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    Mining Shovel Dust Suppression

    hey guys.. i operate a RH340 almost everyday at work... can tell you that you sometimes have to stop swinging all together briefly cause the dust can get real bad and there is no wind to blow it away for you its blinding..or in the case of nightshift sometimed turning the upper cab lights off...
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    musical excavator!!!!

    ah ok.. from what i remember there wasn't much in that stair control box... the way i read your first post when u said "it gets changed a fair bit" I thought that the operators must have changed via the screen or something quite easily.. BTW.. how do u find the electro over hydraulic...
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    musical excavator!!!!

    ok so can u change it through the standard hitachi screen in the cab??
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    Photos of big diggers I have run

    Hey Redline.. seems your not too far away from where i am!!! I love my job.. we just got another RH340B shovel.. a bycurus one.. though they are CAT now!! Yeah i loved the 432E series.. way better than the d series thats for sure.. the pilot controls for the backhoe were excellent.. though i...
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    Anyone running blade in a mine?

    hey mate.. about all your experience will give you is how to operate/use the machine.. I have been in the mines for years now and about all the graders do is just sweep rocks/mud off the roads. They can get involved in keeping the digger floors neat but unless there is fines to work with...
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    323D Control Panel

    probably just a fault on the display screen.. ???
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    Grading a pad with my D4H XL

    I have been running dozers for a while now, and yeah, backblading is not on. About the only time I would do it is if I had to put an emergency vehicle access in somewhere. It wears out the bolts on the cutting edges and makes it a mightmare to undo the bolts etc. I think I would get more...
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    Photos of big diggers I have run

    hey guys.. cheers for the comments.. i can tell you the 3600-5 is probably the best digger i have run.. pretty fast for its size and the mitsubishi motors sound great too!! :D by the way i am 6'4" tall.. so those tracks a bloody big!! aussie broker.. where u going to stop in??? :beatsme
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    Excavator Redesign

    hey bud... this might give u a few ideas!!! YouTube - Volvo SFINX - Volvo's futuristic Excavator concept machine for the others.. O&K/terex machines also have proximity sensors around the machine, and a little box incab has a series of lights and beeps on it, just to let you know how close...
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    operating techniques

    hey buddy... check you tube out.. there are a few training vids on there in relation to trenching and picking up other buckets etc... volvo also has other videos on there about how to work on slopes, proper techniques on walking machine etc... but yeah i have always learnt from watching other...
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    Excavator slope work

    hey bud.. looks like fun!!! bet the counter weight was close to striking the ground.. wonder how all the components like oil sumps etc faired after working on that angle though!!!
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    Photos of big diggers I have run

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    Photos of big diggers I have run

    more.. me happily running the dump in the 11.. previous day shown where the dump had slumped BADLY.. it happens very quick.. also a shot of the "advisor" screen in the "T" series dozer... check out those totals!!! then the 5500 shovel
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    Photos of big diggers I have run

    few more.. I was running the tip head this day in the D10R.. and a smart arse chick thought it would be funny to run out a Cat 789c load behind me.. with a flat blade on the dozer it took a while to clean up
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    Photos of big diggers I have run

    few more!! dont bog a digger at night.. bosses dont like having to come in to sort it out!!! various factors made this happen.. i wasnt concentrating.. and also the ground was very soft.. ended up heaving the next day.. not all that damage was caused by me though!!! also showing L1850 loader
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