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Excavator playtime

Dualie

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What a shame all around. There definately not building them pacifics anymore and no one built them like pacific
 

dirty4fun

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Wow another great looking job, and what darn pretty country to be working in. I bet keeping those post straight would be a royal pain, but looks like you got it down pretty darn good.
 

tootalltimmy

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Okanagan Falls B.C. Canada
Road trip with backhoe

A friend sold his Case 580K and he asked if I was interested in hauling it for the new owner. The buyer lived in 100 Mile House about 500+ miles round trip from me. Loaded it up one morning and the got up early Saturday and delivered it by noon and home again. It is a nice drive.

I went up Highway 97 which will continue on all the way to Alaska. On the way back I took Highway 24 which takes you through what is known as the Interlakes area. Good fishing!

My last picture is Lac Des Roches which is on that road.
 

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dirty4fun

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Looks like it would of been a pretty enjoyable drive, with all to see on the way. Very nice, thanks for sharing.
 

tootalltimmy

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Okanagan Falls B.C. Canada
Everything went smoothly. Didn't get lost, scales were closed, truck ran good, had a bucket of gravel in the box to help with the ride. I am not a long distance trucker. I easily could have made a two day trip out of it!
 

tootalltimmy

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Okanagan Falls B.C. Canada
Back to the vineyard

The tree mulch pile I spread was too much for the narrow vineyard tractor to drive on. Too thick in places and it wasn't safe to drive over.
I scraped and loaded over 50,000kg and hauled away in 7 dump truck loads. It rained a lot so it was heavy and well packed down in the truck.


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