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First, to be clear I know it's not really an algae, but that's what everyone calls it so that's what I'll use to describe the problem. The background story is that I purchased a dump truck with full fuel tanks that developed filter clogging issues right off the bat. I figured it might be algae...

Thanks guys! We've been on and off busy this year, but never really had the board stacked up for weeks ahead. Kinda weird. Seems like everyone and his brother has a skid or ctl around here these days. Pretty shoddy work too...that'll weed 'em out in time. One of the more interesting projects...

I had an opportunity to try out a Danuser Intimidator on a few acres of mesquite. I failed to take enough pics, but the size ranged from itty bitty up to 8" or so with multi trunks. Most of the 2-4" mesquite had been cut at some time with a chainsaw so even those tap roots were large and pretty...

You're welcome! I've been slacking on job pics so here's a few. This driveway was obviously neglected, but it was also topped with a smooth river rock that moved all over the place. At least the driveway had a nice layer of roadbase beneath the grass and topping rock. This is the first and...

Hauled my Dodge to the repair shop yesterday afternoon. I think the Cummins cracked or blew out an injector since it filled the crankcase full of fuel. It was a bit more tongue weight than I like, but I sure wasn't going to back it on. And no, it's not chained down yet in the pic.

Man, you guys are making me miss my Cruiser! Here's a couple pics from right down the road before I sold it. The ex has all the pics from Johnson Valley, Rubicon, Fordyce, Dusy, Swamp Lake, Truckhaven and a bunch of other trails I can't remember the names of all over the Southwest. To the OP...

For a long time I've been on pins and needles waiting for the Case to break something else BIG. Well, I decided to beat it at its own game. Here's a few photos of my new SVL90. Picking her up from the dealer. First day on the job. I feel truly blessed!

My flatbed is in the shop so I need to tow my GN with my old F350. All lights work but the trailer brakes will not activate either with the slider or pedal. GN connected to the flatbed truck and brakes work. F350's Prodigy controller show no connection to the GN. Brakes work fine when the F350...

Thanks. I started 40,000 sq. ft. of 3/4" topping today. Got about halfway done, but the little blue tractor was hauling flat out for 11 hrs. so no pics to speak of. I'll post up before and after pics when I get it dressed up and compacted. The driveway is bordered with chop stone...no fun...

And meanwhile, just up the road...The Culvert To Nowhere #2 Mud, ground water and more mud has been the theme for the better part of 2015.

Thanks! The Culvert Pipe To Nowhere #1 There's nothing like setting elevations and offsets over the phone with the inspector! The new landowner set his own pipe...undersized and without ends, so we fixed him up with the right stuff. Word is that it will be months before the county gets out here...

This home is a target for about 60 acres of runoff. There is a small swale and drain pipes close to the structure, but not enough to handle a good soaker. I cut a new swale to reroute the drainage around the home. The soil on this hill was still pumping five days after the last rain.

With a bunch of heavy lifting on the books, I picked up a set of Construction Attachments 5,500# pallet forks. I am a bit surprised at the quality level. Given the power that hydraulic quick attach pins generate and the Xtreme Heavy Duty name, no triangulation at the bottom of the quick...

Here's a more recent project that will continue off and on through next spring. Just rough drainage grading for now in very wet clay. There was an existing pond in the backyard that I actually aimed runoff to from the neighbors property when I did their project over a year ago. The pond has...

Here's another project from the summer. The driveway was damaged from improper drainage and it pitched toward the garage a lot. I intended to regrade and expand the gravel further down the hill for additional parking and access to the backyard. I ordered a semi load of base and a load of rock...

The first repair area was a quarter mile from my loading area and the second over a half mile. The trail was also narrow, rutted and pretty rough in general. I spruced up quite a bit of it to save my back. When you gotta get it there...you use what you got! :D

The culvert pipes were purchased by the owner prior to my looking at the project. I would have spec'd larger pipe The second damaged section.

