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    Demolition OF a Komatsu D75S

    Canniballs!!
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    Fiat Allis 645-B

    let me check around i know several people including my father that still have working 645bs my buddy is a fiat enthusiast with over 20 fiat machines mainly trackloaders though. he buys everything he can off of ebay fiat related ill see if he has an extra copy or i could just scan pages out...
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    digging over drive motors

    lol without knowing yer soil classifications then u dont know what yer benching or sloping requirements are. but dont worry OSHA will always let u know. for some of u guys who would like to know more u can buy National center for construction education and research (NCCER) modules on many...
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    cat killer

    i see komatsu retired the 41. dozer had lots of power but seemed kinda of behind in the times with a manua transmission. now they have the 51 and im assuming mostly because im to lazy to check thier website that it is either hydrostatic or has a torqe converter like the 61 nd 65. anybody...
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    Hydro Gooseneck VS. Mechanical Detach Gooseneck

    I Also prefer a NON ground bearing hydraulic gooseneck over mechanical. i give mechanical extra points for practicality but you wear the driver door out on yer truck getting in and out unlocking and relocking the thing. we bought a NGB 50 pitts and got rid of our GB 35 ton witzco. the ground...
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    digging over drive motors

    Ive never seen planetary failure from digging over the finals, although i dont recommend doint it because of the unneccesary weight and pressure u put on the finals. thats why your not suppose travel while carrying any additional weight other than the machine itself. and if u do its a good idea...
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    Catch points??

    We teach with hand levels constantly. in the advanced road building class we sometimes even have them build thier own banjos, to speed up thier grade checking. I always get nervous when the blade is coming and the student grade checker is still standing out in the middle of the road trying to...
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    Oil Field Jobs

    most of my buddies say they would go back if they didnt have thier familys now. only down side is after all the money they made they dont have much to show for it. i live in a nicer house and have nicer cars than they do and i they made 5 times the money i did. so i guess u have to play it...
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    How young is too young to run a 312?

    lol i bet he is already wondering when he will graduate out of gray market machines
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    Catch points??

    a catch point is were two slopes with diifferent rates of fall catch each other. say your existing ground is falling at a 25% (4:1) grade and your proposed vertical fill rate was say 15'. basicaly 15' above the edge of the road is proposed subgrade. and it will also fall chasing yer...
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    Catch points??

    Been working on formulas to find catch points. I came up with some formulas i thought i was happy with but my horizontal distance seemed to get farther off the more parrallel the slope were. example (-slope - -slope) take the difference and divide it into my vertical fill rate. i found an...
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    Oil Field Jobs

    I know a few guys that have worked on the north slope, they loved the money and wouldnt trade the experiance for anything. Its not a real family orientated job. but for a single man the skys the limit. most guys loved it and only came back south because it was time to grow up. they said they...
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    cat killer

    In Regards to the question about komatsu being Cat killer. we all know komatsu cloned cat so bad the same keys would fit each dozer but I have a little story about my father working for the union back in the late 80s in new jersey. he was running basically a prototype komatsu dozer and komatsu...
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    Grapple or Thumb

    For demo purposes def go with the grapple. the thumbs are nice but are so easy to abuse since your point of contact is so much farther out like at the end of the thumb were the bucket teeth meet. a grapple on the other hand picks up most things in the palm area instead of out on the finger tips...
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    Looking for a new start...

    Im an instructor at a school for heavy equipment and crane operators. We are Hiring Instructors for our oklahoma city and beaumont texas locations. plus we are opening schools in saudi arabia, and estonia, eastern Europe. The OKC and Beaumont jobs start out at $45k i believe, with full...
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    It hurts to say this.

    Having your priorities togethor in this industry will take a young man far if he plays his cards right, so many people in this industry are either eat up with chemical dependencies, or have 20 years in the industry and really only have one year of experiance 20 times added witht he fact that...
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