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Recent content by JaredV
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Overload of the Day
That sucks for that guy and everyone involved, but he wanted a new car/viral video/get on TV. Instead of trying to get the driver's attention and prevent further damage, he had time to get out his phone and start filming. -
GMC C7000 Larger Tire Size
I don't know how many other outfits do this, but our steer tires are recapped for drives. Works well for the work we do. Check around with your tire shops, they might have a pair of 10r22.5s that they want to move. I got a set of 9r22.5 drives for my old IH dump truck that originally had... -
Identify this flail mower.
Might help to see the rotor with knives attached.- JaredV
- Post #2
- Forum: Agricultural Equipment
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Moving a Cat 15 miles
I'm not going to tell you what you should or shouldn't do, Dave, but... We move 150 size excavator on tilt decks in the woods all the time, 2 and 3 axle trailers. Steep, 15% grades, sometimes more. With 8 or 10 tons in the truck and a Jake brake, you never really use the trailer brakes if you go... -
Old conventionals at work
I'm thinking 22B. The tractor undercarriage is factory. That was an option favored by pipeliners and machines doing lots of walking into tougher places but I think the grousers have been modified into street pads. -
How to fill in potholes/road maintenance
Are they full of water? Water just makes the material mushy and squish out. But you can use the material to displace the water and come back a little later when the water has drained off the road. With a grader, if I can't cut them out, I'll fill them, wheel pack them, top them off and repeat...- JaredV
- Post #2
- Forum: Wheel Loaders
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SW Washington loggers from the 70's/early 80's............Filla,Portway,ect....
Not to take anything away from accounting, but... logging makes for better stories.- JaredV
- Post #56
- Forum: Forestry Operations
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Moving a Cat 15 miles
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Free quarry overburdened?post away
It's interesting what different areas call rock products. Around here crushed rock is whatever screen size it went through, like 1-1/4-" or 1-2". Round rock is screenings, pea rock, con agg or 1-2". I'd never heard of #xx's or Class x until I started hanging out here. Maybe it's because we tend...- JaredV
- Post #35
- Forum: General Industry Questions
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Antique & Vintage Trucks.
It looks original to me. With a load like that I'm sure you have to do some funky stuff to get where you need to go. Just having fun with it. -
Antique & Vintage Trucks.
Waaaait just a minute... he's going south on the northbound side hanging a U-turn in the cop turnaround to go north on the southbound side. -
new excavator not lift up the machine
Shouldn't need to uncurl the bucket while lifting the machine. The reason for pushing out with the stick while lifting the machine is as the machine is rocking back, the pivot point is at the ground behind the machine. When it is lifted, the boom pin moves in an arc up and back around that pivot...- JaredV
- Post #25
- Forum: Compact Excavators
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new excavator not lift up the machine
I think just about every machine I've run won't lift itself without pushing the stick out a little while booming down. At the least they like doing it better that way.- JaredV
- Post #16
- Forum: Compact Excavators