OldandWorn
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What are all of those cables in the rear of the pushcat? Looks like they are coming out from the top of the ROPS.
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more pics of equipment stuck!
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What are all of those cables in the rear of the pushcat? Looks like they are coming out from the top of the ROPS.
2 things here I can see, air con / heater hoses to top of cab (ROPS) & a coil of tow cable lower down. IT does look like they are joined on first glance.
alan627b
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Both the D8K and the D5C carried tow cables on them all the time.. the 8 has brackets on it to carry the cable... the other things are A/C hoses.. and someday they might even make it work! LOL! The dirt on this job was up to 30% moisture content except by the toe of the slope where it was completly saturated with water running out of it. Sort of a grainy clay and sand mix. There was a 60 fot cut at a 3:1 on the hillside where the building and parking lots went. The pics of the stuck 627B is where he was hauling in dry material to bridge the mess and sorta make a haul "road", so the rest of us with the 621B's could get close enough for the hoe to load us.Oh what fun...
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alan627b
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More fun in the mud.
alan627b
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The nice looking 621B was it's first job out of the paint shop... it's an ex-military unit that was OD green until they repainted it.. and installed the cushion hitch components. The Gov buys these things with stiff necks for some reason. It looked like the rest of the fleet after this mud job was over! All our 621's and 627's are B models, and all receive 3406's if they don't have them already. It makes a real difference in power believe me! All the benefits of an E without all the electronics.
Hope you enjoyed the pics!
My newest employer, JC Excavation out of Kennard (Blair) Nebraska owns these units. A shameless plug!
Hi Alan
A little nicer iron then what you use to run... That poor little 5 pulling those 27s out.
We don't use scrapers down here unless its a 13 on stabilized soil. Its not that the scraper would get stuck you'd never get it off the lowboy, because it would be stuck as soon as you pulled off the road.
A little nicer iron then what you use to run... That poor little 5 pulling those 27s out.
We don't use scrapers down here unless its a 13 on stabilized soil. Its not that the scraper would get stuck you'd never get it off the lowboy, because it would be stuck as soon as you pulled off the road.
robin yates uk
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great story and a great idea for when you are really stuck, thanks
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Reminds me of a time I was driving our department's Forestry Unit, a converted M35 with a 1000 gallon water tank. Buried to the axles in goop and quite obviously going nowhere, I picked up the microphone to report the situation. I was reminded of these wise words: You're NEVER stuck! Your progress has been temporarily delayed........
RollOver Pete
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Does this count
I was just posing anyways
I was just posing anyways
rezod1
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gotta love all these oops moments
D&GExcavating
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The nice looking 621B was it's first job out of the paint shop... it's an ex-military unit that was OD green until they repainted it.. and installed the cushion hitch components. The Gov buys these things with stiff necks for some reason. It looked like the rest of the fleet after this mud job was over! All our 621's and 627's are B models, and all receive 3406's if they don't have them already. It makes a real difference in power believe me! All the benefits of an E without all the electronics.
Hope you enjoyed the pics!
My newest employer, JC Excavation out of Kennard (Blair) Nebraska owns these units. A shameless plug!
That looks like some fun stuff to work in with a 627 and a D8!
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Loaded water cart in a uncompacted fibre optic trench. The water cart was used to fill up a "hyrdomulch" truck that was spraying grass seed onto the area.
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Run it like you rented it!
bigshow
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They couldn't just jam the man basket into the ground and push itself out under it's own power?
Darned nail benders anyways.........
Darned nail benders anyways.........
coorecat
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How did they even get it in there?