Thought I'd share a few photos since I haven't updated the thread for awhile. Here's a ATV trail washout repair from the summer. The hills are steeper than the photos show. Carnage from the guy that tried to work on this earlier in the summer. Cutting drainage swales to redirect the...

No interesting work photos to post, but I had a bitter-sweet weekend. I let go of the Stude. We just bought a place on sixteen acres further out in the sticks. There's a nice barn/shop, but no concrete yet and no garage either. I was fretting over bringing the Stude out here and not having any...

Cutting the new drainage path. With less than 20 yards of dirt left to spread, the Case blew a quick attach hydraulic hose. The little blue wonder comes to the rescue again! There was a lot of separating soil types on this one. Clay was saved for the drainage area, and sandy soil was...

Here are the pics from the pond fill in I had to pull off of to put on new tracks.

Hutchman - If the soil is compacted well, the trucks won't move it around driving over it. You can also use pins supplied by the geo supplier. I've rolled it out myself and have used one or two helpers too...just depends on the job. Unless the wind is blowing pretty hard, it only takes a little...

Placed and wheel-roll compacted 48 tons of roadbase and topped it with 24 tons of 3/4" minus crushed limestone. The turnaround area also had trenches through it, so I fixed them and spread the leftover stone. You'll notice the customer's tractor sitting next to the shed in the first...

I finished this job early today, so I figured I'd update the thread. I put in this driveway a few years back. It still looked fine, but the new owners just had a barn built and wanted to get some additional work done. Two triaxle loads of clay based sand in the barn, stalls and turnouts. The...

Or a flatbed, or even better a hauler bed. But then you can't just chuck stuff in there, it has to be tied down. I have the GN adjusted all the way down on my equipment trailer behind a Dodge dually flatbed. Even with the ball well the trailer is a little too high in front. I just replaced the...

Here's the machine Frisco is talking about. Mulching before and after shots. A couple of things I'll mention when it comes to the SVL90 and running a mulcher. The loader towers are fairly open to debris. Most of the dusty stuff can be blasted out with air a couple times during the day (at...

I had to pull off the pond job since one of the tracks was just begging to break. There are now two split steel lugs pulling through the rubber. I'll have new tracks and rear sprockets by Wednesday. Looking forward to a better ride and more traction. Speaking of tracks...Here's the family at...

Yep, not cheap to run equipment, that's for sure. I've been busy and haven't posted any updates lately. Here's a few from the current job I'm on, filing in a pond and doing a bit of land sculpting. The pond was built to collect runoff from the subdivision, but the soil is too sandy and it...

A few more... After getting everything fixed up, I spread five semi-loads of roadbase on the driveway. The larger stone and fines will hold up a lot better than peagravel. I only snapped a couple quick "finished" photos. Hard to see in the pics, but (yet another) storm was blowing in...

No callback from the lady with the landplane, so we'll see what happens. In the meantime, here's a few more pics from another job. I originally placed a culvert pipes and precast ends for this customer quite awhile ago. Their builder included the grading and gravel driveway into the price of...

After all of the rain we've had this year, the common concern I hear from customers is drainage, drainage, DRAINAGE! Works for me since that's what I do. :thumbsup: On this little project there was no room for drainage swales, so I built up the driveway 8-10" and crowned. Luckily there's a...

Thought I'd catch up on a few work pics since I haven't posted any in awhile. I've been busier than a three legged dog in a butt kicking contest. Here's a few for entry to a new shop. I cut a swale, graded for drainage and spread roadbase with a topping of crushed limestone.

Happy 4th of July to everyone! I picked up a slightly used LandPride LR2584 landscape rake today for a song. I've been wanting one for job cleanup and my wife's arena for quite some time. All of the used Chinese junk I found was going for just slightly less than new. I got the LP for less than...

I agree. Not a truck, but here's our family hauler. Thirty years old this year and just rolled over 70k original miles. With a few tools, spare HEI module and a set of belts onboard...it's easily repaired if need be and super simple to work on. I can't think of any vehicle in current production...

