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  1. M

    Massey Ferguson Dozers??

    looks like somebody put the tracks on backwards on the left side
  2. M

    nice 983 pics

    surfer joe, Interesting story about the 983. I live about 5 minutes from hellertown. Did you mean I78, the one that runs east/west around the south side of allentown and bethlehem while rt22 goes around the more northern end? I was pretty young when they were building I78 through the...
  3. M

    Water truck stained bad bad

    Maybe waxing the truck now that it is clean will help the calcium come off easier the next time?
  4. M

    Sum Foters

    I think the early HD7's would have had a 371 detroit and the later HD7G would have had the Buda engine in it.
  5. M

    Cost of moving dirt...

    Hi, did you mean 140 acres?
  6. M

    Broken Quick Coupler

    When the thumb was installed a longer pin had to be used correct? Maybe the pin was made out of an alloy that was weaker than the factory pin?
  7. M

    SED 2007 (Site Equipment Demonstration) England

    I think the anniversary edition ones are painted black. It also looks like the American New Holland model with a tool carrier.
  8. M

    Transport of my CAT 345BLR

    What is that tank for behind the cab?
  9. M

    More meaningless pics from a thankless profession.

    Nice pics.
  10. M

    Some pics of my current project

    So how many ft do you get backfilled in a day?
  11. M

    Looking at buying '86 JD310, Advice?

    I downloaded those specs a couple of weeks ago and noticed it says 4 cyl. The farmer that rents land at my grandparents place had a 310B pushing back some brush along the field and i walked past to check it out and i thought it was a 3 cyl but didn't look real close then i went home and looked...
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    Looking at buying '86 JD310, Advice?

    Looking at machinery trader it looks like a 310B. Looks like 86 was the last year for B and 87 was a C. http://www.machinerytrader.com/listings/forsale/list.asp?catid=1046&man=DEERE&mdl=310B&guid=65CDE07F57704719B3839A9439916064
  13. M

    Fair backhoe rates

    Where in PA do you live? I live near Quakertown and there was a new add in the Penny Power (small classifieds newspaper) for a new excavating business and they listed their rate in the paper for a tlb as $60/hr. To me, I think that is kinda low considering there are a lot of expensive homes...
  14. M

    What about this truck?

    Was that a single axle tractor that had a dump added later on?
  15. M

    Profit margin

    Thanks Matt, that makes sense now.
  16. M

    Profit margin

    Oh and the 30 statements? I would think they would check more that 30 companys so it must be something else??
  17. M

    Profit margin

    Matt, for contractors doing less than a million $ a year the gross profit is 54.8% and the profit before taxes is -1.1% but the operating expenses are 53.2%. What are these percentages of? I thought it would be of gross revenue but that can't be if your operating expenses and gross profit...
  18. M

    SED 2007 (Site Equipment Demonstration) England

    Wow nice pics. Wonder how long it took him to get to know the machine well enough to do stuff like that?
  19. M

    Auger advice

    Yeah Deere is supporting 811 as the nation wide number to call.
  20. M

    Absolute desperation in roading

    Some of those cars really look like they were in a hurry!
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