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    compressed natural gas fuel

    we are looking at 12 pickups and 18 dump trucks for our department. we will be asking the sheriff office, city police, city municipality, the county busses, and the school system to come aboard on helping finance the filling station.
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    compressed natural gas fuel

    we are a county secondary road system, we are looking into cng fuel, its going to be a expensive conversion. has anyone looked into this or are using it looks like it may be the fuel of the future. there are government incentives out there but haven't looked to far into that yet want to see...
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    cng fuel

    have any of you thought about or have put compressed natural gas (cng) conversion on trucks pickups or any other equipment. we are a county secondary road system and are looking into it, going to be expensive for the conversions and the a fast fill station. the vehicle conversion show a pay back...
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    ground stabilizer

    Anyone on here ever use ground stabilizer on the base of a rock road. I'm not talking about the fly ash and cement process i mean the liquid that you mix in water. The product I have looked into will cost somewhere around 8500 dollars for just the product to do one mile with a 27ft top. I would...
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    abs or cmp

    When we install our cmp we bed ours with 3/4" road stone 2 to 3 feet out and half way up the pipe then tamp it in place with a hand air tamper that has a 6inch thumper head on it, believe it or not if tamped to much it can lift the pipe up off the bottom of the grade, then start back filling...
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    abs or cmp

    I would be interested in your list of reasons why plastic is better. Do you use the type of pipe with the plastic bands at the joints or the type that interlocks and why one or the other is better. THANKS FOR ALL THE REPLYS
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    abs or cmp

    this is for county road the county road systems out there. we are looking into putting abs plastic (dual wall) pipe under our roads in places were corrigated steel pipe rust out in a matter of 10 years or less. wondering if any of you have tried this and what your thoughts are, i'm not to fond...
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    hauling extra excavator bucket

    Need some ideas on how to haul a extra excavator bucket on our lowboy with the excavator, we were going to just roll it in the bucket thats on the excavator and clamp the hyd. Thumb on it but have found out that the dot frowns on that. Like to here how some of you do it. Thanks in advance
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    helac power tilt with power grip bucket

    Have any operators seen or used the Helac power tilt with the power grip bucket? You can look at this system on youtube by just typing in helac or google there web site. We are looking for some kind of reference on this system, it will be put on a new cat 318e excavator. Our operators at...
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    Cat M Series Operators

    first time out with it just drive around a while to get used to the joy stick steering, then read the manual again about the inching pedal, don't use it as a clutch, when shifting from forward to reverse do not touch the pedal just let up on the throttle and pull the trigger, when you get used...
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    locating under ground utilities (one call)

    Can anyone give some tips on white flagging excavation area's for one call locates, to putting out reference points to save locate markings, to how you dig or work over located underground utilities? We have had some problems in these areas I would like to here how others handle things. Mostly...
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    centering on 140M steering

    sdPete The district cat mechanic and I took the steering center detent plunger out of my machine last wensday, so I,ve had 16hrs of operation without it, the difference is night and day to the better I can drive in a striaght line again even deadheading at full speed is better. One of our...
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    cat M blade lift modulation

    Were do you M operators run your blade lift modulation course, normal, or fine? I do normal blading on the course setting till get into finish grading then I switch to normal.
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    centering on 140M steering

    Thats how I figured out why I would like it taken out by articulating so I did not feel the detent. I almost always articulate around 3 degrees when blading to keep the rear drivers on one side of the crown but its not enough so I still hit the detent. Thanks for your response
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    centering on 140M steering

    Have any of you cat M series operators had the steering centering detent taken out the joystick. The cat mechanic told me that some operators have had this taken out and realy like it. I for some reason don't like the feel of it going in and out of it all the time(there wasn't centering on a...
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    cat m popularity

    Picked up my new 140M last week so far I realy like it. I ran a 140G for 13 years and a 14H for 11 years (county road maintenance). My question is do you guys like the centering on the steering joy stick, I talked to the cat mechanic he said some operators have it remove and like it better. I...
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    ever have someone destroy your work?

    Every single day (blading county rock roads) between the feed trucks' hog haulers' and the oversized farming equipment we can't keep up so we call it job security.
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    Snowplowing when passing a driveway - how to

    Our policy is to windrow snow to the south and east sides of the roads, I circle my blade striaght just before I get to the driveway and carry the snow past the drive then go back to normal, you'll have to slide the blade in the oposite direction or out into the other lane so watch for traffic...
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    grader stuck video

    Bill5362 I accept your apologe I can see why people would think they are some government workers being on a road like they are. That being said I have been stuck and came close to laying one on its side more then once, from snow drifts, dirt roads, ditch cleaning to road construction...
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    grader stuck video

    This has kind or made my blood boil, I have operated motorgraders for a county for 23 years never have I or any other operaters I know in the county I work in have ever done what those idiots pulled or anyting like that, I guess its just easy to throw blame our way because we don't own the...
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