For quite awhile now I've been meaning to get my flatbed set up to my liking. When I bought the Dodge, the bed had been transplanted from another truck and needed some work. Cracks and surface rust here and small 24" underbody boxes with greasable hinges that had never been greased. Even with PB...

The tree guy's place has finally dried up enough to get something done. I put in a 35'x 45' pad for their drive thru building. First couple pics are my office view and a view of my foot. The second one was accidental, but I thought the track print in the sand looked cool. I removed and...

The pit was closed off from flooding for three weeks, so the sand delivered today was freshly dug out of the creek, vibrated through their screens and loaded on the trucks. I just tossed it out there to let it dry before attempting to grade it.

While I waited for loads of sand to arrive, I finished and rolled the pad, and dressed up the swale and slopes.

The arena had pretty much lost all of it's sand after the bar-ditch overflowed. Twenty inches+ of fall in 75 feet didn't help either. After grading the arena to flow in two directions without making it too obvious, I built up the area above the new slope to redirect the water back into...

With most of my jobsites still a tad too wet, I headed for this one in sandier soil on top of a hill. The county resurfaced the road and basically eliminated the bar-ditch along the frontage. The change assisted in washing out the customers arena and diverted the flow away from the natural...

It finally quit raining, but the first job this week got off to a rocky start. This customer has an easement around a small plot that a local farmer works. I built a new road through the easement a couple of years ago and included a culvert [pipe across the road. Every time the farmer plows the...

Got rid of the hideous blue bucket I somehow missed the first time. :rolleyes:

Photoshopped to the best of my meager abilities.

I would like to publicly thank my competitors for selecting unsuitable (cheap) material and showing a complete disregard for proper drainage (as usual.) I set a culvert pipe and precast concrete ends for this customer last year. Their builder included the grading and a gravel driveway in the...

Week after week of rain, flooding, hail and tornadoes...I'm sure not getting a lot done this spring! I did get the surge rock and driveway covered in gravel at the tree guy's place, so at least they have somewhere to park. Lot's of work to do there still, but the ground is too soft to get it...

Here you go...

Back at the tree guy's place. So far these folks haven't made anything straightforward and easy. After grading and cutting a swale up to and around a fence, I get back there and the fence is gone. In the back I had completed the main swale, then they decided to take out all of the trees along...

Here's the rest of job from the last post. I installed the culvert pipe extensions, graded out a flat parking pad for an RV cover then spread new gravel to it and over the remainder of the driveway.

I thought I'd share a tip for fixing a squashed corrugated steel culvert pipe. I have a lot of customers this year that have purchased RV's and need their driveways widened. This particular pipe was squished down so far that I could only get my smallest bottle jack in there sideways until I got...

The weather guru said we "might" get a couple of showers before 2PM today. Well, I'd say more than a couple of showers. I have two 40" deep x six foot wide drainage ditches that feed my pond. One of the ditches has completely overflowed the 18" leftover culvert pipe I put in under the crossing...

A man's got to know when to say when.

I had back surgery in 1999 which relieved my sciatic pain, but I still have a couple of disc-on-disc spot that bother me from time to time. Right now it's the muscles hip to hip across the back. Much better so far today. I only got a couple hours on the job today. I started roughing in a swale...

After getting 3" of rain Saturday night I started on the mudbog today. This job is right behind the campground I mulched and built last summer. It's at the lowest elevation in the neighborhood. A tree company processes all of their firewood here and at somewhere along the line they thought that...

It's been a "try to beat the rain" spring for sure. On this project I graded out a few triaxle loads of fill dirt to build a horse trailer parking area and widened the driveway, then spread out a few loads of gravel. Since everyone and his brother was trying to beat the rain (including me)...

I agree. I prefer the reversible cutting edges too. What I would like to see on a landplane are hydraulic rippers like this. Even a handle operated system would be great. I'd also like to eliminate the bottom skids and have thick replaceable wear bars on the side. It would require more...

Here's another driveway regraded and topped using the landplane. I also cut better drainage heading toward the front yard from the concrete apron. I also re-graded the neighbor's driveway while I waited for my load of rock. I spied a nice collection of JD's while leaving the job.

