I can't say anything about this machine, it isn't mine haha, saw it from the road and went in to check it out. I would rather have a case then one of these doosans but I don't mind them. We have a good dealer around here and we rent a lot of doosan machines from them. They hold up, they aren't the best machine on the market but for the price they aren't bad.
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I can't say anything about this machine, it isn't mine haha, saw it from the road and went in to check it out. I would rather have a case then one of these doosans but I don't mind them. We have a good dealer around here and we rent a lot of doosan machines from them. They hold up, they aren't the best machine on the market but for the price they aren't bad.
Shimmy1
Senior Member
Ya buddy. I have a Case 210C. I've ran most of them out there, I prefer Case hydraulics. Cat builds a good one, I just can't justify extra costs involved in owning a Cat. Does Case even build a road builder? I suppose it would be white, ha. Just like if you want a Deere, it'll be orange.
Case's are good excavators, we run mostly Link Belt and love them. Tried cats, and don't like the new E series much. Case doesn't build forestry equipment, but Link Belt does. Those Link Belt road builders are great machines. How is the fuel economy on the 210? We are looking at getting a 235X3
Shimmy1
Senior Member
I've had a few on here refuse to believe it, but if you can stand to run it in auto mode, I've gone almost 40 hrs on a tank of fuel cleaning ditch. Not the heaviest work, but nowhere near the lightest either. For a 50,000 lb hoe, I don't think any other brand will run as cheap. But, turn it up all the way and you will notice the fuel burned.
Shimmy1
Senior Member
The only thing that is a bona fide P.I.T.A. is the DPF. I've been kind of fussy, I will not interrupt it, and I always pay attention to where the gauge is, so if it's cold out, and it's getting close to a regen, I'll just leave the engine throttled up until it gets to it and done. I've put 670 hrs on it without an interrupted, failed, or manual regen.
Found this machine for sale while surfing the internet.
Not really sure where to put it so I'll put it here for some enjoyment.
Here's the information to go with it if anyone's curious.
http://www.machinerytrader.com/listingsdetail/detail.aspx?OHID=9090117
kiwi450x
Well-Known Member
The first question for me would be: How many times has it been around the clock?
kiwi450x
Well-Known Member
And the second question would be: Why the hell didn't they give it a clean up be for putting it on the market?? Even a half hearted clean would have been an improvement.
MutsMachines
Well-Known Member
even with the things already said that is still a very cool machine. that boom and grapple are very cool with the high rise cab you could make sum nice big piles and load or unload trucks in a breeze. I would love to try that thing out.
Well after going through about 40 pages on this thread, I realized what I was looking for was on page one ... felt like a pretty big dummy 
Anyways...
Was curious to see if this piece ever got turned into a log loader or if it kept on building roads? Blows my mind that machines this big can stomp around the woods and be productive to a degree, still a cool piece three or four years later! :cool2
Happy New Year everyone!
Anyways...
Was curious to see if this piece ever got turned into a log loader or if it kept on building roads? Blows my mind that machines this big can stomp around the woods and be productive to a degree, still a cool piece three or four years later! :cool2
Happy New Year everyone!
Found this the other day and thought it was worth sharing.
Don't know if any of you are operating up in this area or have maybe seen this machine, but Ainsworth Lumber out of Grande Prairie, Alberta has been running a John Deere 800C as a log loader for the past eleven years and it still looks like it's going strong.
The piece has a lot of neat features on it; undercarriage was stretched to be 20ft by 20ft, has double AC & heating units/ pressurized cab, I think the reach is right around 50ft, grapple is a four cord capacity and pieces are about 16ft long generally - lots more, can read about it in the linked article. http://www.forestnet.com/archives/Dec_Jan_03/millyard_equipment.htm
Retail price at the time was $1.5 million for the 800 chassis and I think a 600 chassis option was available; the mill claims it's the biggest log loader in operation to date... not sure if that's true or not, but an 800 is a might big machine.
I actually contacted the author of the article to see if he had any other pictures, but they were shot using film and he threw them out a number of years ago :bash I've done my best to cut a few from the YouTube video, but the smaller ones are originals from when the machine was new. The video is worth watching too!
[video=youtube;Yxo8acP7eJE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxo8acP7eJE&list=LLblCWHCLFMRBMV3yWSjoJRA&index=1[/video]
Don't know if any of you are operating up in this area or have maybe seen this machine, but Ainsworth Lumber out of Grande Prairie, Alberta has been running a John Deere 800C as a log loader for the past eleven years and it still looks like it's going strong.
The piece has a lot of neat features on it; undercarriage was stretched to be 20ft by 20ft, has double AC & heating units/ pressurized cab, I think the reach is right around 50ft, grapple is a four cord capacity and pieces are about 16ft long generally - lots more, can read about it in the linked article. http://www.forestnet.com/archives/Dec_Jan_03/millyard_equipment.htm
Retail price at the time was $1.5 million for the 800 chassis and I think a 600 chassis option was available; the mill claims it's the biggest log loader in operation to date... not sure if that's true or not, but an 800 is a might big machine.
I actually contacted the author of the article to see if he had any other pictures, but they were shot using film and he threw them out a number of years ago :bash I've done my best to cut a few from the YouTube video, but the smaller ones are originals from when the machine was new. The video is worth watching too!
[video=youtube;Yxo8acP7eJE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxo8acP7eJE&list=LLblCWHCLFMRBMV3yWSjoJRA&index=1[/video]
hoechucker
Senior Member
MutsMachines
Well-Known Member
that 800 is a nice machine. I run and do similar work with a liebherr 904 and I must say I would love to operate a giant one like that.
SPMiller
Senior Member
Well after going through about 40 pages on this thread, I realized what I was looking for was on page one ... felt like a pretty big dummy
Anyways...
Was curious to see if this piece ever got turned into a log loader or if it kept on building roads? Blows my mind that machines this big can stomp around the woods and be productive to a degree, still a cool piece three or four years later! :cool2
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Happy New Year everyone!
It has become a Log Loader. Working daily.
Killbox Alpha
Well-Known Member
That's impressive!
Waycon
Member
...some of the recent conversions that have gone through the shop.
Waycon
Member
Well that didn't work for very long. Is there a way to edit or delete a post? And is there a way to upload images direct to this forum in a post?
mitch504
Senior Member
You can only edit posts for an hour, but if you click the "upload a file" button, you can put pics directly on HEF.
I was going to ask about something in one of those pics, but I can't remember what.
I was going to ask about something in one of those pics, but I can't remember what.