Burnouts Winter Tour Photo Gallery

[Burnout]

No shortage of pics on my part. I have tons more. If I had a way to get them off my old computer I would have about 5000 more pictures of different stuff.

 

[Burnout]

Ok.. how about a cute little Deere 605C track loader I found the other day on our jobsite. And the competitions fleet of equipment down the road from us.

 

[Burnout]

More of IGL Canada's equipment and a 988B I found at Ritchie Brothers.

 

[Burnout]

The same 988 again, a D9G, the Link Belt 210LX I had for awhile and the 375L, and a 657E Buggy.

 

[Burnout]

Our Deere 270C LC, a Komatsu PC200 long front we tried out for sanding since a 330 couldn't reach. And another 973, and the last 2 are the D10N with my beautiful Cherokee affectionately known as the Green Pearl.

 

[Burnout]

The D10R they bought at Ritchie Brothers last spring. Got it for an incredible steal, good enough that the owner of the company bought both of them. He was originally going for a D8R they had sitting there, bought the 8, both the D10's and a D85PX Komatsu. That D10 actually puked the engine comin off the float right there. She sat there for a month and then spent 2 months at the shop getting an overhaul.

And the Link Belt again, and the D10 and 973 backfilling in a sanitary sewer trunk main. The ditch is over half backfilled at this point.

 

[Burnout]

OK more backfilling with the 973 and the D10, and the Komatsu 1250 walking across our site and over to a pond.

 

[csquared]

lets see some more of the smaller stuff too

 

[Dozerboy]

Damn that is a lot of Big Iron

 

[mag6000]

Great pics and nice Rubicon too!

 

[bobcat ron]

I vote Burnout as the official HEF pic slut!!

 

[Burnout]

Yeah the Rubicon makes jobsites more fun if you know what I mean. What pics of smaller equipment would you like.

And Bobcat Ron... as for bein the official pic slut......I think thats the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.:drinkup

 

[csquared]

skid steers, excavators smaller than 200s stuf fliek that

 

[Dert-T]

Nice pics !
Do you have any of your floats ?

 

[Construct'O]

Spread the pics out a little !!!!!! for some reason my poor old junk dial up is just showing little square box with red X in them:Banghead.You must be overloading it

Thanks for sharing :usa

 

[dirthog28]

At first I thought this Sureway was a big Cat contractor, but I see a little bit of everything in there fleet. Nice Pics!

 

[equipment fan]

very ncie pictures and equipment!!

 

[9420pullpan]

Awesome pics

very nice

 

[Burnout]

Sureway is big on Cat equipment. The only reason they have strayed in the last year or two is Cat not building it fast enough. They have heard horror stories on the 5000 series excavators so they bought the Hitachi and the Komatsu. The smaller Komatsu hoes were bought because of supply problems at Finning so they got 3 PC400's this year, the 750's and 800's are from auctions. The Link Belt 210, Case 240 and Deere 270/750's/800's were all bought at Ritchie Brothers with low hours. Out of the 80 excavators most of them are Cat... maybe 15 odd branded machines. They did buy some Komatsu WA-450's this year because Coneco came in with a price that was apparently 70 000 per unit cheaper than a 966 so they jumped on 4 of them and had problems all summer.

As for small equipment... we don't have a lot of it. Anything smaller than 330 usually has a hoe pack hangin on it 90% of the time. They figure if a 320 or a 325 can fit in a jobsite... and 385 will do just as good. I am told as of May this year there will be 16 385's, there are 3 375's and 20+ 245's although only 7 or 8 are actually in service.

I get a great kick out of our jobsites. One of the other big contractors in town was workin on the same jobsite we were. Their mainline machine was a 345BL with a short boom and short stick almost looked like an ME model. They were digging water/sewer services at the same time we were. Their setup was as follows.

Main Excavator-345BL
2nd Excavator- 320BL with 60" bucket
Backhoe- 310D with hoe pack
Loader- Komatsu WA320
Track Loader- Cat 953B
Dozer- D85PX

Our outfit
Main Excavator- 385CL
2nd Excavator- 375L
3rd Excavator- Deere 270C LC
4th Excavator- Cat 245
Backhoe- Deere 710G
Track Loader- 2 973C's
Dozer- D10N, D9N
Loader- Cat 966C

In a day they serviced 8 lots normally. That same day our main hoe dug 52 services, layed about 46 of them with 4 pipelayers and the 375 and 270 each sanding 2 services at a time, and us in the 973's workin our behinds off just to look half competent. This summer the other company did 260 lots in our subdivision, we did just a hair over 800 lots. Although to be fair at one time we had 4 385's and 2 375's on site at once. We had over 100pcs of equipment on site between the underground division and earthworks division.

 

[bobcat ron]

Big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big.