I knocked out a few one day jobs this week to catch up a bit. I broke out my LPGS this week to give it another try. First job with the landplane was to re-grade this gravel driveway. I think I'll have to modify my landplane to make it work the way I want it to. First thing is to cut off the...

Strange week indeed. The sun finally came out, but the pits didn't start crushing material until Tuesday evening. The material was still too wet for my liking on Wednesday, so I hustled to get a couple of jobs done yesterday and today. First one...graded and cut a small swale followed by three...

Thanks Threepoint! Not much work related biz going on lately. I did finish up a culvert / entrance job today. Spongy pumping ground and more rain on the way tonight. We took the 'Burb out last weekend to our local 1/8 mile track for the Radial Roundup. Watched a new world record run in the...

My wife says I looked just like this when I found out we were having another kid.

This one took longer to cleanup the tracks and mud in the street than it took to do the job. The builder had the bright idea to take out the entire sidewalk in front of this lot...which then filled up with rainwater. They tried to fill the driveway spot with a pickup load of sand, then promptly...

Here's a washout repair done with a new Kubota KX040-4. Three hours on the clock. I cleaned up the slope and dug a couple anchor footings on the sides, then placed a couple ten-wheeler loads of rip rap over two layers of geotextile fabric.

I picked up a new builder and placed several culverts for him. I started this shop pad with my tractor. I stripped the organic, keyed in and headed down the road to get fuel. When I finished fueling the box blade wouldn't raise. Found out later that it was a loose power beyond plug. I was...

We had a new baby boy in the middle of December, so I took a month off to help momma out. Since then we've had rain, sleet, rain, 80* temps for a few days, freezing rain, snow, snow with freezing rain on top, 60* temps for a day or so followed by sleet, snow and now rain again. Netflix is handy...

I'm a diesel truck guy, but I do have one of these... and just bought this awhile ago...

Speaking of documenting my work. Back in the day......

Finished up the week power raking in preparation for sod. I ended up with over twenty bucket loads of rocks and roots. This is the same job I graded all of the rocky fill at a couple of months ago. Edit: Forgot to mention...they were delivering 2-1/2 semi loads of sod rolls while I was...

Here are a few photos from the last day at the RV park.

Here are a few photos of an RV park expansion I'm working on. Grading and gravel for 24 new sites and a bunch of roadway. The owner wanted the job to be done as close to December 1st as possible. The utility and sewer guys started three weeks ago...I started grading last Friday. I caught up to...

I know we've had discussions on this before, but saw this today. 2010 New Holland Powertach Skid. The ad location is Plano, Texas but the phone number is Miami. If it's real, somebody better buy it quick! There was also a "perfect condition", low hour Bobcat mini-excavator (335 I think) on there...

Xfax - The steel pipe guards are the ones I'm used to setting. I have a friend here that builds some pretty nice ones. I need to come visit you so I can work with some nice dirt. :D Spread out fifty yards or so of mucky, rocky black gunk this morning and dressed up the RAP next to the cattle...

Here's a little change of pace. A local business purchased 34 feet of modular cattle guard, rented a backhoe, and had their guys try to put it in. After three days they got two 12 foot sections in, but they were 8 inches out of level and out of square too. There were several factors that led to...

Suburban you say? My wife has been driving the wheels off of this one since I brought it home a few months ago. There's a growing stack of parts for it in the trunk of the Stude. :D

Ah Moss...you're making me miss my stretched wheelbase '71. 350 power with an SM420, onboard welder and air, locked up front and rear with 5.29 gears and a one ton FJ60 rear axle. I sold it a few years ago. In the garage now is a lowered 1956 Studebaker President Classic.

Same job. This driveway was covered with way too much river rock. Doing what river rock does...it was all over the place. The homeowner had me move the driveway over and widen it a bit at the concrete apron. I mixed some of the river rock in with a 6" thickness of concrete washout, wheel rolled...

