Your first piece of equipment owned or operated was?

[CRAFT]

First one for ,me was a John Deere 2010 crawler bucket dozer w/JD backhoe attachment .... it was a mid sixties machine with a very tired 4cyl Jd diesel engine ....It was later re-powered with a 302 V-8 from a '69 Ford p/u...
The thing would pop wheelies ....LOL... and that was with out the backhoe on !

 

[dynahoescott]

first rig

My first machine I ever ran was a 1979 detroit diesel powered drott 40. it was probably 1980 or 81. I didnt really like the drotts back then but I would really like to run a totally refurbished one now.:drinkup

 

[grandpa]

My first piece of construction was a 5 gallon pale. At the age of 12 carrying hot oil to a barber-greene hot mix plant. The pay was great. Twenty five bucks a week.......like to go back with what I know now! Prolly would have been an inventor of a hot oil pump...lol

 

[OCR]

like to go back with what I know now! Prolly would have been an inventor of a hot oil pump.

Yup... Prolly would have been... but you weren't.... :cool2

It's like I've told you several times before....

Wish'd I would of known ya', when you were a little younger.

Round me, ya' might have learned a thing or two.

Bah, ha, ha, ha.



OCR... :lmao

 

[willie59]

Yup... Prolly would have been... but you weren't.... :cool2

It's like I've told you several times before....



Bah, ha, ha, ha.



OCR... :lmao

Zing!!! :lmao :falldownlaugh

 

[bigskyelliott]

late 70s fiat allis fe5 dozer. bought for $9000, cleared twenty plus acres and used for a couple years then traded for case 580b backhoe and 4000 but wish i had the money to keep. it was a nice little dozer

 

[upbrakie]

A Case 580B when I was about 16.

 

[stinkycat]

When I 6 or 7 during the summer I would go to work with my Dad and every morning before the Tpull operators stated showing it was may job to operate ? half a dozen super C Tpulls that we push started and let them warm up for the days work. No brakes I could barely pull and push the steering levers but I also felt 10 foot tall. Because none of my friends could do this.

 

[snohed]

Hy- hoe

My first was a 1964 I think anyway, HY-HOE what a beauty!

 

[Bumpus]

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Believe it or not this was my first piece of Heavy Equipment ( which is in the picture below ) that I started on, and I was about 5 years old at the time.

I would spoon out holes in Dad's dirt driveway big big enough to put my fist in and then see how far I could carve out the side ways all around inside the hole before it would cave in then fill it back in before Dad got home.

I was inspired by watching a man with an old Ford tractor with a loader bucket and he would load gravel out of the creek on to his dump truck in front of our house in the country and sell it to people for road and driveway repairs.

Later on in life ( 19 ) I drove a Potato Chip truck,
then a Single Axle, a Tandem, and a Tri Axle Dump dump trucks.

1980 Freightliner Cab Over and a dump trailer
1994 Freightliner Condo and 53' trailers
1999 Freightliner Classic Condo and 53' trailers

A 769 and 773 Cat Dumps
A Euclid 35 Ton Dump
An 50 Ton Pay Hauler Dump

480 and 580 Case backhoes
300 and 310 JD backhoes

Kobelco and a Korean Excavator Track Hoes

Endloaders ... Cat Track 955/977/983 - Jd 450
Some different rubber tired loaders

Dozers ... 450/550,
Cats 6 and 7,
AC 11 and 21

Cranes ... 18 Ton Drott,
20 Ton Groves,
20/35 Ton Bantams,
45 Ton American,
50 Ton Link Belt.
.

 

[245dlc]

The first piece of equipment I ran was a Case 1085C Cruz Air rubber-tire excavator. I was about nine or ten years old and was watching it clean ditches on a new golf course when the operator invited me into the cab and showed me how to what lever did what, and what pedal did what. My dad came looking for me as I was later for supper again and was pretty pissed about it, but when he discovered me in the seat loading loon sh*t into a tandem I was off the hook. Ten years later after finishing high school I took a diesel mechanic course that was aimed at getting "wannabe" diesel mechanics some knowledge and practical skills so students could get an apprenticeship, I worked for a small earthmoving contractor that was nice enough to let me try running his Cat 215 excavator and well I haven't stopped operating since. I would upload some pictures of the old excavator but the uploader thing doesn't seem to be working again.

 

[shooterm]

Caterpillar D7G in the Marines :usa

Only the best operators start this way!!:usa

 

[BarnStarFarm]

My first machines were a 72 JD 820 tractor and a '72 JD 2030 tractor on an old ground-driven rake. Round and round and round and round. My grandparents had 80 acres of hayfields in coastal Maine and that's what I did every summer til 5 years ago when they both passed and my mother sold the farm.

 

[spitzair]

Back in 1989 my dad bought this 'ere Bobcat 732, and I got to try my hand at it the very same day hauling firewood. I was 9 at the time and you couldn't get that big huge grin off my face! We still have this Bobcat today and it still works as good as it did then!

 

[m630]

first bigger thing was a case 210 trackhoe and for pay was a jd 850 c in edmonton alberta

 

[john1066]

First i ever ran was a cat 950B at 5 years old loading gravel into a dump trailer. i had been riding in them with my dad and he was standing on the side. first thing by myself was 1988 Cat D8N at 10 years old. they would haul fill into a field all week and he would drop me off on saturday to push it all in the hole. you have to start somewhere

 

[Mavrickxxx]

First peice I ever got paid to run was a988 cat loader with a huge air leak so u couldn't use the brakes. Loved it then. Ever time I had a chance after that I got in the cab. My favorite ? Was do u know how to run that? I always replied yes then I had about five minutes to figure it out. Which worked really well until I got into a rubber tired cat hoe and I couldn't start it. I didn't know the key needed to be on for thirty seconds to start. Jig was up that time. And to this day if someone asked me to run a garden tractor and I'd never run it I would. Got my sights set on cranes and airplanes now. Still waiting for the ? Do u know how to run that. When someone calls a machine that your in.

 

[Aussie Leroy]

My First !!!!!!!, I fell in love with Dozers when i was 4, i'm sure it was D6 9U (1962) it was clearing land behind where i lived. I first drove a cranvel backactor towed by a fordson major tractor ,10 years old cleaning drains , My First real job at 14 was Driving a D9G 66A towing a static pad foot roller on a dam wall. MY First own machine was case 580B frontend loader / backhoe, not a good start this almost broke me in 6 months, So out with case and into a CAT 941 traxy never looked back.I Still have 8 pieces of CAT Gear ,1 WABCO 111A,1 KOMATSU 380 crusher, And i'm still Looking for 2 x 627 F/G And D8T.(Because i think scrapers and dozers will come back soon) Cheers Leroy

 

[SPLUNK]

In 67 I was placed on a Deere 5010 self loading scraper, I thought it was the coolest at age 10! remember when we got our first Deere 4020 ag tractor with power shift, pulled 2 6 yard pans with it. front wheels hardly ever touched the ground!!!! wow that was a long time ago!40 years later and I am still playing in the dirt!!

 

[si25]

first machine owned was a JCB 3CII, 1978 if i remember right. first operated was also a back hoe, although i was in single figures and cant remember what it was? ...got a few photos somewhere....