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    Help ID some machines in a photograph

    Hi all. These days I work as a railroad mechanic and havent been keeping up around here. My father is a railroad modeler by hobby and a equipment operator by trade. Used to be a operator myself. Anyhoo we are trying to figure out what the machines in this picture are...
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    1466 Koehring

    maybe so. i know for a fact that G.L. (stands for General Leasing... whitch they dont do anymore but the name remains) had the two macks when i was a kid i remember rideing around in the blue one whitch was a twin stick with a gullwing hood and a red one that was unishift with a fiberglass hood...
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    1466 Koehring

    G.L. contracting out of Medina MN had a big koehring back in the 90's. they bought it to replace a bucyrus erie super B and a link belt dragline for sewer work . my old man told me how they would move it with one R mack lowboy under each track and an operator in the cab to keep the boom from...
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    trouble with 327

    correction its a 325C not a 327
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    British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.

    does anyone know who is the country artist on those old skadill videos?
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    trouble with 327

    cat 327 runs hot/overheats whenever its more than about 75 degrees out and is gutless. blew the motor last year at under 5000 hours sent it back to dealership got charged 30,000 for the engine swap the AC dosent work now (even though its charged) and it still runs like a dog. i can only figure...
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    looking for advise

    the road is already there, the problem is that it is more of a cow path than a haul road
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    looking for advise

    starting in a few days i am going to be building an access road in north dakota, on site i have never seen before, with a D7, having never run a dozer before, by myself ie a one man site so i guess i just want some basics on what to NEVER DO on/with a dozer
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    The calls you'd rather not have gotten.

    railroad not construction engineer: hey dispatcher i think i got a problem dispatcher: oh yea what is it? engineer: well the second unit is on fire, but its still pulling
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    Highway log trucks.

    here is a good one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkpxsUIqcYs
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    volvo L-70 snowplow

    when i was 14 i was thrown in to one of these and told not to screw up. too bad the company has been selling these off the new L-90's they have been getting arnt as fast
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    no OSHA in romania

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP9ehXOHeMY the 5 gallon pail collecting the leaking hydraulic fluid is a nice touch
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    Old bottles and stuff you find?

    we did a structure at the site of an old landfill thats now a suburb, once we got about 4 feet down the ground was 50% glass made a great sound as it tinkled into the spoil, grabbed a couple of good bottles out of that job at lunch
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    Caterpiller excavator

    thats an old style elevating scraper its got a round disc (a spare next to the engine in this picture) that cuts the matirial out and then a conveyor system to shoot it out into trucks/dump carts
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    railroad crane

    update well it turns out that the last group of "gentlemen" who "worked" on this crane had to lower the boom to transport it (if you look at the pics the boom drum has only about 1 wrap left on it) and instead of putting some gas in the pony motor and priming the fuel system and fireing it up...
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    7.3 f350 satrting issue

    hell your both wrong they came standard with six stromberg 97's and a 6-71 blower
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    SHOW us your dump trucks 6,10,tri, and tractors

    first dumptruck i drove, onsite snow hauling, 6-71 screaming detroit backed by a mostly wasted clutch that dident fully release and fuller 8spd, heat controlls that consisted of a switch that was labeled "on" and "off" but worked good, widows that had duckt tape sealant but again the heat worked...
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    Why no B doubles in the US?

    not to mention that the roads were built on the cheap in the first place and things havent improved up here in pothole country there were a few roads this spring that were toataling mulitiple cars a day from hitting road craters this too is 100% poilitics no matter how you cut it you...
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    railroad crane

    finally a view of all the clutches and brakes as well as the swing looking forward and a view down through the house actualy showing the top of the car whitch its mounted onto
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    railroad crane

    the first shot is through a neat little window next to the operators position giving a view of all the clutches, visible here are the bevel gears and clutch of the boom hoist to the right of that is the clutch and brake for the tag line and to the right of that is a glimpse of the swing...
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