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RonG

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That gland nut is a work of art.I have a lathe in my basement but I never seem to be able to turn out the quality work that I envision when I start.I don't know if it is tooling or what.It seems like I got a lot of stuff when I bought it.I do have a book on running a lathe,maybe I should read it.Ron G
 

td25c

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Machine shop done an excellent job on the gland nut . I first thought about looking for a used nut but buy the time I would locate one my buddy would have a new one cranked out . I'm lucky to have them close by .

I will do simple turning procedures on my lathe , cutting something down or building drive shafts . I let my buddy do the more intricate work .:)
 

td25c

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Left & right side dump valve

The KW wrecker has the 8 bag air ride suspension . I never was a big fan of air ride trucks mostly due to stability taking a curve or on hill sides . One big advantage is the KW system used separate leveling valve's on left & right side .

We took it one step further and re plumed an old air slide fith wheel switch so now we can dump air on either side independently depending on situation . Helps at times when you want to level the truck up a bit on a hill side .

Dropped some equipment of on a site where we could not unload on the asphalt drive so pulled in beside it . Was leaning a little more than I like so dropped some wood under the lowboy bogies and dumped the air on the drivers side on the truck .

leveled up pretty easy & made for an un eventful move . My tail board pins also help the excavator from gettin squirrely while breaking over the deck .. I call them " training wheels for old guy's " LOL .
 

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Truck Shop

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Good idea with the twin dump valves. When I would have to load the 215's on the beaver tail, I would crawl on to the brake over. Then swing the house 180*
power the bucket down to lift the tracks level then back on til tracks were all the way on. Swing back around and crawl ahead then swing again and curl the
boom and bucket. I don't know if that was the good way or not, it always stayed on the trailer. LOL

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td25c

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We go to play today with excavator & skid loader . Site was a little sloppy after 2 1/2 inches of rain .

Customer had a pretty bad washout from a collapsed 36 inch culvert .

What we found was some poor fill mixed with old concrete footings & demo debris that caused the failure . Plus another twist ....... Years ago they slipped a 30" culvert inside a 36 ". What we pulled out today was the 30" section about 25 foot long .
 

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td25c

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The 30 " section kept breaking as I tried pulling on the end first with he excavator thinking I could just slip it out of the 36" culvert .

Ended up putting the skid loader in the hole & reached in the culvert to pull out a 4 foot section of 30 " and cleaned out around the end of the 36 " so we can tie on .

Not sure if going back with steel or plastic ? I'm kind of on the fence on this one , price may very well make the decision .

Excavator cab was warm today , probably low on Freon again :)
 

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td25c

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Laying Geo cloth

The older I get the more we try to save labor & fighting packing heavy items around a job site .

We had made grade on a cell tower site , was hotter than blue blazes & Dad & myself did not feel like un rolling 3 sticks of cloth . Ended up using the old Jimmy with 750 Holmes running a " clothes Line " arrangement & just pulled off the roll on the cable .
 

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RonG

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I can find all kinds of excuses to side load,I just put cribbing under the low bed and no damage done.A lot of operators carry conveyor belt and that is a good solution but I never seem to be able to find it when I need it which is a lame excuse I know because it is so handy for other things and it does not weigh much to move around and can save making a mess that looks bad for the driver.
Dropping the ground bearing foot on hot asphalt is usually a bad move around here anyway.Side loading/unloading if you plan it right usually pays off fo me.Ron G
 

RonG

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The last job I did was stacking Hazmat on Poly and we did something like that to unroll ours,don't remember exactly what now but we had access to about anything we wanted to do it so you can believe we didn't work too hard.I think I would have been in a Cat 966 loader to do my part.100604 008.jpg100604 018.jpg100604 040.jpg100604 005.jpg100604 006.jpg
 

td25c

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That's a good point Ron , once in awhile I will side load the single drop low boy with excavator so you can just pull to the side of the highway & hop off quick. We also keep some conveyer belt on the trailer.

Love the photo's & stories Ron !
 
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td25c

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Got back to the culvert project and part of the ditch slid in . Hopped the excavator across & benched in a landing for the machine to set on and a good spot to drop the stone for backfill . Got the pipe in this evening .

Damn, It was hot & humid this week !
 

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td25c

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What's going down is land owner is putting in a second driveway below the existing asphalt drive .

My next challenge is installing a vertical drain in to the 36 " culvert . Need to do that now as have a pretty good idea where the road will be .

Thinking I want an 18 to 20 inch drop in to the 36 inch culvert to handle the ditch water . So far pipe supply company wants $ 1,200.00 for the fitting .

I'm thinking of just fabricating a saddle mount out of 3/ 16 steel plate with a weld in pipe fitting and bolt it to the plastic 36 " culvert .

One other thing I do before back fill is drive down some steel fence posts on angle & chain them together to help keep the pipe in place . Probably not needed but I do it anyway .:)
 

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Truck Shop

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Good idea on the fabricating the piece for the stand pipe. I worked as a welder for an irrigation and domestic well company for two years, took time off
working on trucks for awhile. When I had to install steel culvert to steel culvert 24'' to 36'' i just cut a 26''x 26" hole in the 36" culvert made a 3/16" plate
box and welded it in then welded the 24" to the box. Went inside and cut out just inside the weld or burn line. They didn't leak. I also had a spendy
Jackson fresh air welding hood for the galvanized, it worked great while cutting too.

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RonG

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That's a good point Ron , once in awhile I will side load the single drop low boy with excavator so you can just pull to the side of the highway & hop off quick. We also keep some conveyer belt on the trailer.

Love the photo's & stories Ron !
This job was federally funded and had to be documented so the job super used to take pics of my work among other things,Freddie used to love my work and the company furnished a nice Canon camera for him so the pics look real nice.When I got laid off Freddie gave me a CD of all the pics and it is rare that I have such good quality pics of my work.I have lots of pics these days taken with those little cameras that you can carry in your pants pocket but they are not very good.Ron G
 

td25c

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Good idea on the fabricating the piece for the stand pipe. I worked as a welder for an irrigation and domestic well company for two years, took time off
working on trucks for awhile. When I had to install steel culvert to steel culvert 24'' to 36'' i just cut a 26''x 26" hole in the 36" culvert made a 3/16" plate
box and welded it in then welded the 24" to the box. Went inside and cut out just inside the weld or burn line. They didn't leak. I also had a spendy
Jackson fresh air welding hood for the galvanized, it worked great while cutting too.

Truck Shop
Yeah Truck Shop , that sure makes me feel better about going with the fabricated saddle mount adapter . Those ADS dealers are pretty proud of their plastic tee fittings .

We can easily fab one up out of steel or aluminum at half the cost .
 

td25c

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This job was federally funded and had to be documented so the job super used to take pics of my work among other things,Freddie used to love my work and the company furnished a nice Canon camera for him so the pics look real nice.When I got laid off Freddie gave me a CD of all the pics and it is rare that I have such good quality pics of my work.I have lots of pics these days taken with those little cameras that you can carry in your pants pocket but they are not very good.Ron G
The older I get the more important pictures of jobs done in the past become seems like . Might have to show a new customer what a job will look like & what to expect .

Or help jog my memory on how we done a would be complicated job today with simple equipment 30 years ago .:)
 
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