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Recent content by Wawrecker

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    PC800

    I have not kept up with this board for a while. I'll add a few things, if there's interest I will add more. We recently picked up this 800, nice clean well cared for machine.
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    A walk through the local demo contractor's yard

    Who's PC800 is this?
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    Having a hell of a time finding work right now.

    Find the local job board or wherever public works jobs are posted. Bid work you are competent to perform as a sub. Bid, bid and more bids, thats been our best form of advertising. A lot of General contractors that do public work also do private. If you do good work, they will invite you to the...
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    Concrete pulverizer production

    We are getting 13-20 yards an hour with a Labounty MHP390.
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    what would it take to demo these foundations...

    Nothing if your are Fred Flintstone.
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    what would it take to demo these foundations...

    It appears Nebraska is a honey hole if you are competitive with a 225 and a ball...
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    Long reach on 15-20ton excavators..

    This is our 200-3 with 48' of working reach.
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    Hitachi EX200 hydraulic pump is stalling the engine

    Had the same prob on a 200-3, pilot controls had a slight leak that traveled down the wire harness and found its way into the cracked/dry wire insulation and was causing a short. Learned this AFTER a pump rebuild...............
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    Hitachi / Deere Boom swap info needed.

    I have 95 EX 200-3 with a hitachi demolition boom on it and I need to upgrade the base machine and need to know how new of a Deere or Hitachi I can go to and not have to modify the boom to fit? Any help is apreciated. Thanks in advance.
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    Why the Chinese manufacturers will never be on top.

    Having spent a little time in a cat 225 I guess I should be grateful they did!
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    Why the Chinese manufacturers will never be on top.

    While I was at the Komatsu display at Conexpo I saw a couple Chinese taking pictures of a new Komatsu excavator only they had the camera deep in the bowels of the pump area. I asked a Komatsu rep what was up and he said it was Chinese engineers looking to reverse engineer the equipment and said...
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    SW Washington Logging in the 60's-80's

    Looks like one of the old trucks has an air cooled V-12 Duetz?
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    Biggest excavator on a tag along trailer?

    We move our PC 200-8 and EX 200 with a 45' boom on it regulerly here in Wa st. It does cost us a $14.00 permit each time we move but its a small price for what we get.
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    Distubing video found.

    I believe the following link is the accident report for the referanced video. http://www.msha.gov/FATALS/2000/FTL00M17.HTM
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    hitachi exe200 lc-s hydraulic problem stallin out engine

    Had the same problem on our 200-3 a few years ago. On start up the engine was under load, wouldnt rev but when you activated the thumb cylinder it would free up until it got to the end of the throw and then it would die. Had 3 mechanics look at it. Mech one from the dealer "bring it to the shop...
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