hvy 1ton
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As for lottery plans, I know where there is a 10,000 acre pasture with 1 fence around outside. Could spend a long time building road through that.
Nice to get an update. I'll be interested in seeing some of your utility work, specifically water lines.
I'm always curious about how things are done in other places. What sort of watermain commissioning process do you have to go through?. Grab some pics of the processes when you can.
Cheers.
I love diesels and have one for my weekend toy, but unless I start towing heavy and a lot I'll never buy another for work. There is just to much BS on them now and they ain't a as dependable. Being a GM guy we has several 2500s with over 200k on them and they cost 10or 15k less to buy
I haven't used a hoepac in 15 years now. Trench rollers are the way to go. I'll even widen a trench out while backfilling so we don't need a jumping jack for the small trenches.
I love field engineering a job too. I have thought the same thing if I won the lottery.
How much work is it put that shell kit on and off?
Hey CM,
Thanks for the update, what did you use to take the wall down?
Looks like you had some near perfect soil conditions. I don't see any rock. The slope looks a lot bigger now all the clearing debris is gone.
Thought I would post some pics and commentary on some jobs I have done recently.
This project was an interesting one. A frozen food processing facility was installing a new cooler. Problem was the building had a high water table underneath the slab where the new cooler was going. Our job was to excavate 22" of very sticky, very wet clay and replace with woven geotextile fabric and #57 stone to separate the water from the -10 F degree cooler that would sitting on top of it. The Engineer was worried the cooler would freeze the ground and buckle the $100K cooler. This project was done in July, a rather dry time in this part of the country and as you can see from the pictures, there was a substantial amount of ground water.
The staging area in the loading zone. T250, S300 and PC78
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The bay we were working in. Friday afternoon we mobilized in and ditched the area to a sump pump.
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Saturday morning we started hauling out the muck. It was a challenge with several large fans to keep the exhaust vented to the outside. The temp inside the plastic offed area was over 100 F.
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Every bucket had to go out a loading dock door and into the truck. I don't know how many trips I made that very long Saturday.
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CM I hope your doing well I miss seeing your updates.
Cool same goes for us on doing tie ins it just depends I wish I had pictures of a job we did on the coast running storm and water up slopes that were pushing 2:1 for a flat lander it was a different but not bad just couldn’t get crazy with swingingJakebreak it depends on the tie in, who's it for and whether it's a private fire line or tapping a city main. Sometimes we can isolate and cut a T in or it's a hot tap.
Love the 321 it's been a great hoe and it's paid for. We've tried tiger teeth before but they break off. We use penetrator plus and they seem to work the best for digging and average wear.
I use mostly the Penetration Plus teeth as well but have also used the twin and single points. In my opinion they seem to work best in fractured rock because the small points can get in the crevasses and lift out the chunks. That being said they do wear quicker than the others. As far as breaking goes I have only ever broken one tiger tooth. Since you used the term Penetration Plus I assume that you are using Cat teeth on your Cat hoe. Maybe you already know this but Cat teeth are guaranteed against breaking. My dealer gave me a brand new tooth when I showed him the broken one. Since I've not had a lot of teeth breaking, and I'm digging in severe applications (bed rock, shot rock, etc., and clays too), I think that Cat makes some great GET. Is it possible that your teeth and shanks are slightly undersized for use on a 321? Maybe bought your buckets used and/or held over from your previous machine/s?Love the 321 it's been a great hoe and it's paid for. We've tried tiger teeth before but they break off. We use penetrator plus and they seem to work the best for digging and average wear.