Tinkerer
Senior Member
I sometimes wondered also about that idiot and how he did on that project.
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Some of my jobs...
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Birken Vogt
Charter Member
He did come back on briefly and it looked somewhat finished, but the regular members did not seem too eager to engage him in any more conversation for some reason.
245dlc
Senior Member
On my way to work one morning I stopped at a nearby truck stop to get a few things for lunch and this guy was transporting this big front shovel bucket to an Oil Sands job in Alberta. So naturally I got a few pictures to share.
245dlc
Senior Member
So one day after a short day at work I had the opportunity to meet a local legend and check out his fleet of mostly International equipment. Glen who is in his '70's spent many years building municipal roads, lagoons, and drainage projects with his fleet of 'Cat's and Scrapers' he told me one season he built 17 miles of grid roads. He tried his hand at using single engine scrapers but said it was a bit of a flop the soil conditions in these parts are just to challenging for wheeled machines.
245dlc
Senior Member
There are still a few 'oldtimers' around here that prefer cables over hydraulic conversions on their scrapers and Glen is one of them many guys saying the hydraulics often heat up and slow down too much for them.
245dlc
Senior Member
I can post more of Glen's collection in the vintage section if anybody is interested I didn't want to get too off topic as I made a couple trips to his place to talk about possibly buying a 1 ton Ford dually with 4x4 and a 7.3L turbo'd engine.
Well I went to the town of Steinbach, MB to start on this utility job and it was a bit of a $hit show from the start the developer who was also the builder was well in to building houses so we were always over and under the various trades and I had very limited room to pile up any mud or dirt. Every time I have to do a job in Steinbach it seems to get blundered up by the stupidity of that town. Another utility crew working in the area had told us when they came to put in the sewer and water all the houses had already been built and it was a struggle to get anything done. Some houses were pretty much done minus any landscaping or a driveway and the new owners were suppose to take possession while we were there.
Well I went to the town of Steinbach, MB to start on this utility job and it was a bit of a $hit show from the start the developer who was also the builder was well in to building houses so we were always over and under the various trades and I had very limited room to pile up any mud or dirt. Every time I have to do a job in Steinbach it seems to get blundered up by the stupidity of that town. Another utility crew working in the area had told us when they came to put in the sewer and water all the houses had already been built and it was a struggle to get anything done. Some houses were pretty much done minus any landscaping or a driveway and the new owners were suppose to take possession while we were there.
245dlc
Senior Member
While we were there a sewer and water crew was digging a shaft for a sewage lift station they were going down about 30 feet but had to put sand points in to keep the hole dewatered and of course their discharge hose crossed where we were trenching so a little tunnelling had to be done to get under it after putting a couple boards under the hose. They had a neat clamshell attachment on their excavator for digging down to grade. The lift station part that was going in the hole was made out of fiberglass like an underground gas station tank.
245dlc
Senior Member
You can see in the bottom of the trench I dug in the photos black dirt well some how the developers in these parts get away with not stripping it at all a stark contrast to when I worked in Winnipeg and in Alberta where things like site development and proper soil compaction are taken very seriously.
245dlc
Senior Member
Again more track shovelling with half rainy and half snowy weather, sure makes you appreciate when its a dry freeze up, also some pretty tight digging and a goofy way to pour a front step.
245dlc
Senior Member
First time I ever saw a hay bale being used as a void form for a front step to a house. And an interesting home made pile driver for pounding in steel piles normally I see these guys use a hoe pac to vibrate steel pilings in but I guess they needed something better to pound the pilings in the rest of the way.
245dlc
Senior Member
Well it didn't take long for things to freeze up we went from hovering around the freezing mark to -20C in no time so the boss bought a lightly used frost ripper for the old Hitachi however with the job we started near my place the frost had been packed in to a couple of gravel driveways taking me up to 2 hours to rip about 20 feet by almost 2 feet deep of frozen gravel. My thumb retainers couldn't take the heavy vibration and shock forces and fell a part sadly so now the thumb is clanging away. And I changed the teeth with whatever we had leftover from last winter but it didn't take long to wear them down in the gravel and hard pan.
245dlc
Senior Member
Those sharp looking corner teeth work really well in straight frozen clay but anything else they wear out quite quickly, however we might be trying out a new to us brand in the next little while....provided there is still some work right after new years.
Graham1
Senior Member
Looks like you are having fun. Haven't even had to scrape my truck windows yet this winter. If we ever had conditions like you have the whole of southern England would grind to a stop.
Graham
Graham
245dlc
Senior Member
Hi Graham, well the last month and a half I've been feeling a bit burnt out or run down my health hasn't been the greatest I just finished ten days of antibiotics to kill a sinus infection.....hoping that works too. I've had a multitude of issues with the old Hitachi one of them being fuel issues but I think we worked them out. And we had the main bucket pin replaced in the summer when a final drive seal failed by the dealer and a couple little things fixed. But during the one of the ditching jobs I was on before freeze up it spat out the two shims that they put in and was back to being quite sloppy. I had noticed that there were no o-rings or seals on either side of the pin and mentioned it to the boss but not much was said about it. I usually don't mind operating the old bugger but now I'm trenching through frost quite regularly and working with people in the hole it just gets to be too much to deal with. So now we finished our last trenching job for the year (I hope) the old Hitch is at Wajax (Hitachi dealer) and apparently needs all new pins and bushings and got a new radio and antennae. (Yay!). There might be a week or two of brush mulching or cutting, the biggest job being at a golf course that needs some drainage work done. We might have more utility work later in the winter but we usually don't get much warning about that so sounds like it will be quiet for a while.
Welder Dave
Senior Member
Not sure but that doesn't look like it's one of the biggest buckets they have up there. Any idea what machine it's for?
245dlc
Senior Member
I believe it was for a Hitachi EX3600 and not its not for the biggest machine. I've seen when those buckets come through often on the train and the two pieces are shipped separately.