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Demolition, clearing and grading

JNB

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Looks good LC. Always enjoy your updates and pics.

The green beast looks to be earning its keep. I saw one for sale on the way to an estimate the other day and thought...Man those are cool...If I only had a use for one. :D
 
CM1995

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LC is that a AM General or a BMY dump? How is it doing performance, maintenance wise?

I'd like one for the same uses ya'll have, moving material on site. Can't justify the expense of an artic dump, cheaper to rent if you need that production.

The 5 ton cargo trucks go cheaper than the dumps but I don't know if they have the PTO provision on the transmission. It wouldn't be hard to find a used OX dump body and put it on a cargo truck if one could make the PTO work.

The sweat season is coming, ya'll installed a Red Dot in the truck yet?:D

Nice grade work on the trails.:notworthy
 
Landclearer

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Thanks JNB and CM.

Ours is a BMY. For some reason the AM Generals go for less money. We are the same as you can't justify the expense of an artic truck either. I actually think it will go in worse places than an artic since it is so much lighter and it sure uses a heck of a lot less fuel.

The only thing we have done is change the dump lever. The cable broke and we made a new lever for it.

As for the pto, we discussed it with a truck upfit company to put one on our cargo truck and he said there would be no problem as it is an Allison transmission. No AC yet, it really is not that bad to be honest. We ran it in the hottest part of the summer and it was not bad at all.
 
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Did a bunch of demo this week. First job was a house. Next job was a sailboat. It was up on the beach in Dec. and they got approval to remove it. Had to carry it about a mile or so close to the beach access where we wrecked it and loaded it into the loader bucket. Would have been much easier if we could have gotten a truck to it.

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Now that's a demo job you don't see very often - a sailboat on the beach. Awesome.
 
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So was the sailboat clean up for the city or private owner?
 
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The town got us to do the cleanup. The guy who owned it was from the Netherlands and said he didn't have any money to get it so the town got stuck with the bill.
 
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Landclearer said:
The town got us to do the cleanup. The guy who owned it was from the Netherlands and said he didn't have any money to get it so the town got stuck with the bill.
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I see, so in other words the guy said "sue me" and what could the city do other than foot the bill to clean it up. Was it docked locally?
 
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The guy actually abandoned ship and was picked up by a Norwegian cruise ship in the Bahamas and it floated around for a couple months and yes the guy was like whatever it's your problem.
 
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Landclearer said:
The guy actually abandoned ship and was picked up by a Norwegian cruise ship in the Bahamas and it floated around for a couple months and yes the guy was like whatever it's your problem.
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The back story is as interesting as the demo'ing a boat on the beach. Cool stuff LC.
 
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Hey CM, if you go the The Post and Courier which is the news paper for Charleston, on Sat morning there was a whole article about it. You should be able to find it, I did!
 
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A Couple pics form this week. Finished up the house demo. It turned out pretty good. It was a real pain though, the house was built in the 50s and apparently they had some really bad mortar back then. I do not think two bricks stayed together on the whole job and loose bricks and dry beach sand are no fun:mad:

In the one picture you will see what we affectionately called the sea mine:D

The last picture is of the pool hose job we are doing. They are ready for the parking lot and we have gotten started. It would have been nice if they had put the pool backwash I before the decks were built. Most of it was dug by hand.

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