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    HELP!! Case 1450 DEAD IN TRACKS

    Check your suction screen for blockage
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    Lets see your "ultimate" service truck!

    These are the pics that i mentioned earlier
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    Lets see your "ultimate" service truck!

    The truck that I run is a Kenworth T300, with a maintainer bed. It has a 500 amp miller welder with the air pack, 10k crane, willburt night scan light tower, 70 gal. waste oil tank, and 3 70 gal fresh oil tanks. Our company runs 5 trucks, 2 335 peterbilts, 2 T300s, and and old school L8000. We...
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    Liebherr R974C excavator

    Try two weeks ex Germany, down here! Know what you mean, thats what they say, but we wait alot also. Some things they are quick with, and others they are slow, but you have that with all manufactures. We have alot of 924s, 34s, 44s, and 54s in our area, mostly scrapers. The guys that run...
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    Liebherr R974C excavator

    According to liebherr they have a 48 hour parts promise.
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    Liebherr R974C excavator

    Here is a r974c in a barge unloading application on the ohio river in silver grove, KY. It is owned by ingram barge company.
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    Burning Your Waste Oil In Your Engine???

    BE CAREFUL. A good friend of mine has a duramax diesel and he changes his oil @ 50% life. He was running used oil and we had a full load of round bales on the gooseneck and the truck went into limp mode due to low rail pressure due to a dirty fuel filter. I went out and changed his filter and...
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    How to move a burnt excavator?

    I agree with herb, the only thing is if you set the boom down on the trailer you can't get it up to unload it. We had to move a linkbelt 330, and we used a beam trailer, we pulled the stick pin in order to manipulate the stick to where we could crane it up and chain to the boom. Then we pushed...
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    Kawasaki Loaders?

    Im used to working with the larger loaders, 80's and up. They are good loaders, with few problems, and the ones that they have are the same all the time, steering pumps, condensor fans, and unloader valves. We have a ton of these loaders out on sites, with very few calls, some of these machines...
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    How many people in here are?

    Volly for 10 years and part time paid for 6. I hold FF2, EMT-B, Inspector, ATO, Instructor, Investigator, Hazmat Tech, and Rope rescue tech. My fulltime job is a field service mechanic
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