Working in Alaska pictures

[alaskaforby4]

Here is a driveway apron we completed. Almost got it paved when they decided to come in and widen the road ripping out all our work. Oh well

 

[alaskaforby4]

Another small driveway and the welldrillers punching in a new one.

 

[alaskaforby4]

Here is a shallow septic system due to a high watertable. Sewer lines in AK have to be buried at a minimum of 4' or 2' with 2" of insulation

 

[D6 Merv]

Is that a 18A D9D you,ve got. And a 14A D8 in your pic ?
comon don,t be shy, you havnt put up decent pics of those 2 girls yet :drinkup

 

[nedly05]

I love your pics dude, I'm going to go check Alaska out someday, I've always wanted to go there. We haven't seen -30 here in a few years. Thats fine with me too, I don't like it at all when its that cold!

 

[alaskaforby4]

Is that a 18A D9D you,ve got. And a 14A D8 in your pic ?
comon don,t be shy, you havnt put up decent pics of those 2 girls yet :drinkup

Okay, Ill stir up the albums and see what I can find. This pic here was on the ol' 18A my grandpa bought it nearly new around '56 then slapped some new paint on it in the 80's its my first known pic behind the controls

I love your pics dude, I'm going to go check Alaska out someday, I've always wanted to go there. We haven't seen -30 here in a few years. Thats fine with me too, I don't like it at all when its that cold!

Thanks Nedly, I just got though with your 35 page adventure yesterday. Great pics! I dont enjoy when its that cold either, just keep warmer times on the mind!

 

[alaskaforby4]

This equipment is at our family homesteaded mine, I'll do my best to answer questions.

 

[alaskaforby4]

This old grader is really neat, I have some pictures of my grandpa pulling it with the backhoe and my dad behind the controls, really great to see in action!

 

[alaskaforby4]

We dont have any old excavators besides this old bucyrus. I ran this one for a few days, it was alot of fun, always pushing or pulling or holding a break! Cant sit back and relax in that operators seat, haha. I'm hoping we can get it running again this summer and I'll get some good footage and photos of her in action.

 

[alaskaforby4]

Heres an old le tourneau scraper, never saw this one in action that I recall, kinda small for the stuff we usually do. The other scraper has been used quite a bit, that one links up behind the D9 quite nice.

 

[OldandWorn]

Nice eye candy!! Thanks for posting pics of your work and machines.

 

[D6 Merv]

Yeah cheers for the pics, quite a collection. D9D is the first of the series with a single air cleaner; later ones had dual aircleaners.
Is that a late IH TD18 with the twin exhaust pipes, or a early TD20 ?? Seems tidy; still run ? And looks like a alliis HD20 hidden in there too.
Little LeT model D scoop goes good behind a D4 or HD5 !

 

[alaskaforby4]

Yeah cheers for the pics, quite a collection. D9D is the first of the series with a single air cleaner; later ones had dual aircleaners.
Is that a late IH TD18 with the twin exhaust pipes, or a early TD20 ?? Seems tidy; still run ? And looks like a alliis HD20 hidden in there too.
Little LeT model D scoop goes good behind a D4 or HD5 !

It is a TD-18, an old Army dozer, it runs good. The D9 and IH run the best somtimes the old D8-14a cable makes an appearance. I have some video of them in working somewhere around here. I'll have to get them up. The cable blades are a lot of fun to operate. Totally different game then hydraulic.. That little scrape would come in handy, had this job this summer where this guy wanted his hill/mountain taller so he could have a building pad on the top of this pinnacle. We ran the loader up and down the hill for a day or so. it eventually got to muddy. A dozer and scraper would have been nice. If I only had a winch on the 450.....




So we made a bigger pad up there by the Stonehenge....


So he could have a better view of this...

 

[245dlc]

It would be neat to see that Bucyrus cable blade in action. I saw a Northwest running once years ago definitely no relaxing for the operator. lol

 

[truklodyte]

Well guys and gals ,I can see why you all enjoy Alaska.Gold is nice but good friends will last a life time .I think I would rather play with the heavey equipment and just by strange luck find gold. Post more pictures and video even if its of the wild life.Thanks again here is my videos here in Florida enjoy.http://www.youtube.com/user/Truklodyte

 

[alaskaforby4]

Here is the site for intended shop


Clearing off the overburden down to good gravel



Dig a big hole, I almost got the boom maxed out when I hit bedrock



Calculating how big the hole needs to be in order to have enough gravel and be able to bury everything



Everything worked out perfectly!

 

[alaskaforby4]

Intended driveway


Starting the dig, first hole I hit about 9' of sand... Not exactly what you want at the base of a big hill you have to drive up.



Making progress one hole at a time



It is always tricky working on a slope, cleaning your road base down to gravel, piling the debris, digging the hole out of the road prism and not getting yourself trapped.



Slow but sure

 

[alaskaforby4]

Finally made it up to the switch back.




Clearing the top of hill for house pad.

 

[alaskaforby4]

Digging out basement



Finally got the driveway all finished up.

 

[truklodyte]

Road looks nice,Maybe someday the wife and I can travel to your area of the states.