Just a few pictures.

kokosing · Nov 4, 2013

Is that the ringer that was on the 219? I'd love to stop by the yard but always afraid to go and ask to walk around and check things out.

bigshow · Nov 4, 2013

I made that one, backblading is such a controversial subject and I have always said that to the nutt jobs. Then it pisses them off even more and I just laugh and laugh and go back to trimming.

bigshow · Nov 4, 2013

Yes it was, it was a 888 from Essex, I can't remember how much stick it had but she could hang the moon. I have more pics but don't have time right now.

bigshow · Nov 10, 2013

FarmWrench, do you know if it's for sale? I wouldn't mind adding a crawler to the "fleet". And for what it's worth, I'm a "Gen-Xer", but thanks, I was broke in by a bunch of old timers.

bigshow · Nov 10, 2013

ValleyFirewood · Nov 10, 2013

I didn't realize they even made excavators on wheels anymore.

Only ones I've see where military ones and they were at least 20-30 yrs old.

Can it drive at road speeds?

bigshow · Nov 11, 2013

Hell yeah, I use them all the time. They do about 30 m.p.h. I wouldn't trade them for the world.

FarmWrench · Nov 11, 2013

bigshow said:
FarmWrench, do you know if it's for sale? I wouldn't mind adding a crawler to the "fleet". And for what it's worth, I'm a "Gen-Xer", but thanks, I was broke in by a bunch of old timers.

We are going back over 10 years since Ipulled in that driveway. It is visible from the road so I know it is still sitting there. It was used to redo the foundation of a barn and going by the quality ofthe work had a very competent guy in the seat. I was told by the barn owner the Bantam was owned by an old friend who had a construction company. He had to take a different front off to put the pull shovel on but the barn guy had no idea what it was. When I get back that way what questions would you like to know about it?

bigshow · Nov 11, 2013

How much he wants for it, and what attachments he has for it. I've driven farther than Chaffee for much less. Bantams had a front shovel available and where pretty common as was the crane boom.

wnydirtguy · Nov 23, 2013

Farmwrench I think I have seen that one before. Would love to know more if you find out anything about it.

bigshow · Nov 23, 2013

How about it Farmwrench? Did you find out anything about it?

bigshow · Jan 6, 2014

Ice jammed up and caused some trouble

That was the high for the day, it dropped 10*

Plowing the job out, windows never did defrost.

bigshow · Jan 12, 2014

I just parked the splice crane and thought the smoke from the hammer would make a neat picture, unfortunately it looked better in person.

Fastdirt · Jan 12, 2014

Nice pictures. I can't believe the winter conditions that some people have to deal with. We are lucky to even see snow in Georgia once a year. It did get down to 6 degrees this past Tuesday and I think that was record. It's back to normal cold now. Not to bad to deal with. I would love to plow snow just once. It looks so productive.

bigshow · Jan 13, 2014

You're not missing anything, It has been getting into the below 0*F. temps lately, it's definitely been a struggle. We have 8 6-12" pumps going 24-7 to keep the water out of the cells all wrapped up in frost blankets. Everything you do takes much much longer and costs more money to do, extended warm ups, jump starts, fuel issues, it is a tough way to make a dollar. This job has a very tight deadline and daily fines if exceeded so we HAVE to work, so we put our noses to the grindstone and try to be as efficient as possible.

kshansen · Jan 13, 2014

bigshow,

Where is this job, I'm guessing it's a bridge up northern NY. I can only imagine the problems working in that weather.

They had us trying to run into late November crushing stone here and some days we spent five or more hours getting the plant running to crush for five hours. All summer we were on a NO OVERTIME order then when someone decided we needed more product on the ground before winter shut down they decided working a fifty hour week was fine. So we worked fifty hours weeks to produce for 25 hours, and management says;"We (meaning the hourly people) don't see the big picture!"

bigshow · Jan 13, 2014

I was crushing concrete the week of Christmas, I feel your pain, most people don't know the proper spelling of crusher, but it is really spelled H-E-A-D-A-C-H-E. The bridge is in Corning, N.Y.

insleyboy · Jan 13, 2014

Love the cruz-air pics...but picking up boom with it.....yikes!

bigshow · Jan 18, 2014

Why the "yikes"??? 3 of the tires were on the ground, I always said with the rubber tired excavators, if you got all 4 tires on the ground, you're doing it wrong. The sketchy pick was setting the grader on the concrete pad with the 303.5, I had to back down the driveway with the grader uphill. I didn't think I was going to be able to get it up there, I had to do some "horsing" but it's there now.

bigshow · Jan 18, 2014

It was quite windy, still managed to hit the bucket on the fly.

Just a few pictures.

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