Junkyard's work thread.....maybe haha

[Junkyard]

Just shy of $8,100 for all the guts of the one and seals for both.

 

[CM1995]

Just shy of $8,100 for all the guts of the one and seals for both.

Wow. Dealer replaced an entire drive motor on one of our 279D's a couple of years ago and it would've been around $5K but was covered under warranty. Inflation sucks.

 

[Junkyard]

I’ve fixed 299’s cheaper but that has been a few years ago. Stuff is just stupid expensive these days. I understand why pop was always complaining about how much stuff costs lol

 

[Nige]

Wow. Dealer replaced an entire drive motor on one of our 279D's a couple of years ago and it would've been around $5K but was covered under warranty. Inflation sucks.

Someone priced a Cat CTL drive motor only a few weeks ago. $7200.

 

[Vetech63]

Hugs, eh?

Thought you got a man hug didn't you! LMAO

 

[CM1995]

Someone priced a Cat CTL drive motor only a few weeks ago. $7200.

Cheaper than Tak I guess..

 

[Junkyard]

Got a box fab’d up today. It’s not perfect but it’ll do what I need as long as I need it to.

 

[Mike L]

New service trucks are cheap these days. Why not just go a quarter mil in the hole?

 

[Junkyard]

Lol yeah. Trouble is none are what I’d want if I dropped that much $$. Tom V’s is about what I’d do if I was going that deep. I do have a crane I need to get fixed and then sort out how/where to mount on there. It’s all unorthodox by current standards but it does what I need and I’m in it for a few grand.

 

[Mike L]

Tom’s truck would probably run about $400k in today’s market

 

[63 caveman]

I was awarded a contract a long time ago and was told the reason why later. It was not because I was low bid but when the other bidders and I came to the job sight for the interview the other bidders all came in fancy outfits and I showed up in a plain old work truck. It's still the same now.

Looks to me that your rig is set up to get the job done, I like it.

 

[Junkyard]

Figured I’d give an update. Got the steel plant’s yard dog all done, intake/after cooler cleaned out, new turbo, exhaust hooked up. Runs like a scalded dog now. Well…..maybe a 3 legged dog. Now that it builds proper clean air I’ve had to replace a bunch of valves that were plugged up with oily muck.

Serviced one of their Combilift forklifts and the big Combilift straddle carrier. Also replaced injector seals as it had one puffing out the top. While I was buttoning that one up today their Sky Track decided to puke oil out of one of the boom cylinders. They’ll come off Monday for reseal.

Another excavating friend/customer (the Kubota tractor owner) brought his haul truck and trailer in. There’s easily a weeks work on it. Then another called with a Komatsu dozer overheating and three other machines needing AC work.

The Takeuchi was destined for the salvage guy then I happened to think to call their shop foreman and ask if they had any parts around for it. They did have a good used final and some seals so it’ll end up back to together and run until it won’t again then it’ll be a parts machine for their other old Takeuchi.

The last one on the schedule is a Cat 320 for a property developer. Been sitting 10 years because the hydraulics quit. They’ve had various guys look at it, one condemned the pump so they shelled out the cash for that but it didn’t fix it. I was authorized 8 hours diagnosis time. Sounds like a fun one eh? Lol

Here’s the haul truck list, I made one lap around it and this was what I saw without even getting on a creeper……

 

[dirty4fun]

It sounds like the people are finding out you are back doing repairs, as the work is coming in. Good to hear that you have work and are busy. Keep up the good work and the work will keep flowing your direction!

 

[DMiller]

Plenty of work for almost as many mechanics that want it anymore

 

[Old Doug]

Do you have the old welder up and running to mount on the truck? I was given another welder that had a fire . I havent went and got it yet but they say it burn the wires going down inside the generater case. I wonder if i can fix it ?

 

[CM1995]

Plenty of work for almost as many mechanics that want it anymore

Without a doubt DM. Wish I could find one here.

There is an independent shop here running 2-3 service trucks but he stays busy at the lime quarries and his rates are near Cat. Love to find a guy that's got a truck and could make mobile calls.

 

[Birken Vogt]

Love to find a guy that's got a truck

Yeah but who can afford a truck any more? I guess you need to build another one.

 

[CM1995]

Yeah but who can afford a truck any more? I guess you need to build another one.

It could be a Chevy Luv diesel for all I care just as long as he knows the right spot to hit it with a hammer.

 

[Birken Vogt]

One of the regulars on here was showing his road service setup for 90% of problems out of the back of a pickup truck. But a behemoth service truck makes some things nicer. Unless you can't get it close enough to the thing being serviced.

 

[old-iron-habit]

Anyone see this one featured at Conexpo this year. I was up close and personal with it at the Doug Veerkamp Engineering open house last Saturday. It's a mid 50s model Pererbuilt that is100 percent CA compliant. They had a good 2016 doner chassis that was usedfor the drive train. The remote for the crane tell you the lifting capacity of the 30' boom at any spot you hold the remote. The truck is in the lowered, work, position in this picture. The truck can be raised up to 10 more inches for site travel. After a near future, truck show, it will get the shorter " work" stacks installed and it will be out working in the field with the mechanic whom was one of the two that built it.

Without a doubt DM. Wish I could find one here.

There is an independent shop here running 2-3 service trucks but he stays busy at the lime quarries and his rates are near Cat. Love to find a guy that's got a truck and could make mobile calls.