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    Which excavators are made by the same people??

    What about takehuchi??? and Yanmar..... i know there smaller sized machines but is takehuci by its self????
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    Apprenticeships.

    i took the union test but they said my results were 2 low? cuz it was like a college board test had nothing to do with operating but ok. if anyone knows anyone hiring around the pittsburg area let me know
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    Apprenticeships.

    anyone know any unions around the pa area?
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    Fire Department pictures

    my facebook aint working at the moment but heres our web site, out calls isnt updated to the moment but u get the idea www.cecil3fire.net
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    New Job

    im a lil slow care to explain. They cant be that hard to drive, if they would then wouldnt u have 2 have a license to drive them? i have yet to meet he guy all i know is his name is jim
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    New Job

    Allegheny Escavating
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    New Job

    im gona take it i figure its a step in the right direction to getting on a escavator, dozer ect. I worked at a place that sold escavators, skidsteers and baskhoes so i can just add this one to the list of thing i wana do. What should i ask pay wise? i never operatedthi before. i was think 15ish...
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    New Job

    I got a call from a place i put in a application in at asking if i was interested in driving the off road dump trucks, obcourse i said yes. My question is that how hard are they to drive?? Do u need a cdl for them?
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    Whatcha drinking?

    i carry a camelback with me at work, it seems to work pretty good
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    Chain hooks on buckets

    on the top lip of the bucket is where our driver chains it when he trainsports it from place to place. so im assuming thats where u should try
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    How many people in here are?

    i have been one for like a yr and a half. I love it, theres no other feeling in the world. Its such a rush running into a burning building, not knowing what your going into if theres ppl in there. i dont know about me but i get a satisfaction knowing i helped save someones life, when they needed...
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    How many people in here are?

    Firefighters? Either volunteer or have done/ still are firefighters? I'm just wondering because i am one my self. and if u are one where at if u dont mind me askin. I would make a poll but dont know how to. im from cecil vfd #3 station 10
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    Whatcha drinking?

    after work i go home crank up the A/C and drink water. And as soon as i start to get comfy all i hear is beep, beep, beep,beep,beep....................The fire pager goes off.
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    What will my truck haul?

    I have a 2001 ranger edge with a 4.o. I know i cant haul much if anything. But i can i haul like a small escavator or one of the walk behind skid steer's whatever there called. How much will my truck haul? Without breaking anything, like what is the rated capacity
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    Pa Joint Operating Engineer Program??

    i got a letter back saying i have to go to some kind of training by westmorland mall. For all of you that had to do it, whats it like? Is it hard what kind of questions do they ask u?
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    Takeuchi TB145

    i just got a job as a lot boy for a compoany that sells those in PA. They have a kind where the bottem of the "shaft" "boom" whatever u want to call it, can move like 120degrees to let u easily get into tight spaces like up along houses and such. I thow the one the guy showed me was going for...
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    Pa Joint Operating Engineer Program??

    Thats what i do, ill work there then i ll go to the country club i work at. SO it aint that bad.
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    Pa Joint Operating Engineer Program??

    while scrolling threw the yellow pages, i ran out of companys to call so i decided to look and see if there is any rental palces. So i called one and a long story short i got the job.:D I will be washing machines, greesing them, organising the yard, taking inventory. Misc stuff. I like it...
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    Pa Joint Operating Engineer Program??

    Nate So what u do now? How you get a job escavating? Where are u in pittsburgh, im about 20-30 minutes from pittsburgh. Have u herd of bridgeville? If i dont get accepted into the union what should i do? I tryed calling all the escavating businesses in the yellow pages and nobody is...
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    Pa Joint Operating Engineer Program??

    I am thats why im asking about it i tryed calling escavating companys, but no ones hiring
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