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    Looking for a smaller telehandler

    OK, I google imaged TL642. I see what you mean. It's a high-boom pivot with a 3-section boom that's fairly tall ("tall" as in the vertical thickness of the boom, not reach). Very similar to our Mustang from what I can tell. If you pick a typical pallet load a foot or two off the ground all...
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    Looking for a smaller telehandler

    I don't have any hands-on experience other than our Mustang and a few hours on that rental Genie. That's why I'm here asking for input. I'm just an operator at our facility. Decisions on equipment purchases are way over my pay grade, but I'm still gonna take a shot at persuading someone...
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    Looking for a smaller telehandler

    What's the model #? And what are you doing with it? From what I've gathered off the internet, rough sites and awkward loads may require the operator to run with the load up higher. With a high boom pivot, the operator would be able to see underneath the boom. For the most part our roads are...
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    Looking for a smaller telehandler

    Yeah, I printed out the info on the small Genie, the GTH-5519. We had a larger Genie this spring, brought in as a rental for a cooling tower overhaul. It was roughly the size of our Mustang. The one thing I liked about it over the Mustang was the fork tilt. On the Genie, you could feather...
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    Looking for a smaller telehandler

    Good day! Haven't been here in a while. I work at a thermo-electric generating facility. We have a couple of forklifts. A little 'traditional' Hyster and a medium-large Mustang 1155. The problem is the Mustang. It's a high boom pivot model, about 10,000 # max capacity. Most of our...
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    Pushing coal uphill - as the grade gets steeper...

    We're running D-10's and D-11's. Pushing coal uphill with coal blades. The Cat Performance Manual doesn't seem to provide any helpful graphs. Does anyone have any data on how much push we lose as the grade goes past 15%? How about 20%? We are talking percent here, not degrees. 50% = 45...
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    Front-to-back dozing?

    I've spent lots of time in the Tiger, so I know what you mean about stability and rollover. The Tiger is flat-out scary in situations that would be mildly unnerving or even uneventful in a track dozer. And with all the weight perched on four points instead of spread across the tracks, the...
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    Front-to-back dozing?

    Hi, kent - Something else to think about. This occurred to me the other day as I was thinking about some of the replies in this thread, but it kind of ties in with your comments about not starting right at the reclaim. Let's say the feeder is pulling 400 tons/hour. Wherever you start...
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    Front-to-back dozing?

    Hi, diggerop - Thanks for reminding us what century we work in. I didn't think of Google Earth. Stuck with dial-up at home; will go to library with laptop and see what I can come up with. I'd still like to hear from you about the "no rubber-tired dozers on coal pile" edict and why that is...
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    Front-to-back dozing?

    Those are some interesting links, watglen. TyeDozer, we have two different types of reclaims. They all do the same thing. You shove coal into the reclaim, and the reclaim meters the coal onto a belt. Three of our reclaims are just a metal funnel buried into the ground, with a very strong...
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    Front-to-back dozing?

    Hi, watglen, Dozerboy makes a correct assessment. There are just too many variables to come up with a plan that works all the time. Lay a piece of paper on your desktop. Turn it 90 deg. from the typical portrait position to landscape so that the long edges are top and bottom. That...
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    Question from a computer dummy

    I know this is an old post, but I have a suggestion. I've often tapped a key while my palm was brushing the touchpad, causing something to go haywire. One time I somehow locked the keyboard up so that it was using the Fn keys backwards or something like that and I had a heck of a time getting...
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    What Browsers?

    I'm using Firefox within Ubuntu. Firefox is more secure than any version of IE, and GNU/Linux is way more secure than Windows. But really, a large part of staying safe on the Internet is using software that's NOT being targeted by the bad people. Microsoft products have the biggest...
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    Front-to-back dozing?

    Thanks, DB. Your .jpg came across fine. I saved it to my Desktop. Looks like I can print it, and/or attach to an email then send it to an email account at work. Your drawing is pretty much what I expected. That's good for a couple of reasons. I wanted a visual confirmation that we were...
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    Front-to-back dozing?

    OK, here are a couple of sketches. I'm not sure how this forum handles attachments, but I scanned this as a .pdf. If anyone wants to, I'm pretty sure they can "save" the .pdf to their own PC, print it out, doodle on it, and submit as an attachment to a new post. Of course, the sketches are...
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    Front-to-back dozing?

    Found the old "13 dozers pushing" thread. That's pretty impressive. https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=1385
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    Front-to-back dozing?

    I gotta go back to this comment. Several years ago we were talking about some of the little things that operators can do to get the work done without breaking the equipment. The heavy equipment shop foreman specifically mentioned stepping on the decelerator for a second before changing...
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    Front-to-back dozing?

    10-4 on the "3:00 in the morning" comment. Depending on the clay content of the coal, rain, and how long it's been since the pile's been cut down, some of our reclaims can rathole pretty badly. We've had guys fall in, and spend half the shift trying to get them back out. When you hear...
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    Front-to-back dozing?

    I'd already found the "buyerzone" link but not the Komatsu link. I'm really enjoying this feedback. Iit's great to hear from different people, and funny how sometimes it's the same old problems no matter where you go - operators who aren't gonna try something different no matter what...
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    Front-to-back dozing?

    We're on dial-up at home, but I can take the laptop down to the library if someone adds links to video clips.
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