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  1. mowingman

    how to check dubious jobsite soil for dump truck

    I used to fill in quite a few swimming pools for customers. I always broke all the concrete, or gunite, up in the bottom and packed it down along with shallow lifts of backfill material. This allowed for drainage in the future. With drainage, and properly compacted back filll, I never had to go...
  2. mowingman

    old Italian construction site with old vehicles

    Look at the seatback. It looks to me like you turn the seat around to face backward when you run the crane.
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    Mulching - "The Daily Grind"

    That bare earth hillside looks like a land slip waiting to happen. Great work though. It looks fantastic.
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    Norfolk Southern Locomotive 8157 Recovery Video

    The big white cranes are "Mantis" cranes, especially built and modified for railroad derailment cleanup work. Those, along with the Cat track hoes, belong to "Cranemasters". Cranemasters is in the heavy equipment recovery business, as well as the railroad derailment cleanup business. The company...
  5. mowingman

    Mulching - "The Daily Grind"

    That Fecon in the photo is just like the one I ran for many years. That was a great machine, mine had a JD diesel in it. I am glad it was always leased and not purchased though. I bet we had the rental dealer's mechanic out twice/week to work on that Fecon. It had a lot of issues, which I heard...
  6. mowingman

    Mulching - "The Daily Grind"

    My experience with a CTL/mulcher, was not too good. On one large property, the landowner rented me a Kubota 95 with an FAE mulcher head. Maybe it was just the fact that it was a Kubota, but I found that it would not do well at mulching much of anything over 4" diameter. I did some larger...
  7. mowingman

    Fecon FTX90L engine problems

    I think Deutz is a great engine, for SOME applications. Using the Deutz in these various mulchers was not the proper application. The Fecon/Rayco/Deutz fiasco with these engines, started way back in 2006 or so. The first mulcher we leased was an almost brand new Fecon FTX140 as I recall. It...
  8. mowingman

    "Shrinking" Mini Excavator - too wide for boat

    Somehow, I can't see this ending well! Please send pictures is you attempt this move.
  9. mowingman

    Mulching - "The Daily Grind"

    How do the rubber tires hold up when mulching thick, thorny brush? My experience was always with steel track or rubber track equipment. I was always afraid to try rubber tired mulchers. Just curious.
  10. mowingman

    Mulching - "The Daily Grind"

    Very nice. I got into land clearing mostly for the same reasons as you did. I was not as smart as you though, and it was later in life when I got started. So, I only got in about 14 years before I retired.
  11. mowingman

    Dam

    Found a couple of photos from when I worked at the dam project. We had a very wide clay core zone. It was probably 200 ' wide, or more. We placed fill for the dam all during the winter of 73-74. Worked 6 days/week with 2, 12 hour shifts. One thing the contractor was absolutely forbidden to do...
  12. mowingman

    Dam

    I thought this dam building video was rather interesting. Especially the info about the dam having an impermeable asphalt core. I was not aware that a dam could be built with that type of core zone. Back 50 years ago, my first job out of college was doing field inspection work on what was...
  13. mowingman

    8-10t loader purchase advice.

    Thanks. That Bobcat brand grapple was pretty darn expensive as I recall. We discussed buying a cheaper one, but went with the Bobcat brand. I did bend one of the grapples a little, trying to move a huge tree. Other then that, it has only needed a hose or two after all these years. The Bobcat and...
  14. mowingman

    8-10t loader purchase advice.

    Just a few photos to show how much brush you can move with a little CTL. We also combined a number of these piles into larger ones, before the grinder was brought in.
  15. mowingman

    Memories for us old truckers

    Do you know what the truck was used for? Most of the old FWD trucks had snow plow/snow blowers on them. This truck does not look like it had all the framework for that use.
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    8-10t loader purchase advice.

    For almost 15 years, I used a Bobcat CTL for the exact same purposes. The first machine we had was a Bobcat T300. We got a new machine in 2019, another Bobcat. I forget the model but it had about 75HP. We did not want one with DEF, so did not get the bigger model. We cleared to bare ground...
  17. mowingman

    TRAIN LOGGING

    Nice video. Thanks for posting. THere is a little incorrect info about the engine, given here. The Alco C415 was the last model built by Alco in the states, before they went out of the loco business. There were a total of 26 units built over about a 3 year period. It was not a very successful...
  18. mowingman

    Come along on two pipe wrenches

    I think the aluminum pipe wrenches were the worst for breaking. We used 36" pipe wrenches for breaking drilling rod loose on geotech drill rigs. I hated those "lightweight" aluminum pipe wrenches. They were not worth a darn when you put a 5' or 6' cheater pipe on the handle.
  19. mowingman

    Athey Force Feed Loader.

    There are quite a few for sale on Machinery Trader. However, they don't seem to be cheap.
  20. mowingman

    Sweeper:

    A broom would work best. I don't know if you can rent one locally, but Bobcat, I think, makes a broom that sweeps and catches the debris. If you could get one of those, you could sweep up a bunch, then take it up on the road and dump it, then repeat until done. I remember using one quite a few...
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