08/25/2026
I came home from work today and found this letter in the mailbox, and it meant a lot to me.
Heavy equipment repair is how I make a living. It keeps a roof over my family’s head and food on the table. But more than that, I truly believe it’s what I’m supposed to be doing. I love this work.
Being a field mechanic isn’t an easy job. We work outside every day—whether it’s 105 degrees or 15 degrees. We work in the mud, snow, rain, landfills, quarries, construction sites, and wherever else a machine decides to quit.
And a lot of the time, there isn’t a manual telling you exactly what to do. You have to understand how the machine works, diagnose the problem, think your way through it, and sometimes re-engineer a solution right there in the field. Most nights my brain is just as tired as my body.
Then I go home, put work aside, and spend time with my family. Once everybody is in bed, I usually open the laptop back up and work on the business side of things.
I don’t think most people realize what field mechanics actually do, and that’s a big reason I’ve started sharing more of my work online.
My goal with these videos isn’t just to show broken equipment getting fixed. I want to show what field mechanics deal with every day, share useful information with people buying and owning heavy equipment, and hopefully help other mechanics learn something along the way.
I’m not the best mechanic out there. I’ll never claim to be. But I care about what I do, and I try to treat every customer’s machine like it was my own.
There’s also a huge need for people in this trade. I went to vocational school and loved it, and I’d highly recommend that path to any young guy or girl who enjoys working with their hands and figuring out how things work. Nearly every business I talk to is looking for mechanics. I could hire three more guys tomorrow and keep them busy.
And to my customers—if I don’t get to you as quickly as you’d like, I truly apologize. The phone rings constantly, and field repair comes with a lot of emergencies. I’m usually just straight out trying to keep as many machines running as I can.
Then every once in a while, you find a note like this sitting on the truck.
That makes the long days worth it.
Thank you to everyone who has followed along, watched a video, shared a post, recommended me to someone, or trusted me to work on their equipment.
There’s a lot more to come.
