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  1. Hotwheels81

    Got juice? Yeeaahhhh ;-)

    We have several old K-19's! Pretty sure 2 diesel and one natural gas... The nat gas is running on a site a couple hours from my house, quite the beast! The K-19 tho is a more of a red headed step child to the K-50, the K-30 V-12 is it's lil brother.... We have a newer QSK-30 800KW and an older...
  2. Hotwheels81

    Got juice? Yeeaahhhh ;-)

    Anybody on here get to play with bigger iron? This is one of several K-50 cummins 1250kw I babysit, the company I'm working for has everything from 6kw light towers to these big ole girls...
  3. Hotwheels81

    New (to me) toy

    Its actually in decent shape all around! Had it hauled from the lot where it was purchased direct to the site and put it to work the same day, 2 days into the job i busted the grapple swivel off... Weird feeling when you see your grapple still around the drag 10' from the back of the machine but...
  4. Hotwheels81

    Wood chip dozers

    Its all fun an games till the pile combusts like tolko armstrong, they lost 1 cat in the blaze and had a fun time keeping the mill wet... Think i got a few pics on the camera still of the hog pile glowing purple as well as the bombers on retardent runs coming in over dads place close enough to...
  5. Hotwheels81

    Rollers frozen!

    If your pads dont have large spec holes in them they will pack with ice and or mud putting excessive force on the track idler and drive sprocket assembly causeing the seal to wear or rip on one side, common problem road builders ran into here mid 90s with hitachi ex270s with triple grouser...
  6. Hotwheels81

    Chippers

    Do yourself a big favour.... Go to a rental shop or better yet a dealer, ask about takeing a chipper out for a 1 day demo, use one in the HP class you want to purchase and get some real world experiance with it and see if its going to work for you, a 50hp chipper sounds big and may work fine for...
  7. Hotwheels81

    Do I need a excavator?

    An excavator is priceless for the work you describe but think carefully about your end goals, Will they require a gravel truck? A packer? A skidsteer for smoothing things out after? Only after you sit down and run the numbers and cost out what you will pay a local contractor vs what you will...
  8. Hotwheels81

    Link-Belt 3900 opinions

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  9. Hotwheels81

    Chippers

    Rent something.... I rent a 12" vermeer every spring for a week doing pine, most chippers i have used can only handle a steady diet of wood 2/3 the size of the throat opening.
  10. Hotwheels81

    Link-Belt 3900 opinions

    The first job im looking at is a 1 acre pad i need to excavate 10' down then refill and pack/preload 15' above grade... The logic behind a big machine is i can hot load the gravel trucks straight from the hole alot easier then a smaller machine can, i loaded out about 2000yrds from a site a...
  11. Hotwheels81

    Link-Belt 3900 opinions

    Thanks for the replys, machine in question is a 1999 modle year and specs can be found here http://www.lbxco.com/Specs/3900Q211.pdf
  12. Hotwheels81

    Link-Belt 3900 opinions

    Looking at a larger digging contract in the near future where i am required to pull approx 1000yrds a day of mixed semi compact dirt/clay out of the ground and load out on hiway gravel trucks, i have a zx120 to assist but am obviously in need of something a bit larger. There is a Link-belt...
  13. Hotwheels81

    repairing final drive case

    You mean fixing the teeth on the sun gear that the 3 planetairy gears turn? Perhaps due to one or all of the planitairy gears fail causeing broken teeth to the sun gear? If thats the case i would buy a new sun gear because the cost would outweigh the savings if the welding lets go and takes the...
  14. Hotwheels81

    New (to me) toy

    198? 667D 6BT Clarke winch 360 Grapple 24.5"s not as big as the old 668 but sure is quicker! :cool:
  15. Hotwheels81

    Mechanic gets arm caught in winch of JD 648D grapple skidder

    what type of winch was it? Clarke? gear o matic? braden? was it a generic winch that was used on a skidder or was it a actual "break free" skidder winch? there should be no reason to have your arm inside of the winch drum/housing when spooling cable PERIOD. if you have a knob slot in...
  16. Hotwheels81

    Wierd excavator bucket

    its actually a double shank ripper... handy.
  17. Hotwheels81

    D8-2U Help!

    Got given a antique D8-2U cable dozer in wonderfully complete and semi straight condition :rolleyes: I can get the pup motor running fine and it still spin's the big 6 diesel but have no luck getting fuel to the injectors, it builds pressure on the fuel pump gauge (and yes there is fuel to...
  18. Hotwheels81

    The most entertaining "school me"thread... My 1st piece of H.E. Two 80ton Hoes

    i could of bought a good running CAT 245 with better then 50% UC well maintained by a mine up north for "a case of beer"... its still there... trucking that to the okanagan from the NWT would cost tens of thousands of dollars... even at $300 per ton x45 ton after trucking and cutting it into...
  19. Hotwheels81

    Desert specifications

    just picture feeding a radiator and cooling fan a steady diet of sandblasting sand at 55mph all day every day.... extra armour fins in the rad, reinforced blade edges... greasing is more to push sand out then lube in...
  20. Hotwheels81

    Serious Accident Investigation:

    SOP on my sites with tree's that get hung up vary depending on available equipment.... in that situation i would have fell another "less limby" tree into it to clear it or possibly fall the tree holding up the original danger tree.... i would never NEVER permit someone to try recutting a limby...
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