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    New Caterpillar 265 Skids

    Anyone expecting deliveries on these in the near term? Mine is supposed to be here this week - I don't see any video out there of anyone putting them in the dirt yet so either I'm actually high up on the list, or the delivery date is overall much later than what I've been told! for interest
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    Concrete Crushing: Getting Started

    Hopefully this forum is still somewhat active - We are a heavy civil contractor that was recently awarded a nice demolition project. Actual estimates are a little hazy but we will probably be crushing ~8000 tons of concrete on this project, with more to follow. We aren't going to buy new...
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    Want to upgrade: D6N to D6T, concerns.

    Just here seeking some input for those interested in providing it. I bought a d6N a few years ago. Came with Trimble setup. We've put about 1000 hours on it and it's been a great little tractor. It's an early 2006 model. The damn thing isn't too heavy or too light, cuts within .1", and I...
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    657K in action

    First one I've seen.
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    Drain Tile in a calving lot

    Im in the Midwest in an area that took a pretty good beating from the cyclone bomb whatever storm. Compounding the issue is a spring that’s a tad on the wet side. One of my customers is at his wits end with the mud, looking for a solution. Think of an area a little smaller than a football...
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    140H 6400 hrs, transmission issue?

    Just getting in the vehicle and leaving for the day. In forward, I can’t engage 1,2, or 3. In reverse, I can’t engage 1 or 2. The machine will not move if I try to start in any gear other than 6th in reverse or 8th in forward, which obviously means it’s currently parked and not being used...
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    Compaction on a tight and tall fill.

    Looking for somebody that might have a wild idea. We are building a deep pit Cattlebarn. Their over digs on the pit are 5 feet wide, which put the backfill, which is approximately 7 feet from the bottom of the pit to Top of dirt underneath the bunk row and apron where the feed tractor will be...
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    Anyone have any top secret photos of the E series cat skids?

    My salesman is telling me they’re getting them in by December but is pretty quiet on the pricing. Come out of the woods insiders i know you’re out there.
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    Push Pulling and when it ISNT viable.

    Me and my expert father are having a debate. We have a hog barn job with a 9’ deep pit, 100’ wide and 600’ long. That’s minimum as we don’t know our overbuilds yet. We’ve done these before, but now our scrapers are push pull capable which is a change for us. Dad says the haul to the...
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    Municipal Competition?

    Hey guys I'm looking for some feedback on something that's been getting on my nerves lately. I'm a dirt contractor is a relatively remote small town America location. I got a call from a prospective client a few days ago to give an estimate on some general site prep for a house - tree and...
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    Fly ash reinforced pads

    We've slowly (see: reluctantly) gotten into reinforcing pads with fly ash for ag producers in our area. It's been a learning process that has some how managed to turn out for us. Basically we get ~25 ton and disk it in to a 3000sqft area and dump a shitload of water in it...
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    Mack Titan support

    We have a job coming up that's going to require us to upgrade a couple of our trucks. I'm looking at a Titan at a pretty reasonable price due to a couple factors; leaf spring suspension and the fact that the line has been discontinued. 1. Have any of you guys ever jumped in on a discontinued...
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    Hog confinement facility demo

    Hello folks. Back in the early nineties we did the site prep for a good sized hog facility, and now they're up for refurbishment. We're trying to figure out if biting on a concrete crusher is something we want to persue or not. The slabs are 4" thick. I'm pretty sure we want one with a...
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    Used finish dozer + gps

    We recently have found ourselves in the market for a used d6k. We're thinking something ~4-5k hours. Trying to stay under $80k if we can. Ideally we are looking for something that is trimble ready. We bought our grader with the GCS900 installed by the dealer and it has worked flawlessly so...
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    Soil stabilization - hints&tips

    We are building a base for a silage pile, ~200x600. Fly-ash is being brought in as the stabilization agent. We do not have a mixing machine like most outfits seem to have when they do these jobs. Our idea was to grade the pad, adjust the gps for a higher elevation, grade the material, and...
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    24 Volt battery + my laser, how screwed is it?

    Title says it all. Had one of my guys hook our self leveling $5k laser to one of our smaller (but still 24v) machines for battery power. Long story. From what he says, the motor sped the rotation of the laser up to "way too fast" levels, he noticed it, and unplugged it immediately from the...
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    Demolition Trailer Suggestion

    Our little dirt company has been doing more and more residential and commercial demolition lately and we have decided we need a good quality trailer to do it with. We have in the past used aluminum and steel trailers with the live sliding floors and had good luck, so our knee jerk reaction was...
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    Hauling (627) Scrapers

    Soo I need to take 3 scrapers up into Montana. We have a triaxle Load King 50t, 24' well. Heavy haul guys - do I have enough room to get this legal? Trying to decide if now is the time to invest in a good truck to make this feasible. Pics for reference: http://imgur.com/a/Lyk6x
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    Freight to job sites

    Hey guys, I was hoping to get some feedback on what is "fair" to charge a customer on a rather long haul to location. Basically it is a 1000 mile trip, couple scrapers, dozer, grader, backhoe. I have my number for running up there loaded, how much can I reasonably charge to deadhead back to...
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    627B's and F's, rolling coal in Texas (1990's)

    http://imgur.com/a/wSbKA Enjoy The F in the on shot was a brand new out of the factory machine, 1DL97, if anyone has any info about where it may currently be, it would just be interesting to know what happened to our "baby".
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