Graham1
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I was wondering how you stopped stuff sticking. I guessed heated body, but much simpler and more cost effective. How do you stop muck freezing in the bucket?
Graham
Graham
looking good. they used stuff like to lines some of the big drag line buckets around hear. over 100 yards plastic can be wonderful things if used right but can be a bugger to work with. we make plastic rollers and shivs for the big guys they last longer than steel one to do plus the way lighter when you have to get them in to place up on the boom. keep up the good work,
I was wondering how you stopped stuff sticking. I guessed heated body, but much simpler and more cost effective. How do you stop muck freezing in the bucket?
Graham
Oh well, hoped there was some magic cure you people who work in real cold use. Just have to stick with scraping it off at the end of the day. Not normally a problem, luckily.If we are stipping overburden in freezing temps, dirt will stick in the bucket no matter what you do. I will usually cut a stump off high or use a sturdy log to scrape the muck out. Works okay. There is always a bit of chipping at end of day though
Hey alaskaforby4, neat pictures! Always thought the gravel pit side would be a nice niche and addition to excavating work. You can keep that cold though
We have liners in both our tandems, mainly for wet clay and silt in the summer. We love them! Usually the load is sliding out a lot sooner, much safer for us. We haul everything in ours, dirt, rock, concrete, demo debris, they've held up really well. One liner is gray, like yours, we have 3 years on it and it looks like it will be good to go for a while yet. We dont haul every day, but it sees the most use. I asked the installer on ours about fastening the back down, expansion/contraction is the reason he told me they dont. Ours havent gotten anything trapped under there, it falls out when you dump. Only thing is, you have to be a little more careful scooping out of the back of them with the excavator
The company here that does it has done buckets, articulated truck bodies, all kinds of stuff with it, pretty cool!
Stay warm up there!
The ol’ Ford. It’s a pain keeping the wheel bearings and king pins in the front end, hoping to switch over to a 05 Superduty axle this winter... but we’ll see if we have time after maintaining the equipment that actually makes us money!D7E sounds good. I stumbled on some of your older videos last night. If you have time i'd love to see some pics of the crewcab.
Nice work Alaska. The material you are using for the road - is that a bank dug material or a quarry processed gravel?
We have nothing like that here in the Southeast but I've used similar material in Central America to build roads and pads with that was just dug out of the river. Great material as it was sand/fines to smooth rock 6" and smaller. 5' of it bridged over an old rice field like concrete.
Beautiful truck...got to love old ford 4x4sThe ol’ Ford. It’s a pain keeping the wheel bearings and king pins in the front end, hoping to switch over to a 05 Superduty axle this winter... but we’ll see if we have time after maintaining the equipment that actually makes us money!View attachment 225709 View attachment 225708 View attachment 225707 View attachment 225706