Hit 1000 hours on the frame rack this year

It snuck up on me when I was doing the books last night. That's a lot of bent metal straightened, and it made me realize how much of the job is just trusting the process and the numbers. Anyone else track their hours on specific equipment?

4 comments

4 Comments

faith_hart203mo ago

Trusting the process and the numbers" is so true. I started logging my hours on the alignment machine last year, and just seeing the total really showed me where I was getting faster.

jamesf293mo agoTop Commenter

What's wild is how the numbers can also show you where you're just spinning your wheels. I logged my time and saw a plateau that had nothing to do with speed, just bad habits I had to unlearn. The data doesn't just track progress, it points out the dead ends.

reese_hayes713mo ago

Totally feel that. I tracked my reading speed for a month and the numbers flatlined. Turns out I kept rereading the same paragraph over and over without realizing it. The log showed me the exact pointless loop I was stuck in.

gray8751mo ago

You basically paid attention long enough to realize you weren't paying attention at all. That's dedication right there, or at least it's a real good way to waste a month on a science project about yourself. But hey, at least you had proof you were stuck in a loop instead of just feeling like you were going crazy. So the numbers told you exactly what you already knew but didn't want to admit. Sounds like a win if you ask me, or at least a very specific kind of failure with documentation.