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  1. NateV

    Some random pics

    Nice work! What size bed is on your granite?? We keep thinking about maybe getting a tandem but want to keep it on the smaller side so we can still get into back yards. Yours looks like a good size, low sides, not like some of the others you usually see. I think if we get one it will be about...
  2. NateV

    What new equipment do you want in the NEW YEAR? Even your dream machine for 09!

    I wish we would get rid of our 580SM with pilots and get a new one with the 4-sticks.
  3. NateV

    How does one become an operator???

    Heres where you want to be (operator). to get here you need to take this road that starts down here. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Bottom aka the ditch.
  4. NateV

    Food plots

    Well the turnips were in all summer and there till spring and they never touched them. i plowed them under this spring to make my new plot. But il have to talk to some of the old timers and the neighbor to see what they did in the past. and i already have the plots plowed under where i...
  5. NateV

    Food plots

    There were some turnips mixed in this wildlife seed blend i planted last yr but my deer never touched them. I had some that were the size of a cantalope, they were pretty big. And about the corn i just planed on liming the feild and thats it. My neigbor has an old corn planter im gonna...
  6. NateV

    What flavor would you buy

    I dont think Kobelco makes a 12,000 lbs machine. We have a sr45-2 (now its called a 50) which is the biggest mini i think they make. I think the next size is the 70 which is around 16,000 lbs. But i also would check out a Tak.
  7. NateV

    Food plots

    As far as lime, this year i got about 6 ton and just tried to tail gate spread it but it didnt work that great but it was good enough. Then i just plowed it under and disc it around which mixed it up good enough for me.
  8. NateV

    Food plots

    What iv done for mine is use our tractor with the 3pt plow, then use a set of disc to smooth it all out. Then i just broadcast the seed out and use a lawn roller hooked up to my quad and go over it 1 time and pray for rain. Now next yr i want to start planting some corn and need to find a...
  9. NateV

    Case 580L Gauges ?

    Better check that fuel gauge too. lol
  10. NateV

    moving a 160 excavator

    All depends what you have it registered at. we have our single axle F-800 gcwv at 48,000. But id be looking for a tandem and a 20 ton trailer for the MINIMUM setup id use. I dont think id even want to haul a 120 with a single axle.
  11. NateV

    Single axle tow capacities

    Have a F800 with cummins 260hp and 8LL trans. 33,000 gvw, 50,000 gcvw. 20 ton tag with a cat 941 is the most we pull around. i belive its around 12 ton or so. But on average we bull a Case 580 Super M.
  12. NateV

    first custom!

    Nice collection...i need to start collecting them!
  13. NateV

    CDL/Truck Question

    haha yeah anyone can do it then...i sure wouldnt want to go through the test agian though. i can only remember about half of what i had memorized for the pretrip in my head right now. im sure it would all come back to me once i started going over the truck.
  14. NateV

    Current Job

    Yeah the shopping carts were the only thing around so we just used them with some caution tape. The sidewalks in pic 2 were almost just as bad as the first pic except in a few spots. Since the sidewalk is even with the curb who ever plows this in the winter time just uses there truck to do it so...
  15. NateV

    Current Job

    more pics.
  16. NateV

    Current Job

    Well we just started ripping ou the sidewalks at a dicks sporting goods near us. Theres just over 500' to rip out. I hate doing jobs in busy places like this bucause people have no comon sense about anything and one lady tried walking between our truck and machine as we were digging. The curb on...
  17. NateV

    CDL/Truck Question

    Thats exactly how i am too. I drive dump truck for my dad. Since im only 19 i cant drive out of state with a commercial vehicle and theres hardly anyone that can put a 19 yr old on their insurance for a commercail vehicle. Im able to get on my dads because im family otherwise insurance...
  18. NateV

    Case Backhoe

    Nope i dont do it that way. But when we were at the Case rodeo i saw one guy do that and our salesman said he heard somewhere that the guys that do it that way are used to ford backhoe controls. Is there something different where the ford controls are something like that??
  19. NateV

    CDL/Truck Question

    I was the same as you last yr this time. I was 18 and went to this trade school that has a CDL program. Now before going i drove a stick shift truck one other time for only about 5 minutes till my dad yelled at me enough and drove the rest lol. But learing to drive the trucks for me was easy...
  20. NateV

    Spotted this on a Dealers web site

    Yeah that was for the 50th anniversary and the 50th anniversary was only last year. Im not sure if the winner of the rodeo got one like that or if it was just a regular one. They had one of them on display at the local hoe rodeo here. It was pretty neat to see. I think they were selling some for...
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