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    Have you gotten less safe or more safe over the years?

    Just today I heard of a guy around our area that had a car crushing business. he was doing an oil change on a car of his and while he was under it, one of the jack stands broke and killed him. We were just contacted today about purchasing some of his equipment. It was kind of an eye opener...
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    Do Not overtighten inverted flare fittings

    We had this same type of fitting on a new case 621 wheel loader we rented. Of course we didn't know it was this type of fitting when it started leaking, so we tightened it. Good thing it was in am akward spot, we couldn't get a lot of tourque on it. Case came out and replaced the fitting...
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    Building a New Shop

    Did anyone install an interceptor pit (sump pit) to collect water and other garbage on your floor? How big did you make it? Did you use grates or just drainage along your floor to the pit? Thank you for all the replys to this thread, we are making up the plans as you speak.
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    Building a New Shop

    i was looking at a few of them online tonight and i noticed that you need 22ft ceilings for a 16ft door. Is this right? seems like 6 extra feet is a lot for the roll up
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    Building a New Shop

    I am working in freezing climates with high humidity inside the shop. it often happens that your door freezes to the floor from equipment thawing out inside, or if equipment has to be washed. My concern with a flat slat door is that I will start having the door freeze up in the middle of the...
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    Building a New Shop

    What about door widths too 12', 14', 16'?
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    Building a New Shop

    we have a cx210 trackhoe as well as end dump boxes, the hight of the shop has been something that has caused a little division. I want minimum 18ft ceiling but would like 20'. My partner thinks I'm crazy and should only go 16' maybe 18'. I am waiting to see the costs to really push for my 20 ft
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    Building a New Shop

    What have you added or would like to add to your shop that has or would save you time and or money? include pictures
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    '92 John Deere 455G

    Has just under 9000hrs. Final drive on the right track just went. We were using it until last week. Bucket and teeth in good condition. Tracks, chains and sprockets are about 20%. $5000.00 cdn. FOB Saskatoon, Sk. Can.
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    Looking For a New Compact Track Loader

    Dig Deep; the thing is that he's right. I own an ASV RCV Posi Track and I can't charge enough to offset the repair costs. Just in Bearings and shafts in the tracks I spend a minimum of 4K every 800hrs. Not to mention the arms showing cracks from poor manufacturing (The company admitted it...
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    Compact Track Loader Track Life?

    Our ASV has the same tracks and we made about 800 hours before doing all the bearings and rollers. We are pretty tired of the repairs on our machine right now.
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    Deere SkidSteer Smackdown

    Good point MXZ. It could be just that I needed a couple of days to get used to it. It pushed well, though maybe a little underpowered. For the weight of the machine it could have a little larger engine. Very wide machine too, that only matters because of the type of trailer I haul it with. I...
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    Deere SkidSteer Smackdown

    Well last tuesday we used the CT332. I didn't realize how wide the machine was. The ASV RCV is 72" wide while the deere is 82" across the tracks with an 84" bucket. You can read the specs yourself on a comparison so I won't get into the specs. The machine pushed well, ran well and...
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    Deere SkidSteer Smackdown

    I have a ASV RCV and we routinely lift its max capacity or use its max pushing power. We have a grapple bucket for it and lift things like tree roots and concrete where you are at your tipping limit. Also if you are on any slope the higher your tipping limit the more you can load at a time on...
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    CAT C series Dust in Cab

    I know in a car occasionally when you are driving down a gravel road if you leave the air on it will keep the dust out. You may want to leave the air on all the time to try to keep the dust out.
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    Trade in time, What would you do?

    We Have and ASV RCV which is the same as the RC-100 although ours has the vertical lift and doesn't have the turbo on the perkins 85 horse engine. After 800 hours we replaced a number of rollers and all the bearings in the tracks. This was outragously expensive and kind of a surprise to us...
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    Tandem gravel pup

    I haven't ever heard of that. I'm in Saskatchewan. I will have to check what their doing with that. Seems like a great way for the trailer manufacturers to sell a lot of new trailers.
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    Gas Line explosion Kills two in Nipawin Sk

    having worked around these sites like many of of have, this really bothered me. I can understand any operator making a mistake of running into something. Temporarily having poor judgment and hitting a line or backing into something can happen. The kicker for me was this quote from the...
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    Gas Line explosion Kills two in Nipawin Sk

    http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080419/nipawin_blast_080419/20080419?hub=Canada There was more on it in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix. Seems the owner of the property didn't want the gas line disconnected and the SaskEnergy left a live riser on the property with 4 wooden...
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    Alternative Fuel or Electric Trucks

    We are looking at buying a new truck this year and we just had the fuel jump to 1.19 per litre (around 4.50/gal). We had a 30% jump in fuel cost from last fall. We are starting to feel the high oil prices here. I am interested in finding out if anyone has had any experience with any of the...
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