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    Bucyrus-Erie Scrap for the salvage yard

    This would be a nice little pay check hauling these pieces to the scrapyard last summer .
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    11 year old boy operating a 80 longreach excavator video safely

    Thought some of you might enjoy this video of 11 year old Mikey playing on one of 30 machines they have sitting in their back yard. He learned on mini machines and now runs every excavator, every dozer, scraper, etc. He is very aware of what makes these machines work, and the safety of operating...
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    Riding inside a 33 yard Terex Shovel Video ! COOL !

    Thought some of you might enjoy seeing my fun experience inside a mining shovel. The best thing was I actually got in the operators seat and scooped rocks with it !! OH YEA !! This is definately a future 1/12th scale model ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n3XCUAv3yc
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    1/12th scale Cat 966C parts sanded and primed today picture

    For those of you following my progress on the Cat 996C progress , here is todays progress picture after sanding and primer. Now I am wet sanding the primer. www.doncampbellmodels.com
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    antique green scraper

    Here is a couple pictures of a old pull type scraper near Grayling, Michigan .
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    Dresser TD-25E Dozer

    Here is a Dozer I checked out for a possible model project near Alpena , Michigan.
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    Riding in a Mining truck up the side of a Va. Mountain Video, COOL !!

    Thought some of you might enjoy seeing this video I took as I was a passenger getting loaded by the 33yard Terex RH-200 Shovel. Then as we drive up the mountain and dump the overburden. I got to do that several times that afternoon, Very Cool !! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV-aXVMTL_4
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    Cat 793C mining trucks, up close and personal Video !!

    Here is a video of me watching three Cat 793C Haul Trucks working this Terex RH-200 , 33 yard shovel . Notice the Cat D-10 overhead pushing rocks down feeding the shovel. And a Cat 988 to the right side of us scraping the coal vein ceiling . This video was taken a few minutes before I climbed...
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    Silver Spade, largest model in the world

    Here are two videos showing me with the 1/24th scale Silver Spade Model I built last year. Weighing in at 500 lbs, and stading over 8 feet tall and 8 feet long . I have been told it is the largest model of the Silver Spade in the world, I have also been told it is the only model of it...
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    Riding inside Otsego County Snowplow, Cool Video !

    Thought some of you might enjoy the video my wife Deb took of me riding inside the Otsego County Snowplow . I took a bunch of photos from inside, but these short clips were the best from the outside. We only knocked down five mailboxes in the two hours, ha,ha...
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    Ponsse , 1st time in the operators seat ?

    I have always loved forestry equipment , we always stopped in Escanaba, Michigan and took pictures of the newest machines . I planned to build a cool detailed model of a few of them. So when my friend called me and asked if I wanted to go for a ride in a Ponsse, I said YES ! After riding with...
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    TerexRH-200 , 33 yard bucket

    Here are a couple pictures and a video of me checking out this cool mining shovel the day before I got to hop in the seat and scoop rocks off the side of the mountain . Very Cool Experience !! Thought some of you might enjoy seeing it as much as I did.www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeBVwJio1m4
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    Antique Galion grader with tracks

    Here are a couple pictures of my friends old tracked grader , thought it stood out in the crowd too .
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    Very nice looking Ten Ton Cat

    Here is a picture of me checking out this very nice ten ton Cat and another future 1/12th scale model project on my list.
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    At the controls of a Cat 994D Loader

    Here are a couple pictures of me at the controls of this awesome Cat 994D Loader on the top of a mountain scooping rocks. Very Cool !! I just had to build a large scale model of that .
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    Cat 660 Scraper , Cat 666 model

    Thought some of you might enjoy these photos , I never climbed up in a Cat 660 or 666 so I was amazed at the size of the tractor. So I just had to build a all steel detailed model of one.
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    IH 340 Payhauler Tractor-Trailer bottom Dump

    Thought some of you might enjoy seeing this unique setup.
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    D-11R Dozers

    Here are a couple pictures of me checking out a couple D-11R's The foreman I spent the afternoon with said he was responsible for keeping 110 Cat machines running. Forty-Five D11r's and 38 D-10's !! Very cool day !! The last picture is two Cat D11-R models I built. These were the very first...
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    Another Very Rare piece of old Iron

    Here is another rare machine this fellow ownes. It is a Bullock Crawler . He said they are very , very rare and he belives there are only a couple of them left . And he has one of them , ha,ha.
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    Austin-Western Grader

    Here is a picture I took of a pretty good looking old Austin-Western grader parked along the road in Northern Michigan on one of our rides in the country.
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