Here's a few photos from another job. I graded out the floor in this metal shop addition, placed concrete washout, then compacted and scraped it flat. The homeowner used his tractor to scrape off a bunch of river rock and grass from the side of his existing driveway. My stepson pulled all...

Once again, I agree. 3000 hrs of commercial work on my tractor. I've hurt it doing a lot of things it was never designed for, but this isn't one of them.

Access for the job was limited, so 10-wheelers only for material delivery. Luckily my suppliers yard is only twenty minutes away. After I laid down the base, I topped the new areas with a brown/reddish peagravel to match the existing driveway and covered a few bare spots. Once the new...

This is a first. Right after my tractor blew a hydrostatic hydraulic filter seal, the first thing I thought was...Jinman would appreciate this one! I guess the 29 degree start-up and then immediately backing off the trailer was just too much for it. Worked on a new driveway, put in a couple of...

I'm going to weld up a removable laser receiver mast for my CTL similar to this. Mine will differ slightly since I will be welding the bracket to the back of the bucket. There's a complete description of what's needed here SKID STEER BUCKET MOUNTING. Basically it's a 1.5" square tube for the...

More pics from the same project.

Did a nice little job today. Cut in a swale, put in a parking pad, pulled some fence and filled in some low spots and bare areas with top soil.

This property was family owned with two homes and a shared road. One of the homes sold so the owner needed an entrance of his own. The area is sandy soil over rock. On the hill the sand has all but washed away (along with the gravel), exposing the rock below. The upper part of the road really...

Thanks Dave. Lets try it again. Here's the propane guy installing the tank. Finish grading around the home And...finally, laying a topping of 3/4" minus over the driveway.

More than one yahoo. There had to be a dozen or so on this job. Here's some photos of the backyard grading. I'll be back to power rake before the sod goes in. I can only compare grading this black clay to spreading cold shredded cheese on a counter top. Yeah...it's kinda like that. And a...

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Got the remainder of the road base in along with some drainage grading. The builder's subs are in and out of this place at least twenty times a day, over and off driveway edges, over flow lines, over and around flagging. Makes me want to stick a bucket tooth or two through a few vehicles.

Back at the never ending mud pit. I'm not very fond of this builder's subs... Fixed I started the road base at the entrance so the loaded trucks could pack it down. In between loads I graded and crowned the straight stretch.

With the idler removed you can see where it was grinding into the yoke. It only took a couple of minutes of operating for the groove to happen. It was pretty noisy, but I was more worried about breaking the track than anything. Here's the new idler installed along with new socket head cap...

My method of easy track removal and front idler replacement. We all know that working with machinery is dangerous, therefor I suggest that everyone besides me take their machine to the dealer and have it repaired. For those unfamiliar with track adjustment on a ctl, it's simply grease pressure...

And the finished driveway.

Knocked out this driveway today while I wait for the new idler for my Case to arrive. The new driveway is located on a hill at the end of a quarter-mile easement driveway. Since the easement had a topping of RAP, there was only room to dump one load at a time at the entrance to the new drive.

I felt a bit hinky about the weld shop, so I called my gravel / concrete supplier contact who said..."Bring it in!" These guys have a deal with Peterbilt and get frames, cabs and components, and build their own dump and concrete trucks from the frame up. After the bent piece was cut out we...

Finished the road through the trees and set three culverts. This section took a total of 200 yards to fill, give or take. I also spent an entire day re-grading the builder guy's screwups and refilling the areas they dug out that I'd already put in. It's a backcharge to the builder from the owner...

Wow I had a bad Monday! I had just pushed out a bucket load of fill and back dragged as I pulled out. I saw a couple of chunks of concrete so I pulled forward again, rolling the bucket up on the teeth to push them over the edge. Apparently I missed one chunk of concrete under the machine that...

Same job, but took a day to thin out four acres of overgrown woods surrounding the new home. While I worked in the trees, my FIL brush hogged along (what will be) the driveway and open areas. While I was cutting along the fenceline, I spied this poor buried 8N behind the neighbor's shop...

