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    just when it looks good...

    ...THE SKY IS FALLING, AHHHHH!!!! Just kidding, but on a serious note how many folk here started working only to be laid off again? I just worked a month or so, had to swallow my pride and drive a dump truck instead of equipment just to get working again. I got in the swing of things, picked...
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    what a lovely sound this morning

    So there I am, peacefully asleep in my bed having dreams of sweet nothings. Well that is I WAS until the company that plows in the complex here thought that quarter to 5 in the morning was a great time to **** into the wind! We had about an eighth to quarter inch of ice yesterday, parking lot...
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    Civil engineering tech?

    My local 2 year school has a program they call civil engineering tech, seems like mostly surveying, soil sample and some CAD work and I was wondering if anyone out there has heard of this type of program or job position and what they think about it. When done you get a fancy AAS degree and it...
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    when are you starting up?

    Well this is posed to the folk that have to shut down in winter. Around Sioux Falls it's looking like early April, what about your neck of the woods? If you didn't notice, I'm anxious to start working again!
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    Wyoming mining jobs, looking for info

    Hello all, things are dead slow here for just about any type of work so I've been broadening my search to include the mines in Wyoming. Information though is rather hard to come by so I wanted to pick everyones brain here. If anyone knows companies, good or bad about the job and that sort of...
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    A chuckle at my expense

    So I'm at work cleaning out under the tail drums from the crusher, la de da life is good, got my 12 or so foot long piece of channel to get the stuff I can't reach with the bucket on and doing my thing. Well for those not knowing my thing is getting the channel filled with material then ya back...
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    hearing protection with tunes and safety glasses

    I gotta wear ear muff style hearing protection at work while operating the crusher and well I like having tunes to pass the time. Right now I am using ear bud style headphones and they work well enough as well as reduce incoming noise a little bit but they like to come out of my ear as they...
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    just got....promoted?

    I don't know but just the same I now run the jaw crusher instead of wheel loader. It's an old pioneer that got converted to a side discharge and it's a pretty dang good crusher. A couple questions though, we have been running some mud through so I have to clean the feed plate off every now and...
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    Squeel from boom area

    966F, new seals and pins and it won't shut up! Initially it was thought that a pin wasn't taking grease. After greasing the snot out of it and having it puke everywhere at all pins we thought it would be quite but to no avail. The pins are taking grease on both sides with minimal issues and...
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    Hats off to you folks

    Well I finally got to operate a grader, 140H to be exact. I did a bit of cleaning up such as grading down rises near the gravel piles and generally making the areas a little better for loading trucks. I never imagined how difficult it could be to get everything just right. I did all my work...
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    dragline repair, swing and drum brakes

    We have an old 25-B Bacyrus Erie dragline that more or less works but needs a little help. The swing brake is not working and the drum brakes (for cables) seem to stick as well as the crane will crawl forward and back but turning is a no go. I would like to know how involved it would be to...
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    First rate excavating in sioux falls

    I am looking at these guys and figured I'd ask here if anyone has heard or knows anything good or bad about them, thank you in advance!
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    mystery switch 988B

    I tried getting a picture but it's a no-go. I was using a 988B today and there was a rocker switch on the boom control stick. Nobody knows what it's for, including the CAT mechanic out today to fix the bucket hydraulics. I thought it might be for ride control but I'm pretty sure it wasn't in...
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    how many hours to be "experienced"?

    I am just looking for a general consensus on how many hours an wheel loader operator should have before they would be considered a viable candidate for a job with a different employer. I ask because I have about 1200 hours and am getting very sick of my employer and their devil may care...
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    sinkholes softspots and the water table

    At the two pits I work at we are frequently near (with a foot) the water table. There has been occasion that we are stuck working through this quagmire and it will sometimes be necessary to drive through and make mud, but one time it was too much so we started throwing everything we could into...
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    talk my into a grader?

    I am currently running wheel loader and to be honest am sick of the poor equipment and lack of maintenance as the loaders are usually run to death, an early one too the way it's maintained. Anyhow off subject, I am interested in learning to run a motor grader and have talked with the company...
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    old Bucyrus erie and American crane plus

    a haul truck of unknown age. I know the dragline and haul truck work, to what degree can be debated though as the dragline doesn't like to crawl and the haul truck has a handy smokescreen so you can't see where it is! And came across this 966C while working hard at a county pit. And at the...
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    966D-washer bottle?

    Currently using a 966D and I just can't find the damn washer bottle! I've checked the eng comp, under the cab and in the cab to no avail. The cab has some old rock damage at the front bottom where it looks like one got stuck while the operator turned.
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    hello from SD

    Howdy, just found the forum while looking for tips on operating a motor grader and saw all that was here so decided to sign up. I've got about 1k hours with wheel loaders and am rather sick of it as it's mostly mining rock and feeding the wash plant. I found out the company always needs grader...
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