Rebuild Pics

[Chris91786]

And more:

 

[Chris91786]

826G currently in progress now:

 

[EGS]

Wow that is real undertaking! Maybe some weekend you could come up here and rebuild my 385.

 

[Chris91786]

Wow that is real undertaking! Maybe some weekend you could come up here and rebuild my 385.

lol it would take a lot more than a weekend

 

[EGS]

Do you guys ever rebuild any back-hoe's?

 

[Chris91786]

Nah, I can't think of one that we have done. We mainly do the bigger stuff, but I'm sure we could easily do one.

 

[Steve Frazier]

It probably wouldn't make economic sense to commercially rebuild a relatively inexpensive backhoe. By the time you were done paying for the refurb, you'd probably be very close to the purchase price of a new one.

 

[JDMGrading]

How about the larger excavators 365? 385?

 

[Chris91786]

How about the larger excavators 365? 385?

We have done a 345 but nothing bigger. It would be cool though.

 

[EGS]

It probably wouldn't make economic sense to commercially rebuild a relatively inexpensive backhoe. By the time you were done paying for the refurb, you'd probably be very close to the purchase price of a new one.

I guess what I meant was the bigger backhoes like 5110, 5130, etc.

 

[tippatone]

WOW that's great work Chris, you and your guys should be taken out for a round of cold ones:drinkup got anymore 16G or any other motor graders pics? Do you guys work on any scrapers?

 

[Chris91786]

Thanks. Yea, I have some more pics from the 16G, I'll post them in a little. We do work on a lot of scrapers. We rebuilt a 631 for some coal plant near Tampa, don't have any pics though.

 

[dist3]

I think certified rebuilds done thru Cat dealers are only on certain machines. Our service salesperon told me excavators weren't on the list for the rebuilds. A 245 was in there shop but wouldn't receive new serial numbers when completed.

 

[MrKomatsu]

wow that is strange about the cat dealere limiting the types of certified rebuilds....At Komatsu we offer certified rebuilds on all of the machines......i've bn involved in many rebuilds...

 

[Chris91786]

It's not up to the dealers, it's up to CAT. And yes, there are only certain machines, for some stupid reason, that qualify for a certified rebuild.

 

[tippatone]

Hey Chris, just curious, where did you go to learn your trade?

 

[Chris91786]

I went through the Apprentice Program at Ring Power.

 

[tippatone]

I went through the Apprentice Program at Ring Power.

How long it take for you to complete? I have much respect for the heavy equipment techs. The way you guys tear down/rebuild is cool.

 

[tippatone]

Never mind, I just checked out the website and I saw it was two years.

 

[optherockman]

Great pics , maybe you could help with my 320b L. LOL