• Thank you for visiting HeavyEquipmentForums.com! Our objective is to provide industry professionals a place to gather to exchange questions, answers and ideas. We welcome you to register using the "Register" icon at the top of the page. We'd appreciate any help you can offer in spreading the word of our new site. The more members that join, the bigger resource for all to enjoy. Thank you!

Search results

  1. J

    Kalifornia

    In another thread, o-i-h said; "...Last winter when we took a gander to Southern Caifornia we got stopped at the Califipornia border. In addition to asking if we had any fruits and nuts on board they also asked if we were carrying winter air into California in our tires. After sheepeshly...
  2. J

    Underwater track hoe

    I'm sorry for posting another oddity, don't think it's been posted before... What appears to be a excavator working undersea, powered from the surface. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJvRrOAkme0
  3. J

    This is the track hoe that I want!

    A thread about 988 cargo can handlers linked to Military-Today. I browsed there and found this; http://www.military-today.com/engineering/kodiak.htm
  4. J

    I have a question for you cold weather people.

    I have a question for any one in the northern plains, Canada or Alaska; What specific brands of electric cord and air hose stays flexible in the cold. I've heard "I had these electrical extension cords, when I was in Alaska, that were soft in the coldest temperatures..." *but* no one tells me...
  5. J

    Hydraulic coupler question.

    I have a question about the flat-faced hydraulic couplers. When one or the other side of the hydraulic hose/circuit is pressurized, how do you "make" the coupling come together. The older style couplers with the *** in the center are easy; smack the *** against something or smack it with...
  6. J

    3116 MUI hard start

    I have a question about a Cat 3116 in a wheel loader. If the engine has been run within a few days, it starts instantly from cold or warm. If it has sat for more than a few days, it takes 5 to 10 seconds to start; grey smoke and a few hits and then a few hits more and so on until it runs on six...
  7. J

    Question about low hour machines.

    Looking at machines for sale, there are a few with very low operating hours compared to the age of the machine; a hundred or fewer operating hours per year of machine age. It's very attractive to see a machine with only a little obvious wear. So my question is; are there any common problems...
  8. J

    The low-bidder; or "We Don't Need No Stinkin' Track Pads..."

    A low bidder got a foundation job near near here. The job-site is a f***ed-up mess... But that's not the point of this post; the point of this post is - Who'd have thought that you need pads on the track chains of an excavator? That's the way that they ran the machine...
  9. J

    100 year old 100 ton steam rail crane

    (Is steam train stuff OK on Heavy Equipment Forum? It's a crane!) Last month, I went out to Ely Nevada to the Northern Nevada Railway, to see one of the live steam weekends. They had out their more-than 100 year old, 100 ton, wrecking crane. It was built by Industrial Works of Bay City...
Top