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    What do you think about this Dozer?

    Is there a connection here???
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    How to reduce abrasion about bucket teeth

    You "just heard" there were many suppliers from China supplying bucket teeth and now you're a manufacturer? You certainly are one to act fast, kudos... :)
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    Recommendation For A Crane To Load Logs On A Barge

    Monoloco, it seems your idea about using a crane to load the barge is on the right track assuming the logistics of getting the logs staged for the crane to handle them is on par with the throughput your crane can handle. What may be a good course of action is to scale back the load weight to...
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    Recommendation For A Crane To Load Logs On A Barge

    Impossible for me to answer that question. Find out the capacity of the offloading cranes on the ship first, (assuming they have them already). That could be your limiting factor because every crane on a ship or barge is limited to 50% of its' rated capacity by law. Once you know the max load...
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    Recommendation For A Crane To Load Logs On A Barge

    How long are the logs you want to bundle and lift? A cane like the ones used to load containers can handle the weight you're looking to lift and can handle 53' long containers with ease. However, they don't rotate so the logs will need be accessible from the back of the crane in order to lift...
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    Recommendation For A Crane To Load Logs On A Barge

    Perhaps a little more info would help. For instance, is your crane going to be dockside, or will it be on the barge? Also, the maximum height the crane needs to be to facilitate the loading, and do you want the cane to be mobile. From what you're describing so far, that will be one huge crane...
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    What do you think about this Dozer?

    Apparently not as big as Jimmy Johnson...
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    Excavator terms

    Try this search just for grins... http://www.google.com.au/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=Excavator+batters&oq=Excavator+batters&gs_l=hp.12...0.0.0.1563.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0...0.0...1c..15.psy-ab._CpAqzzqVbE&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.47380653,d.dmQ&fp=e3213a33a87803e8&biw=960&bih=522
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    MF50b 4-in-1 - Making a loader bucket bigger

    That close to 100kg of weight you added to your bucket in steel & welds will be 100kg less weight in dirt your machine can ultimately carry. Now, available 'volume' in the bucket, and the strength of the bucket to handle the weight that volume consists of (sawdust or wet dirt, as examples) is a...
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    MF50b 4-in-1 - Making a loader bucket bigger

    Scott, it's the dynamic loads that may cause you trouble such as hitting bumps or potholes with the bigger load while underway. Also, cycle fatigue is increased once you reach a point near the metals' yield point, and the metal can become strain hardened causing breakage. Remember, some of the...
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    Just Hanging Out

    Good point. If a guy like that was motivated by work as opposed to the adrenaline rush he'd be a handy fellow to have around.
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    Just Hanging Out

    Yea Scrub, they're bullet-proof...until they're not...
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    Just Hanging Out

    Thought some of you guys may want to keep this guy as far away from your rig as possible...:Banghead http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8de_1370113082 (NSFW music, btw :rolleyes: )
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    How do you bind the really big stuff?

    rollon, From the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Cargo Securement Rules... Performance Criteria FMCSA has adopted new performance requirements concerning deceleration in the forward direction, and acceleration in the rearward and lateral directions, that cargo securement...
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    How do you bind the really big stuff?

    The regs mention: 1. 0.8 g deceleration in the forward direction; 2. 0.5 g acceleration in the rearward direction; and 3. 0.5 g acceleration in a lateral direction. Is that what you're referring to?
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    How did it go starting your own business?

    Nate, unless things have drastically changed, you should be able to get a credit card by opening up an account where you put money in a CD like instrument and that money is used as collateral for a credit card. So for instance, you open up the account by depositing $500, as an example, and they...
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    Cylinder Breakage on home made thumb on Mitsu MM30B.

    It looks like the picture was taken during the mock up stage, and the cylinder appears to simply be hanging vertical. Perhaps another image posted of the finished set up would help...
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    Help me identifty this dozer

    I've used the site in the link below before for 3D projects although sometimes the artist' rendering leaves a wee bit to be desired. Also have used Google images to get orthogonal views I'll stitch together. The link I provided is a serp for wheel + dozer and has some you could check out...
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    Drifting a 777 CAT

    Slick conditions caused this 777 CAT machine to slide and eventually spin out. The driver claims to have throttled it mid slide to spin it out to avoid flipping, and the fog covered ditch. Also loaded with 76 tons. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cd7_1369773821 This really looks hairy... :eek:
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    Eye Trackers

    That is a really good point. More and more, technology just allows us to trade one form of monotony for another. As a side note, it's becoming clear that joystick jockeys are also subjected to uber-monotony as they remotely control machines from a desk. The cycle just continues albeit at higher...
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