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How do you operate a skidder?
Pure gold Iron Horse!!! Noone is going to hold your hand... if you've got the balls, get in it at lunch time (with your foremans OK) and haul a few to the dump. No piece of equipment has a passenger seat my friend.- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #29
- Forum: Forestry Equipment
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Lock 'em up (and then some)
It's been a minute or two since I've been on HEF so I'm just now getting around to updating everyone on an incident that took place in the area back in Feb. We've had windows busted out and dirt clods thrown at the machines over the weekends, but nothing as serious as this...- F-1.08-F.G.
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- Replies: 3
- Forum: Safety Issues
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Trimble or Topcon?
TopCon 1 1/2 years on a Cat D-6K equipped with TopCon System 5 3-D grade control system. System works flawlessly and has more tools and options than you could imagine. Love the slope lock and point of measure offsets when I'm grading for curbing. Not too familiar with the ToPo abilities yet...- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #5
- Forum: GPS Systems
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How big of dozer would I need?
It all depends on the type of material you're working with and, of course, the desired finished product. Through my experiences with yardage amounts like that, I would say a competent operator on a D-6R, possibly with a PAT blade, but atleast a four-way would be able to produce a graded surface...- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #3
- Forum: Dozers
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Help Identifying Please?
Just recently while walking around the farm with my wife, I discovered a VERY old, but seemingly complete tractor drawn grader. The operator stands at the very rear of the machine and controls the blade while his/her partner operates the tractor. It has two large hand-wheels with friction...- F-1.08-F.G.
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- Replies: 3
- Forum: Motor Graders
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What is this?
LOOKS like a second generation Caterpillar '60'. The '60' was produced after the Best and Holt merger from 1921 until 1931, the first of which was produced with gasoline powered engine. It appears as though yours lost its gasoline engine when it was replaced with a diesel that would hopfully...- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #5
- Forum: Dozers
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necessary pipe cover
As far as the numbers go at the quarrys... #57s are comprised of a combination of #5s, #6s and #7s (excluding the 6s for simplicity) and the #8910s are a combination of... you guessed it, #8s, #9s, #10s. Why they exclude the middle number in #57s but not #8910s... don't know:beatsme:idontgetit- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #10
- Forum: General Industry Questions
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GPS anyone?
Gps Hi Cascade, Our company uses the TopCon GPS system... we have a two man 'in-house' survey crew that was first (in the company) to get online with the system and test it's reliability. Everyone from top to bottom was EXTREMELY impressed with it's capabilities and accuracy after they got...- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #4
- Forum: General Industry Questions
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digging over drive motors
It was just YESTERDAY that my foreman decided that he could load the ADTs (loose topsoil/no digging effort) more effeciently than I could with our 345BL... he reposition the hoe so that he could track his way across the berm in one straight line, HOWEVER, his longest reach and greatest load was...- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #69
- Forum: Excavators
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Who Backdrags?
Dear Mr. Plant:notworthy, Just to clarify your post about track wear on elevated sprocket machines... Are you saying that the track chain experiences more wear because the chain has to go around three bends instead of the 'standard' two? Or are you saying that, because of the severity of angles...- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #53
- Forum: Dozers
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Turn-table manners
I rarely ever stop the machine by sticking in the opposite direction, unless it is absolutely required or an emergency to avoid hitting something, as I see this to be anything but helpful to the longevity of the machine. After a short time on any machine I can normally get in to a groove as to...- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #5
- Forum: Excavators
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CAT 385C L Pictures
Interesting pics... what a boom! A 345BL is the biggest I've operated/been around... I know that it's not THAT big, just breaking the 100k mark. But that thing is a beast!! I guess I'm not used to seeing buckets with 7 teeth and tracks with only 2 grousers per shoe. Our 345 has two buckets...- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #4
- Forum: Excavators
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Motor Grader
Go for it Hey, SkyHigh. Learning the basic functions of a grader is relatively easy... Unlike a dozer, loader or anything else that has it's tool in front of the machine, cutting the grade that you're about to travel on... a grader cuts relative to what the front tires are riding on (most of...- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #6
- Forum: Motor Graders
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Turn-table manners
Just a quick question for all you hoe operators... I was running our 345BL the other day and I noticed something that I figured I would ask the experts about. When you really get the machine swinging (say from 90 degrees or more), is it hurting anything to just deadstick the turntable to a...- F-1.08-F.G.
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- Forum: Excavators
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digging over drive motors
Reuben, you are correct in every sense of the word, however, a dozer does 90% of it's workload whilst traveling forward, PULLING the tracks underneath the undercarriage. Back dragging, reverse ripping, or any other kind of weird things operators do with dozers doesn't hold a candle to pushing a...- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #65
- Forum: Excavators
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my mount
Awesome pics!! I would love to take a whack at an LR hoe... just seems like it would be fun trying to pull a grade for like 90 feet or load a truck 60-70 feet away from you:notworthy- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #30
- Forum: Excavators
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D6R vs D6M or 6N
We have an R with a PAT blade at work... all of the operators get frustrated trying to manage the blade. It may be a little difficult to produce nice work, but after a few hours/days anyone can get used to it. Older machine (in some peoples eyes), everyone complains that the blade is messed up...- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #8
- Forum: Dozers
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D6R vs D6M or 6N
I don't mean to throw a wrench in the gears you guys have turning... but a D6T with a V-PAT is a stong finish machine. But that might just be my opinion because I'm a big fan of 6-PATs:IMO:my2c- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #7
- Forum: Dozers
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Stockpile shapes?
Today at work, the foreman got his panties all in a bunch because I was pushing a stockpile (about 10,000cy by the end of the day) up into a standard "truck ramp" when what he wanted (but failed to tell me) was a longer, lower pile with ramps at both ends, what we call a "pan mound". No big...- F-1.08-F.G.
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- Forum: Dozers
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NEW CAT Compact Track Loader
We have a 287 at work and I enjoy running it OCCASIONALLY. I've never seen a 'comfortable' skid steer, so I don't see a reason to whine about that because it's really all in HOW you operate it, not WHAT your your operating. Powerful enough for it's size, but in order to move any bank yardage you...- F-1.08-F.G.
- Post #24
- Forum: Skid Steers