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    Ford Windstar Nightmare

    No way i would EVER be welding that up, I would be hitting up all the junk yards around way before i would ever take the liability of touching that with a welding arc
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    "Back in the Day"

    The pics of the axe but timbers those boys weren't pulling any punches swinging them axes. Those chips look like roofing shingles.
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    TIG Welding

    you can weld zinc sheets on AC with the tig actually.
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    TIG Welding

    The everlast machines are really the only china tigs worth a tinkers bottom.
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    2005 C-13 twin turbo question

    one of the best things i ever did for my ACERT motor was ditch the stupid oxycats and put the donaldson mufflers from the same Mode KW with a cummins. strait through design looks just like the stock oxycats on flow better, picked up a solid 1.5MPG too
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    Paccar engine performance

    IF you have any say in the matter tell them to stop buying the paccar motors nothing but problem piles of crap
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    TIG Welding

    If you have a BIG budget a dynasty would be the cats pajamas, if you're on a budget a friend uses an everlast machine every day and for a chinacom machine its been reliable, the only problem hes ever had with it was the ground cable came loose at the clamp end. Uses it EVERY day. if you can...
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    Peterbilt 379 Project

    most of the last 359's were "numbered" classics. They would have had dash plaques with the number in the series of 359 final trucks
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    Grove RT-60S, one outrigger does NOT go down

    And to think i couldnt get the local grove dealer to give me a price on a crane they had in stock. Finally gave up after the third phone call i made and 2 emails.
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    Drilling track pads tooling

    If your just opening the holes up 2MM id go with a good bridge reamer.
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    Service truck and towing 26K... Cummins 5.9 or 8.3 which one should I buy?

    You do know this will require a CDL right.
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    Need advice on a good box truck

    if you buy your own you're going to have to get a USDOT# to start crossing state lines or stop at each states port of entry and buy trip permits. i reccomend pensky. Late model trucks, great service. IF anything happens they fix it, tow it, or replace it. period.
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    2005 C-13 twin turbo question

    first thing i did on my 06 ACERT c-15 was put the donaldson mufflers from a cummins N-14 on it and put the oxycats in the barn.
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    Neva Contracting Lake Cowichan B.C.

    I love the chains over the units of lumber. cant get away with that now, the customer would pitch a fit to high heaven
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    Hydraulic Capacity Alert System HELP!!!!

    will it not lift on the winch or boom? Are you sure you don't have the LMI configured wrong and its cutting out?
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    Miller xmt 350 auto line

    all the time, our main work is structural steel, if we cant run the vantage 500's we run the XMT 350's on everything from 208 single phase to 480V 3 phase. On the low 208 single phase they can get a little taxed running big FCAW wires. I don't remember having to change much of the...
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    Shining up a machine with faded paint for sale

    theres a dealer here thart used to to hand rub a little atf into the paint on machines.
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    Hydraulic Capacity Alert System HELP!!!!

    Have you checked the operators manual. Per law there should be one with the crane.
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    Hydraulic Capacity Alert System HELP!!!!

    Have you checked the oil level in the tank?
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    Outrigger rollers

    Its got a pace to it for sure, not to bad lately. A lot of the tilt wall panels have to much detail and cutouts in them to be ultra high paced. its a science now, when the panel book comes out its pretty dialed in and makes the process easy.
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