Hello Blademan, I see you have a good eye. When you work for Flintstone Excavating, you gotta do what you can to keep warm! We had a good guy in our shop, who made these plywood windows, with removable plexiglass, so you could close the cab up to suit the temperature, leaving the frame in place helped keep the heat away in summer, as it was when these were taken..
Walling up that side and the door side is usually enough until it gets really cold..I'd still rather have the EROPS with heat and AC though...
I just got back from the doc this morning, getting the stitches out from my carpal tunnel release. The numbness is getting better, hope it leaves completely.
In two weeks, I have to get the right wrist done, for tendonitus this time. The right wrist gets to hurting real bad, probably caused from sawing my arm off self loading this junk...back and forth on a lever with 10 or 20 pound pull, about 10,000 times a day...when you are reliable you get to work alone a lot.
That, and it's hard to find two of our operators or scrapers that can work together, but I like it when it happens. Push pulling rules with 2 or 3 good operators, and we've had up to 4 hooked together
at one time....stuff happens real fast with a string of 4!
Funny, I always thought scrapers were supposed to ruin your back and kidneys, not your arm and hands!
What a drag it is getting old...
Here's my ride from last spring, when I worked out in Arizona, notice the slight improvement.....
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