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Tour de Ditch
- Thread starter bobcat ron
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Eric
Senior Member
Dang, I like where you live, thats beautiful country.
bushcat
Well-Known Member
nice job!
N.CarolinaDozer
Senior Member
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- Sep 21, 2007
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- Location
- Granite Falls, NC (U.S.A.)
- Occupation
- Heavy Equipment Operator
Nice pics!:drinkup
bobcat ron
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Winter?!?!? You mean when us West Coasters have to start wearing long sleeved shirts and put our flip flops in the closet? I think that season passed us by 6 weeks ago.
bobcat ron
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cat d9
Well-Known Member
Ron,
Tell us why you start at the botton of the ditch and work up stream, the local contractor here started at the top of the ditch and worked down stream last fall, he quit before reaching the end and created a long narrow lake. I just want your thoughts on this as it seemed to me that starting at the bottom would be the right way.
Dell
Tell us why you start at the botton of the ditch and work up stream, the local contractor here started at the top of the ditch and worked down stream last fall, he quit before reaching the end and created a long narrow lake. I just want your thoughts on this as it seemed to me that starting at the bottom would be the right way.
Dell
d4c24a
Senior Member
bucket
thats a small width bucket for a big machine any reason for that
to start at the top or bottom :beatsme it all depends on whats in your ditch ,if you start at the bottom and work up in a ditch with lots of slop in it runs down the part you have cleaned,but then if its fairly firm with not much water its not a problem
thats a small width bucket for a big machine any reason for that
to start at the top or bottom :beatsme it all depends on whats in your ditch ,if you start at the bottom and work up in a ditch with lots of slop in it runs down the part you have cleaned,but then if its fairly firm with not much water its not a problem
i never did very well in geography, B.C. is in Canada right? if it is is your west coast weather comparable to the u.s. west coast weather? i always assumed all of canada had snowy winters. learn something everyday.
nedly05
Senior Member
X2!
bobcat ron
Banned
I was told that by the Fisheries jerks we get along the way, as you dig out the muck, the water gets dirty, but the water coming in from up stream is still clean, so it dilutes it "and makes the little fishies smile with glee", it's all personal preference, sometimes I need to see what's coming up along the tracks as I travel and other times I want the water to flush out the "floaters" as I dig, there's lots of variables that come into play.
I do have more pics coming up on a ditch I did right across from my house, that was a sweet job, I got to use my own washroom like a civilized ditch pig instead of some one's bushes.
bobcat ron
Banned
thats a small width bucket for a big machine any reason for that
to start at the top or bottom :beatsme it all depends on whats in your ditch ,if you start at the bottom and work up in a ditch with lots of slop in it runs down the part you have cleaned,but then if its fairly firm with not much water its not a problem
That 72" bucket is for loading trucks from the rear, any larger and you're banging the side boards if the truck is going into a curve when you are loading it. We do have a massive 10 foot bucket for the really big field ditches where the land owners want the material cast onto their land, that one is fun, if I snag a stump on one corner, the boom will snap off, literally.
bobcat ron
Banned
We get the same weather as Washington state and it's neighbours.
Google Earth it my under-edumakated friend.
bobcat ron
Banned
Here's yesterday's Tour, right in front of my house, 12 truck loads came out and it hasn't seen a Gradall in 20 years, lots of muck, dead leaves, garbage, gravel, sod and branches came out. I got a lot of compliments from my neighbours on this one, "finally this mess has been cleaned up" was one of them, others I can't type here for fear of being banned again.
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bobcat ron
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Rockbreaker
Senior Member
Great pics Ron:thumbsup
Maybe it is time for change of avatar pic:beatsme
Maybe it is time for change of avatar pic:beatsme