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    Grease Selection

    I can't count the number people who bought a cordless grease gun after seeing mine. it's several.
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    Grease Selection

    I bought a Milwaukee 18 volt cordless grease gun in 2014. My brother remarked that ALL grease guns are cordless... However it's just been one of the greatest things I've ever bought. My old plant had 100 or so grease points all up, life was just so much easier once I got that thing and also...
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    "BOROWING EQUIPMENT "

    Where I work was letting some other crew store road base and what have you on our site, I had to leave my loader up at the crusher so they could use it at night. :( Fortunately it was only for a while. But the guy who drove it was a midget and A: pulled the seat way forward but worse B: left...
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    Who makes these mobile crushers?

    A very quick search tells me that's what it is, well played Sir. Despite a life time in quarrying I have very skillfully avoided contact with crushers.. I have very much been a sand and gravel wash plant type of guy. I am pretty sure this poor old dear was a jaw crusher ( I dealt with a...
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    Who makes these mobile crushers?

    This part of what my job is now. I feed a screening plant and the over size goes into this and then back through the screen plant or gets blended with the raw material and back through. Both are old. This thing is cantankerous. I think the governor is shonky because I have to walk it at full...
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    Caterpillar serial number/ year model

    TBH I just wanted it's birthday, I'd love to find out where it has been before it arrived where I am now but that'd be stretching things. I've been operating wash plants mostly for a time and have not had a loader that's referred to as " Mine " for a little while. She certainly isn't the...
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    Caterpillar serial number/ year model

    Hey guys, it's been a while. Can anyone help me with 0972GCAXP00234 ?
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    CAT 966C and 966H Photos

    I got off a 966C about a month ago, stepped into a 966E at the new job. What a quantum leap from C to E it is. However, the hydraulic pump on the E is being repaired, I`ve had a 980G to use, I hated the electric levers at first, but now.... It`s going to be really hard to hand that G back :(...
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    D6 questions.

    Dipstick was under the seat, it was right on the full mark when cold. The mechanics who work on it say its the head, that`s why its sluggish and gets hot, I get about an hour out of it and then its just touching the red and I park it. What I`m doing is, doing as much as I can with the...
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    D6 questions.

    What does it take? What do you put in there? Trans fluid, torque oil.. Any clues?
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    D6 questions.

    We have a old D6 on loan to push some trees with. She`s a bit tired, but seemingly in good nick. Some klutz over heated it, I beleive the combustion chambers were replaced, but it appears to have a bad head gasket or cracked head. Be okay for me till it`s fixed, I just nurse it along and...
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    Nice Komatsu

    Jeez, it`s even got chrome or stainless hand rails and exhaust. If I had that at work it`d soon end in tears. :(
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    Bit rusty......

    I last sat on a dozer in I think, 1987.. ish. We had a little Fiat with a hand clutch that we pushed a discard rock dump flat with, dumping the rock into the creek we dug out for sand, and leveling it with the Fiat... Or a loader. Poor old Fiat, it would barley pull the skin off a rice...
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    Certificates of Competency

    Mostly for me it`s for employment, even though I have a job. One thrusts out ones chest and exclaims: " I am a Plant Operator " Next question will be: " do you have tickets? " If the answer is " sadly, no... " Don`t let the door smack you on the butt on the way out... Mainly though, its...
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    Certificates of Competency

    Let the pigeons loose! Me pass!!! Yay! The 2.5 hours of theory test wasn`t easy, the 3 minutes operating part was a snap.. Flies and bugs were a bit bad, maybe the guy wanted to get the hell outa there, either way I have a certificate of competency for fornt end loader, and one for...
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