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The free dirt isn't the best, but I need 12-18 inches and I'll be spreading topsoil over the yard so it'll work. The builder will be bringing in select fill to place against the home so I'll have the grade set where I want it so he can match. Day two. Hmmm...the screwy uploader is...

I started this job sometime last year. Cut a swale and another contractor came in during the rain and basically totaled it. The homeowner and I decided that it would be best for me to pull off the job and wait for the subs to get closer to finishing.There's a ton of commercial and subdivision...

I swear I hear banjos everytime I mow this place. The closest neighbor is Randy Travis. I keep waiting for him to streak the pasture while I'm there. Looks nice and smooth, but the wild hogs have torn up at least 20% of the pasture. It was a pretty rough ride.

Thanks again for the interest guys. I was down for a week or so with my back out of whack. Plenty of time to catch up on Magnum PI, Roy Rodgers and Maverick reruns. Here's a little driveway I did with my CTL. I needed to set a culvert in the center of the driveway and the ground in this area...

Topsoil in.

Dave - I do a lot of that "movin' stuff around." It's all good! :thumbsup: Threepoint - Thanks for checking out the thread! The Stude begs my attention. Maybe I'll get more motivated when it cools off. Here's some photos of another grading and topsoil job. The before photos show how the...

This problem is regarding my Case CTL. When running a brush cutter or Harley rake, any input using the machine main hydraulics cuts power to the attachment. This includes the left joystick (directional control) and the right joystick (loader functions). This problem seems to get worse the...

Some guys will try anything to get work! :D

The neighbor had some pretty cool old stuff. I couldn't talk him out of any of it! :laughing:

I know a few of you guys have seen pics of this job over on HEF, but since the uploader seems to be back in business here, I'll post 'em up. Hogging out rock for a retaining wall. I filled up a small canyon behind the shop so the owner could have trailer access to the back. You'll see my...

Welcome Steve! Jeff has some great info in his post. I'll add this... SoCal is home to an abundance of old skip loaders and a nice, heavy box blade shouldn't be hard to find. Gannon will be the brand you'll find most often. The majority of skip loaders are set up for hydraulic scarifiers, but...

Graveled a small parking area and walkway today for a RE investor. In this particular area, sandstone lies only a few inches under the sandy soil, so I made sure not to get into that mess. I laid down a few inches of washout and topped it with 3/4 minus. You can see my FIL in the background...

I'll call BS on that. Look at the photos of the machines below. Pay particular attention to the accessibility in the area surrounding the sprocket and drivemotor. Tak isn't great, but you don't hear of many drivemotor problems either. Bobcats not great either, but at least they left enough room...

Thanks guys. Back at the 175 acre development. As I mentioned a few months ago, the water supplies had been leaking for ten years or so. When we mowed and brush cut the first time, I expected that the owner would have all of them fixed...I was wrong. The road builder will be in here in about a...

And just so you don't think that Johnny's all work and no play, here's the Studebaker hanging out in the garage. She needs new u-joints, a few interior screws and a new passenger window and crank, but more importantly, I need to install seatbelts for the family. She needs a bath too. Without...

Thanks Murph! If you guys remember the lot I cleaned all of the boulders off of a couple years ago with the SVL75, here it is again with a new house on it. The owner had planned on me doing the finish grading and topsoil all along, but since the builder's guy only kinda did the drainage grading...

One of the track adjusters was leaking on my Case. A new adjuster assembly was just a few dollars more than the rebuild kit so my decision was a no-brainer. Looking at the larger seal and spring on the new unit, I think Case knew they had a weakness here. The repair was a simple minus-one hour...

Since there were so many soils present, the customer was in full understanding that we may have to bentonite the pond at a future date. As I mentioned...I was on an owner induced time restraint. I wanted to dig an overflow channel, but time didn't allow. I wasn't too worried, since the dam...

