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    Cat M2 Grader's

    Don't believe for a minute that AWD graders are unstoppable. Yeah, they leave regular graders in their dust, but when you get bogged, you are really #%&@##ing bogged.
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    Aveling Barford ASG 113

    The circles were totally different. The Austins circle was open on the top as most graders are today. It had a circle lock on the right side. This lock was operated by what looked just like another brake pedal. It had a master cylinder and a line which ran down to a lock mounted on the...
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    Aveling Barford ASG 113

    MKTEF the next time you pass that grader see if you can get some pictures of the underside of the circle. AV's have circle that have no equal. When I lived in Canada I had a mid 70's Super MG which was about the same size. Great for snow plowing and cleaning wet ditches . Mine had a 6...
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    S/H Grader Purchase

    With only 2200 hrs. it's just nicely broken in and will likely be more trouble free than a brand newie. The Cat workshop report will assure you that it hasn't fallen off a truck which should be about the only thing to fear about a 2200 hr machine.
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    CAT 140 G ripper

    Can't tell for sure from the pictures but it looks like there may have been a front scarifyer on the machine at one time. While scarifyers aren't nearly as good as rippers it would probably be a lot cheaper and easier. However, if you can find a used ripper you should be able to use the...
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    S/H Grader Purchase

    You really need two guys, one to run the controls and one out on the ground to look for movement in all the bush's, pins and joints. Biggies are the articulation and wheel boxes.
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    Moldboard lengths

    I would say usually longer is better, although on narrow little roads maybe not. On wider roads definitely, it can save you from having to come back to move a windrow that last couple of feet.
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    Oooops Gotta see this!

    In Winterpeg it was probably only 93 below zero, no wonder! Sorry I just couldn't resist. Hope I don't do the same thing. On the rail line in Western Australia where I'm working a three day derailment cost $193 million in lost production.
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    6WD grader on hard surface.

    I had six wheel AW back in 76. Some one had rigged a way of disconnecting the front wheels. The front drive shaft in front of the cab had an interlocking flange held together with two bolts. You simply took the two bolts out and slid the flange apart . I think the back part would slide in...
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    EXTREME Volvo

    I agree with Ronnie. Notice he has blade sticking out the bottom side of the machine. If you keep a bit of blade out the lower side and on the ground, you're pretty safe. If you look close, you'll see that it is rocks that are giving him a bad time, when the heel hooks a rock it digs in and...
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    Back-blading?

    My view of this is, if it works do it. I decided years ago that neither my ego nor my grader were so fragile that they couldn't stand a little back blading. If you're really hooking into any loose material going forward it's going to spill over the top of the mold board anyway. Notice in the...
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    Standing up

    I knew of a similar incident. The guy was leaning out the open door to check the rear tires. He managed to role clear, then had to chase after the grader. The first few graders that I ran all had stand up cabs. I always thought it was a welcome change of position to be able to stand for a...
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    Crown

    Oops! Sorry guys. I got the sequence wrong in my blurb here on trimming. It should be water, trim, roll, not water,roll, trim. If you water and then try to roll right away material will likely pick up on the roller drum. If you water and then trim , your trimmings will have better...
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    grader men

    One day my boss was driving by in his ute (pickup) and says jokingly on the two-way "you know I think you've got the best job in the mine site" and I said "you know, I think you're right". There is always, always something to learn. When I left the oilfield and started doing civil residential...
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    what kind of mechanism is this?

    Have any of you blokes known the joy of plowing snow with one of those Barny Rubble knuckle buster 12's. There wasn't any auxiliary hydraulic power to run a wing so what to do? A double ended winch was mounted on the right side just in front of the cab. I think it was the drawbar side shift...
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    Grader in the ditch

    A word to the wise. Be very careful if you are lifting yourself out and get your lift rams pushed out close to the end while side shifting. I once bent a lift ram on my Aveling Barford Super MG doing just this.
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    A rival for the M

    In Oz they called these ag tractor graders with the extended frame "greyhound graders". In central Queensland about 20 klm east of Longreach there's a little town called Ilfracomb which has a free machinery museum and best of all at least 25 graders. About half are pull type, the rest self...
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    m grader

    I agree with Curb Slayer. Australian 16m's have managed to drive the price of H's up by $100,000.The mine where I work has two with about 4000 hrs on them. They have both had transmission and diff problems plus innumerable electrical problems. One is in the shop right now for leaking tandem...
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    Accelerator or Decelerator

    Luckily I had the controls pulled back fairly tight so I didn't have far to travel to wrap myself around the steering wheel. Just a bit sore, thanks.
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    Crown

    I don't know how much help this will be because every area has different methods, material and conditions. This is a rough idea of how its done downunder. Most residential streets are 2 1/2 % cross fall and get 25 mill,yes, thats only one inch of asphalt. So, fill with top course gravel flush...
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