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245dlc

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In that last picture I cleaned up through a dry creek, In these area's there use to be a lot of little creeks that ran to the Red River but over the years various Conservation Districts, municipalities, and the Provincial government straightened them, redirected them and turned others in to more of a ditch than an actual water body. Some of it was to alleviate flooding during the spring and heavy rainfalls as this area was a lake after the glaciers receded and is now a natural flood plain. But a lot of this was done to accommodate very intensive farming. 20180705_091347.jpg 20180705_091356.jpg 20180705_101038.jpg 20180705_160458.jpg
 

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Because this year was so dry the municipality had us brushing and cleaning out ditches that were often very difficult to do a proper clean out. I hope next spring we're working drier ground. lol The flies were unreal.20180705_172811.jpg 20180706_113051.jpg 20180706_173808.jpg 20180710_082005.jpg
 

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Gotta love brushing through spruce trees or well any kind of coniferous trees they smell so good. lol20180711_110541.jpg 20180712_085421.jpg 20180712_085423.jpg 20180712_091659.jpg
 

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View attachment 188604 View attachment 188605 View attachment 188606 View attachment 188607 We started running out of some steadier work not that we didn't have any so we took on a job with the Highways Department in the rolling and very pretty Western Manitoba near Riding Mountain National Park. We took a couple back roads hoping that it would be a little faster but the one was apparently being rebuilt as you can see in the pictures. It's very seldom we see a dozer in this Province bigger than a D8K so this D10 was a pleasant surprise.
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20180712_100523.jpg 20180712_170022.jpg 20180712_170026.jpg 20180712_170032.jpg Something I wanted to share as I continue my thread is how we keep the thumb from drifting on the Hitachi and Kobelco using some ready rod, nuts and bolts, and some rebar. Now I'm personally not a big fan of the stick mounted thumb I'd rather have a proper grab preferably a rotating one but that's not always an option for everyone. Currently the hydraulic system on the Hitachi is set up for the brush cutter so I can't use the thumb because the seal on the thumb cylinder will rupture and leak. I also learned how to run an excavator 'old school' so I can do a lot with just a toothed bucket or a cutting edge especially with a tilt ditching bucket. I've been bugging the boss quite a bit just to take it off completely as I haven't used it in a year and since it seems to be such a hastle to reduce the relief valve pressure when I'm not using the brush cutter.
 

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This was a neat little clearing job for a farmer he had bought both pieces of land on either side of this windrow and wanted to join the two and then plow in drain tile right across. Well first thing was to clear the vegetation which looked simple enough at first but ended up being a job that was better suited for piling and burning than trying to mulch it. Much of this bush was some type of berry bush that didn't cut well at all it would often get pulled into the brush cutter and some chunks would get torn off and thrown for a couple hundred feet or it would wrap around and even stall the cutter. So often all I could do is cut it at the base while sweeping it off all the piled up field stone. After switching over to the tooth bucket I started raking the brush off the rock piles with the teeth trying to keep everything separate while wishing I had a skeleton bucket or a brush rake or maybe both. There was a ton of rock all glacial till cleared off over the last 80 or more years by the original settlers in that area some rocks being absolutely massive and one I eventually dug up was nearly as big as the machine and nearly as heavy and kinda cemented in to the hard pan below. I had to dig a ramp just so I could try to pull it out.20180910_104937.jpg 20180910_104946.jpg 20180911_131016.jpg 20180911_131029.jpg
 

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Some of the larger rocks that I could manage to pick up I tracked to the edge of the field as it would of been difficult to lift them up high enough to get in to a rock truck (ADT). In the end we didn't do the final cleanup as some gloomy wet weather had moved in and kept us from renting a rock truck and hauling the brush and rocks off the field. And I was transferred to work on a couple big ditching jobs until the end of October beginning of November. The farmer wanted it done a.s.a.p. and hired somebody else to finish the job so he could have the drain tile installed in a more timely manner.20180911_180201.jpg 20180912_120148.jpg 20180913_093030.jpg 20180914_130900.jpg
 

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Some pictures of the mammoth boulder I found while cleaning up the last windrow of rocks. The top of it was right at the surface and had to be removed well it took digging around it down to about 4 feet down and a ramp so I could drag it out of its glacial resting place. I was curious as to how they dragged or pushed it off the field or if they hired somebody to drill it and split it.20180917_171732.jpg 20180917_173941.jpg 20180917_174700.jpg 20180918_082404.jpg
 

