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Junkyard's work thread.....maybe haha
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ETER
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Remember to use what, why?
Regards Bob
Regards Bob
Junkyard
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Normal week. Trucking and wrenching. I found another kelly swivel pin about to fall out. Maybe the same feller worked on this one as the last one I discovered.
Funny thing today. I delivered a 3100 to a bridge job in Depew. While I'm taking chains off this black Ford pickup honks and there are people hollering, waving and more less making asses of themselves. I'm thinking wtf is about to go down here......
Turns out it's an old customer of mine and her daughter. Hadn't seen them in close to ten years. Small world!!!
Funny thing today. I delivered a 3100 to a bridge job in Depew. While I'm taking chains off this black Ford pickup honks and there are people hollering, waving and more less making asses of themselves. I'm thinking wtf is about to go down here......
Turns out it's an old customer of mine and her daughter. Hadn't seen them in close to ten years. Small world!!!
Truck Shop
Senior Member
And here I thought you were in heavy trucking and equipment repair business. LOL.
Truck Shop
Junkyard
Senior Member
That's funny right there. I don't care who you are! My boys are wondering why I'm laughing so hard I'm about to cry!!!!
Junkyard
Senior Member
Scored some more manuals today as well as some tools from the local VFD fire chief. His dad was a heavy equipment mechanic and he’s finally cleaning things up to sell the place.
kshansen
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Any chance there is a service manual for an old 966 in there there's a guy on here who needs one.
Looks like a good assortment of stuff!
Looks like a good assortment of stuff!
Junkyard
Senior Member
I haven’t sorted through all of it yet. I do have quite a few others. I’ll sort through them and see what I have.
crane operator
Senior Member
Ahh- I see a swench in there. I've always wondered if they really work on a real stubborn bolt. I think the military uses them for track changes out in the field, I've only seen them on military surplus sales.
DMiller
Senior Member
DAYUM!!
Junkyard
Senior Member
I’ve been busy, built some shelves and sorted the manuals out. Dumped a good quart of dirt and crap out of them as I went. Also found a cool poster 
There’s all kinds of stuff. Mostly pipeline related from the late 50’s to mid 80’s. Lots of Cat, some Case, Deere, Bucyrus, Vermeer, Hyster, Carco, Allis, International etc. Awesome stuff!
There’s all kinds of stuff. Mostly pipeline related from the late 50’s to mid 80’s. Lots of Cat, some Case, Deere, Bucyrus, Vermeer, Hyster, Carco, Allis, International etc. Awesome stuff!
Birken Vogt
Charter Member
What is in the MQ and Woodward books?
Junkyard
Senior Member
Either generators or concrete trowels etc. They weren’t in the stuff I got Saturday I just moved them from the floor to the shelf lol. I’ll look closer at what they are.
walkerv
Senior Member
That was a nice score junkyard
crane operator
Senior Member
Stop organizing, you make me feel bad.
Good to see the vermeer manual. I went to high school in Pella, Iowa. That's where the factory is, my grandma on my dad's side was a classmate of Gary Vermeer, that started it all. He was a go getter of a old farmer that made a lot of different equipment. I actually did some work for him on his farms in my youth. My uncle worked there for years in the parts department.
In a interesting tid bit, my mother's step dad, was Harry Ver Ploeg- who helped originally design the stump grinder. He and his brother (alonzo) and Gary are all listed on the patent.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2912022
Good to see the vermeer manual. I went to high school in Pella, Iowa. That's where the factory is, my grandma on my dad's side was a classmate of Gary Vermeer, that started it all. He was a go getter of a old farmer that made a lot of different equipment. I actually did some work for him on his farms in my youth. My uncle worked there for years in the parts department.
In a interesting tid bit, my mother's step dad, was Harry Ver Ploeg- who helped originally design the stump grinder. He and his brother (alonzo) and Gary are all listed on the patent.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2912022
Junkyard
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Junkyard
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That’s cool. One of my old bosses helped Ditch Witch test their first setup many years ago. Stuff sure has evolved!
Junkyard
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Trowels, screeds and other concrete stuff. A few sections related to the power plant of each machine then one for light towers and another for generators.
Junkyard
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Started building myself a new mailbox. Went scrap dumpster diving at work today. #18 anchor bolt for a post. 22” casing drop for the box.
RBMcCloskey
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They Work very well