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[Colorado Digger]

The 160 is awesome, so easy to move around. The grizzly is new, I bought two of them at RB's for $3500.00 each. The first one ran about 4000 yards and is about dusted. .75 cents a yard isn't all that bad











Regards, CD

 

[Landclearer]

Greta pics as always, what are you working on? Looks like someone did a lot of compacting with a Ramax Any luck on finding a dozer?

 

[Colorado Digger]

The one hole with the blonde dirt is another foundation in Aspen, We usually drop the trusted rt82 down in the whole to roll when we are done. The red dirt is a big ranch we are working on, but we hit 15' of topsoil and had to move the hole after it was about done. Nice change order. Most of the work is all up in the Aspen area. I could really use some help, but can't stand new guy's.








Regards, CD

 

[Landclearer]

Nothing wrong with change orders, especially on a job like that. We could use some guys as well but it is hard to find good people. We do everything from a shovel to driving a truck. Most guys think they are an operator or truck driver and that is it so it hard to find guys that don't mind mixing in some labor.

 

[Colorado Digger]

We are the same way, I think we have one laborer amongst the other 9 of us.

 

[Colorado Digger]

Here are a few fotos from the last few weeks. Just digging and digging.











Regards, CD

 

[ScottAR]

Love those big sky pics.... Digging looks pretty easy for a change...

 

[Landclearer]

I see you still have the 750, no luck on finding a different dozer?

 

[Colorado Digger]

No, The dozer is going back to the Dealer on Monday. It has been nothing but problems. After working hard for a few hours it gets hot. The A/C does not work and it is a nightmare. They found me a 6n but the job is going crappy and I only want to keep equipment the company owns out there. We hot bad soils and had to wait and they refused to pay stand-by time while I had the dozer on rent and it upset me.

Regards, CD

 

[Landclearer]

Sorry the 750 was so bad. I hear you on not wanting to rent. It adds up real quick and can put decent job in the hole. I am with you, try to keep your machines on the job. We try not to rent very often unless it is a pan or an ADT.

 

[390eric]

How many hrs are on the 750? we have one with 10,000 hrs and its nothing but trouble. Spent all last summer fighting it overheating. This year the hydraulic oil is overheating. Another one with 5000 hrs, two turbos and a lot of other issues. The blade was starting to crack on all the welds after 2000 hrs. Both were bought brand new. They are good dozers up to 5000 or so hours but seems like after that, they start to break down a lot faster.

 

[Colorado Digger]

The 750j had 4900 hours on it and all I could see were problems. It always ran hot after 2 hours or so and would begin to overheat. I liked the setup but whoever had it before had not taken very good care of it.
Anyway's, We have continued to stay busy even though some utility work was canceled until spring. I did not have a good feeling about the blacktop and the patch on a state highway so we backed off.











Regards, CD

 

[Colorado Digger]

Here a few more from the fall season. It is supposed to turn into winter tonight and Monday. It has been very mild, so it is about time to star getting cold.












Regards, CD

 

[ScottAR]

Beautiful as always.

 

[dirty4fun]

It is a very pretty place to have to be working in, but he suffers through looking at it every day. Looks like a pretty big job in the last set of pictures.

 

[nedly05]

Lookin good CD! Did you buy a new loader? I havent been around much, but I left the town job and went back to the family business so I am back cruising HEF a lot more now!

 

[Landclearer]

Is that a Kawasaki loader? How is it? Looks like a nice size job, what's that going to be?

 

[joispoi]

Great pictures CD and thanks for sharing them. Do you have any winter pics?

 

[Colorado Digger]

Hi fellas, So the deal is, with the Kawasaki.. They sent me a 70 z7 brand new and it could not work at altitude. I want a loader that can drop the bucket when he is pushing up at the end of the ramp. Anyhow, that one is a 67z7 hydrostat tool carrier. About the size of a 930k. It is a sweet machine, not as much rear end, better push out and power. They have done a lot better on the high altitude models. Other than that, We are getting used to the Regen's on the new iron. I don't know how Cat or Deere does it, but we get "improper shut down" quite a bit. We have them programmed with auto-shut off. And it still does not always work. I really notice how our other iron smokes as compared to the new stuff. Last year, Aspen with the County and State Patrol did a smog check on the trucks running in our valley and it was ugly. We never got in trouble, but after that, I bought the Volvo and sold a T800. It has been a sweet ride since.. We are the Volvo with a pup and getting 23t per trip. Only minor maintenance issues and EGR coolers. The new Bobcat's.. E55 and the T770 have been easy. We had some problems with a leak on the back of the boom, where the hoses go from hoses to steel. After that, everything has been fine. Bobcat did come up and put a manuel reburn kit on the 770. I bought a Metso/Nordberg CV100 screening plant and we have been getting out monies worth.











Regards, CD

 

[alaskaforby4]

Great read CD! I am impressed at you ability to work through winter with that much frost in the ground. I don't see frost buckets on the equipment? do you set up ground heaters quite a bit?
I cracked my boom of the old JD 490D digging 8' of frost down to a 10' water & sewer main. That was a first and a last. Last week we ran into about 18" of frost laying sewer line under a driveway took us 3 hrs to dig 60' at about 3' deep That will be our last job for the winter. I went and looked at a steam ground thawing truck, but that looked like a maintenance nightmare with production dropping to zip.
Think Ill just stay in the warm shop and read some more of you thread :thumbsup Keep up the good work!