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  1. CascadeScaper

    Any Tower hands out there?

    Any tower hands floating around on here? Took a dispatch out of the hall almost 4 months ago as a bellman for a tower crane outfit here in Seattle, for those of you locals I'm sure you can take a stab at who it is. Anyone run tower that prefers it to any other crane? I've worked around...
  2. CascadeScaper

    Temporary installation of slope meters

    Hey everyone, looking for suggestions on temporary installation of slope meter in a dozer. I hate to "cheat", but I'm not a seasoned dozer hand and they sure make things a little easier if you're going to rough in a slope before it gets staked. I think eventually I'll develop a feel for the...
  3. CascadeScaper

    Takeuchi TB016

    Hey everyone. Been absent from here for quite some time, life is busy these days. Buying a house and looking at buying a mini to tinker around with and "rearrange" the yard. Don't really need much of a machine so I'm looking at TB016's. The question I have is parts availability as I've read the...
  4. CascadeScaper

    My winter gig

    So I've been absent for here for a while due to my winter job. I'm living away from home and internet up until a couple days ago wasn't attainable. Now I'm all set as far as that goes. I managed to get hired to run a snowcat at a local ski area here in WA for the season. It's been a blast thus...
  5. CascadeScaper

    Laid off

    Well guys I'm done for the year, back to doing something else. Thought I had work until about December, was told that I would be sticking around to help grade check for the footings that my crew is digging on a somewhat big job I've been on. We were going to run 2 hoes, 2 grade checkers, a...
  6. CascadeScaper

    GPS anyone?

    I know a few guys on here use GPS. I got my first good run using a rover today. What an awesome tool! Some of our excavators and dozers are equipped with GPS, but we have a dedicated grade engineer on the job who runs around with a rover. Today he put me in charge of setting hubs for a road, the...
  7. CascadeScaper

    First time on blade

    What a blast! Last week was my last week of 8 weeks of apprenticeship training before we get shipped out to work. We have 3 blades at the grounds, a Deere 772CH, an older B series Deere, and a Cat 140G. I had the chance to run the 140G for almost 3 hours, what a riot that was. The amount of...
  8. CascadeScaper

    Hoepac question

    Hey everyone. I got a quick question for a job that my dad is doing. Let me preface it by saying that I've used a hoepac quite a bit, but not quite to this magnitude. He's building an engineered wall and the specs call for 95% on the backfill material, which is just fill dirt excavated to run...
  9. CascadeScaper

    Final word

    Just heard back from my training coordinator for my union, I made it into the apprenticeship. I thought I was accepted if I had made it out to the grounds 3 weeks ago for safety and orientation week, but they had one more cut to make. I was ranked #2 out of 100 people who made it that far and...
  10. CascadeScaper

    decelerator question

    Quick question for you seasoned dozer hands. I spent last week at the training grounds doing safety and orientation week. I spent one day on dozers and we were instructed to decelerate completely before changing directions, then throttling back up once the change of direction has been made. We...
  11. CascadeScaper

    Keys

    Hey everyone. I was prompted by Eric's post in another sub-forum about keys. I'm eventually going to be a union operator and I'd like to be able to have every possible key that I would ever need to move any piece. I know Cat, Deere, Bobcat are universal through the newer models, but what about...
  12. CascadeScaper

    Union testing tomorrow

    Well, here it is, 9:30 PM Sunday night, headed to the union hall tomorrow for testing and interview for the apprenticeship program. Let ya'll know how things go! Sweating bullets right now!
  13. CascadeScaper

    Going union

    Got a letter in the mail yesterday from the union, apparently they've found me to be a decent candidate for their apprenticeship program. I'm not out of the woods quite yet, have to go in and take their math and reading test, which I'm told is high school level so I should be fine with that. I...
  14. CascadeScaper

    Driving cars to work

    Alright, quick question here guys. Who drives a car to the site? I know ideally a truck would be best, but with gas prices the way they are and the likelihood of me having to drive 60-70 miles a day next spring to the jobsite makes owning a truck, even a small truck, look like it will be...
  15. CascadeScaper

    Parts

    A buddy of mine, who I worked for earlier this summer, is looking at a couple excavators that can be had for cheap but need work. One is a Komatsu PC150-3, I think he said it can be had for about $4K, but it needs a new final drive I believe. The other is a '94 Hitachi EX200, I assume that's a...
  16. CascadeScaper

    Excavator rollover

    My dad called me yesterday to inform me that a guy I knew as a kid in my hometown was running a 312 on Friday of last week on some steep ground and rolled it over backwards resulting in his death. Really sucks as I've known the guy for a while, my little sister is friends with his daughter as...
  17. CascadeScaper

    Few quick question for you union guys

    I think I've finally decided what my "plan" for the next few years of my life. I'm currently in college, going to finish up my AA and get started back into excavation. I realize that a 4 year degree would be my best bet, but I just don't like school that much and I probably wouldn't make it...
  18. CascadeScaper

    Water main break

    Saw this on TV a few days ago and thought I'd post a link. Hard to say who was at fault, sounds like they're not sure if it was marked or not, but the machine, a 320CLU, was running a breaker. The video footage was wild, water 2-3 feet deep running down the streets and cars just deciding to...
  19. CascadeScaper

    Looking for job in Seattle, WA area

    Title says all, looking for a job in the Seattle area preferably running iron but will run pine handles for a while to work my way up if need be. Need to get out of restaurant job, I hate it. Currently located in Lynnwood.
  20. CascadeScaper

    Water tanker trailer

    Anybody used one? A large contractor out here uses one even though they have like 5 or 6 4,000 gallon water trucks. They use it on their smaller jobs and tow it behind a 1 ton truck. This one is a double axle frame maybe 12 feet long with about a 300-400 gallon poly tank. I haven't gotten a good...
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