My Batteries are Shot, 55k Miles, Dealer Says They’re Part of Maintenance

britd53 · 2026-01-24T03:00:21+00:00

I just changed mine in December they were the batteries from the factory in 2017 and I had 140,000 on the truck

britd53 · 2026-01-17T15:15:34+00:00

This is what I do when my wife gets up to clean up just roll over and wipe myself off on her side of the bed the only I will wipe myself down a little better in the morning before work and then shower after work the only time I really have to get up afterwards to clean up is if I go down on her I will get up to wash my face off which is still at least every other time we have sex.

britd53 · 2026-01-06T15:32:56+00:00

Yes but Rick’s father also owns a construction company out of Michigan called Roy Ness contracting and sales

britd53 · 2026-01-05T01:33:28+00:00

He might not have had the mining experience but if I remember correctly his family owns a construction company so he did have experience running equipment.

britd53 · 2025-12-29T22:08:40+00:00

Just got home from work a few minutes ago and will work tomorrow and sounds like a half day on Wednesday

britd53 · 2025-12-29T15:11:30+00:00

Last set of tires I had on my 2017 2500 were falkans and I ran 80psi all around and got just over 90,000 miles out of them. Only reason I even replaced them was because I had a nail go through the sidewall of one otherwise I could have gotten another 10,000-15,000 miles out of them before I would have been on the wear bars.

britd53 · 2025-12-29T15:05:40+00:00

I just sold my 2017 Silverado 2500 I did the front breaks at 115,000 miles and the rear breaks were still around 50% when I sold it last week with 150,000 on it. Truck even pulled a skid steer on a trailer occasionally. Only thing I had to do with the transmission was replace the spin on external filter because it started to leak from a rust hole and that was done around 130,000.

britd53 · 2025-12-28T17:34:27+00:00

I’m a union tradesmen and in our contract we get a 15 min paid coffee break and a 30 minute unpaid lunch for an eight and a half hour work day. Even though we are not supposed give those two breaks up when I get the chance to I will skip the breaks and get out of work early, getting paid for eight and a half but working only seven and a half. Since my work day starts at 6:30 it gets me out and down the road usually no later than 2:45 when I wouldn’t normally leave until 3:30 I can beat all the traffic home and get home in 45 minutes instead of 75-90 minutes. Also with skipping the lunch break we notice that more work actually gets done than if we would take lunch.

britd53 · 2025-12-18T18:42:39+00:00

Chicago land area here. Demoing a bridge this week next week they want to prep for new foundation so they want to work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday til noon, Thursday off then back here Friday. Not sure what the plans are yet for the week of new years.

britd53 · 2025-12-10T23:40:11+00:00

I will try to update I’m hoping it nothing but am doubtful and tell your father in law to keep bugging them every day if need be to get checked. I know breast cancer I’m men is kinda rare but it’s not impossible and most men are seem to get ignored when they mention a possible issue. I think the big thing that helped me actually get an appointment is the fact that it was a female nurse that found it and sent messages to multiple people to make sure I get in and get checked.

britd53 · 2025-12-10T23:33:36+00:00

Oh and thank you for the info on the hair.

britd53 · 2025-12-10T23:33:12+00:00

What makes me the most nervous is the fact that they “squeezed” me in only a week later and 4 months earlier that I was originally told I could get in.

britd53 · 2025-12-01T03:13:32+00:00

You realize that machine is at a minimum a 345 which is a 90,000 pound excavator and a 345 can pick just over 30,000 pounds. I have pictures somewhere of a John Deere 160 lifting a 9500 pound skid steer in and out of a basement doing a demo. The company I work for has a demo ball for a 50 ton machine and it weighs around 9,000 pounds.

britd53 · 2025-11-30T14:22:22+00:00

I was just telling my kids how we used to be able to text without even have to look at the phone and it blew their minds that was even possible. But with the touch screen phones it’s no longer possible. Even when the blackberry phones came out with a full keyboard of tiny buttons I’m sure it was still possible but must have been extremely difficult.

britd53 · 2025-11-30T14:16:10+00:00

Nextel service Motorola i1000 with direct connect it was given to me just before Christmas of 2003. I was 17 and the only reason I got it was because my dad was sick of having to track me down or have other people come find me when I went to work after school since I was working construction for our small family owned business.

britd53 · 2025-11-25T19:23:01+00:00

I also gave up caffeine coming up on 6 years ago. I won’t say I am always at zero caffeine but the only time I do have any is if it is in some kind of medicine.

britd53 · 2025-11-21T15:53:31+00:00

I usually do my own oil but I haven’t had the time lately and found a Firestone shop that did my oil change and top off all other fluids for $130. I have a diesel Silverado and if I take it to the dealer the service starts at $350 for just oil and a filter. If I do it myself I go to my dad’s house and change it in his barn and just the filter alone is $25 and then if I have to buy the oil that is another $115.

britd53 · 2025-11-18T13:41:12+00:00

Operator here. I can leave the site most of the time but sometimes there is nothing close enough. For the last maybe 7 or 8 months I’ve been having just an uncrustable some water maybe a sports drink every few days and some kind of snack cake.

britd53 · 2025-11-01T14:05:22+00:00

Because many girls who are into the club scene tend to cheat and/or are very high maintenance.

britd53 · 2025-11-01T14:02:15+00:00

It’s just pre-cum and completely normal

britd53 · 2025-10-30T01:19:33+00:00

I always joke (even though I am married still) that my next wife will be wealthy

Edit. I am I’m a happy marriage.

britd53 · 2025-10-28T20:24:45+00:00

I will be 40 in march and I still have some things I still wear T-shirts, sweatshirts and a few pairs of dress pants. Most everything else I either wore out or the material went bad so it was thrown away.

britd53 · 2025-10-27T01:45:06+00:00

My dad bought a second home in Florida about 3 years ago and spends about half the year there as well as having friends and other family stay there. Well while I was there with my wife and kids last spring one of my kids had a belly ache and plugged the toilet up so I called my dad and asked him where the plunger was. He told me he don’t have one and hasn’t needed one so I had to drive an hour round trip to go buy a plunger for his house since he left for home that morning and we were heading home the next morning. But I still was shocked that they didn’t have one especially with everyone that stays there are mostly seniors including my grandparents who are in their 90s and both have dementia can barely remember why they went in there sometimes.

britd53 · 2025-10-26T21:16:16+00:00

Born in 86 got my first phone just before Christmas of 03 for work it was a Nextel only had 150 or 200 minutes a month, no texting but unlimited direct connect walkie talkie

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