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    345CL buckets on 345BL

    I have a both a 345cl and a 345bl that I would like to be able to interchange buckets with. The quick coupler on the BL is to small to accept the larger pin on the cl buckets. My 345cl doesnt have a coupler so we rarely change buckets on it. Any ideas that dont cost alot of money to get...
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    Making crushed stone

    I am experimenting with a jaw crusher and screener setup. Right now I have my jaw closed down to 4" and a read screen all with 1" screens and I am making a nice gravel product with lots of oversize rip rap. I want to get a 3 deck screen and make crusher run and 3/4" or 1.5" crushed stone...
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    Peat Road Excavation

    I am digging out a new roadway 400x50x7 to remove peat and replace with structural gravel. Anyone have any ideas how to dry the peat out with limited room in the winter/spring? It will suck to load and haul mud. Last roadway we did we put into a stockpile and it took over a year for it to dry...
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    L120C reverse not working

    I borrowed a loader from a friend today to move some snow. Its an older L120C. Anyway The reverse went out after driving it home. I did use reverse once or twice prior to driving it home and it worked. There sounds like a shaft is spining but the wheels aren't moving. Kinda like the tranny...
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    Peat

    I have a large quantity of peat from a job that I need to figure out how to get rid of it. Any suggestions?
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    Shoring Pit

    I have a job where I need to set a 20x10x10 tank. My problem is the soil is clay and I am in the water table 8'. I need to minimize soil disturbance but need a pit 30x20x10. Just seeing how others do there shoring pits out there. I am looking for the safest most economical way to do this.
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    Half a Million CY

    I just want a sanity check. I just priced a job out to move half a million yards from the top of a hill to the bottom to fill a valley. There are two Roads down to the bottom where I can run trucks in a circle which is 4000 feet around. The valley is 200' Across that we are filling. Is the...
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    Digsafe Stinks

    Anyone else have problems with digsafe having trouble marking out their utilities correctly. I did a job last week and the gas line was marked out 10' off. As soon as we were a few feet past the marks I called them back out to relocate the main. They spent the next half hour trying to locate the...
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    Asphalt Recycling

    I am looking for the help. I need to crush a stockpile of asphalt and gravel that is around 30,000 tons. Any ideas on what crusher to use? I need an 1.5" minus gravel product from it to use as a road base on the job.
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    Moving Equipment by barge

    Has anyone had to move equipment to an island to do work? Any good ideas?
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    Hydraulic Rock Breaking

    I have a job where I need to break 1500 cy of ledge without blasting. I have a few 7,000 to 10,000 lbs hammers but just seeing what everyone else uses in other parts of the country. Obviously the larger the hammer the faster it breaks. This is extremely hard granite rock.
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    How big of dozer would I need?

    I have a cut export and fill on another site about 3 miles away. I plan on running 10 trucks a day at 3 loads an hour = 240 loads a day. At the dump site I am building out a steep slope from the bottom. I plan on dumping for a few days then send a dozer there to start shaping. I was thinking...
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    Site Estimator

    I had a recruiter call me the other day and he has a position available as a site estimator with a medium sized site contractor. He asked how much id be looking to make and I had mentioned about 90,000 a yr plus a company truck. Is that reasonable? I have 8 yrs estimating experience and feel...
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    Making Structural Fill

    I have a job I am bidding that has some silty soils on it. There is 10%-15% passing the #200 sieve. The spec calls for me to dig out the top 18" and replace with structural fill that has at max 8% passing the #200 sieve. The question is can I do some sort of mixing to eliminate the disposal and...
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    How do you deal with Frost

    Just wondering how everyone out there deals with frost. I am on a job now and trying to keep people working. The job had 1,000cy of contaminated mud that were having me use as fill that they no longer want me to use. They are paying me for new fill. The problem is the dispute over the mud pushed...
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    Wet Dirt

    Anyone know how to get some wet dirt to dry asap? I have about 400 cy of wet clay I need dry to grade a floor in a building with. The floor is structural so they want me to use all the garbage under the building but there is a million haunches in the slab that make grading the wet material ******.
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    Large Drainage Pipe

    I am estimating a job right now that has 1000 ft of 60" and 800' of 48" with 10 8' dia manholes on a new road in the city. Largest drain I have installed to do is 48" in a short run.What kind of production can I get? I have a PC600 excavator WA500 Loader D31 for backfill I have a 8'x8'x20'...
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    Bidding Jobs Sucks Sometimes

    I am having a string of bad luck bidding jobs. I get called to bid on a fair amount of work and it seems lately that I am just being used to "shop" a price. The GC is normal really nice to me and always answers the phone when I call or returns my calls promptly while I am bidding on the job...
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    1974 Ford L9000 Tri-axle Dump

    It has a 8v71 detroit motor, it smokes, the transmission was put in two years ago and has only 300 miles on if that.It was a remanufactured and put in by deprizo truck, new pto/ all the air lines were replaced the year before/fittings ect/ the walking beam was done by donovan spring the same...
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    12" Water Main Leak

    I have a job were another crew installed 400' of 12" ductile water line. The line is leaking out about 8 trash barrels of water in about 30 min.It leaks only from 200psi to 150psi then stops. It holds static pressure. So a pretty sizeable leak. The boss had the leak detectors come out with there...
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