Some pics of my current project

[RollOver Pete]

Love the action shots. Looks like there a patch there previously?

Yep.
There's another patch on the bottom also. Looks like someone tried to smuggle some drugs across the border.

 

[RollOver Pete]

Bombing the fill.

 

[DMiller]

What is that fill, looks more like sand than dirt.

 

[John C.]

Looks like desert dirt to me.

 

[RollOver Pete]

What is that fill, looks more like sand than dirt.

It is sand. Blow sand. The kind of sand you find at the beach or Sahara Desert. No water and you sink. Lots of water and it compacts....enough to build a house on.

 

[RollOver Pete]

Let's see..
We have 10 machines hauling 14 loads per hr= 1120 loads in 8 hrs.
That at 44yds avg = almost 50000yds at the end of the day. That's only our 57's. There are 10 637' running also so I don't know..
Maybe 80000-90000 yds a day?

Correction...
I was wrong on the yardage. 44 yds is dirt. Blow sand is an entirely different material. 35 yds avg is what a 57 will haul when in blow sand. That drops my numbers from 49000 to 39000 yds hauled by 10 machines in 8 hrs.

 

[RollOver Pete]

It is.....kind of.

Looks like desert dirt to me.

 

[DMiller]

Thanks, looked like what I had seen around Phoenix as a kid.

 

[Tyler d4c]

Yep.
There's another patch on the bottom also. Looks like someone tried to smuggle some drugs across the border.

When dad and uncle got the 307ssr nearly half the bottom of the black was torched off thats what they think happened

 

[RollOver Pete]

57 G rear.
Never a dull moment.

 

[DMiller]

Zowie!!

 

[Tyler d4c]

Thats a interesting one

 

[RollOver Pete]

This happened sometime between 5:00am and 2:00pm. Not sure when but she ran all day. I spotted it doing my walk around after they parked.. engine still running. Shut her down, removed the hot were, hit it with the solvent gun when I suddenly thought to myself, "self....I'm tired, it's 105° in the shade and I'm coming up on 12 hrs... Screw this place... I'm going home". Naturally, the other mechanic agreed. We'll deal with it early Monday.

 

[DMiller]

Appears locked in and spun to exploding

 

[kshansen]

Appears locked in and spun to exploding

Never saw one do that!

Had a 988H Cat that ran all morning but after lunch break would not start. Remover starter to find the nose of the starter was missing. Took some fishing around after removing the plat on the other side of the flywheel housing but finally managed to get the broken nose out. Matched it up with the rest of starter and only a few small chips were missing. Tossed in new starter and put it back to work.
Could have been real bad if the engine had started then the piece fell off!

 

[RollOver Pete]

110°.....but it's Friday .
I love my job...

 

[DMiller]

First Thought: "HELLO Rabbit"

 

[RollOver Pete]

Changing the front driveline on a hot 657E is one thing. Add 100°+ outside temps makes it all that more miserable.
On the plus side...at least we're working in the shade.

 

[DMiller]

Lucky boy!! NOT!

 

[DMiller]

Pucks destroyed? or bolts shear? Either should do alignment checks.