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    hard hat yes or no

    The company I work for now requires hardhats when needed, class 3 vests all the time, and safety glasses at all times unless operating enclosed cab equipment with the doors and windows closed. Open a door or window, like a front window of an excavator then you must be wearing glasses. Company...
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    CONEXPO 2011 - Vegas Mar 22 - 26 2011 - Anyone?

    I'll be there! I've been booked and paid since august. I am excited about it since I missed the last one. First one missed in 21 years.
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    Trench collapse in Pa

    D5G, I didn't think you took what I was saying out of context I just wanted to be clear that I didn't know if what I had heard and seen was the truth or not. I hear and agree with most of what you are saying, however there are the other ones that might know what they are doing on a small scale...
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    Trench collapse in Pa

    I am not saying it was a 307. It looked like a Cat in the picture I seen and I would say it was about a 307 size. It looked as if he was digging a pipe run from an overflow for a retention basin. The spoils were piled all around the machine and from what I could understand it was part of the...
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    Trench collapse in Pa

    D5G,I agree with most of what you have wrote. However, the contractor was using a small excavator (about a cat 307 size). ASt least that is what was shown in the picture in the paper.
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    Trench collapse in Pa

    I am close to there visiting for the holidays when I heard the news. HOW SAD! It was a family company. The father was doing the digging with his son and a cousin in the 20 foot ditch with NO shoring. The cousin survived, being buried only to his waist, the man's son is the one who died. Reports...
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    Got Them Keys

    Cat key is all I need for the company I am working for now. Been there 10yrs. They change every machine to a cat key when puchased including their trucks (not p/u) carryalls, mixers, dumps, ect. And NO they are not worried about theft for some reason (GPS-shhhh!).Anyways like other ones said I...
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    Playing in the dirt

    I am new here and have been lurking in the shadows for about 6 months. I even think this is my first post. Anyhow to the OP, I didn't really grow up in a sandbox. I was able to experiance the real thing. My dad was an operator and I grew up from 5 years old on the side of a D6C in the oilfield...
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