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  1. handtpipeline

    Komatsu PC200-8 hydraulic issues

    I've had some experiences with that. U usually will do crowd and bucket until it warms some. I have loaded or unloaded with it cold a few times, and it can get squirrley on a 8' wide lowboy to say the least. But now, hydraulic temp gauge will not come off bottom even after running it an hour...
  2. handtpipeline

    Komatsu PC200-8 hydraulic issues

    The only codes ive gotten were low fuel rail pressure (when fuel was gelling up)
  3. handtpipeline

    Komatsu PC200-8 hydraulic issues

    I know how to get into the diagnostics, in fact figured out how to change my climate control from Celsius back to Farenheit (I have no idea how it got changed in first place) but dont really know what to look for as far as Hydraulic issues.
  4. handtpipeline

    Komatsu PC200-8 hydraulic issues

    I kind of wondered that when it first happened. But that was before Christmas, and i've used it several times since. on some 60 degree days.
  5. handtpipeline

    Komatsu PC200-8 hydraulic issues

    Back in december, we had a really cold spell for us. Cold enough that my fuel gelled in my 200 when i was trying to bust ice in ponds. The next week, after it warmed some, still below freezing but above 0 degrees, got it running, and let it warm up a while. Hydraulic temp gauge got up around...
  6. handtpipeline

    Just some work pics

    Thank you. I don't have any trailers new enough to have come with spring brakes to look at one of them... In fact, these two lowboys are the newest trailers I have. Both are 1981 models. Tandem is a Holden 35 ton and Tri axle is a Phelan 50 ton.
  7. handtpipeline

    Just some work pics

    I've got a couple of trailers I want to put spring brakes on at least one axle for the same reason. One is a tandem dovetail lowboy, the other is a tri-axle folding neck lowboy. Do you know a part number for the new valve you had to install for this? Or is it just called a spring brake valve?
  8. handtpipeline

    Day cab lowboy puller

    This is the Koehring. It was right at 115,000 by itself in this pic. this is the only time we hauled it in one piece...
  9. handtpipeline

    Day cab lowboy puller

    It's deceiving, because of the sleeper and fuel tank on my 379, but it actually measures about 3" longer wheelbase than the 378 on my trailer.
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    Day cab lowboy puller

  11. handtpipeline

    Day cab lowboy puller

    Does Missouri mainly go by axle weights? I know different states go by different weight laws, in Oklahoma wheelbase makes a big difference because of the bridge formula they use. From the 80's to about 1995 I could bridge (with weight permits) about a 75,000 pound hoe. We had a Koehring that...
  12. handtpipeline

    Changing times............cell phone usage

    Most people that know me, know it's a lot easier to get ahold of me by text. Even if they text me to call them... If I'm making a weld on pipe, or setting something in with a trackhoe, or something of that nature, I'm NOT going to stop everything and answer the phone right then... If I'm out...
  13. handtpipeline

    experience with a shady customer

    I used to bury horses for friends, usually their roping horse, or barrel horse. Sometimes a pet horse more than anything. Back then, fuel was cheap, and I didn't really charge anything. (think 20, 25 yrs ago). Then it got to where I'd get phone calls, "so and so told me you have backhoes, can...
  14. handtpipeline

    Mech Detach Neck too low??

    With the rolling tailboard on it, it was definately designed and built to be pulled by either a winch truck (bed truck or rigup truck. I've heard several different names) or a winch tractor. With the short neck, probably a bed truck. They work good, but for moving equipment you better have a...
  15. handtpipeline

    Calling All Dozer Operators!

    I'm 41, been driving trucks and operating equipment since before I was a teenager. My back has hurt constantly (sometimes much worse than others) since my early 20's. Most of our trucks back then were Mack's with camelback suspension, and the one I usually drove was the roughest riding one of...
  16. handtpipeline

    Your Lowboy Pictures Wanted

    Yeah, its a 225D. Judging from the stamping on the hydraulic cylinders a '91 model. Moved it for a friend. With a little bit of work I think it'd make a pretty nice hoe really, doesn't seem worn out. First time i've been on a 225 in 23 years, was kinda interesting to load. It was just like...
  17. handtpipeline

    Your Lowboy Pictures Wanted

    couple more...
  18. handtpipeline

    Your Lowboy Pictures Wanted

    Here's a few recent ones
  19. handtpipeline

    What trailer ramps for dozer?

    Another note, whenever loading an excavator, I really don't use the ramps and dovetail very little. I guess if you had a smaller excavator it wouldn't matter, but a 200 Komatsu or larger, your rails run pretty much at the outer edge of your trailer (especially an 8' wide trailer). You will...
  20. handtpipeline

    What trailer ramps for dozer?

    And I would NOT put boards on the dovetail or ramps. My old 3 axle folding neck lowboy had boards on the dovetail when it was new. there was always sliding issues with that. So I put a piece of 3/8 plate all the way across the dovetail and 1" barstock for traction. It's a non issue now...
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