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well i quess ill start posting some work pics.
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catd8t
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JimBruce42
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Sweet pics... That 385(b?)LME looks like it's in good shape... that a 6 yd. rock bucket you guys have on it? And what do you think of the new 770's?
Thanks for sharing and keep them coming!
Thanks for sharing and keep them coming!
catd8t
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well we are shooting it as we go and we are taking turns out of a road so trucks can run it. its a 55 foot cut in rotten granite.. ill take a picture tommorrow you will see the whole job. yeah its a B its in ok shape we did a really big job for the past few years and operators jump from machine to machine to the counter weight is scratched but it runs well. its the one that runs the best out of the 4. and yes its a 6 lol. the 770 are good i dont run them much but i like them they turn on a dim and you dont lose your mirrors like the 730s but they are very loud out side in side you cant even here the horn.
JimBruce42
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Yeah our one quarry has a few new 775f's, they turn on a dime too and they are dead quite in the cabs, If the loader is loading from the blind side your lucky to hear a horn... your 730's lose mirrors too? LOL. Looking forward to seeing the progress on your project.
catd8t
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oh yeah then i guess cat came out the other day to fix one of the trucks and put the mirros on up side down
catd8t
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catd8t
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catd8t
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JimBruce42
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So, you're a blaster, sweet. What company do you work for? (if you'd rather PM me that info you can)
That 385 is one awesome machine, I'd love to run one some day... hell I get giddy just getting a few hours on a 345 LME, haha.
ointhead
how long are the teeth lasting in that granite?
That 385 is one awesome machine, I'd love to run one some day... hell I get giddy just getting a few hours on a 345 LME, haha.
ointheadhow long are the teeth lasting in that granite?
catd8t
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no im not a blaster but this job im helping them just to keep my self busy of thats what the office says. i work for Simard-Beaudry Construction Inc out of laval quebec. i started with them when i moved up here running just about every thing on a very big project we had and then to subs that we had on that job picked this little job up so the are doing the blasting for them. so since its clost to home and my super loves me the sent me to do lay out with the topcon so i lay out the holes and then watch the 85 in the afternoon. we have the trucks too the 385 not ours but i have worked with all the guys from the other comp so they are like coworkers. and when they sent me here i said fine but give me a truck. not bad for being 21 hahaha
catd8t
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oh the teeth last a while its all rotten on the frist bench its will be better on the second i think
catd8t
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Tigerotor77W
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How do you guys like the 770/772?
garieresco
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Quote: "not bad for being 21 hahaha!!!"
Cudo's to you Man....I'm about to turn fourty and you Now have The job I've dreamt of for the last TWENTY years....enjoy it Man, your lucky....
great pics.... I done blasting in the past..... I was really fun for the most part....
The scariest thing ..... an idiot set of a tube of tovex on the ground.... I was running a T-600 Vermeer at the time... the scary part about 5 minutes later a gunship was circling the trencher.... I was pointing at the pickup the idiot was using about a block away.... about 10 minutes later the air police arrive... lots of question.. Idiot is face down with a few m16 pointed his way.. Oh I was trenching about 500 yards from a Titan II missle silo.. shut the job down for a week...
The scariest thing ..... an idiot set of a tube of tovex on the ground.... I was running a T-600 Vermeer at the time... the scary part about 5 minutes later a gunship was circling the trencher.... I was pointing at the pickup the idiot was using about a block away.... about 10 minutes later the air police arrive... lots of question.. Idiot is face down with a few m16 pointed his way.. Oh I was trenching about 500 yards from a Titan II missle silo.. shut the job down for a week...
catd8t
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they like the 770 they run well and none of them have broken yet. i wish i could have taken pictures on the last job i was on we where in a tunnel with 770 passing each other i was running the 988 loading but it was high security. no pictures. yeah i have been lucky on the job thing i like blasting but its still not running equipment. thats my passion. i just hope they have something for me when this is done. its a little quite. and yeah lol havnt had any dynamite disasters YET lol but im sure going to take pictures if i still have arms to do it hahahaha