The pic uploader was driving me crazy and I didn't have many responses to my posts so I let it lay for awhile. The uploader seems to be fixed so here you go. Here's a pond that I dug. It was placed at the bottom of two ravines. I was on a time restriction and the placement was iffy at best...

This driveway had quite a bit of base on it in spots, but the thickness was inconsistent and the grade was done wrong. Four potholes developed about 10" deep. I ripped it deep, then mixed the base and dirt together and regraded. I knew that the base and topping loads would arrive before I got...

I've posted these pics before. I took these while grading out a rocky hillside road last winter. There were a bunch more that I didn't get photos of. It was cold and they weren't moving too awful fast. The new property owners were pretty surprised. They didn't realize that they would have...

Here's the job that I got the stump job referral from. This one was a referral from around the corner too. The owner hadn't used this driveway for over ten years, but their cars were damaged during our last hailstorm and he wanted access to the carport again. The driveway was tailgated in over...

I picked up this job off a driveway referral down the road a ways. Twenty-eight oak stumps removed in 4 hours with a KX71-3. Tree size ranged from 8"-20" or so. FIL Dan brought out his tractor to haul stumps backfill holes and dress things up. The owner had us drop the stumps off a bank into the...

I still think (for a grader guy) that an "asphalt float" would be a wonderful tool. It uses the blade to cut and a "smoocher" to smooth material out the back. I'm not too sure how the smoocher part would work for a typical tractor since these are designed for skiploaders weighing 14k with down...

Expletives have been modified or removed for your protection. Unloaded my CASE TR320 from the trailer after the drivemotor/hydraulic hose repair, hooked up the bucket and parked it last week. It's been sitting there ever since. The total cost for the repair including the service tech call and...

My wife and I were sitting on the couch today, enjoying a lazy afternoon and waiting for the Belmont Stakes to start. My wife said that she smelled smoke and watched outside to check it out. She saw flames and smoke coming from the front of a rental mobile home that sits back in the trees behind...

TLB standing for Truck/Loader/Backhoe that is. Check this out unimog #6 463551 see tractor C&C Equipment 812-336-2894 - YouTube. Be sure to watch the guy fold the backhoe out of the way at the end...too cool. There are complete specs for it in this for sale listing. Man, I'd love to own this...

The previous owner of my CASE compact track loader ran a oilfield pressure washing business. They used some sort of chemical in the mix that has left a tarnish on my machine. I've been able to get some areas shiny again with fine steel wool, but it's a very slow process and I'm not the patient...

I picked up the TR today. Here's what a $5400 repair looks like.

Lucky for me...my favorite word is NO. Ask any of my kids and they'll verify. :laughing: I've been subbing out all of the brush hogging jobs to my father in law for over two years. He has his own cutter now, but had been using mine. Yesterday I took my cutter out to do a couple of fields, old...

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Here's a few from a grading, culvert and driveway job last week. My mission...get it done with no imported dirt. And in a first for me, the homeowner will be pouring the concrete culvert ends himself.

I snapped a few photos of this tractor today at the local fuel and eat. Anyone know what year and model this is?

This driveway had been topped with recycle asphalt...kinda. There's always some shyster selling millings when the county is re-topping roads. The problem is that the county grinds the roads at different depths and the customer doesn't know if they're getting good asphalt or asphalt with roadbase...

My CASE dealer made me a killer rental deal on a cab TV380 to run while my machine is being repaired. I'm glad my machine's not a vertical lift...I need a nap after hitting all of the grease fittings! :laughing: I have lots of photos to share, but the multiple uploader still isn't working...

Talk about hitting a window of opportunity! It rained this morning, so I figured I'd wait until this afternoon, hoping to get the CASE out before the big storm hit. I checked...the ground was just dry enough to access the machine with the only 20k winch-equipped flatbed tow truck in the area...

Here's a few from a driveway job a few weeks ago. Created a drainage swale and filled in a few low spots in the lawn while I was at it. Before I started I had to deal with a dead battery. I guess the jump from 85 degrees down to 32 overnight was just too much for it. I've had my fair...

