-
Thank you for visiting HeavyEquipmentForums.com! Our objective is to provide industry professionals a place to gather to exchange questions, answers and ideas. We welcome you to register using the "Register" icon at the top of the page. We'd appreciate any help you can offer in spreading the word of our new site. The more members that join, the bigger resource for all to enjoy. Thank you!
Search results
-
-
A few projects I have done recently
You call it "pudding", I call it "toad poo". Either way you call it, you are building "floaters" if you don't do deep foundation practices. I've been working on several houses that fit those descriptions lately. Hammering rock one day....Laying geogrid and rock for floating houses the next! That... -
CASE 721F
I'm looking to possibly add another loader to the fleet. I've been looking for something to leave at the crushed 3" minus pile to load trucks without having to tie up my 544J. The local Volvo dealer has found what appears to be a pretty clean (I've only seen photos) 2013 721F with just under...- DGODGR
- Thread
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Wheel Loaders
-
A few projects I have done recently
Nice to see the 325 finally on the job and earning it's keep. Be careful when playing with the trees. As I'm sure you have noticed, there are lots of fragile electrical wires, and connectors on the boom and stick. My 325 went into a machine fault Monday. Turns out that I had broken one of those... -
compact loader vs skid steer
"Off grid"? I haven't had time to spread my special form of disinformation on HEF for a while now (If that's what you are referring to). I've been living a very "unmanageable" life style for a while now. Trying to do more work then one can shake a stick at, and store as many acorns as I can, so...- DGODGR
- Post #49
- Forum: Compact Wheel Loaders
-
A few projects I have done recently
It's always cool to know the history of things. I'm certainly fascinated by it. Extra cool that you got to see the old photos. I'm glad that you were able to leave the tree. It's obviously old if it is a 12' diameter at 3' off the ground. Where I work, we push over 40-60' Ponderosas and I have... -
A few projects I have done recently
I recently got rid of all my snow removal contracts.....and absolutely LOVE not being married to the POSSIBILITY of snow. -
compact loader vs skid steer
I know nothing about the Giant brand, but I wonder what kind of dealer support, and parts availability they have. Regardless, I hope that you have more stuff for it to do than cart around pallets of pellets. If not, kudos to you. You've probably got more discretionary income than I do. Another...- DGODGR
- Post #47
- Forum: Compact Wheel Loaders
-
A few projects I have done recently
I have both a CAT 325 next gen (+/- 1,000 hrs), and a Deere 245G (+/- 3500 hrs). My 325 has a 48" severe duty bucket (1.6 cu. yd), quick coupler, and a progressive link thumb. The 245G is also usually run with a 48" bucket (only 1.2 cu. yds.), and also has a quick coupler and progressive link... -
A recent job
It seems like quite a jump from when last I checked in to this thread. IIRC you were banging rocks on customs. Now it looks like you working big commercial stuff. I've never been one to operate out of fear, but I've heard many people in this industry warn me about growing too fast. Obviously the... -
The Ultimate Small Dozer
In this quote you (CM) mention that your opinion was that Cat was falling behind with their small dozers. This makes for, what I believe to be the opening of an interesting discussion. I have heard many folks talk about the superiority of Deere dozers with the introduction of the J models (some... -
A few projects I have done recently
My then wife (divorced for about 10 yrs now) and I got certified on our first trip to the USVI. We signed up with a school down there, prior to the trip, and they sent us all the book work, and study material. We did that part at home, and when we arrived in the USVI we took the written test... -
A few projects I have done recently
I checked with my local Cat dealer, just to verify my recollection. The only teeth that I have purchased for the 325Ng are the (6) that I currently have in the garage (waiting to be installed when the others finally wear out). The machine now has about 950 hours on it. To be fair, they are not... -
A few projects I have done recently
I've been through the same customs process at that port of entry as well. We came from St John, and had to stop at customs to then proceed to the RMS Rhone. If you scuba dive, I'd highly recommend diving it. Since it's in the carribean, the water has almost no turbidity (you can see a long way)... -
CAT 305.5E2 Stuck In Rabbit?
That would be great, thank you! Sorry that I haven't posted an update yet. We have been too busy to look into the travel issue in the 305.5. I'll report back as soon as we do.- DGODGR
- Post #10
- Forum: Compact Excavators
-
CAT 305.5E2 Stuck In Rabbit?
Thanks for the reply. I'll see if I can get out there and check for voltage. When you say "whenever 2-speed is selected", are you referring to the faster speed (rabbit mode)? I assume it does, and Chrisso seems to confirm this. It looks like he has given me the wires to check as well. What he...- DGODGR
- Post #7
- Forum: Compact Excavators
-
-
CAT 305.5E2 Stuck In Rabbit?
I have a 2020 Cat 305.5E2 that seems to be stuck in the rabbit travel mode. Since new, the travel speed between rabbit and turtle has never been that great. At some point I noticed what seemed to be a loos of torque when trying to maneuver the machine. The indicator will switch between rabbit...- DGODGR
- Thread
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Compact Excavators
-
-
A few projects I have done recently
Got it. I was able to delete the part that wasn't germane to my reply. Thanks! Now, What if I want to reply to different comments, individually, that are contained in the same post? Will I have to +Quote (Multi quote) the same post, and delete the parts that I'm not replying to, for each comment...