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    Gas Buddy good link to gas prices

    nice web site thank you:drinkup
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    Fuel Price By Location

    diesel $4.59-$4.84 northern indiana just looked gas $3.97- $3.99
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    Fuel Price By Location

    our county can't afford fuel for us to fix roads but we CAN BUILD A NEW JAIL and ask for 11 new officers to help run it !!!! the rest of us has to make sacrifices on our projects paving/sealing/bridges/mowing/needed equipment/snow plowing.....all with less employees and more roads ,added from...
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    Fuel Price By Location

    gas $3.99 not sure on road diesel think its $4.60 .. northern indiana
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    call before you dig!!!! needs help lol...

    locate marks on a 2'' gas line was 5' 8'' off from where gas line actually was !!! good thing we didn't hit it !! i called the locator back to site all he said was oops sorry about that!! i said next time maybe you should be the guy in the trench for me!! maybe he would do a better job with...
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    high speed dozer

    anyone have a pic of a dozer that looks like a payloader with rubber tracks? i guy i work with was telling me about one he saw somewhere he said it was called a high speed dozer guess im old school i'll keep to the standard lol call me crazy:D
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    Good way to flip an excavator

    :eek: well don't just give the excavator ''operator '' a hard time looks like the dozer ''operator'' must have been his twin brother!!!! lol
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    Equipment stuck.

    all i can say is holly ***** !!!! hope nobody was hurt !!!
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    Backhoe truck

    nice pics .... so thats where my rubber tire ew170 volvo excavator got its start..... looks like you had to watch your tail swing.....
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    caterpillar D5 problems

    is it trans oil temp ? or engine oil ? guessing its trans oil temp sounds like a bad torque converter we had that on a D9 cat and it was about 15 below zero out when the problem started... we was ripping 3ft of frost on ground to get dirt for cover on a landfill......
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    excavator transport vid

    yep i do that everyday with my ew170 volvo rubber tired excavator,it does have a few draw backs like flat tires...lol...and they sink like rocks in soft ground, but there is advantages also go from job 2 job without hauling it :D i think mine runs around 19-22 mph or something like that....its...
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    New Forum: Safety Competition!

    screw ups I work with a guy that can'' break an anvil '' as we say it, he sure makes the rest look really good..lol..... he makes them forget when someone makes small mistakes....lol
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    a must see for dozer operators!!!

    :eek: nice ride there :usa Think i just found me a new snow plow:woohoo
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    What do you carry with you?

    things in truck fuel,carheart bibs and coat,chain saw,2-way radio ,cell phone everything else is in toolboxes on excavator!!!! WHAT I DON"T HAVE CALL THE MACHANIC :D THATS HIS JOB...........lol:pointlaugh
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    Excavator Challenge

    nice job cris !!!! i like ur thumb better than the one on my machine by the way nice volvo brother:)
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    Open or closed

    open /closed window Well it depends on what im doing....if i'm working around phone /gas /electric lines /setting culverts sometimes it makes it easy to communicate with guys in the hole with it open ....if it's real hot or cold the ac/heater is going it's closed or dusty/muddy conditions it...
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    Menzi Walking Excavator - Best Video Ever!

    nice pics Brian !! that looks like a hand machine i think that would be nice on some of our bridge jobs where a smaller machine don't sink in mud as bad when we get down in the creek full of water ......wonder if you can put a cal 2500 breaker on one?
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    Cat 225LC Excavator

    thats good to know maybe the equipment is better than the truck engines:D
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    Thumb?

    hey nice job with that thumb , I always say work smarter NOT harder:drinkup
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    Tree Clearing Day

    we used this same thing on top of a landfill..... water ran to the tile, dirt holds water back,tile runs through dirt dam then tile runs to bottom of slop controls errosion:)
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