What a great day - UNTIL........

[Flash Gordon]

Don't know man - I stuck about an 8 foot rod down and didn't feel the bottom. Im fat and a smoker, so Im pretty sure any deeper would end me if I attempted to recover it lol. We'll see :dunno:

Ya need to stop smokin



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3 weeks and 2 days w/out a cigarette going on here!!! Im the MAN

You really should quit Anthony. If your children see you smoking, more then likely they will pick up the habit

 

[Bates Detailing]

3 weeks and 2 days w/out a cigarette going on here!!! Im the MAN

You really should quit Anthony. If your children see you smoking, more then likely they will pick up the habit

Congrats man - Id have to quit coffee to I think, and that is what keeps me going all day long lol - hmmmm, may be a bit tough right now :/

 

[Flash Gordon]

Congrats man - Id have to quit coffee to I think, and that is what keeps me going all day long lol - hmmmm, may be a bit tough right now :/

There will never be a convient time if thats what you're waiting on. Life will always bring challenges

Just throw those stupid things in the garbage and be done with them once and for all!

 

[oldmodman]

I started scuba diving when I was eleven. You really should jump in, and dive down and retrieve it. Especially if it was lost in fresh lake water.

My favorite thing to do was go diving in Marina del Rey. I found watches, sunglasses, three outboard motors, a ton of (remember these) transistor radios, lots of spare change, several guns, and so on.
Some of the stuff was corroded beyond repair, some of it was nearly perfect. It was a lot of fun diving for it and even more fun repairing it and selling it.

I also did the same thing on Catalina Island. Found lots of odd stuff, plus all the stuff I listed above.

Most horrendous thing I found was a shark attack victim. Sharks had eaten off all the limbs and his head He was floating about 40 feet down off Ship Rock at the Catalina Isthmus. I went down and hooked a float to him then got back in the boat, REAL FAST! Coast guard recovered the body.

 

[TimmyG]

ALOT of good points here - thanx guys.

Id love to turn it into a positive thing - but the guy has been here 2 weeks, been a couple hours late one day, didn't show up for 2 days, and now this. Im pretty sure we are handling it well for his horrible start - he still has a job. His work ethic is great and we don't have to go over his work surprisingly enough, only thing keeping him around. If we had tons of money sitting in the account I would have been more than happy to say o well, but we don't and can't. Our focus is growth on a tight budget and it is working and working well, but loosing this tool hurts us with scheduling and money wise. By far tied with the steamer for most used tool for us. Instead of scheduling 4 Level 2's in a day (about 600 Revenue), we can now only schedule 2. THAT HURTS!

I will find out tomorrow or weds how deep it is and if possible may seriously go get it lol - let it dry out and pray it didn't go towards the light!

Thanx again everyone for your advice and allowing me to vent.

The unexcused absences and late arrivals kills it. How does someone have a "great" work ethic but allows these instances to happen? I'm now starting to understand where you are coming from. Regardless of the money aspect here, I think it would be in your best interest to sit the guys down and talk about safe operation of all detailing equipment as well as safely storing and maintaining your expensive equipment. This way the next time something like this happens, there will be no excuses.

I also agree that it's still worth the time and effort to try and dive down there and retrieve the polisher. You never know...

 

[bobble]

Well since I spend about half my life in or around water I will say it's not the depth of the water in the lake but the makeup of the bottom. Almost every dock I've been on or around in the last 20 years there's serious muck for a foot or so before you hit solid matter. Launch ramp another story, I've pulled tons of crap out of the water after going for a dip at a launch ramp.

To lighten it up here's a good story, GF and I are at a luanch ramp by our river house, she backs the truck down, I'm unloading the skis, for some dumb reason she shuts off the truck and laid the keys in the tray of one of the jet skis to help untether them busy launch ramp county park. Well once it was off the trailer, got some water in the tray guess where the keys went, to compound it once the jet ski was fired to back off the trailer and pull onto the beach it churned up the water. Took almost 15 minutes to find the keys, made lots of friends while tying up a launch ramp since could not move the truck(one jack hole even threathened to call the sheriffs). We've taken thousands of jet skis over the years off trailers and never ever had this happen, keys are now on a floaty just in case but I still ask her every single time got the keys, I get the look and the you're number one salute each time I ask but we laugh at it.

 

[bobble]

I've pulled tons off stuff out of the water at the Colorado river but never anything like that, got a sheriff his handheld radio once when he slipped on a launch ramp going after an idiot partaking of the herb on the launch ramp. He felt like crap but accidents happen.

 

[Bates Detailing]

I started scuba diving when I was eleven. You really should jump in, and dive down and retrieve it. Especially if it was lost in fresh lake water.

My favorite thing to do was go diving in Marina del Rey. I found watches, sunglasses, three outboard motors, a ton of (remember these) transistor radios, lots of spare change, several guns, and so on.
Some of the stuff was corroded beyond repair, some of it was nearly perfect. It was a lot of fun diving for it and even more fun repairing it and selling it.

I also did the same thing on Catalina Island. Found lots of odd stuff, plus all the stuff I listed above.

Most horrendous thing I found was a shark attack victim. Sharks had eaten off all the limbs and his head He was floating about 40 feet down off Ship Rock at the Catalina Isthmus. I went down and hooked a float to him then got back in the boat, REAL FAST! Coast guard recovered the body.

WOW! That's horrible man!

The unexcused absences and late arrivals kills it. How does someone have a "great" work ethic but allows these instances to happen? I'm now starting to understand where you are coming from. Regardless of the money aspect here, I think it would be in your best interest to sit the guys down and talk about safe operation of all detailing equipment as well as safely storing and maintaining your expensive equipment. This way the next time something like this happens, there will be no excuses.

I also agree that it's still worth the time and effort to try and dive down there and retrieve the polisher. You never know...

I think I will have a meeting man, Thnx for your advice man.

Well since I spend about half my life in or around water I will say it's not the depth of the water in the lake but the makeup of the bottom. Almost every dock I've been on or around in the last 20 years there's serious muck for a foot or so before you hit solid matter. Launch ramp another story, I've pulled tons of crap out of the water after going for a dip at a launch ramp.

To lighten it up here's a good story, GF and I are at a luanch ramp by our river house, she backs the truck down, I'm unloading the skis, for some dumb reason she shuts off the truck and laid the keys in the tray of one of the jet skis to help untether them busy launch ramp county park. Well once it was off the trailer, got some water in the tray guess where the keys went, to compound it once the jet ski was fired to back off the trailer and pull onto the beach it churned up the water. Took almost 15 minutes to find the keys, made lots of friends while tying up a launch ramp since could not move the truck(one jack hole even threathened to call the sheriffs). We've taken thousands of jet skis over the years off trailers and never ever had this happen, keys are now on a floaty just in case but I still ask her every single time got the keys, I get the look and the you're number one salute each time I ask but we laugh at it.

Lol, bet that was a rough 15 minutes lol!