Preventative maintenance? Isn’t that a myth?

[asger]

If you dont schedule your machine for maintenance, then it does it for you

[enoughrope]

My boss put a really heavy emphasis on filling out daily reports of what equipment has what issues. I spent 15 minutes every day writing the same problems down over and over and over again for years. "Needs oil, needs hydraulic fluid, need grease, brakes do not function, no backup alarm, roll cage missing roof, no horn, leaking fuel line, needs replacement filter..." etc etc etc. Finally one day one of the machines didn't start. When someone told him he came running out of his office in a panic. Quickly paid another company to tow it away and look it over. The next day he told us we were going to have to start filling out daily maintenance reports. So I asked who was reading the ones we were already filling out. He wouldn't admit it but they were going straight into the trash can. I told him I had asked for permission to purchase things like oil and a grease gun and was denied so I assumed he had it covered....

Funny how that works. Office workers will pinch pennies to make the quarter look good so they get a bonus even though long term it will cost the company tens of thousands of dollars. Then when any "surprise" costs show up they will invariably blame the workers.

[joe]

Notice how the safety guy has no idea how Ricky is able to authorize all these purchases and that Ricky has good in-depth reasons on why it is this way, even threatening the safety guy's new responsibilities...
Ricky being the owner confirmed once more!

[michellesimonds]

I’m 100% convinced that Preventative Maintenance is just replacing the sticker with a new date. This video is spot on!

[MrFlakko]

The fact that Ricky is the ONLY one that changes the oil on anything is actually impressive 😆

[wealthyblackman]

As a mechanic and professional equipment operator I can verify this is 100% accurate. The secret motto on jobs is "Pray the equipment stays working during your shift and if it breaks then cover up the fact you touched it." (Blame it on the next guy usually) I can usually fix the equipment good enough so the next guy really thinks he broke it on accident....

[markthegunplumber]

Used to work with a salesman in the Patch with no mechanical knowledge of engines etc. Every year he'd buy a new lawn push mower for his house. I said just change the oil and put in a new plug and fuel filter and sharpen the blade and you're GTG. He said "the lawn mower shop charges as much to do that as a new mower costs and the new one starts first pull. so, from then as long as i worked with him i got a 1 year old Craftsman lawn mower that i changed the oil on and replaced the fuel filter and sharpened the blade on and ran that bitch another year and then handed it down to someone else and got his1 year old one again. That's the true definition of the trickle down economy right there.

[dmnin]

As one of those preventative maintenance guys, this is God's own gospel! Boss won't authorize the 3 days it takes fully rebuild our hardest working machine. So I get to spend 1 hour each day bandaiding the damned thing. That's a full day's production lost every week because "we can't afford the downtime".

[jmac]

We have 10s of thousands of vehicles, no joke, some of which have been 300k miles with little more than an oil change every 50k miles. It blows my mind how long vehicles and equipment will run if they run almost around the clock with little to no maintenance.

[IloveRoblox]

That’s my job. Don’t touch it until it’s broken but my job title is mechanical maintenance. The only job I’ve had where I get in trouble for doing something that I was hired to do!! I love your videos man. They hit the nail on the head every time! Hilarious

[red_adept]

Ricky has point. The pencil pushers in the office will spend 30k in parts each month because it's broken up into smaller tickets. But they'll refused to spend 20k on a new machine that will last 6 months before it needs any major repairs.

[jacobloera]

I worked in a Crown Cork & Seal aerosol plant for almost 17yrs and the "BIG SHOTS" would take on so much work from corporate trying to make themselves look good we actually only had time to do about %25 of our preventative maintenance - then when the Sh*t hit the fan they're all running around like idiots asking the mechanics why the problems occurred and when we told them it was because of the plant motto - RUN IT TILL BREAK'S WE GOTTA MAKE CAN'S - management would be fuming - we just did what we were told - run the lines till they break down then scramble to get it back up and running again

[countcrper]

Honestly this hits. I work in a production warehouse and for the last 6 months, two of our three standing forklifts have had severe issues, bordering on being too dangerous to operate. Yet, despite us telling them about the four or five different codes each throws up, and the fact that one will jerk to a stop or shoot forward a foot out of nowhere, they have done nothing to get them fixed, and i honestly doubt they will until they A. stop working entirely. B. cause a work place injury. or C. cause a workplace accident that results in either injury, excessive damage to material, or more than likely both.

[Dsdcain]

As a retired heavy equipment mechanic, Ricky is %1000 right. Run her till she breaks, fix her until parts supply dries up (which is faster now), and trade the old one for a new one. TBH from a mechanic's point of view (mine) the more often it's run, the better it holds up. It was that piece of specialty equipment that sat around a lot that was the biggest headache. 🤔

[anthonyloa]

Ricky doing the preventative maintenance? That’s like the devil handing out sacrament 🤣

[notablynova]

Sounds like my relationship with my push mower, I think I put oil in it 5 years ago 🤣 it just sits all winter full of gas with no air cleaner, I cover the carb and pull 3 times and it's running, yet I bought a $400 self propelled one 2 years ago and it didn't even last the summer so I welded the wheel back on the deck of the 30 y/o junker and it's still trooping 🤷

[swaghauler]

I worked for a man who was BIG on preventative maintenance. The issue was, YOU were expected to pay for that maintenance out of YOUR OWN POCKET and then submit a bill at the end of the year... which would basically be IGNORED forever! I walked off the job immediately after being informed of this. An oil change for a Peterbilt is $250 at flying J, and new tires are $10k EVERY YEAR!

[redwolf]

Literally describes the BP oil spill "accident" to a T. Lack of preventative maintenance can cause things to go unnoticed. They new something was wrong and didn't do there job, ie regular preventative maintenance. Preventative maintenance is exactly what it is. Preventing the company from having to make repairs on something so you don't have parts break down and cost the company money to get it fixed or replaced entirely. If preventative maintenance is done regularly on a scheduled basis then accidents are almost entirely unlikely to occur.

[freyja]

Sad part is that's pretty much how it really is. Almost every shop I worked at unless the machine was getting shut down for something else like equipment changeover . Nothing got done on that bitch. I learned how to do oil changes on bobcats while we are swapping buckets or heads.

[nomore]

I had an entire crew at a ink manufacturer in S.C. that considered the preventive maintenance done if they filled out the paperwork !!!