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  1. sandnsnow

    TD-15c questions

    Well, I scored a 1984 td15c with a carco f-50 wench this summer. For 8500.00 hundred bucks and 48 yards of 2" rock I got the dozer a 85 ford tri axle dump and a 80's international 4900 water truck. I used the dozer a bit until the cobbed up mess that was holding the right track frame to the...
  2. sandnsnow

    D8T ripping Rock?

    I have been working on a site preperation job for about a week now and we have encountered a rock bluff right where the house foundation is going. The rock is a mixture of decomposing granite and hard granite. I have to take it down about 6' in back and 3' in the front. The pad is about 75' by...
  3. sandnsnow

    KW spring suspension

    I have a early 80's W900 transfer dump truck with KW spring suspension. Well over several million miles the hangers and springs are shot. I can locate the springs but the hangers are really expensive from KW. They have wore out almost to the outsides. Does anyone out there know where I can get a...
  4. sandnsnow

    Bakken Oil Field Work

    Well for the last year or so, I have heard alot about the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota and there shortage of equipment, Operators and sub contractors. One of my ex employes left here and went there. He told me he was going to make 30 bucks an hour and all the overtime he wants. A week later...
  5. sandnsnow

    Case center Joint problems?

    I have a case CX75 2004 model. I turned the cab and heard the sound of hyd. fluid comming from under the cab. I saw the center joint bracket that holds the center joint from turning, had come off the center joint. (One broken bolt the other missing.) This caused the hyd lines to brake and twist...
  6. sandnsnow

    Case CX75 idle control

    I have a 2004 Case CX75 and about a week ago the Idle control stopped working. When I turn the knob it does nothing. It is stuck at high idle. If I push the auto idle button, it will beep but still nothing. I checked the cable and it looks good and connected. Followed it back to the servo motor...
  7. sandnsnow

    Ditch Witch 1600?

    I was flipping through a magazine today and saw an ad for Ditch Witch xt1600. This machine is a excavator/track loader together in one. Has anyone seen one of these machines, or operated one? The excavator end has a 260 degree swing and looks like a dig depth of mabey 12 feet. I dont think it...
  8. sandnsnow

    Rock crushing sites?

    Does anyone know of rock crushing or screening sites? I am going to start screening and later crushing our own rock. (trying to cut costs). Also I think we could use a forum on here, there seems to be alot of knowledge in this area. :D
  9. sandnsnow

    Somebody used my 210 and broke it!

    We had a job going in Wahington state and I had my operator leave our 2008 Kobelco 210lc sitting on the job until we could haul is away with our lowboy the following week. It was sitting on private property, fenced in but it was open to the next property where there was work going on. The...
  10. sandnsnow

    Backhoe/Dump truck operator wanted

    We are looking for a backhoe/solo truck operator to perform work for the Forest Service in the area of yellowstone/ Bozeman montana area. Operator will transport backhoe to work area and perform reqired task at the direction of the forest service. Work includes removing slides, cleaning...
  11. sandnsnow

    Kobelco BladeRunner 195

    I was wondering if anyone has operated the new Kobelco 195 bladerunner. Last year I was going to buy a ed150. It was a nice machine and the blade was great but it was a slow dozer and hard to make grade going downhill. I dug with a 190 but never had a chance to doze with it. I imagine the...
  12. sandnsnow

    74 KW finally done

    I bought this truck to pull my cross gate belly dump. She is a 74 925A with a 13 speed and a 400 big cam. I have to build a headach rack for it as I want to add dual 8" stright pipes. This is the truck that has no front brakes. :Banghead. I changed all the lights over to LEDS. I have new...
  13. sandnsnow

    No front brakes!!!!

    I was at an auction when I started looking at a group of older A model Kenworths. I popped the hood and there were no breaks on the front of these trucks? NO drums, cans, slack adjusters, brackets ect? I started looking at the other trucks by the same company and they also had no front...
  14. sandnsnow

    Pictures of a small levee stabilization job

    I figured I post acouple of pictures of a levee job we did about a week ago. We had to cut 15' by 20' strip out of the stream bed to toe in the rock. All total we used about 15000 tons of class 5 rip rap, (4' to 5' boulders). The Army Corps shorted the job up because of the bull trout spawning...
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