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a day at the beach
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tylermckee
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little change of scenery this week, some clearing with the 115 kobelco
first three pics are from the same spot, first one the makeshift landing area, that rock knob behind the trucks is about 20' high. the homeowner has plans to put a quarter million dollar telescope up on top. second pic is part of the area we are clearing. its pretty steep and all rock with a little bit of dirt, not much fun to walk the machine on. have to gather up what little dirt is there and build a road so you can get around. third pic is the view
Last pic is just one of the bigger logs, thats a 3' bucket for size reference
tomorrow ill put the grinder on the excavator and start grinding the slash, plan is to leave the stumps, kinda half ass grind the brush just to make it look a little better and call it good. the owner has no plans of using this area for anything, just clearing for the view.
first three pics are from the same spot, first one the makeshift landing area, that rock knob behind the trucks is about 20' high. the homeowner has plans to put a quarter million dollar telescope up on top. second pic is part of the area we are clearing. its pretty steep and all rock with a little bit of dirt, not much fun to walk the machine on. have to gather up what little dirt is there and build a road so you can get around. third pic is the view
Last pic is just one of the bigger logs, thats a 3' bucket for size reference
tomorrow ill put the grinder on the excavator and start grinding the slash, plan is to leave the stumps, kinda half ass grind the brush just to make it look a little better and call it good. the owner has no plans of using this area for anything, just clearing for the view.
tylermckee
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had to do a little dental work on the grinder, had two teeth that were shot. second picture shows a tooth with ~100 hours on it.
this is why we have an excavator mounted mulcher, skid steer would never be able to go the places i can take the excavator. this entire site was very steep, uneven and all rock with a tiny bit of dirt. need to plan your route because you cant push/pull yourself with the grinder on.
this is why we have an excavator mounted mulcher, skid steer would never be able to go the places i can take the excavator. this entire site was very steep, uneven and all rock with a tiny bit of dirt. need to plan your route because you cant push/pull yourself with the grinder on.
tylermckee
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little before and after shot, about 12 hours of grinding, brush was pretty thick in some areas, and i ground down a few of the medium sized stumps. you can mulch the brush up finer than what i did here but this is not the ideal ground for that. suprisingly i only trashed one tooth on this job, they hold up fairly well to rock. thats the log pile after taking one load out yesterday, pile on the left will be mostly firewood, figure we can get one more decent load of logs from the pile on the right.
nedly05
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Looks great Tyler! What brand grinder is that? How do you like the 115?
tylermckee
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Grinder is a fecon. Overall I Like the 115, its not the smoothest machine. In my opinion build quality is a bit low, and parts are very expensive. I like how quick it is, and it has decent power for its size. Obviously no tail swing is really nice. I dread having to work on it, but that's to be expected with a zero tail machine.
We picked it up really cheap a few years ago. A local guy bought it new he only put around 400 hours on it so it was damn near a new machine when we got it.
Landclearer
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Nice looking work with the mulcher. What a pain with all those rocks and rough terrain. Our Tigercat would be useless on a job like that. Man I hate changing the teeth on ours. I bought a 1 inch drive ratchet so I could put a 4 foot pipe on it. Do you have trouble with your teeth moving away from the backers. If I hit something hard like live oak, a few of them will have a gap behind the tooth.
tylermckee
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Areal shot was taken from the top of the rock in the first picture at this site, it's a good 35-30 feet above the parking area, probably 100' above where a lot of the clearing was. We are in the process of building the guys house on the adjoining lot. It was a fun one. Had to blast For the daylight Basement, had a 15' cut in rock. I'll see if I can find some pictures, it's a monster of a house.
tylermckee
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Yeah changing teeth is no fun, I've been using a 3/4" drive breaker bar and a cheater pipe. Use a 1/2" ratchet with 3/4" adapter to get them snug. Broke one of the cheap HF sockets the other day, time to get some nicer tools. I haven't noticed our teeth moving, sometimes when I hit a stump wrong it will stop the drum dead In its tracks but haven't noticed any movement.
Landclearer
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I have a few jobs coming up and I have to change teeth. I will try to take a picture of what I am talking about. We have 48 teeth on ours, how many on yours?
tylermckee
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It only has 18 teeth! I changed them by all a while back and just that took about 3 hours
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Mate, I used to have that problem a lot and the only fix I could come up with is when I put a new set of teeth on they get new bolts and nuts and tighten them to about 1000ftlb. Most of the cause of them coming loose is free wheeling the rotor backwards to clear a jam. An outfit over here has made a different tooth holder which stops the teeth moving altogether.
You've done a great job Tyler
PS sorry about hijacking the thread
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tylermckee
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Don't worry about hijacking, open discussion about this industry is what this place is for. How many hours are you guys getting from a set of teeth on average? This is only the second full set we have put on.
Doing some gabion basket retaining walls this week, they look neat but talk about a labor intensive slow process. They are mostly just a decorative feature at a custom home we are working on so they gotta look good. I'll get some pictures tomorrow.
Landclearer
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Thanks Tones. Makes sense on the teeth and bolts. We use new bolts every other change. I use a 1 inch ratchet and a pipe to tighten them. I have re tightened them once they moved from the backer and have had it happen again but I have also tightened them and have it be ok.
Landclearer
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I have gotten up to 200 hours on the double carbides and 100 on the chippers but you know as well as I do the more stuff you hit the worse it is. I think you have it worse than us, concrete and rock seem to do more harm than steel and you have plenty of rock.
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I can get 3-500 hrs on Fecon doubles depending on the ground conditions. At the moment I'm using an after market tooth which has one big single tile. They can handle working in granite country and can last up to 1500 hrs. The big problem is to buy more the minimum order is 300 and I won't live long enough to use them all.:Banghead
tylermckee
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couple different jobs here, first couple are just a driveway i prepped for concrete, had to pull some curb and sidewalk to make the driveway approach wider. third picture is just the side yard, i graded around the whole house and prepped a patio underneath a deck that didnt get done at backfill for some reason (i didnt backfill) did everything with the hyundai 55.
last two are getting started on some gabion basket walls just down the street from the other house. working under a deck again, but i lost the small machine so i had to cram the 140 in there to fill the patio, worked out alright.
last two are getting started on some gabion basket walls just down the street from the other house. working under a deck again, but i lost the small machine so i had to cram the 140 in there to fill the patio, worked out alright.
tylermckee
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here are some shots of the almost finished gabion walls, the first wall is 4.5' x 18', the terraced walls are 6', 9', and 12' all 3' high. this is the first time we have ever done these and, that represents 3 days of work for me and one other guy, had to hand stack the face rocks in each basket, front and back on some of them. Homeowner saw these online (im guesing pinterest)and had to have them. think they turned out pretty nice, will look pretty awesome once the house is finished, house has a lot of unconventional siding and is going to have a sort of industrial/commercial look .
got a picture of my tilt bucket too, this one is pretty narrow but the price was right
got a picture of my tilt bucket too, this one is pretty narrow but the price was right
