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  1. Loaderman380

    How do you transport your 45-50 size mini

    The 26,001 rule applies to straight trucks. If your trailer is 10,000lbs or more you need a CDL. These regs. are supposed to be federal, meaning the same in every state. There are of course exceptions to these rules for farmers and a few others. See the attached from the Federal Motor...
  2. Loaderman380

    Your first piece of equipment owned or operated was?

    First I ever ran was a CAT 980B in the late 70's
  3. Loaderman380

    Loader control question?? which is better?

    It's all a matter of personal preference. I have run them all, from the 2ft. long levers, the pilot valve, eh, and single lever. I could make any of them do what I needed to. However I do prefer the 2 stick controls, maybe because that's what I started on.
  4. Loaderman380

    Nail to the head, literally.

    Iron Horse, You are correct about the safety device on most nail guns, howevever it is possible to press the gun against the edge of a board and have the nail miss the board and go flying. I know from experience. I was working as a carpenter for a while when heav equip. work wa slow and nailed...
  5. Loaderman380

    Plowing hurts

    BeforeI left good old New Jersey I did a lot of plowing in Port Newark/ Port Elizabeth seaports. Both areas have railroad tracks all through them. We would always try to remember where they were but with so many it was hard. We used loaders to do the work Cat 980 and Cat 988's, it didn't matter...
  6. Loaderman380

    Menzi Muck Photos

    Nice pics. Looks like real interesting work.
  7. Loaderman380

    Large Drainage Pipe

    Your estimate on the drainage sounds pretty close. Our crews can do aprox. that footage in a 10 hr. day, 8' to 12' cut. The water seems a little low. Our crews do typicaly 600 to 800 ft. per day, however we are only going 4 ft. of cover in easy digging. Also it depends greatly on how many...
  8. Loaderman380

    Merry Christmas to all

    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all! May everyone have a profitable New Year in these tough times.
  9. Loaderman380

    Tree Species?

    The most common trees around here are the yellow pine. From what I am told most of these were planted as tree farms for future harvest. Smaller ones are used in paper mills, larger are cut for lumber. Also there are quite a few native oaks. Not like the ones up north, these are called "live...
  10. Loaderman380

    Pucker Factor

    No need to worry about something as stupid as that here. The soil would never support the machine.
  11. Loaderman380

    Accugrade on Cat Equip.

    We have GPS on most of our dozers. From the D3G to the D5N's and all of the operators love it. The only problem they talk about is getting bored just running back and forth while the GPS takes care of the grade for them.
  12. Loaderman380

    Demo accident.

    That is one lucky guy.
  13. Loaderman380

    New Forum: Safety Competition!

    Along those same lines Slayer, back when I was first getting into the business I was working for a company that did stevedoing (loading and unloadng ships). We were working on aquiring enough material to make up a shipload (35k tons). The object of this game was to get the material dry and keep...
  14. Loaderman380

    Merry Christmas to all

    A very Merry Christmas and a Happy and profitable New Year to All:)
  15. Loaderman380

    Hi Speed Loader.

    Got to see if my company will order me one of those.
  16. Loaderman380

    Preventing Theft

    The guy got nothing less than he deserved!
  17. Loaderman380

    more pics of equipment stuck!

    No he was asked to leave after we worked on getting the machine out fro prox. 24 hours with no luck. The machine was eventually freed, but it took almost a month. Had to dig thepond down around it to get the ground dry and hard enough to move it. The machine was cleaned up and sent to the...
  18. Loaderman380

    more pics of equipment stuck!

    Here are a couple more, same machine a few days later. Machine is a Komatsu PC-400. The operator was working on the begining of a large retention pond when the rim ditch gave way. He decided to walk down to the bottom of the pond to fix the rim ditch because he could not reach it from the top.
  19. Loaderman380

    more pics of equipment stuck!

    Here are a couple of pics. from the site I'm working on. This was just plain old operator error.
  20. Loaderman380

    How do you have your truck GVW registered?

    Duke, You hit the nail right on the head. You need to keep the truck within the manufacter's GCVWR (gross combined vehicle weight rating). The DOT guys arent stupid and will know if you are registered for more than the GCVWR. You also make a good point about the CDL requirement for combination...
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