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    Front brake drum

    So, there is an option B. I have alot of old stuff, and even if the drum was available, they usually charge 400-500 for dayton drums, or more. At that price, get the inner and outter bearing numbers, wheel seal number and shoe width, get hub pilot hubs, new drums and shoes and its often the same...
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    JD 410 Backhoe

    Peaceful creek makes awesome full sets of manuals, for probably 120 bucks you can get operator, service and full parts breakdown manuals in actual print in binders. Worth every penny, especially being able to feed the parts guy numbers.
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    Fuel Surcharge

    Most of my customers are pretty good so I dont know if id raise by that much, most stuff I do i burn 30-50 gallons a day, at an average of 40 gallons in a day, id put like $8-10 on because in an 8 hr day an extra dollar and change a gallon is the difference between $150 in fuel and $200 in fuel...
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    Hough H80B Payloader

    99% sure its a Hough tranny, but im waiting on the parts manual to show up to confirm. It's an H80B so I think they were about 1972-1980ish, not 100%sure though.
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    Hough H80B Payloader

    Morning guys, after a call from a friend and maybe against my better judgement I heard about a local contractor that had 2 hough h80b's for sale from their quarrying operation that were owned since almost new. The quarry shut down 10 years ago and father died, son parked the stuff at the shop...
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    EZ 800 screen

    No experience with the ez-screen 800, but I own a 2017ish ez-screen 600 and it does a great job. I feed mine with a JD310 backhoe and you can't really overload it where it'll stop, what happens if you put too much on is you just lose some product on the oversize side. They're well built, you can...
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    Pickup bed toolboxes and gooseneck trailer.

    Funny, that's what I said about having a utility body on a pickup! I will never go back to a regular pickup body. But I get it, they don't work with 5th wheels, im just in a spot where if it's bigger than what I should pull on a 7 ton pintle trailer behind my f250 service truck, I just put it on...
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    1990 TD8-G Dresser Dozer? Good/Bad

    When I was on my last quest for a small dozer to replace my downright antique john deere, I noticed that anyone that had a TD7 or 8 E or G in my area didn't want to sell it and only spoke highly of them. I know undercarrige parts are all available and a good amount of them were cummins powered...
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    Small dozer load push off time

    In NY upstate of the city area best we can do is 72,500 on a tri axle if you have enough wheelbase, which generally means 18 or 19 foot boxes, generally places expect a tri axle to do 20 tons or better, 21 is great, some guys have perfect specs and can get 23 legally, but those light trucks that...
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    Small dozer load push off time

    Okay, glad to see I'm right on ballpark here, up in NY we're running 20 ton or better on most tri axles so it's a little more to deal with, but running similar times. I was thinking a truck every 15-20 minutes at most would be ideal to keep the ball rolling.
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    Small dozer load push off time

    Got my older john deere 450 dozer on a job currently and it got me thinking about efficiency and average times for pushing off a tri axle dump load of material. Doing a job with a buddy and I think he severely underestimated how efficient a guy can be on a small dozer, im also starting to think...
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    Best Grease for Tractors, Excavators, and Chippers...

    You're thinking of "traveler", mystik has been and still is a Venezuelan petroleum brand
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    Best Grease for Tractors, Excavators, and Chippers...

    Mystik JT6 would meet the NLGI 2 specs that bandit requires and actually has better water compatibility than some marine greases, that's my go to for one stop shop greases in my fleet, switched from shell Gadus s3 and Lucas red n tacky. $54 a case online. Used to work at a tree service company...
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    New guy no clue

    That terrain looks like my area of upstate NY which means hills, shale, clay, boulders, etc, the ground is like a box of chocolates.... I'd say a 200-250 class excavator would be the dingle most useful tool and then hire out other finer work here and there. Cost of operation on an excavator is...
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    Giving warranty on used equipment

    Whoever buys that is gonna get a great power source for their shop. I have a slightly newer version (I think circa 2001 if I read the serial number right), but that dialarc 250 is an absolute hoss of a machine, can't seem to find the duty cycle. I have it setup in one corner of the shop with a...
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    What are your hourly rates?

    It's actually really nice to see this thread pop back up, I remember reading it when it first came out before I was even a member and just stalking these pages religiously. I think alot of the hourly rates that people have been using as a rule of thumb are just too outdated to apply today with...
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    Drilling holes oversize in track shoes

    I highly recommend a HSS bridge reamer,none of my favorite brands is Champion. You should be able to get one new for around $50-70 bucks and it will last the life of the job. I actually find using a good air drill helps extend the life of them because they will stallbinstead of catch an edge and...
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    Exporting old iron - a scam?

    You'd be surprised, ive sold 2 dump trucks that got exported. The first was a 1988 international, 3 guys from Honduras came (very late but that's besides the point) and paid cash and drove that thing 3 hours south to NYC and it eventually got sent out from the port of jersey. The second one was...
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    Honey Locust trees excavator, Track loader, Dozer

    Been dealing with 58 acres riddled with honey and black locust for years. They have a shallow root system which means they push over easy, but all the roots are connected under ground, that's why they always pop back up next to an old stump. Best bet is to push them out as high up on the tree as...
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    Portable shaker box screens

    Well to keep everyone interested updated, after shopping around and getting quotes on an EZ screen 600 new and the econo screeners, a 2017 EZ screen 600 came up for sale 45 minutes from me with only 115 hours on it and I pulled the trigger fast. I got to play with it for a couple hours yesterday...
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