Gold Rush D10

[Knocker of rock]

i call BS , he is driving it and all the sudden he jumps out and and says its leaking . to see it leaking from where he was it would have had to drop all of the oil at once.. i record the show that way i can fast forward thru the stupid stuff with out listening to it.

Yup, that.

And then to think that smearing some RTV on a flat oily surface will prevent the leak from continuing?

 

[pf/l]

Canada has 4 new episodes on tonight. They showed the new d10t so I went looking for it and sure enough my suspicions were confirmed. He bought it April 28 for 275,000. Factor in trucking and a bit if work I'm sure he's be pushing the 300 k mark. Just looked back and there was one more from the same company that sold for 220. Guess maybe we can give them the benefit of the doubt this time. Lol. Lot 2649 and 2650 Edmonton Ritchie's auction. On my phone so I didn't take time to look at the condition of either. I've net him there at the auctions before so I had a sneaking suspicion that's where he picked it up. Hours were 30,000 and 28,500

 

[Desertwheeler]

Probably old mine machines so they probably weren't in too bad of shape either.

 

[mitchell2905]

I'm willing to bet it was fake. Create some bs drama about their main machine going down. I was expecting them to buy Parkers d10. And what happened to the d475? Never see it anymore.

I was wondering the same thing. Never see it on the show anymore.

 

[mitchell2905]

I don't understand why these people always "walk" a piece of equipment back to the maintenance yard for repairs. The mechanics have trucks, don't they? We just had an operator try to "walk" a D11T to a maintenance yard that had a low oil pressure alarm going off due to one of the oil filters not being tightened. Guess what happened? Engine locked up after he ran all the oil out onto the ground. If he just would have shut it down, someone could have tightened the filter, filled with oil, and the machine could have been back in production.

This is also not figuring in accelerated undercarriage wear tramming these machine great distances.

 

[Shimmy1]

Nige, haven't you posted a pic before of a "lowboy" they use in the mine to move crawlers around? Here are a couple I found. Probably not going to see them up in the Klondike, but they are out there. How about this?
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=497708523697723&id=217765281692050

 

[alco]

No doubt! Last night, they shut down my wheel dozer, and took the operator to out her on a truck. Then they walked a D11 for almost 8km to send it to me and fill in for the wheel dozer. Why they didn't just take the guy off the D11 and put him on truck I can't figure out. I mean, not only did I lose one of the best looking women in the mine, but I ended up with one of the laziest dozer operators to boot!

 

[weeder57]

Sometimes you can not get your truck to the machine, but you can walk the machine a 100 feet to where the truck can get to it though. And we used to rent machines to miners in petersville, that required a 25 mile walk in and 25 mile walk out every season, unless you coughed up the big money for the guy with an old offroad kenworth with a oilfield trailer. He was 300$ an hour, pretty penny at 10 mph or less. Its pretty common for miners to walk there machines a long ways, usually dozers and wheeled stuff though, not many excavators. A mine I was dropping parts off at walked there old 235 2-3 miles a day.

 

[mitchell2905]

Nige, haven't you posted a pic before of a "lowboy" they use in the mine to move crawlers around? Here are a couple I found. Probably not going to see them up in the Klondike, but they are out there. How about this?
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=497708523697723&id=217765281692050

The mine does have several of these trailers. The D11T with the engine failure was working in an area this rig could not reach. These rigs are used for bringing equipment to the main shop from the pit.

 

[kshansen]

The quarry where I worked the longest distance from anyplace to the shop is maybe 1/2 mile so if a machine was driveable it would almost always go to shop for repairs or service. But I tried had to convince operators who suspected any problem to not try to get to the shop unless I could look at the machine first to understand what the real problem was with it. More than once an operator would not do this. Like the time a 769C Cat truck was making a "strange noise" and driver decides to go to the shop, almost made it! Split the 3408 right in half when the rod came out the side and fell on the ground!

 

[mitchell2905]

Yep, I can see that happening. If the machine is making a noise, suspend operation in a safe spot and wait for a mechanic to arrive!

 

[kshansen]

Yep, I can see that happening. If the machine is making a noise, suspend operation in a safe spot and wait for a mechanic to arrive!

The only good thing about that one is the Cat dealer had not too long back done an overhaul on that motor and they took the fall for it claiming it was a failure of one or more of the new rod bearings. So all we really lost was the down-time while they replaced the engine. But still if it had been shut down at the first sign of a strange noise the damage would have been much less and possibly easier to determine the cause.

 

[DPete]

The first thing I would do if I found out I had an oil leak is pull the stick, if I had an idiot lite I would shut it off first. I'd fire a guy who either just kept running it or ran it very far. Makes a difference if you pay the bills

 

[Shimmy1]

The only good thing about that one is the Cat dealer had not too long back done an overhaul on that motor and they took the fall for it claiming it was a failure of one or more of the new rod bearings. So all we really lost was the down-time while they replaced the engine. But still if it had been shut down at the first sign of a strange noise the damage would have been much less and possibly easier to determine the cause.

Kshansen, aren't the usual suspects when a rod ventilates the block a rod, wrist pin, or piston failure? I have seen a few rotating failures, of the half a dozen or so, if the rod comes out the side, the crank doesn't look completely destroyed. Of the three rod bearing failures I've seen, none of them shed the rod off the crank. I'm sure things are a little more violent on these big boys, maybe what I've seen doesn't necessarily apply?

 

[kshansen]

Kshansen, aren't the usual suspects when a rod ventilates the block a rod, wrist pin, or piston failure? I have seen a few rotating failures, of the half a dozen or so, if the rod comes out the side, the crank doesn't look completely destroyed. Of the three rod bearing failures I've seen, none of them shed the rod off the crank. I'm sure things are a little more violent on these big boys, maybe what I've seen doesn't necessarily apply?

Well we were not going to argue with Cat about the cause as they were taking the blame. One thing I do recall is the crank, despite some serious dents, did not show signs of getting hot like I would expect with a bearing failure.

 

[Shimmy1]

Well we were not going to argue with Cat about the cause as they were taking the blame. One thing I do recall is the crank, despite some serious dents, did not show signs of getting hot like I would expect with a bearing failure.

Don't blame you one bit. Probably $75K hit the ground that day.

 

[Shimmy1]

WOW. Who do they think they're trying to fool?? 380 oz?? I've seen pans with 150 that looked bigger than that. No wonder they aren't using jars anymore.