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  1. Big Dave

    Machines I Used to Operate and Maintain at the Whitewater Valley Railroad

    Those old Jackson's are good machines and the local area crews around here have one available to them. A lot of contractors use them as well, but they are a little beyond the reach of our volunteer employees and maintainers. For a little while we had an old Nordstrom (nordco) Hyrdo Spiker...
  2. Big Dave

    Machines I Used to Operate and Maintain at the Whitewater Valley Railroad

    Had to do 2 posts for this because my wife came home with dinner. It occurs to me now that I should make it clear that the Whitewater Valley Railroad is a museum staffed almost entirely by volunteer employees, except for the office manager/station agent/ dispatcher. I worked there, mainly on...
  3. Big Dave

    Machines I Used to Operate and Maintain at the Whitewater Valley Railroad

    I guess this is the right place for this stuff, because the Whitewater Valley Railroad is an operating railroad museum in Connersville, IN and most of our equipment is someone else's junk sold for scrap value or donated to us. Hopefully, I'll be able to post these photos and explain what each...
  4. Big Dave

    The Ultimate Small Dozer

    That's a good point and I'm thinking of renting a mini to do a little work around the place, as well as see how well they work. The little dozer will be mainly a toy, other than snowplowing. Most of my equipment are really toys to me anyway. I'm just happy to still be around and able to play...
  5. Big Dave

    The Ultimate Small Dozer

    I need to get some shots of my 'horses, but I don't have a digital camera yet. That's a beautiful little Case you have there. I fell in love with one like that back when I was a kid because I saw another kid trying to drive it over the mower deck at the Case dealership that was owned by a...
  6. Big Dave

    The Ultimate Small Dozer

    I'm planning to go with the kit version because I think it would be fun to build and also make maintaining it much easier. It's really more of a toy for me to play with rather than something that I need to do work with. I'm retired on disability due to a couple of bouts with cancer and I miss...
  7. Big Dave

    The Ultimate Small Dozer

    I just found these. Is that a kit built dozer? I'm thinking of buy one of them for myself for Christmas. :usa
  8. Big Dave

    580CK Backhoe - Oil leak through bottom/lowest bolt hole when flywheel removed

    Over the years I've found it's helpful to have someone who is not involved with the project to look the situation over when that happens. Case in point: A dozen years ago several of us were repairing the brakes on an old Massey Ferguson tlb and couldn't get the housing cover off to get to the...
  9. Big Dave

    Need a loader bucket for a Case 480 CK

    The only 'hoe I've ever run for any appreciable length of time was an old Massey Ferguson that was so worn out that when you closed any of the four control valves you had to wait a minute for the component to stop moving!:eek: Used it once to pry out a concrete gas pump mount that sat behind one...
  10. Big Dave

    Need a loader bucket for a Case 480 CK

    Thanks, Bill, I already tried them and while they have some other parts for that machine, they show no buckets.:mad: You're awfully quick, I just got done emailing my friend and saying I thought it might take a day or two to get a response to my post and when the 'puter clicked back to my inbox...
  11. Big Dave

    Need a loader bucket for a Case 480 CK

    A friend recently bought a Case 480 CK tlb in fairly good condition with the exception of loader bucket which has a rusted out bowl. I did some repair work on a 580 CK for another friend of mine about 10 years ago and was able to find some parts for it at a salvage yard. I've searched some of...
  12. Big Dave

    JD Rider Tractor/Mowers ? …. Re-Power from Onan engine ?

    That's bad news about Onan and it's the first I've heard of it. As for your particular problem, I'd recommend asking the same question here: http://gardentractortalk.com/ You might even find the person you're looking for.:)
  13. Big Dave

    The New verses the Old

    I realize I am late into this and it's been almost ten years since I've operated a telehandler; I used a rental machine to pull cylinder heads off of an old diesel locomotive that being dismantled for parts before scrapping. Ten years before that I worked in the scrap and salvage yard at the jet...
  14. Big Dave

    Introduction

    Hello, all, thought I'd introduce myself here. Just joined, but been lurking for awhile. I'm Big Dave and while the heaviest equipment I'm operating these days are my Wheelhorse lawn tractors, I've operated forklifts up 25,000# capacity for a living and also as a volunteer employee of a railroad...
  15. Big Dave

    How Did You Find Us?

    Found this while looking for used/antique equipment ads.
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