some link belt action

[Colorado Digger]

the 135

yeah I had a 135, it was sweet. you could load trucks quickly. move it easy. it had good reach for sewer and water. really good for a backfiller. but I was in a bind. so i got of it. only owed 34k on it with 2300 hrs. anyway,, so is life. i got over it. most guys up here love the 314 and use em daily. ended up having a great year and the larger hoes have paid for themselves so far. dozerboy- yes. everything- demo, residential, commercial. large jobs and small. this year we have been on quite a few big ones. thank god. starting a new dig hopefully this week. and are getting ready to plant 200 12-20' spruce trees. got a new bucket for my 210 lx so i am excited to mount it. it is a esco 36" severe duty. the machine currently has a 54" 7 tooth SEC on it. i would like to put a coupler on that machine and eventually get a grapple for it as well. my 225 and 210x2 both have thumbs on them. which we love. but there is something to be said for not having the weight out there. the 54" on that machine is awesome for cleanup and loading. 7 passes on a tandem. i gonna say it loads in less than 2 minutes with that bucket. thanks guys

 

[nedly05]

All of this Link Belt action is making me want to try one!

 

[Colorado Digger]

pics from the office hardrive

let me see what i can come up with for todays dose of the link-belts. here is the 135 in action in Aspen, co. we also have the 225 doing demo.

 

[Colorado Digger]

more pics

a few more while i am at it. here is the large job i have been on since may. things are going very well.

 

[hvy 1ton]

I remember the 135 now. So, your working on a subdivision then? Looks like a really nice valley and high up too.

 

[nedly05]

Whats a decent used 135 LB go for? Looks like a nice rig.

 

[Colorado Digger]

more pics

it was cold out there today. i don't remember what it got down to but it was brutal!

 

[Colorado Digger]

cold, cold , cold

and a few more,

 

[nedly05]

We've had the weirdest weather this fall, it was in the teens and snowing last week, right now its almost 50, wind blowing 30MPH and raining like an SOB. It's been like that for about a month, a week of cold, a week of warm. It's hard to get used to!

 

[Colorado Digger]

yeah, it was about 8 below yesterday. now it is 26 with snow coming in. gotta keep movin though. big push from thanksgiving to christmas. 2 weeks for new years and back at it. i might slow down somwe in late feb, march. but doubt it the way things are going. man the guys are really puttin the hurtin to the iron it has been a rough week .. already. i will gone for a month in dec/jan. hope to get a tour of the Liebherr factory in Colmar, France.

 

[Stevenbrla]

Enjoying your pics CD.

You live in my favorite part of our country. If I keep looking at this thread, I'll get motivated enough to sched a lil vacation over there in Feb-March.

Its also nice to read a thread hearing about work instead of woes. We need more of these!

thanks for sharing... keep em coming.

 

[Colorado Digger]

today's action

here are a few from today. it snowed most of the day. around 25 f. here. we are taking delivery of about 200 colorado spruce 6' to 20' so we are healing them in. we will start planting next week. we have some stuff to do, like dig a borrow pit, out of dry dirt. yesterday with the temps at 10 below i could penetrate in some places with a 36" hd bucket. today it was no problem. we took a bunch of split rail fence down so we can get on to the berms and plant all these trees. no irrigation or hydroseed this year.
we allso are trying to finish a good sized dig up by the ski hill and the skid steer operater broke his windshield yesterday and also almost got fired by adding all water to his radiator. if the machine had not plugged in i woulld have a cracked block. they can only move about 240 yds a day, so i went up there and told em to put in in overdrive. i dont care what it takes. no other machine will load the material across the hole. it all stay on site, and the developer is doing it a.. backwards. but i don't really care.
have another dig to start on monday, so that will keep another digging crew busy.

 

[Colorado Digger]

a few more

 

[Colorado Digger]

two more

 

[ARPlante]

Great pics Colorado! I probably could have been more productive reading some regs over the last half hour but I think reading through your thread was more enjoyable

Keep the great pics coming!

 

[Colorado Digger]

thanks,

yeah i try to take at least 10 pics a day form my BB, then one on our guys take 20-40 depending on what we are doing, all the job pics go to the office hard drive, then everything is in one place. i have had such a great year, i got alot more seriious about my business this time last year. i found that praying alot tends to help!
we are good, made a few purchases this year, paid off quite a few notes and are rolling right in to december, it has been tough with the weather so crappy. we get to the job at 6.20 am eveyone gors their own way, operaters start u their gear, check oil and coolent. supers meet inmy office, we get out of our jammies and into serious coveralls, the laborer tend to get the utility cars going. get their tools ready. most operaters asre working by 6.50 or so'
7.15 lastest, and we all go get after in
we dont have radio becuase the power is ouyt in our trailer, called the neighbor electricican and it has been 2 weeks, can;t believe it.... if he has a major problrm like a frozrn water line he will need help and i wikk be right there, some times i donnot get people

 

[nedly05]

Man it's rough working when it's that cold! Pics are great keep em comin' Did you get that SEC bucket all back together?

 

[Colorado Digger]

yeah, it's cold!

yeah the bucket has new teeth and i welded up the cracks up by the rabbit ears are to mount the pins. if you close in the pics you can see where it has been welded. i needed new teeth cat wanted $75.00 each. plus pins and bushings. all in all it was gonna be over $500.00. i got the stuff down in grand junction for half.
we are starting a new dig monday so now i am watching the weather ,, don't wanna be slippin and slindin' hauling a 210.. nono..nahah. not't gonna do it. that is the part i dislike the most. hauling a large excavator up or down frozen blacktop
the power is still out at out job trailer, the electrician did not wanna answer his phone, after about 5 calls he finally picked up. should be there today. i hope remembers this when his water line freezes.. he is my next door for crist sakes. that's it boys and girls.. time to get 'er moving.
need to dig a borrow pit on a job for dry dirt, the bossman said no. so we will just run out or dirt and when his berms are not done....i will say"i told you so" sign right here please.

 

[nedly05]

That bucket doesnt look too bad. We didnt get anything done yesterday due to the weather on wednesday. All we did yesterday is run around checking our roads and clean up trees. today we have to do some chipping! Good old fall/ winter weather!

 

[Colorado Digger]

some more link-belt action

well it is friday. had a tough go at it yesterday. got my tandem up a steep hill with alot of snow and ice. broke a rear single, no backup. all in all it took about 3 hours to get one load.
we are planting about 200 large colorado spruce. average 15 per day. so about 3 weeks.
moving a 210 to atart another job this weekend.
cheers, i hope everyone has a great weekend.