Old conventionals at work

[ryanmueller]

Are the extra casings on some of the piles to reduce downdrag from your surface fill?

Those are holsters. I use the whip to loft the piles and set them in the holster then grab the hammer and clamp on and swing to the pile location. The first picture is all piles sitting in holsters

 

[Tugger2]

 

[Tugger2]

Sorry about the extra pictures. A couple of bridges the 40 ton was helping out on. Had a 270 ton crane set the girders on the big bridge ,while the 40 ton did all the the other handling. Then moved up the hill to a small pre cast bridge some 25000 lb abutments and 18000 lb deck panels ,just right for the 40 ton.

 

[ryanmueller]

Sorry about the extra pictures. A couple of bridges the 40 ton was helping out on. Had a 270 ton crane set the girders on the big bridge ,while the 40 ton did all the the other handling. Then moved up the hill to a small pre cast bridge some 25000 lb abutments and 18000 lb deck panels ,just right for the 40 ton.

Can you road that crane all put together like that

 

[Tugger2]

Yes but the 40 ton is a bit limited for roading . Out there its all off highway. Actually going on the lowbed back to the shop fully rigged .

 

[HydraMacDieHard79]

Sweeet

 

[ryanmueller]

Hauled my ls58 and bantam abm-53 to my house last weekend and been draglining

 

[Tugger2]

Nice dirt in your sandbox .Are you digging a pond?

 

[ryanmueller]

Nice dirt in your sandbox .Are you digging a pond?

Nope just playing around burning fuel

 

[ryanmueller]

Dragline definitely isn't the best machine for pulling sumps

 

[Tugger2]

Maybe dream up a hydraulic thumb for that drag bucket (haha) or take some time out and hook up your clam. It looks like your having fun out there.

 

[Tugger2]

Seem to be having a run on bridges this year.
Heres a test run on the big one.
Stock piling 5 more in the Forestry Yard for future projects.

 

[ryanmueller]

Maybe dream up a hydraulic thumb for that drag bucket (haha) or take some time out and hook up your clam. It looks like your having fun out there.

There was only one stump to take out and it's a long steep narrow walk back to the buckets

 

[mitch504]

Don't lie, there's always just a little anxiety in that first trip over a new bridge, isn't it?

I once made the last trip over an old bridge, ended up with my steer axle just on the ground and the truck pointing up like it was ready for a moon shot. I've never looked at any small private bridge the same way since.

 

[Tugger2]

The Engineers said it was good to go. What could go wrong Haha.

 

[Tugger2]

The Lima headed out the gate to do some work with the grapple.
A narrow spot on the way for 13'- 6" wide , pilot truck driver was very good at blocking the oncoming lemmings. Sorry for the blur.
Rigged and ready.

 

[Hank R]

Lima looks good, a lot different than the last time I seen it.

 

[HATCHEQUIP]

Lemmings never heard them called that, other things that we shall not say on this site yes, but not lemmings, so I looked up the official description and yes both description's seem to fit.

1. a small, short-tailed, thickset rodent related to the voles, found in the Arctic tundra.
   • a person who unthinkingly joins a mass movement, especially a headlong rush to destruction.
   

1. 
   Back in the late 60s or early 70s letting the air down out of 12 axles worth of tires to get that extra needed inch to get under a RR bridge on hwy 41 in GA. with a police escort. Traffic backed up and an old man and woman in a Cadillac from Florida on their way back north were rite behind lowboy, 4 men letting air out as fast as they can and he starts blowing and blowing the horn. Dad goes back and pops the hood on the caddi reaches in and unplugs the horn. The old woman rolls her window down and thanks him an tells him the old fool has no place to be and all the time in the world to get there. After we got under the bridge dad goes back and plugs the horn back up.
   

 

[HydraMacDieHard79]

Seem to be having a run on bridges this year.
Heres a test run on the big one.
Stock piling 5 more in the Forestry Yard for future projects.View attachment 199383 View attachment 199383 View attachment 199384

Wow! What a sight, Those old American's are a weakness of mine! What's the powerplant Boss!?

 

[ryanmueller]

The Lima headed out the gate to do some work with the grapple.
A narrow spot on the way for 13'- 6" wide , pilot truck driver was very good at blocking the oncoming lemmings. Sorry for the blur.
Rigged and ready.

What model Lima?