All of you know we have run into some situations keeping it on the lake due to problems with the machine. After another break down it was time to get in contact with the manufacturer and bring this to a head once and for all. Theresa (GM), Brad (Maint Mgr), Bob (Mechanic), and myself spoke with him Tuesday. He feels some of this has to be operator error. Is it? Who knows, but either way it is doing us no good sitting in maintenance.
I told him the machine is doing it's job when it is working but we can not continue burning the man hours working on it to keep it running. He agreed to have us bring it back to the plant and see why we are having all these problems. In fact he was glad to have us do that so he could have his mechanic look at it and explain to our guys how to handle this.
Wednesday two of our maintenance men were to take it the three hour trip to deliver and confer with them. We want this in top shape when it hits our lake again and we also want to know how to end the problems.
How long will this take? I do not know. I do know the conveyor belts are on back order so it may take a while to get it back but luckily we are entering the cooling off period of the year so algae and weed problems will subside on their own. If we need to spray we will until the skimmer is back in business.
As a side note, I don't know how many of you have thought about it but we have had no... zero... nada... blue green algae this year. That is a big deal.
Ken