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  1. Deeretime

    What Does your Construction trailer look like ?

    I have been all around canada working in the water and sewer/construction industry and have always found that a construction trailer is one of the best pieces on site. I have had a couple diferent ones and even had one custom made for my needs, but it is getting older and I am concidering...
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    Precast Sewer Structures...

    when you use precast manholes generaly do they have pipes comeing out of them like we do or do you always grout your pipes in ? All i have to do is e-mail drawings to the precast place and they bench all of the inverts and install either a bell or a pre beveld piece of pipe for me in all...
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    Another excavator oops!

    I sure hope that driver's head hurts. Hauling a 240deere on a lowboy should easily make 14' Someone like that got what they deserve!
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    Help new 289C choppy and unresponcive

    Deerefan do you think that your 299 is as good as say a 333D with pilot controlls, as in its responciveness and its controll
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    Smallest push cat?

    pushed our 27s with our old 850B... helped but wasnt great
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    Help new 289C choppy and unresponcive

    I have been re ajusting the machine controls based on the 3 settings and it either goes to fast or wayyy to slow for me. Pi$$es me off that my old machine will out work this $85,000 new one!
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    Brake on scapers

    pinch a pickup tire in the apron so the tire folds over the cutting edge and with a GENTLE hand you ease it ahead and stop with your bowl without doing damage to your decking! Always worked good for me. and if that fails buy a trailer with a big neck!
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    scary?

    You wouldnt want to run your hammer through the winch cable in a momentary lapse of concentration!
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    Help new 289C choppy and unresponcive

    Trying that tomorrow. The trouble is that i dont run it and the guys that do are decent oporators but they never agree on what they need that machine to preform like. Any ideas Why cat went to this system? I had never had any major problems with piolet controlls other than a bit of oil...
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    Help new 289C choppy and unresponcive

    Hey I have alot of experience with the ctl's on the market and finaly got enough hrs on the Gehl ctl 80 to buy a new 289c. I loved the 257b the 262B the 287B, so how could Cat screw up their new machines? Electric over hydraulic controlls. Why would they change them on a skidsteer instead of...
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    observations about skid steers

    seen and heard of jcb's causting more for parts aswell, and that stupid brittish pipe thread, dunno if its a big deal for them anymore but it sure turned me off of the excavators. Every manufacturer has a advantage but its like a car take one for a drive and sort through the BS yourself. I...
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    Cleaning tracks

    depends on the tracks and how clean they are, last week i seen a 8r stuck to the ground in slop and atleast the oporator shoveld the tracks but wasnt smart enough to gently break it loose. I was sitting in my pickup waching and to my horror i seen him rev it up and wached the torque on the...
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    Cleaning tracks

    I think that clean u/c reduces wear for sure, because all the dry mud packed around the rollers builds up streching the tracks for one aswell it acts like a constant abrasive disk when its hard running over the same spot. The more you do it the easier it gets. Up here its just a unspoken rule...
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    open cabs why?

    : I used to have a D6 open cab when i was 7 , and when i get into my 7R or 850c or even my 289c I think back to those days and am thankful for my cabs. Either that guy with the 8k is old skool or he cant afford sompthing else.:D I havent been hideing i have just been keeping up with...
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    Has anyone here ever seen something like this?

    Theyre called over shot loaders, belive it or not when you bought a crawler back in the day all you ever got was a basic machine without a dozer or a bucket. These are just one of the cool inventions that got mounted on a factory machine. My grandfather had a d2 with a loader on it like that...
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    Looking to buy some equipment

    Richie bro's sale! stick to brand names and bring someone knowledgeable in machinery! Just depends what your budget is when it comes to reliability
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    moving abroad to work would i be welcome!!!!

    I would hire you, but my weather is a whole lot harsher than that of b.c!
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    Quick Couplers/Quickhitches

    That weldco coupler has 2 springs in it to hold the wedge in, it only uses hyd power to take the wedge out, that wat there is no failure, it also lets you keep working... the older ones used to have a manual lock if you were concerned but they changed their spring design now so you dont have...
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    Quick Couplers/Quickhitches

    I have the wedge style quick couplers on my machines, and they are the best couplers i have had, from my 710 to my 450d, aswell if you buy the manual you can convert it to hyd after wards http://www.weldco-beales.com/ProductDetails/tabid/75/Default.aspx?productid=6&category=1
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    DIY toolcarrier

    Go to johndeere`s parts website, they have the selonoid valve and switch to mount on the machine to activate the hyd quick attach, use a 2`` x8`` huyd cylender and use it to push and pull 2 pins either out the bottom or out the side. I Had a CRAIG quick hitch for my 544h and it was bullet...
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