One man- Three Machines

[Metalman 55]

Have been helping my farmer friend with various jobs around his newly acquired farm that had an old house & barn on it. We have been digging stumps, cleaning ditches, filling in ditches, widening driveway, doing demolition on the house & barn & today I was doing grading around the yard & along side the new driveway that we widened. Used all three machines at one time or another. I was working alone today & it keeps this old guy in shape jumping from one machine to another, as each machine was used for various aspects of the project! Tomorrow I hope to have a helper, so I can spend more time in the seat & less time bouncing around!

 

[farmerlund]

Ha, nice lineup. I find myself doing the same thing some days. Usually park track to track and step from one machine to another.

 

[DMiller]

Wish I had that lineup!!

 

[Metalman 55]

Back helping my farmer friend today, only today I had a helper, thus I was not seat hopping so much. Installed this culvert this morning, then we loaded stumps the rest of the day & dumped them back into a corner of one of the fields. Used the 955L to handle some of the larger stumps. Much better when I have help & we got lots done!

 

[hvy 1ton]

A Canadian excavator that doesn't have a pro-link thumb? Such heresy. I must spend too much time in the logging threads. Not much that can't be done with those 3 machines. I'm very familiar with spending as much time switching machines as doing in work.

 

[DMiller]

Still wish I was so lucky to have to choose between one of three!!

 

[Metalman 55]

A Canadian excavator that doesn't have a pro-link thumb? Such heresy. I must spend too much time in the logging threads. Not much that can't be done with those 3 machines. I'm very familiar with spending as much time switching machines as doing in work.

Re the thumb, when I bought the machine about 3 years ago it had a mechanical thumb on it & we converted it to hyd. It is so very useful on a job like this & works splendid.

Never heard about Pro-Link..........are they a CDN manufacturer? Our thumb is made by H&H right here in Ont. & they sold us the kit to convert it to HYD.

 

[Metalman 55]

Still wish I was so lucky to have to choose between one of three!!

Yeah......one good thing.....when your back gets sore from bouncing away on the dozer, just get on the excavator for a while to let it settle down again!

These are mostly all "low budget" machines that we did some work on & they serve us pretty well for as much as we use them.

This job is quite a bit bigger than I usually get involved with, as this type of work is just a "part time thing" for me.

 

[CavinJim]

These are mostly all "low budget" machines

hmmm, makes me wish I had your budget!

 

[hvy 1ton]

Err, pro-link as in progressive link. They have a wish bone like the bucket linkage which gives more rotation compared to a main pin or weldon thumb.

 

[Metalman 55]

hmmm, makes me wish I had your budget!

When I say "low budget" I guess I am thinking that these machines are about 10-20% of what new machines would be. Old iron can still work & get the job done, just have to put up with ongoing repairs, as they come along.

 

[Metalman 55]

I was back at it alone today, minus my helper, so was seat hopping again. Only two machines though, pushed trees down with the excavator, dug out stumps, then graded the area up with the old D6. Finished clearing & grading a flat bench on the West side of the ditch, so the owner can gain access to both sides of the ditch for future maintenance.

 

[Metalman 55]

I was alone again today & put the root rake on the D6C to rake the surface where there had been an old tree line. It works pretty good to clean up the loose stuff that is on the top.

 

[DMiller]