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AzIron

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Nah........ bar through the lifting eye and a guy on each end of it. Piece of cake.. o_Oo_O
It makes you wonder. Currently Esco want our GET requirements broken out by Quarter for next year 2021 by the end of August (last Sunday in other words) at the latest so that they can schedule it into production. They don't keep stock any more.

Esco being the world leader in GET for that size equipment and they make only to order quantitys that seems like a bean counter solution to an imaginary problem
 

John C.

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Actually, I don't blame them for the just in time type delivery. What they had issues with in the past was thousands of tons of stock sitting on pallets in an open yard down in Portland, Oregon. That puts you in cash flow danger and encourages corporate raiders to swoop in and take you over. Last time I was by there, the yard was nearly empty.
 

Nige

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Actually, I don't blame them for the just in time type delivery. What they had issues with in the past was thousands of tons of stock sitting on pallets in an open yard down in Portland, Oregon.
The same story I heard from a couple of Esco reps was that stockpile was the result of the ego of one man in Sales. Suffice it to say that he no longer works for Esco.
 

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The same in another brand of equipment-Freightliner Surplus. Freightliner has three main buyers that buy assembly line, shipping damaged, or fabrication over runs. To keep them cleaned out.
The nearest, biggest and first inline buyer is in Hermiston Or. I can buy a new MT-39 starter for 100.00, Rear brake rotors to me 100.00. Fuel tanks, steps, hoods, doors, bumpers,
what ever. They buy van loads of the stuff.

https://hagermanparts.com/truck-parts
 

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043.JPG Not to hi-jack
In this photo above where it looks like a wall of parts-it is full of bins of parts that run all the way to the right and to the buildings and the buildings are full of surplus parts.
Plus at the time I took this photo there were two van loads that just came in that needed to be sorted. Stuff everywhere. Weller/Jasper buy's every core rear drive or
transmission that they are willing to let go. Plus what is shipped out to Vander Haag's. A huge clearing house.
 

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Stupid question . The machine is new but why do the rear tires look smaller and worn?
It could have a lot to do with the perspective from which the photo was taken. The rear tyres are actually brand-new. The front wheels (also equipped with new tyres) look bigger because of the chains. I would have put worn tyres on the front to even up the difference a bit but there were none available at the time they were needed. Even so the difference in sizes between front and rear still falls within guidelines.
 

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In case anone asks, the procedure to mount the upper frame on the tracks is shown below. The sketches are from the assembly procedure because I didn't get chance to take any photos.
Lift the upper frame wwith 2 cranes and move to the rear over the top of one track and fire the bolts in. Then block the front of the carbody high enough to be able to slide the 2nd track iframe nto place. We used two cranes, one on each end of the track frame, to avoid possible sling contact with the cab. Install hardware and torque.

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Nige

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Nige... The bolts holding the carbody to the tracks. The white marks show torque turn to tighten or tightened to final torque?
Nothing more complicated than a straight 2950 ft.lbs. on the Hytorc. The paint marks are what we put on every bolt, no matter how small or how large, once it's been tightened to spec. When the final walkaround is done in theory it should be easy to spot anything that hasn't been tightened because it won't have a mark on it.

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Nige

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Tires don't have many voids in those sizes, see Nige's previous photos.
Quite right. Here is the illustration from the Michelin catalogue showing the tread pattern. You don't need an aggressive tread on a machine like this, the 250 tons weight of the loader keeps the rubber firmly in contact with the ground. New tread depth is only 4.5".

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DMiller

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We do not have appropriate Tonnage to footprint, these machines are bit more secure in contact points with four as opposed to our two. Have seen a few do the side slip on slick!! Lime dust in the old quarries was just Snot Slick when really wet!!


 

John C.

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Been there done that with 773B models and the first traction controls that I ever worked on. Our roads were steeper, the corners were a lot sharper and the driver's treated the trucks like four wheelers on a dirt racing track. The material was glacial till and this is western Washington State with the associated amount of wet. You would see trucks sliding broad side most of the way into the pit and coming to a stop under the wheel loader buckets without making a 3 point. Tire costs were immense.
 
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