It would be a lot more fun if it wasn't f**lking raining.........!!God that looks like fun!
Nige, I've lived my entire life in Oregon! I wouldn't know how to work if I wasn't soaking wet, LMAO!It would be a lot more fun if it wasn't f**lking raining.........!!
The body in the photo above was the previous one to arrive. However the main parts of the body that they offloaded yesterday are all pretty much lined up and ought to be ready to start welding on night shift tonight. That one wil go on the chassis that arrived yesterday. The one that is already completed will go on the first of two chassis that are arriving the middle of next week. If the welders put their mind to it they can finish assemble a body in 5 daysWelders wasted no time zippering the bed together!!
Never seize seems to jump from one part to another so that you can enjoy it more.
Did some work over the years and found Carbon Black not much fun either. Starts as white powder, turns brown just before it turns black and is about permanent bonded to your skin. Goes through your clothes, like a fart in reverse. You throw away all your clothes and I have seen guys throw away tools that were covered with Carbon Black.
Big main control valves. Two of the four swing transmissions are underneath that rat's nest of piping. The other two seem accessible now but won't be once the boom is installed.
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The operation was established long before the current Cat line of mining shovels came into being. Let’s face it the 5230 wasn’t exactly a runaway success. The first two EX3600s arrived 10 years ago so it made sense to stick with them. They’re actually a pretty good machine in my experience. The operation would have also gone Hitachi for the 45-ton machines as well but the GM vetoed it on the basis of a bad experience in his previous assignment. Having looked at the 345GC up close I think that was a mistake. It’s more like a construction machine and not really the machine that a 24/7 operation needs. For example you can’t even get factory-fitted autolube on it. To me it looks like a lightweight POS. 3 tons lighter than the model it replaced and with a C9.3 instead of a C13. WTF..?So it appears it’s a Cat dominated mine site why the Hitachi EX3600 and not a Cat 6040 or whichever model is the closest equivalent?
It’s being done with exactly the same stuff (Senson) as we assemble it.Nige: You once posted your prescription for long term water proof electrical connections. As I remember it used some Aussie stuff not available in the US. Looking at the maze of soon to be inaccessible pipe & wires ... How are you handling the factory connections on the Hitachi ?
For scale the two pins in the lower left corner are 12” diameter.I had a scale issue with this picture, until I saw the guy standing in the back past the piping. Its all a little bigger than it looked at first.
Still four more machines to arrive, but two of them are 45-ton excavators so they don't take much work. The excavators are already sitting in the port, the ship that is bringing the last two mining trucks arrives in port and offloads today.Thanks for the pictures and explaining them, Nige. Seems like you have a massive amount to assemble before the holidays!