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    Pto question time

    Truck must be moving, or in neutral
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    This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

    My wife has been around heavy equipment, and me as a mechanic 43 years now. I just showed her these pics. Her words, not mine, "just get rid of him. He can't do the job and someone is going to get hurt bad, or worse." "There is NO excuse for that."
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    Old modified 631 pan to a pull pan?

    All the 31 pans I have seen had dolly wheels. no tongue weight.
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    D7F Timing Injection Pump

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    D7F Timing Injection Pump

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    Operators too good to clean.

    Been a union operator 51 years this year. Long, long ago, on my very first job, was sent out to oil on a cable crawler hoe. We were putting in concrete pipe bout 4 foot deep down an old fence row. As my operator moved, I could see he was going to hit an old steel fence post with a track. I took...
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    Cut the blade down on a Galion T500

    Rick, tell us about your grader. Make? model?
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    Cut the blade down on a Galion T500

    Angle the blade. I have cut miles of 3 foot flat bottom ditches with a 14 foot blade.
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    This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

    I think the asking price is 200K high. Now if it was a late model 2500 maybe, a 1000 no way.
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    This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

    Yes on the heat. Torch and scrapers. Sometimes an air hammer. Everything is a pain, BUT, nothing compared to concrete paving machines. EVERYTHING on those is air hammer...
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    This will be an interesting thread moving forward......

    Run. Away.
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    D6D engine overheating

    Shimmy, I miss him too. As far as those sunshades or canopys, maybe Oz or Tones could say. The only explanation I could find on the 'net says those are to keep the snakes in the trees out of your lap. Fcuk that!!!
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    Crawlers I photo'd recently.

    1693TA, WELL SAID !!!!
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    Retro grading

    Sweet iron. Can I come work for you? :)
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    Crawlers I photo'd recently.

    We take so much for granted Truck Shop. The interstates weren't always here...
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    Crawlers I photo'd recently.

    As a matter of fact, I can reach out and touch a road map of Indiana from where I am sitting now. 1936, framed and hanging on the wall. Whoa.....the world was different then. Interstates weren't even thought about, improved roads were gravel, mains MIGHT be bituminus macadam. You can bet your...
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    Dale Weiss's Death

    Tink, thanks, I didn't know he was gone. I knew him and his family personally. Bought an 1150 from them in '77, and other parts from Dale in the last dozen years or so. In the late 70's, they used to throw "steak fries" for customers and friends at their store on the huge stone built in grill...
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    Crawlers I photo'd recently.

    Pops, look around antique stores and find old state highway maps. See the roads that were just gravel and the towns that no longer exist...
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    D8H/K Fleco root rake experience?

    Bust those stumps in pieces with a splitter, then rake and burn. Way, way less dirt and everything burns up.
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    D8H. Starting engine switch

    Currently 2 on ebay. Very proud of them!!!
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