Spring/summer works

[cuttin edge]

Just like that, all that snow we had is gone. I plowed snow off an access road for the city with a dozer on Tuesday. They were trying to find a water leak. A lot of sleds travel that way, so it was packed down hard. Yesterday, it rained hard all day. last night was mild and foggy. Drove by the road this morning, and the windrow from plowing off the road is almost gone. It's shorts weather out there now. Not sure if the world is ready for my white legs.

 

[20/80]

Just like that, all that snow we had is gone. I plowed snow off an access road for the city with a dozer on Tuesday. They were trying to find a water leak. A lot of sleds travel that way, so it was packed down hard. Yesterday, it rained hard all day. last night was mild and foggy. Drove by the road this morning, and the windrow from plowing off the road is almost gone. It's shorts weather out there now. Not sure if the world is ready for my white legs.

LOL

 

[Silveroddo]

Man this has been a weird year, feels like we're on our 4th spring freeze thaw cycle in the last 6 months. We've made a round on our roads and things dried out, just got some rain and it seems like a whole new round of frost coming out. It is still April I guess, no matter how nice its been.
Spoke with one of the foresters I do work for today trying to gauge what kind of shape things are in over in that unit and I got "Oh yeah, they're torn to pieces". Sounds like job security for the next month or so lol.

 

[20/80]

Man this has been a weird year, feels like we're on our 4th spring freeze thaw cycle in the last 6 months. We've made a round on our roads and things dried out, just got some rain and it seems like a whole new round of frost coming out. It is still April I guess, no matter how nice its been.
Spoke with one of the foresters I do work for today trying to gauge what kind of shape things are in over in that unit and I got "Oh yeah, they're torn to pieces". Sounds like job security for the next month or so lol.

The weather has been rainy here this April, While I'm grading up my well graveled roads I am only fixing the pot holes and bad spots on my not so graveled/mud roads for now until we get some hotter and nicer dry weather, they would only go to mud if I graded them up in this rainy weather in April

 

[Cat 140M AWD]

The weather has also been weird here also have a week of 70 then rain 45 mph wind and 50 degree temperatures with getting below freezing at night. I’ve been discing shoulders got everything disc now to start pulling them in we just had 2 inches of rain so be a bit before I start pulling edges in.

 

[20/80]

The weather has also been weird here also have a week of 70 then rain 45 mph wind and 50 degree temperatures with getting below freezing at night. I’ve been discing shoulders got everything disc now to start pulling them in we just had 2 inches of rain so be a bit before I start pulling edges in.View attachment 310421

We are getting ready to pull the shoulders in on our pave roads first of next week, we have the same disc's but on a loader

 

[cuttin edge]

Today was the last day of our plowing contracts for the season, so they have been taking the winter tires off the loaders, and pulling the ones at the malls back to the shop. Soon the sweeping will start, and as long as it stays dry, I'll be starting driveway prep on May 6. My Mauldin grader has an issue with the oil pan, but Cummins says it warranty, so it will be headed to the dealer. A new pan is a month out, so I will be starting with my old Mauldin. Not a big deal, I kind of miss her anyway. I'm sure there will be a few lanes to grade coming up, but there is only one road gravel job on the list, and there is no telling if we will even be lowest bid when it comes out. They dropped my work truck off at the tire shop to get the winter tires off, and when I went to pick it up...... they put my white letters on the inside....who does that????? Seriously?

 

[Cat 140M AWD]

Thought I would share this with everyone I’m lucky to have the opportunity too go up to North Dakota and be an instructor and host a shoulder pulling class for them here our the details if anyone in North Dakota is interested

 

[20/80]

Thought I would share this with everyone I’m lucky to have the opportunity too go up to North Dakota and be an instructor and host a shoulder pulling class for them here our the details if anyone in North Dakota is interested View attachment 310487

Best of luck, there lucky to have you.

 

[Silveroddo]

Thought I would share this with everyone I’m lucky to have the opportunity too go up to North Dakota and be an instructor and host a shoulder pulling class for them here our the details if anyone in North Dakota is interested View attachment 310487

You really need to do one of those for MN/DOT.

 

[cuttin edge]

Not really grader stuff, not for a while anyway. It's a new community wellness center. Couple indoor pools, a gym and a hockey rink. Just to give perspective, the lower grey pile is 20,000 metric tons of of 3 inch minus from our quarry. The lower brown pile is sandstone from the excavation of the building site, and that ditch. There are 2 350 linkbelts. One is inside the rink, and the other is probably just outside the wall. This shot does not do that pile of shale justice. The area between where the equipment is parked in the corner, and the Walmart in the back ground is the future site of a Kents building supply. We were lowest bidder on that, but all the bids were over the engineers estimate, so it has been put on hold. The walmart has given us the contract to re do the parking lot. Lots of work.

 

[Cat 140M AWD]

Well to say I’ve been busy is an understatement had lots of rain and lots of grader training finally got all my disc material pulled in and working in to the road here are some pictures of what I’ve been doing.first pictures are of the shoulder pulling class I did I North Dakota.

 

[Cat 140M AWD]

Well to say I’ve been busy is an understatement had lots of rain and lots of grader training finally got all my disc material pulled in and working in to the road here are some pictures of what I’ve been doing.first pictures are of the shoulder pulling class I did I North Dakota.

Here are what my roads look like after pulling in the disc material.

 

[20/80]

Well to say I’ve been busy is an understatement had lots of rain and lots of grader training finally got all my disc material pulled in and working in to the road here are some pictures of what I’ve been doing.first pictures are of the shoulder pulling class I did I North Dakota.

Nice, I find new trainee's can become quickly over whelmed learning how to operate a grader, so I learn their learning curve so they will understand what your showing them alot better, nice job!!

 

[20/80]

we had our 140m go down today, rear tandem on the left, as far as we can figure broken cog, this happened just over a year ago on the rear right tandem on this machine, we had a lot of trouble with this machine over the years, not sure why this happened again.

 

[Cat 140M AWD]

I’ve been pulling shoulders on my 4 miles I do every year have the blade a tractor with 3 point rotor tiller and a water truck here are a few pictures of finished product

 

[cuttin edge]

No sign of Ovrszd. Last seen on March 1

 

[JaredV]

This is a stretch of logging road that has never been ditched in the 13 years I've worked there. It's a short but steep hill and is constantly pumping with truck traffic when it's wet so I took it upon myself to do the job. It's in a cut on both sides. The other side has trees right to the ditch but I was able to push the ditch back and this side had enough room between the trees I could lift the spoils. Then I mixed the little bit of dirt in for binder. Curious to see how it does in the wet season now.

 

[20/80]

He has been really quiet, hope he's alright

 

[20/80]

Nice job!! When I am doing back sloping I put my pin in the second hole from the end on the pin gauge so the blade will lay closer to the ground for back sloping, the last hole will limited you from doing that, but it all depends if you have the room to put the back slope lower, I shift the pin back and forth depending on the terrain, thanks for sharing