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After that fun little job I got in to ditching and got to spend some time in the Cadillac of the fleet the Kobelco. lol The one thing I love about that machine is the spacious cab compared to these Deere/Hitachi machines and the more ergonomic joysticks. The thumb retainers for the Kobelco fell apart and the boss doesn't want to dismount the stupid thing so we're looking for other ways to hold it back against the stick.20180919_132527.jpg 20180919_152527.jpg 20180919_153204.jpg 20180919_170125.jpg
 

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20180919_171451.jpg 20180919_171454.jpg 20180920_150006.jpg There isn't really anything too exciting about ditching we just had a lot of it this year as it was a municipal election year so they were throwing tonnes of money at ditching this year plus conditions were quite dry for most of it supposedly enabling us to get in to some trouble spots. Sometimes spreading out the muck in farmers fields can take a few months to a year because its so sloppy but this year they had a friend of the company out in force with his International TD-20's pushing and spreading and he'll be hard at it again in the spring. He's got an amazing fleet of International and Cat dozers and scrapers. I'll post some pictures a little later you guys will love it.
 

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On my way home one day on hwy#12 a New Holland tractor towing a couple trailers full of square bales caught fire right at rush hour. The Fire Department worked quickly to get it under control before they lost any bales. I think some had started smoking but were quickly doused!20180920_175017.jpg 20180920_175319.jpg 20180920_175918.jpg 20180920_175919.jpg
 

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This ditch was kinda interesting as it had been a problem spot for many years, the family that lived adjacent to it said they had several years where in the spring the municipality had to use large pto powered pumps to move water away from their property so finally this year the Conservation District and the municipality teamed up to clean the ditch along side the road and this one that cut through the bush I had a few quite evident high spots including in this corner so hopefully this helps the people in this area.20180924_154558.jpg 20180924_154601.jpg 20180924_155032.jpg 20180924_165153.jpg
 

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After the boss kicked me off the Cadillac and back on to the penalty box (the Hitachi) I started on a new ditching job running parallel with an existing gravel road and running in to a large flood channel. It needed to be ditched largely because a nearby highway was being rebuilt and some nearby farmland on the other side often had standing water on it. Some places I could bail on to adjacent fields but because I was so far down and there was homes along the road I had to bail on to the side of the road so another excavator could rehandle it and load in to a couple tandem axle dump trucks.20180926_134505.jpg 20180928_090248.jpg 20180928_103716.jpg 20181002_080931.jpg
 

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Had some terrible weather for October too just a little frustrating. lol20181003_144501.jpg 20181003_144802.jpg 20181003_151246.jpg 20181003_151254.jpg
 

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I got to run our rental unit for a day or two a brand new JD180GLC pretty nice machine to run but still not as roomy as the Kobelco, feels more like your wearing the cab on these Deere/Hitachi's. Also terrible fuel economy compared to the Isuzu that should be under that hood. But it was new and everything was nice and tight unlike the penalty box I'm forever stuck on.....20181012_150605.jpg 20181012_150611.jpg 20181012_150627.jpg 20181012_150637.jpg
 

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The 180 was an impressive machine it had the undercarriage of a 210, the boom and stick of a 210, but the body and engine of a 160 and a little less weight than a 210 making it a little easier to transport. The fuel system on the 180 is a lot better than our aging 160 with no less than three canister style fuel filters each with a water separator it also had a tier 3 engine so no DPF or DEF b.s. to contend with or to delete. The price tag was ridiculous though at $240,000CAD with the dealer blaming steel tarriff's. Thanks Donald Chump change!20181012_150254.jpg 20181012_150258.jpg 20181012_150314.jpg 20181012_150318.jpg
 

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On my way home one day on hwy#12 a New Holland tractor towing a couple trailers full of square bales caught fire right at rush hour. The Fire Department worked quickly to get it under control before they lost any bales. I think some had started smoking but were quickly doused!View attachment 189425 View attachment 189426 View attachment 189427 View attachment 189428

I don't know but I think the farmer would have rather had the bales catch fire than the tractor burn to the ground.
 
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