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  1. AustinPSD

    Pushing Boulders, Building Earthen Dams...

    Good question and point - here we're allowed to use any material in the flood plain, and do what's necessary to recover from a flood as long as: - we don't alter the river's established course - bring in any fill or other material from outside the flood plain I used care to push up the...
  2. AustinPSD

    Pushing Boulders, Building Earthen Dams...

    This weekend I worked on something new, building an earthen dam. We had severe flooding here in the Central Texas and Upper Guadalupe River area the overnight hours of April 15th / 16th. The river went twelve feet above flood stage in the span of about six hours, and inundated about 60-acres...
  3. AustinPSD

    Placement of Gravel for Spreading

    It is a little dependent on your skill level... When I first started, I couldn't push smooth to save my life, so I ended up doing a lot of back-dragging gravel for pads and road bed. I've gotten to the point where I can push smooth, with very little wind-rowing or "porpoising", and only...
  4. AustinPSD

    Placement of Gravel for Spreading

    What kind of dozer/blade? I run D3 with a 6-way VPAT blade. If it were me, I'd pile the material nearest one of the open sizes within the area to be covered, then push it evenly over the area. I'd pick the open side based on the access I have (clearance, level, etc.). If a very smooth...
  5. AustinPSD

    FAE/Loftness mulching head

    It's not my machine, and I'm not the operator... just doing support work during his part of this project. I don't know what his decision-making criteria were for the Fecon vs. FAE head. The operator does love the cab - air-ride, A/C, excellent guarding/cage, floating, and pretty much every...
  6. AustinPSD

    FAE/Loftness mulching head

    I've been doing dozer support work on a clearing project, working in tandem with a guy running a Lamtrac 6125 with a Fecon head. The work area is a mix of river basin sediment, loose rock, solid hard rock cap, clay and soil, topped with bald cypress, cedar elm, oak, willow, china berry, and...
  7. AustinPSD

    Is this supposed to look like this?

    That's not gonna buff out...
  8. AustinPSD

    Refueling

    I use a 300 gal. bulk tank on a stand (gravity feed), dyed off-road diesel that gets periodically refilled by my supplier. This is in the equipment yard. I have a 91 gal. transfer tank in the bed of my truck for remote fueling when the equipment is not in the yard. I transfer fuel from the...
  9. AustinPSD

    Walking Drag-Line Near Henderson TX

    Yes, it is a public road. The security officer politely requested that I refrain from photographing during the move, he didn't demand or imply that it was required. While I could have continued photographing, I tend to give the working guys like myself a break, especially when they're...
  10. AustinPSD

    Walking Drag-Line Near Henderson TX

    Thanks 1570BEGrdman! It is too bad the mining/utility companies are so restrictive and tight with the photos of their operations. The operation is fascinating to watch, and they all do an awesome job of reclamation too - nothing to keep hidden or be ashamed of. When they were moving this...
  11. AustinPSD

    Walking Drag-Line Near Henderson TX

    I think the units marked DelTa 34 and 36 are Marion 8750 walking draglines. They have have been in service at the Amax Delta mines, but I am just speculating. Marion was acquired by Bucryus in 1996/97, and does not maintain a public photo archive on their site to aid in ID'ing the machine...
  12. AustinPSD

    Walking Drag-Line Near Henderson TX

    That is a D10. This shot was taken from Elderville Road which passes through the current working, northeast section of the mine site. The machine was stripping overburden after having been walked over the road from south to north. There are several places around the mine site where various...
  13. AustinPSD

    Walking Drag-Line Near Henderson TX

    Thanks - there are at least two of these machines, one (this one) marked DelTa 34, the other marked DelTa 36 on the mine site. TXU is known to use Bucyrus machines on many of its mines, I can't find a reference for Delta. The only data on the sister machine, 36 I've been able to locate is that...
  14. AustinPSD

    Walking Drag-Line Near Henderson TX

    Here is a nice shot of a walking drag-line and a dozer taken near Henderson, TX at the TXU Oak Hill mining operation. This is a 26,000 acre lignite mining site, part of a the larger Martin Lakes Mine operation, and produces about 13 million tons annually. It is pretty amazing to watch this...
  15. AustinPSD

    ARPlante's Adventures

    Thanks A.R. - that makes sense. I'm evaluating an equipment package for similar applications, hence the question. The rotary cutter is substantially less expensive, and repair due to rock damage would be simpler and less expensive as well.
  16. AustinPSD

    ARPlante's Adventures

    A.R. - I'm interested in your choice of the rotary cutter/brushcat over a flail cutter. I know the flail cutter costs a bit more - does the rotary cutter offer an advantage in your finishing pass?
  17. AustinPSD

    Cat 299C vs. Bobcat T320 vs. Takeuchi TL250?

    The decel pedal functions the same way on the D3G, and it slows things down in reverse. Early on, it was somewhat disconcerting, even though I knew the reverse speed was higher than forward, and I learned to use the decel pedal to take the whiplash out of the picture... Ditto on the steel...
  18. AustinPSD

    more pics of equipment stuck!

    I haven't replaced it yet :-) About ten days ago, I was pushing over a very large, dead live oak in one of the areas I was clearing. The machine is not forestry-equipped, no sweeps, no other protective structures between the front of the machine and ROPS, and I don't have a tree...
  19. AustinPSD

    Which one??

    Rubber tracks can be skewered and torn by jagged ends of stumps, tree trunks and hard rock, hence the rental company's logic on not renting rubber tracked machines. The same thing holds true for rubber tires, they're just cheaper to repair/replace. I've pushed down a lot of cedar and...
  20. AustinPSD

    more pics of equipment stuck!

    Here are a couple from me from recent blunders. In the first shot, from my cell phone camera I was working on turning over gravel riverbank to control vegetation growth. I'd made several passes, having successfully turned the machine at the end of each pass to reverse direction. On the...
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