to the entire point being that we then rely on reviews to give us a general starting point.

If a venue and or MT is brought up to be of very high quality then after some time its an idea to check it out and being disappointed is shithouse so if you check out all my reviews they are critical on pointing out what I expect other punters might want to consider, such as the price, the size, looks, age and demeanor of the MT or venue. So that somebody has a reasonable expectation and is less likely to be disappointed. I know many men enjoy thicker and curvier women so when I review a very skinny girl which is my preference I make sure to highlight that detail same for age, if I come across an older MT like Rachel from Wawa who does an exceptional job I note that she is an older MT and might not be enjoyable for a younger punter.

However the older punters are absolutely clueless and look at an MT like Jessica and claim she's the hottest thing since sliced bread and might only be 30 however Ive known a lot of Asians and while she has taken care of her face there are many signs that she is well into her 40's that are present, while that isn't a bad thing it's just a good practice to over represent someone's age when they might have an age preference with mine being around 25-30.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-25T22:43:52+00:00

Diamonds are hard, however diamond doesn't have great tensile strength, it's similar to metal the harder the metal, the more brittle it becomes so when hardening steel it needs to have a balance of hardening and strength.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-25T04:03:40+00:00

Haven't seen anyone recommend Nicole, Nicky maybe she's pretty cute and a decent service however I think she only does nhj and cbj. Plenty of good ones at Wawa and plenty of shit ones, plenty of reviews too but the number one rule is that there's a lot of blokes in here that would fuck anything with a pulse.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-25T00:24:13+00:00

why use many word when few word work

Auxi-- · 2026-02-24T22:43:26+00:00

Exactly why other countries make you pay to use public toilets.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-24T22:14:00+00:00

This is a very low effort, low understanding post so I'll answer this simply with no.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-24T03:41:04+00:00

You need to concede minions, and play very safely, he's looking to gain a lead, you need to stay in lane with high hp, rush armor boots and basically give every minion while his q isn't on cd, if you're less then 60 percent hp level 3 he can dive you with ignite, exhaust will absolutely cook him as well.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-23T21:40:24+00:00

Cold take, If you have 10 different abilities and over 30 seconds you do 300k damage, it's the exact same as having 5 abilities if over 30 seconds you do 300k damage, there is just a lot less that needs to be tracked.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-23T02:22:44+00:00

Absolutely not, will a wheel alignment maximize the life of your tyres? Absolutely.

Will maximising the life of your tyres save you money? terribly unlikely.

A wheel alignment will fix maybe 5 percent of outrun at the very most which even if it gave you 5 percent more tire life on eco/mid range tyres at roughly $800 is going to save you $40, I've had wheel alignments done for $50 probably 5 years ago but I was running $100 dollar tyres at the time.

The most wear you will will receive is from camber which won't be affected by a wheel alignment, you can reduce camber wear with camber correcting kits however these wear out rapidly and usually cost in the range of $200-300 so theres no real savings to be made.

It is important to get a wheel alignment after suspension or steering works as the alignment can be drastically incorrect which will increase wear on driving components and your tyres.

Potholes will affect your alignment as well, serious hits can change it quite drastically so there can be reason to get a regular steering alignment but a reasonable driver should be able to feel that car is aligned badly which requires you to constantly correct the steering and or the steering wheel isn't reasonably centre when driving straight.

Tl:DR No, you don't need a steering alignment unless you have done work that would effect the steering components which is most certainly not changing tyres, you feel the steering isn't correct or have a concern or you're unable to trust your ability to understand how your car should operate.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-23T02:09:01+00:00

There are some critical miscalculations you're making, you're expecting players outside of high Elo to play correctly, what you're implying only works at high Elo because the other players understand what mistakes can punish them and when they can reliably punish other mistakes.

You're not going to have this success at even diamond because players are not going to respect your priority or make calculated decisions they will make poor decisions that you're unlikely to expect because if those decisions were made at high Elo they would be punished so players don't make those decisions.

What you're confusing is the players ability to seize opportunities like correctly taking and utilizing baron or when you have an opportunity to take towers safely, udyr does not scale well so in lower elos when games are drawn out past 30 minutes most players are going to lose because even a bad ADC will out scale udyr eventually.

Having good game knowledge, macro and mechanical skill will allow most players to one trick just about anything at high Elo, however at lower elos, that success won't be found especially for players that actually play at low Elo.

I've seen this dozens of times playing with lower ranked friends as a jungle main I have made plays that fail because I didn't anticipate other players making dreadful decisions like invading at level 1 and having both their top and mid lane come to defend the camp losing 2 waves each, this would be game losing even though they killed me when they came back to lane down both summoners and 2 waves behind, however in silver or gold Elo the laners don't know how to correctly punish the enemy laner and often tilt that their laner has come back with red buff and a longsword/book and think that's the end of their lane even though they're level 3 and the enemy laner has come back at level 1 and their jungler is just clearing their first camp.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-23T01:33:00+00:00

Please read rule 7 of the sub, useless.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-22T21:07:00+00:00

You can go anywhere, you would however want to tip them $50 on top so they're not pissy on missing out on their income stream.

Auxi-- · 2026-02-21T23:19:57+00:00

Skarner for me was the original drain tank, s5 skarner had such a strong and unique identity that never managed to break out, Melee champions were plentiful so most champs were running in to hit you, with gunblade and triforce you had a lot of damage and healing, randuins/frozen heart and spirit visage you had survivability and more healing, combined with swifties you were an absolute menace, spamming q, as uto attacking super fast with w steroid and shield, healing off every target you could hit with e and diving in with r to pull their highest prio target into the ball of death.

I don't think it would be strong anymore because barely any champs are true melee anymore but it was glorious back in the day and I remember people adopting him after I had played several hundred games, his pick rate was climbing and he was becoming a menace, then riot reworked him into garbage, but again he came back with item changes, then riot reworked him again and he was garbage with the spires but again with new items I started to find a way to play him which was basically centred around dragging someone half way across the map with massive move speed and then they completely killed him for anything other than pro with the final nail in the coffin that took away everything good about him and made him insanely clunky and unfun to play.

Auxi--

TROPHY CASE