Old conventionals at work

[Tugger2]

The Lima got out to work to driving 2 H piles for a bridge on a tourist bike path.Went down 115' before the blow counter stopped us at financial refusal. Those bikes out there are heavy!

 

[Tugger2]

There was also an 18" water main running between the piles ,down about 12'and 3' over from one pile . Held us up for a week for a locate .

 

[DMiller]

Now there is a scary thought, Cutting a water main with a pile!!

What production date on the Lima? Original Power in it or updated?

 

[Tugger2]

The Lima is 1975 .Cummins power ,remaned 300 in 1984.
And yes we are very good at finding pipes and things underground with pilings. Filled the basement of a Mcdonalds with sewerage after we drove thru the sewerline in the parking lot. I did ask if they were sure there was no pipes where the asphalt showed trench cuts ,super said no just drive the pile.

 

[DMiller]

Grand old machines. Never understood the variances for Cab of house one side or other. Americans, Northwests most often to Right, most others to Left.

 

[Welder Dave]

I know a guy who worked for a large construction outfit that had 2 rubber tire cranes that I think were Lima's. 70 and 90 ton if I remember. When the company went into receivership a large structural steel fab shop purchased the cranes.

 

[Tugger2]

Look at it this way.My compliment of equipment ranges from60 years old to the 1980s.It does the job well. All of it could work for the next 100 years with diligent maintenance.I can make a lot of the parts in my shop. Do you know of any iron today that will be working almost trouble free in 50 years? I think im greener than any of those tree hugging nuts by keeping this iron alive.

 

[mitch504]

Look at it this way.My compliment of equipment ranges from60 years old to the 1980s.It does the job well. All of it could work for the next 100 years with diligent maintenance.I can make a lot of the parts in my shop. Do you know of any iron today that will be working almost trouble free in 50 years? I think im greener than any of those tree hugging nuts by keeping this iron alive.

Yeah, and people look down on our older iron, until there is a bad connection between their computer and one of it's sensors

 

[ryanmueller]

Got the bay city all painted up and ready to move some dirt

 

[Tugger2]

Looks good,put her to work now.

 

[colson04]

Got the bay city all painted up and ready to move some dirt View attachment 225662 View attachment 225663 View attachment 225664

Looks pretty sweet. I could really use an old crane with a clamshell or dragline set up to dredge my pound out with. I've got about a 12 acre pond I would like to clean up and make a bit deeper. Plus, I'd just like to own my own crane someday.

 

[Tugger2]

Looks pretty sweet. I could really use an old crane with a clamshell or dragline set up to dredge my pound out with. I've got about a 12 acre pond I would like to clean up and make a bit deeper. Plus, I'd just like to own my own crane someday.[/QUOTe
Wow a 12 acre pond . Sounds like your gonna need a barge for that crane too .

 

[mitch504]

Got the bay city all painted up and ready to move some dirt View attachment 225662 View attachment 225663 View attachment 225664

The red battery charger looking thing is an air pump for the sprayer?

 

[DMiller]

Tried my hand at a American Dragline seems a hunnerd years ago, I was Useless!!(was also only 23)
Old bugger that owned it told me to stick with wrenching where he could cast almost like a Bass Pro!!
Is a art to it where I imagine I could learn given a decade or more. Have long been able to birds-nest a open reel and no desire to re-spool a friction drum!!

 

[colson04]

I dunno about a barge, I don't even own a heavy truck to move any type of crane, yet.

What is a realistic distance that could be dredged with a dragline or clamshell from the shoreline? My pond is more long and narrow, but probably still too far across to reach the midpoint at the widest part. I've got a lot more learning to do.

 

[DMiller]

Have seen draglines cast almost house to mast end distance doubled by a pro at it otherwise stuck at end of raised mast distance to swing and drop.

 

[Tugger2]

Clamming with a small crane with 50' of boom will get you around 35' or 40' of radius with a small bucket .you can cast a bit with the clam when you get practiced if your digging a really soft bottom. If its a bit hard the bucket just flops on its side and wont fill properly .
I have not swung a drag bucket too much but id guess you might add 10' or 15' to your radius.
Just be sure your pond edges are good enough to work on.
We just finished a pond for fish habitat with the 40 ton . We ran 90' of boom down to about 25 deg. I didnt trudge thru the muck to measure but i think we Made it out around 80' with the clambucket.
Id bet theres an old Bucyrus lurking around your neighborhood.

 

[John C.]

I've run the shovel in my avatar as a dragline for awhile dipping out a coal wash plant fines pond. I can say from experience that the guy in that video has more than a few years of experience. The boom is about the angle I like, not so low as to make the machine tippy but low enough to get a good reach and coverage. He doesn't drop the jewelry on top of the bucket when it lands. He only pulls the bucket until full and doesn't try to use it as a bulldozer. The full bucket only comes up far enough to be able to dump efficiently into the truck. The dumped bucket has started the return just as the last of the material falls out. I'll bet at the end of the day he is just exhausted unless he has power controls.

 

[mitch504]

I saw an R-model with a 26' dump trailer parked on a boat ramp start rolling. The dragline op threw his bucket over the tractor into the bed out past his boom tip and held the truck without dropping his cigarette.

 

[DMiller]

I am a guessin Colson could get the hang of that purty quick!!