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    Will You Be Here Tomorrow?

    Here is a very good safety video. It is one of the best I have seen in a long time. Will You Be Here Tomorrow? It shows some pretty interesting things that happen and how. Yes it is somewhat graphic. Sorry if I offend anyone or broke any posting rules...
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    Need your opinion. Machine’s or operator?

    Need your opinion. Machine’s or operator? I don’t know if it is just bad luck, operator abuse, or just a coincidence. We got a 350 FUCHS magnet crane at work that is our problem child as hydraulic leaks go. 2 different times about a year apart the seals went out on the swivel and was...
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    A little fresh paint.

    A little fresh paint. Well I got tired of looking at my counter weight being all scratched up and listening to everyone talk about scratched counter weights on here so I did a little work to mine. There was just enough of the letters left for me to follow and free hand paint the black to...
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    Another how not to unload a dozer video.

    Another how not to unload a dozer video. This has disaster written all over it from the start. Sorry if this has been posted before. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmPOQkr6i-0
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    Truckies scrap yard tour, 2008

    Truckies scrap yard tour, 2008 Well like the titles says the scrap yard tour. We will start off with the latest that we got in today, and I will post more pictures as I get more time and more equipment in. Bear in mind a lot of these pictures will bring tears to your eyes. This is the part...
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    Lorain.

    Old but still working. I don’t know the year, all I know is it is a Old but still working. I don’t know the year, all I know is it is a Lorain 500 A It runs every day at our scrap yard. Right now the primary job is to load prepared scrap. It has a 6 cylinder Detroit, and believe it or not...
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    Stupidity after work hours.

    Stupidity after work hours. Well I walked over to my machine this morning and looking at it as I get closer I notice something not right with the front window. I get closer and I found it to be shattered. I know it could not have been a rock thrown at it because of the front guard on it. I...
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    Old unknown International track loader.

    Old unknown International track loader. I have no idea what size or modle it is. I just received this Intentional track loader today, she runs but the fwd gear is out of it and the mechanic who brought her in said it would cost more in parts than what the machine is worth so they decided to...
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    Hydraulic question.

    Hydraulic question. At work we got a machine to be specific it is our problem child, it is a FUCHS 350 magnet crane. It has more hydraulic problems than you can shake a stick at. Fix one leak and get to more the next day and so on. Since we have had this machine in 3 rears we have...
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    Demo accident.

    Demo accident. Had to load up the Link Belt today and go rescue a Volvo that got it’s self and the operator in a pickle. The operator was down in the pit with the machine and was pulling on some old storage bins when all hell broke lose. He is lucky to be alive. Why he was in the pit with...
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    Lost my grand Father.

    Lost my grand Father.:( I just wanted to take a moment to let you all know I lost my Grand Father on Monday. He was 89 and lived right up to the last few hours of his life. It was a heart attack that took him and some other health issues that compounded from it. So all I can say is make...
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    No more coal washing.

    No more coal washing. Here are a few pictures of a coal washing plant we are demoing. The building was 120 ft tall and or 10 stories and 2 stories underground. I started on this job last Friday and this is what is left after a week. The building is all down and collapsed upon it’s...
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    Swallowing your pride and asking for help.

    Swallowing your pride and asking for help. Yes that is what I had to do yesterday. I had to put one of our excavators on a low boy yesterday and it was tough. The low boy is a 1968 Talbert and only about a foot of each track is sitting on the bed. I had a difficult time getting the machine...
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    Question for Low boy.

    Question for Low boy. Since the bridge collapse in Minnesota have you had a hard time getting permits to move loads? :beatsme I am having one hell of a time trying to get Pa D O T to issue a permit for us to move our one machine. Beings they did all these bridge inspections and lowered the...
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    Threatened what would you have done?

    Today I was at work and was threatened by a customer. I was un loading one of our flat beds that had old truck axels with rims on them when a customer backed his 1ton flat bed next to our flat bed I was unloading. I told him not to park there and un load and asked him to please move as he was...
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    Old dozer for wrenchbender and KoO.

    Old dozer for wrenchbender and KoO. I got this old International dozer in just this morning. From what I can make out on the tag it says it is a T 241 and I was told it had a cable operated blade. I should get the blade and arms in later this week. I have no idea what year this machine is. I...
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    D 7 blade for sale.

    D 7 blade for sale D 7 dozer blade for sale, Mfg by young. This blade is in good shape, just a crappy picture because it is laying in a roll off box and other box’s on top of it. I also have the arms. $ 6000 OBO
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    What is it? Red neck ingenuity????

    What is it? Red neck ingenuity???? :beatsme Red neck ingenuity is what I call it. Get R Done.:drinkup :cool2 Had a pile of slag to move today and the magnet crane was taking way to long to move it so I came up with this idea. I found a old hoe bucket that came in a load a few days a go...
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    Did some build up and hard facing.

    Did some build up and hard facing. This weekend me and buddy did some work on my shear at work. Had to do some build up and hard facing. On the 2 side views you can see where all the hex bolt holes are on the upper half. They were all egged out and you could not get the bolts out. We die...
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    Whatcha drinking?

    Whatcha drinking? Water, sports drinks, what? Water dose not always cut nor dose the Gatorade. Sometimes at the end of the day or when I get home it’s ;like I cant get enough water. So what are you all drinking and how do you cure this feeling.:drinkup :drinkup :drinkup :drinkup :drinkup...
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