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    Caterpillar 18M Grader

    Quite right Sir Nige. OHS, cultural heritage and enviro crap is up to wards half the cost of some projects. And..... people are still getting badly hurt. somethng is seriously wrong. Operators with no care or respect or common sense. Glad I'm out of it now.
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    Equipment Operators with Parkinsons Disease.

    Hi, can I ask the members of this board please if they know of any grader/dozer operators with Parkinsons Disease. We are wondering if there is some connection here caused by severe vibration of machinery, especially from hard roads and quarry work. Being diagnosed with it myself at 65 and...
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    Cat 160M

    Hiya Brolga. We had a 14M do this, threw real wobbly and it was chafed cable in amongst the bendy bits in the articulation. It took cat fitter quite some time to find it and was lying under the machine to fix it if I remember correctly. Cheers, Pa Bear.
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    12G motor grader !!

    :Banghead
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    Slope meter setup

    These are a mongrel of a thing and given me a lot of grief. I have marked the wheels and turned the machine around like you have for zero and the result is aways different! I argued the toss with the foreman about it rather than run string boys and got run off for my trouble! Tyre pressure...
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    Grader operators

    Not wrong there Shimmy. Better to start with someone who knows nothing at all about the topic than someone who has been half taught, has already developed bad habits and attitude. Can never change some of these guys and can cause you no end of pain. This applies to all operators, trucks...
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    Grader operators

    I understand your pain Cutting Edge, hope your student is a good listener. The young blokes here in Oz are great with GPS and UTAS gear but once they get to the end of the job and have to merge the new work with the old thats when the problems start and some of them up and quit. They have not...
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    Motor-Grading Techniques

    PS I'm assuming you have already lowered both lift rams to the ground and alternately lifted them up and down in little jerks to try and get the pin to retract. Sometimes this can take quite a few minutes to shake it about enough for retraction before you start looking for the problem with the...
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    Motor-Grading Techniques

    Hi Joe, I am not too sure what could be stopping the circle side shift lock pin from coming out, low air pressure caused by leak in the line or a seal in the lockpin unit itself. You could check this and then maybe locate blade and circle for its best balance over center, ensure the blade is...
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    16M Transmission problems

    One recommendation I have heard several times during the years concerning M Series is to take care that the machine has completely stopped moving before applying the Park Brake. Old torsional coupler with 12 bolts now improved to 20 bolts ? Just saying.
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    Motor-Grading Techniques

    Beware of the slope meter for finishing ! An outfit I worked for in West Oz insisted that I use this instrument rather than stringline ready for pavement. The crossfall was the same on both sides of the street. when I turned the machine around to grade in the opposite direction it did not...
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    130G Tire Ballasting

    Bridgestone/Michelin 1400x24 140G ran water in the rears all the time for as long as I had it over 15yrs working very wet rough materials and conditions and towed flat drum roller behind! Made big difference and would scramble around and out of places the old 12E 17K wouldnt thats for sure...
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    Hello all! New Here. Anyone recently switch from an H to an M?

    M Series are just the dux nutz. Similar to excavator pattern and did not take more than a couple of hours to get my head around it. Tended to badly over correct with steering for a while but ok now. Keep your speed down until you get used to roading and reversing. These graders are magic and I...
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    16M shifting issues

    2011 QSN3 out and other Old projects since.
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    16M shifting issues

    By the way. these M's are brilliant to run and I would turn my nose up at anything else. Not alot of downtime with over dozen M's on job at one time pipeline-ing. brilliant.
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    16M shifting issues

    I had trouble with a 14M last year, it would change up but not back unless you went to neutral and start again. turned out it was wiring thru articulation loom. took abit of tracking down by dealer but ok now. my two cents.
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    Cat M blade line of sight

    M Series Graders are just the ducks nuts. I like them so much that if a job didnt have one for me to run I'll go elsewhere. Sure, they got a couple of things that bug you, I hated the door post being in the way of sight to the blade heel, but am used to that now. Vision to the rear is a bit...
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    Purchasing a new grader

    From an experienced operator, go with the Cat M Series my friend. With the xtra pull of AWD, you have great performance and up near a 14M which I run in heavy and difficult materials at the moment anyway!
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    An argument against joysticks

    M Series are just the ducks nuts as far as I am concerned having run them all. Would even turn my nose up now at a job that didnt have one. Backfill, rehab, trimming just the ducks nuts! 2009 model 14M at the moment just magic and no complaints.
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    Cat 140m.....finally!!

    Give urself a couple of days to get used to it and you will wonder what all the fuss was about. The M Series is one hell of a grader to operate and I dont care if I operate competitive brands again ever! I used to fishtail when steering too but all ok now. Something I do, do is keep hard round...
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