a rare afternoon off...

[farmerted44]

hello all,
i havent been posting alot this last month.
my wife has been in the hospital. she is slowly recovering and will be moving from hospital to a nursing facility tommorow. at least the nursing facility is closer to home. it wont be such a long drive.
anyway i took a day off last week to be with her. afternoon rolled in ,she got a big shot of pain killers and went to sleep. i decided i would go home and take a nap. i started driving out to our place on what used to be a narrow 2 lane cow trail. i was amazed at all the construction. i just happened to have my camera w/ me with fresh batteries. i hope you enjoy our rare afternoon off.
ya might recognize that skip loader in the background. that blade looked brand new.

[farmerted44]

here is some more.
quite a busy corner here.

[farmerted44]

thats not all!!!!!!!!
here is a few belly dumps .lets add some more stuff to this corner. otto trucking also has the contract w/ my compny.
i will post more tommorow.

[Grader4me]

Nice pictures...sorry to hear about your wife. I have a question....I noticed on the rubber tire roller there is no ROP. Up here any roller weighing 3 ton (2740 kgs) and over has to be equipped with roll over protection and a seat belt. Is there a requirement for this in your area?

[2004F550]

isnt required in the US on rollers, most manufacters put them on anyways in this day and age

[RyanCKing]

I was wondering about the single trailer belly dumps. Why do they use these over doubles? Im assuming because of weight or length restrictions? I always thought CA and AZ had very similar restrictions.

[Ford LT-9000]

Pretty expensive to run a truck and trailer and only carry 20 ton of material a truck and transfer is good for 35 ton. You can put 15 ton on the truck and 25 ton on the transfer trailer.

Now guys are running tridrive dump trucks they are good for 20 plus ton on a straight truck being they have 69,000lbs with the three drive axles.

Maximum gross weight here is 140,000lbs a tandem axle dump with a 4 axle transfer trailer can almost gross that.

[farmerted44]

lets see where should i start?
rops..true not required yet! most newer rollers do have rops. i say yet because somewhere in the south (i believe) operator was killed ,rollover no rops.

ah next we shall address the belly dumps? singles or doubles? boy if i had a nickel for every time this arguement came up over some beers i would be rich. most of my friends are either operators or truck drivers. so just add alcohol and you have a whole bunch of knoitall*******s!!:yup otto trucking runs both types. i dont know if this could be a factor but i seem to see abc in the singles and sand in doubles??? at least back when i was at the gravel pit

anyway shall i continue w/ pics of the rest of the afternoon??

i thought you might say that.........

[farmerted44]

how long do ya think this will last? about 1/2 mile down the road from intersection .http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=928&stc=1&d=1144562500
tue afternoon drive dairy edit.jpg

[farmerted44]

well lets continue the drive. we are now 15 miles west of phoenix,az. this was nothin but dairyies and cotton farms

[farmerted44]

this is the other side of two rows of equipment
somebody wants some dirt moved fast.

[CascadeScaper]

Wow, no kidding! I don't think I've ever seen an operation run more than 4-5 scrapers at the most on one site.

[farmerted44]

pretty common sight now to have 10+ scrapers on job site. pretty amazing to watch it from a 1/4 mile away. now i see why they call us cowboys..:Cowboy :Cowboy .lol.
i kinda miss being out there on the BIG jobs. it was alot more stressful than puttin trash in a hole.:sleeping
but i got a nice raise this week,great benefits ect. ect.
can you believe there is more to my rare afternoon off!!??!!??
well shoot i had a picture of an old pull grader, i believe it was an auto patrol. i cant find it. any way any nascar fans out there???
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[farmerted44]

here we go













this is the bridge that nascar built!

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[farmerted44]

heres the old road...

[farmerted44]

well geez what trying to say that we used to ride our hosses to the races???

[farmerted44]

well looky here. just when ya thought all the equipment had gone home.....http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=960&stc=1&d=1145005418
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[farmerted44]

ok this one lost its steam..lol but this is where the drive ends. now when you guys watch next weeks race at PIR you can think about the construction going on inthe area surrounding the track.

[tuney443]

My Dad told me he was on a big job once with a lot of iron and this inventor type shows up with his remote control to run 4 scrapers at the same time.He was doing just fine for a couple days until the union found out.His invention was never heard of again.:spaz

[dayexco]

to me, that sounds like the "special" carb that gets cars 86 mpg

[JimBruce42]

Farmerted44,

I somehow missed this earlier, but I hope your wife is doing well and gets better soon. Great pictures too!

-jim

[farmerted44]

I somehow missed this earlier, but I hope your wife is doing well and gets better soon. Great pictures too!

-jim
thank you jim she is doing better. finally out of hospital last week . 47 days wow!! but thankfully she is home now. i really appreciate your concern