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A few projects I have done recently
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HATCHEQUIP
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Nice
colson04
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A close friend of mine's parents built a million dollar house on a lake some 20 years ago. His dad had a custom gun vault made in his basement during the construction for his collection. Poured walls, precast concrete lid, vault door brought in from somewhere. That vault room is bigger than the living room in the house I built 10 years ago. His entire collection and related equipment is stored there along with a super fancy reloading station. It's really nice, though very claustrophobic to be in with no windows and only the vault door to get out.
Welder Dave
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My former neighbour demo'd an old bank. Someone wanted the door for their basement. I heard they broke the stairs trying to get it in the basement. Neighbour just loaded the door and wasn't involved in installing it.
smifwal
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A friend of mine broke his stairs trying to get a wood burning furnace in his basement, he has moved it 3 times since and had to beef up the stairs of every house after that
CM1995
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2 acre site we recently graded out 2/3 of the 2 acres for a future building pad. Same client which is a good friend of mine that we did the adjacent site for back in '23.
This 2 acres front the main road and will be home to 2 10K SF office/warehouse buildings for rent with the owner taking some space for their own business.
The lot we prep'd back in '23 to the left in the pic with a 10K SF building on it.
Used most of the iron on this one other than some of the small stuff. Brought the 953 off dump duty for this one. It was a track loader type of job.
Wrapped up.
This 2 acres front the main road and will be home to 2 10K SF office/warehouse buildings for rent with the owner taking some space for their own business.
The lot we prep'd back in '23 to the left in the pic with a 10K SF building on it.
Used most of the iron on this one other than some of the small stuff. Brought the 953 off dump duty for this one. It was a track loader type of job.
Wrapped up.
CM1995
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A little demo and grading job for the largest GC we work for. Pretty simple job to remove the sidewalks, curb and paving in front of the existing building. This is for a private college that is turning this old warehouse into a recreational building with basketball and pickle ball courts and other multi-use spaces.
Brought both 305's and a 279. The 305E ran the hammer and the new 305 ran a bucket.
Our 2 larger hoes were busy on the pad job above so rented a 160 Link Belt to load the tri-axles out and catch a CO to demo the concrete stairs and excavate down to the lower level.
The CO for the stair removal and excavation.
Loading out the tri's. We had 2 trucks running one day and finished up with 1 the next day. Much faster and productive than trying the painstaking task of loading a 20 CY tri-axle dump with a mini.
I didn't run the 160 but my operator liked it.
Brought both 305's and a 279. The 305E ran the hammer and the new 305 ran a bucket.
Our 2 larger hoes were busy on the pad job above so rented a 160 Link Belt to load the tri-axles out and catch a CO to demo the concrete stairs and excavate down to the lower level.
The CO for the stair removal and excavation.
Loading out the tri's. We had 2 trucks running one day and finished up with 1 the next day. Much faster and productive than trying the painstaking task of loading a 20 CY tri-axle dump with a mini.
I didn't run the 160 but my operator liked it.
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Trying out this Blue Diamond cutter that a friend of mine wants to sell.
Much needed 953C love in the background.
The cutter did a pretty darn good job mulching pines on our new project.
The little pines average around 4-6" and the cutter mulched them up pretty well.
Wanted to try a cutter rather than the normal clear and grubb method with an excavator, loader or dozer. Wanted to mulch as much as we could then strip it with the topsoil so we didn't have a huge pile of woody/soil debris we would have to haul off.
Much needed 953C love in the background.
The cutter did a pretty darn good job mulching pines on our new project.
The little pines average around 4-6" and the cutter mulched them up pretty well.
Wanted to try a cutter rather than the normal clear and grubb method with an excavator, loader or dozer. Wanted to mulch as much as we could then strip it with the topsoil so we didn't have a huge pile of woody/soil debris we would have to haul off.
willie59
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Looks like that brush cutter chewed up stuff pretty well.
Shimmy1
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If you're serious about a mower, you will be much happier with a Bradco GroundShark. I've posted it before, 4 blades instead of 3, carbide tips under the rotor, best of all it has a flip-up chain shield so you don't kill anyone within 100 yards when cutting.
Metalman 55
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Nice work again there CM!
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So far so good. The guys add oil to it and there is not a "dripping" leak yet.
The other day I got a number for an independent mechanic that left the Cat house to go out on his own and is supposed to be very good. Going to ring him up and see if he is interested in doing the repair.
One of our 279's just hit 3K hours and is in need of a DPF swap as well. He may get 2 jobs.
willie59
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Some of their cutters do have deflector chains on the front and rear. IIRC, on that particular model, it's designed to push against small sapling trees with the push bar, bend them over a bit and cut through them with the cutter, chains would interfere with this. Either way, just for safety, it's best to not having anyone near an operating brush cutter.
Welder Dave
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Would a grader have been a benefit on that job or your laser grader on the CTL?
cuttin edge
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Grader would be perfect there. But its one of those machines that's a big expense to have sitting in the yard if you don't use it everyday. The sportsplex we have been doing. They have been putting the gravel on the parking lot with the D4 and the GPS, and it's pretty much perfect. We do road work so a production size grader is justified. A company that would do more projects with a dozer, gps machine control and your golden.
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Nope. The D3 running the standard 2D handled the job quickly and much faster than the grader box for our 279's.
^^This. We have no need for a grader when a GPS/2D dozer handles what we do fine. Would it be awesome to have a grade - hell yeah but if I had one then I'd put GPS on it then have a $250K+ (for a small machine) piece of equipment that would get 10-15% utilization. Doesn't make sense.
The guys were able to find 3 of the old control points on site so we were able to run GPS. We didn't have a model for this project but they were able to set elevations.