Just a few pictures.

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I have a lot of great pictures to share, we got a new I mac so bear with me, there's a bit of a learning curve here.

 

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Galion Standard Premier, 5110B

 

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Hoe and grader I normally run, that mill was on a trial run. As you can see, a little wax goes a long ways.

 

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My Bantam and my 1085B.

 

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A CMI Super 500, Swapping out 35' of stick for the cable hoe, and placing the refurbished grader on it's retirement home.

 

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A good friend of mine and I scoping out a Keystone Skimmer and Adams grader, these belong to the company I work for.

 

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I am 6'6" tall, just to give a size comparison.

 

[oceanobob]

That bucket sliding along the mast with the trolley reminds me of the action on my reach forklift with the accessory bucket... reaching way out there...but this swings too it seems

Thanks for the pics!

 

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A couple old Akerman H14s, My Bantam at my previous employers, some concrete paving train pics.

 

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Paving train, John Deere HSD764, some random iron at a local pit, and it still works daily!

 

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5110B, Freshly redone 4600.

 

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218A, Galion standard premier, My brother and I with a 992 owned by my current employer but 20 years ago, 5110B getting dressed up.

 

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Doing the site for our new home in 2010, it was about 10 degrees too. Only reason there was no frost-I had snow piled on top of the sod where the house was going to be

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[glenlunberg]

Nice pictures here. I like the CMI Super 500. It's big and wide. I wonder what jobs it can do.

 

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It was for fine grading 4-lane highways, runs off of string line, it has a conveyor belt that pukes excess gravel over the line and then 615's would pick it up. There are really no pictures of us working, basically because we were working.

 

[mitch504]

I hoPe they preserve the Keystone Skimmer, I don't think they make those anymore. Did it have wooden planks for track pads?

What part of the country are those Akermans in? I have never seen an Akerman around here.

What's the big old hoe in the last pic of post #10?

 

[Jim D]

bigshow, those are very cool pictures!

 

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The skimmer- there are actually two of those in that old pit, the other is complete with wooden cab minus the boom, then there is the one pictured. They had a steel plate on each side of the wood for track pads. As much as I would love to restore them, they are too far gone, and quite a ways from my shop. The Akermans are in upstate New York, I used to work for that contractor and they also had an H7MB, it was a rubber tired excavator. They were digging hoes, that's for sure, had a Volvo motor in them too. Volvo bought them out a while back. That big old hoe you are referring to was a Koehring 1066 I believe, that pit has a ton of old iron, they had 2 1266, and an 866. They also had a 780CK backhoe hanging around in the ding weeds.

 

[qs9999]

Very cool pictures

 

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More of the Keystone Skimmer.