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Believe it or not this was my first piece of Heavy Equipment ( which is in the picture below ) that I started on, and I was about 5 years old at the time.
I would spoon out holes in Dad's dirt driveway big big enough to put my fist in and then see how far I could carve out the side ways all around inside the hole before it would cave in then fill it back in before Dad got home.
I was inspired by watching a man with an old Ford tractor with a loader bucket and he would load gravel out of the creek on to his dump truck in front of our house in the country and sell it to people for road and driveway repairs.
Later on in life ( 19 ) I drove a Potato Chip truck,
then a Single Axle, a Tandem, and a Tri Axle Dump dump trucks.
1980 Freightliner Cab Over and a dump trailer
1994 Freightliner Condo and 53' trailers
1999 Freightliner Classic Condo and 53' trailers
A 769 and 773 Cat Dumps
A Euclid 35 Ton Dump
An 50 Ton Pay Hauler Dump
480 and 580 Case backhoes
300 and 310 JD backhoes
Kobelco and a Korean Excavator Track Hoes
Endloaders ... Cat Track 955/977/983 - Jd 450
Some different rubber tired loaders
Dozers ... 450/550,
Cats 6 and 7,
AC 11 and 21
Cranes ... 18 Ton Drott,
20 Ton Groves,
20/35 Ton Bantams,
45 Ton American,
50 Ton Link Belt.
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