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  1. 245dlc

    Retention pond liner installation?

    Hi I'm going to be working on a retention pond with a group of older guys that have spent most of their adult lives building roads, landfills, lagoons, ponds, ditches, canals etc. Generally speaking most water retention structures we build we have ample heavy gumbo clay to build a good liner...
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    Gehl RT175 tracked skid-steer or CTL?

    Hi I'm looking at buying my first machine and a have seen a number of these Gehl machines for sale some with not a lot of hours. I understand these are the first in house designed CTL's for Gehl/Mustang are there any issues with them that I should be concerned with? I think much of the work I'll...
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    International 3984?

    So my friend with all the old equipment and I were talking today and I asked him about a 3984 he has parked in his back '40 he said it had crashed through the lake ice and blew out the windows and lost the cab door. He rebuilt the engine and was going to put it to work but got a Komatsu PC200...
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    My photo collection

    I've got a hodge podge of photo's I've taken over the years and thought I'd share them with you guys some of them date to when I was a kid (38 now). I found this Koehring 866 back in about 2002 or 2003 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada when I was living and working there.
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    Friend's Equipment Fleet

    As I had promised in my thread 'some of my jobs' I wanted to show a friend's fleet of older iron. He's a bit of a legend in these parts as he's built many of the roads, lagoons, drainage ditches, and water retention structures. He is in his '70's and is still going but starting to slow down a...
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    Machine washing??

    Hi guys both our machines are quite dirty after a busy season of digging, ditching, and trenching. But our biggest problem is washing off that terrible black gunk on the boom and stick and pretty much everywhere else. We don't have our own shop yet with a steam type pressure washer are there any...
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    Some of my jobs...

    I haven't posted much on here for the last while. I've been operating heavy equipment for about 20 years now and bounced around Western Canada a bit in my earlier years. And in recent years had a stint in Southern Alberta which didn't work out well sadly. I'm working for a bit of a friend of...
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    50's vintage IHC TD-6

    Hi guys I'm likely buying a TD-6 in the next while with a home made dozer blade or it appears to be. I'm told its running but it's been a few moons since the last time it was. I'm buying it mostly as a restoration project, something I've been wanting to do for a while. I was wondering though...
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    Gradall with telestick attachment?

    I was wondering if anybody here has any experience with a tracked Gradall equipped with a 'telestick' attachment? Company I work we do a lot of drainage work like ditching, culverts, brush mulching etc. Once in a while we get a job cleaning the larger ditches in our area and normally the...
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    Newer Hyundai excavators?

    Hi guys we've got a small excavating company and the bulk of our work is utility installations and fine grade work like laser ditching and drainage related work. We also do some brush mulching with our Promac 36" brush cutter and our 52" Promac flail mulcher. We've got an '06 Hitachi ZX160LC...
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    2006 Hitachi ZX160LC pins and bushing for bucket linkage and stick.

    We are replacing the worn out pins and bushings for our 160 and was wondering if there are aftermarket suppliers that make a quality product that is a bit cheaper and possibly even better quality than OEM?
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    Snow Removal Contracts?

    A friend of mine that owns an excavating outfit (two excavators, tandem and trailer and attachments) are looking at getting some snow removal contracts for the upcoming winter season (hate thinking about it now when its been pretty nice out) partly so I can finance a skid-steer and to keep some...
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    Wet blade Herbicide treatment systems?

    We have an opportunity to bid on a tender for mowing power line right of ways. The method required for the job is called 'wet blading' where by a heavy duty type mower is mounted on one or both of our excavators. The only manufacturer I know of that builds these systems or I should say did build...
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    Wet blade herbicide application systems?

    Has anybody here used a 'Wet Blade' herbicide application system before? I have only found one manufacturer of this type of system and was wondering if anybody has any experience with it? We are currently looking at acquiring or designing our own system to bid on a power line maintenance...
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    Panolin biodegradable hydraulic oil?

    Just wondering if anybody here has any experience with Panolin Hydraulic Oil I might be getting in to the Spyder Excavator business and just wondering if anybody has any experience with this kind of oil? I've been told it's a life oil you only had to change hydraulic filters which seems unusual...
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    Spider Excavators?

    Just wondering if there is anybody here that lives on the North American continent that owns a Menzi-Muck, Kaiser Spider Excavator, or Euromach? I'm looking at getting in to that line of work myself and wouldn't mind some banter about the subject.
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    Basement excavation companies in Southern Alberta?

    Just wondering if there are any outfits on this forum in the basement excavation business in Central and Southern Alberta. My wife and I are moving to Alberta at some point this year I'll likely be going ahead of the pack to find us a home and all that jazz. I'm curious as to the standard...
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    Earthforce/Ingersoll Rand/ Bobcat compact tractor backhoes?

    Just wondering if anybody knows if this particular line of loader/backhoes is still being manufactured? A friend and I were talking about it late last night as he said he could of sworn he saw that line but under a different name yet again at Conexpo last year. I know when Ingersoll Rand sold...
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    This Year's Pictures.

    Thought I'd post some pictures from work I've been involved with this year. The winter pictures are from a utility company I was working for while it was so miserably cold last winter. The company is based in B.C. and didn't really have much of a clue how to work on the Prairie's we had numerous...
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    Bakken oil patch work north of the U.S. Border??

    Hi guys my company is looking to expand into the Southwestern and Southeastern corners of Manitoba and Saskatchewan we currently have three excavators in our fleet one Hitachi ZX160LC and two Kobelco SK210LC's. We have a brush mulcher, hoe pack, wrist bucket, hydraulic thumb, and a digging...
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