Working in a winter wonderland

[245dlc]

I made a couple videos today of a new type of amusement park just being started here. We had a pretty wet summer so the contractor decided to dig this man made lake or pond while there is some frost in the ground so they can use they're old Cat 631's and newer D8T with GPS. The displaced earth is being used to build a hill for tubing and I think tobogganing as well the lake is suppose to be for bathing and wakeboarding I guess this is all being directed towards an extreme sports type of crowd. So I thought I'd make a couple videos the crew is working around the clock so frost doesn't become to unmanageable and so they can be finished this portion of the project by Christmas.

YouTube - D8T pushloading 631's
YouTube - Winter time dozer and scraper work.

YouTube - D8T ripping frost for scrapers.

 

[buckfever]

The temp. in my house just dropped watching that vid. Winter sucks, mud and snow just showed up here:crying

 

[245dlc]

The temp. in my house just dropped watching that vid. Winter sucks, mud and snow just showed up here:crying

Lol, is that all you've got to deal with? Try -40C or one of our blinding snow storms.

 

[CM1995]

Try -40C or one of our blinding snow storms.

No thank you...that's why I live where you can wear shorts year-round

 

[Burnout]

No thank you...that's why I live where you can wear shorts year-round

Awww c'mon Cory, you said you would love to come up here someday. I can look it up on fb and prove it :canada

 

[willie59]

Ummm, nope, I'm like CM, I make it a point to live no farther north than where a Magnolia tree will grow. :tong

Nice vids though.

 

[CM1995]

Awww c'mon Cory, you said you would love to come up here someday.

Absolutely, I have heard that Alberta is quite nice in the summertime.

 

[Burnout]

Absolutely, I have heard that Alberta is quite nice in the summertime.

Come for 3 weeks... you can experience all of it.

 

[hvy 1ton]

Absolutely, I have heard that Alberta is quite nice in the summertime.

Come for 3 weeks... you can experience all of it.

Sounds like Alberta is the Canadian equivalent to Kansas. If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes.:lmao

 

[stock]

Sounds like Alberta is the Canadian equivalent to Kansas. If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes.:lmao

Sounds like Eire; always thought Alberta had good weather in the fall least ways Niel Young said it was

YouTube - Neil Young - Four Strong Winds

 

[Burnout]

If you don't mind freezing your rollers off if you know what I mean, fall is great. It's still fall here and last week it was -17f. So tell me, does it sound nice lol?

Summer is nice, its just short.

 

[DPete]

Brrrrrrrrrrr wait tell the wind blows about 40, thanks for vids, kinda think they are 621's

 

[245dlc]

Brrrrrrrrrrr wait tell the wind blows about 40, thanks for vids, kinda think they are 621's

They could be it was hard to see the decal on them, we already had a couple days when the wind was blowing 60km/hr it wasn't really cold but sure made the highways treacherous but that's pretty normal around here. lol Sure made me wish I was in Vancouver. lol

 

[buckfever]

- 40 I think i would call in dead. It was a frigged 16 here in the morning. How hard is it to get stuff started when it's that cold? If it goes bellow 0 here we stay home.

 

[245dlc]

Just about every machine here has a block heater or some kind of coolant heater to keep the motor warm, even ordinary cars and trucks so you plug in at night or whenever you park the car, truck, or machine and then hopefully you can start it in the morning. When I use to work for a basement excavation company the machines that were on lowbeds were always parked indoors over night, plus we ran 0W40 engine oil during the winter instead of 15W40 as we didn't always have the luxury of plugging the machine in on some jobsites. We were running 4 Cat 320's and the whole series up to the "D" series machines had a really good pre-heater so even at -30C with 15W40 the engine would sputter and cough but would start nonetheless. Then we got are first "D" series and even at -10C which is considered tropical during the winter here we would have trouble getting it started so often it would be brought back to the shop every night if we couldn't find a place to plug it in. Why it was like that I don't know I didn't stay with that outfit long enough to find out but I know some of the problems we had with the machines were largely due to the connection between the operator's seat and the joysticks. But other tricks to starting a machine in our infamous freezing temperatures is "don't turn it off except to change the oil" or other tricks were making a tent around the machine and heating it with a Herman Nelson Heater fuel oil heater. On big jobs some machines are operated around the clock to avoid starting problems or they are again "plugged in" to an electrical source like a light plant or jobsite shack. etc.

 

[Burnout]

Yeah you could do all that, or just buy some summer in a can.

 

[CM1995]

- 40

Isn't -40 where C and F become the same temp? Anyway...sittin' in shorts enjoying a cool breeze....

Oh yeah I forgot to mention the beach...

 

[buckfever]

Using either with glowplugs:nono Good way to get a new topend rebuild. Plus once you feed it go-go gas it will want it all the time.

 

[245dlc]

Yeah it's been a while since I've had to use that, I prefer using it for potato gun fuel. lol:tong

 

[Burnout]

Using either with glowplugs:nono Good way to get a new topend rebuild. Plus once you feed it go-go gas it will want it all the time.

I used some today.....good ole RB.