The multiple photo uploader still isn't working, but I'm bored so I figured I'd upload a few. I don't usually work in town, but when I do...I make sure it's tight!

The cutter is 72" wide and a rental from my Kubota guys. It's a Bradco and only has two blades, but the rotation is reversible. It cut okay, but not great. It was very handy having the side discharge for cutting the tall reeds though. Actually, with that much material to cut it was better to go...

Here's a few more unfriendlies. The city folk I did this job for didn't realize that copperheads lived in the woods. :rolleyes: And here's one from the campground project I did last summer.

Here's a diamond back water snake from a few years ago. The largest one I've personally dispatched was over seven feet long. They can get pretty aggressive, so any that wander close up to the house or barn get a hole in 'em.

Here's the last of the drainage grading photos...and the last photos I'll post until the regular uploader is fixed.

I guess this could be described as "Towing Something Wrong." The local fab shop got this lowboy a little hung up in the middle of the road the other day. The driveway they were pulling out of would have been marginal with ALL of the wheels and tires on. Lucky for them they have a crane onsite.

Started a little grading job today. I would have liked to start it a few days ago, but had to wait for the dump area to dry out a bit. The homeowner just had a sizable addition built. but the swale was only about two feet from the home without much drainage to speak of. and all headed the wrong...

You mean like this? Ah grasshopper...all isn't as it first seems. When fine grading or material spreading, the bucket lifted above the center point of the loader arm radius increases the ability to feel the "bubble in the butt." Really.

I was cruising photos today and came across this one. Anybody know what it is?

These dovetail trucks are popular in Cali for hauling backhoes and skip loaders. I looked at one here locally for hauling my ctl and tractor, but it had a CAT3206 in it and it was pretty much worn out. The one I looked at was an ex-flatbed tow truck. The guy sold the aluminum bed and used the...

I posted this on my photo thread before I saw your thread. I was running late for an appointment so I didn't turn around to check it out. The guy was pulling into a truckstop just North of Denton. It's LARGE...

You guys are crazy! :laughing: - - - - - - - Nope...it was me. :D

Consider that stolen.:laughing: Carl, post some pics of your SVL90 here when it gets in. That's a bad, bad boy! Here's a few pics from today. Set a culvert and precast ends. I must be getting CRS cuz I keep forgetting to take "after" pics.

The property is broken into several sections by two runways, set up like a "V". There is also an access road around the perimeter of the property that the runways connect with. My idea is to shear the canopies and then shear any logs at the bottom, windrowing as I go from these access areas...

Ditch Be Gone Knocked out a little project today. The owner was tired of his guests having to cross the ditch if they parked on the street, so I filled it. Set 50' of 15" culvert pipe and then scrounged up grass and soil to get it graded out. Cleaned up the remaining ditch a bit too. Note the...

Checked out the 150 acres of burnt oaks yesterday. A lot of trees to shear and stack, but it was great to see signs of life here and there. Some trees survived the burn and suckers abound. I have a thread going in the Land Clearing section, but I'll post all of pics here as the job progresses...

They say the proof is in the pudding. So to remove any doubt...here's the pudding. The first bucket. The second bucket in the fully closed position. I tried both buckets on my tractor for QA fitment. Same thing.

It was raining yesterday and this morning, so I took the opportunity to get some quotes out . I picked up two permanent culvert installs, two weeks worth of pond work and grading and an indoor arena. Not to mention two final grading jobs coming up and 150 acres of burnt oaks to clear. Our family...

It helps to be flexible and persistent...especially when you do dumb things... I had a one-day window to work around the county road department on this job. The project included replacing a damaged culvert with a longer one and getting some recycled road base down to get these folks out of the...

I say cut away! I can't remember for the life of me...but there was something that the mechanic at the dealership needed to get to regarding something or other in that area on my tractor. :laughing: He said that they could get to it in minutes or hours. I chose minutes. I'm not sure what...

I'm sure you've read all of the talk about the undercarriage upkeep. I've heard lots of good things too, so I can't pass judgement one way or another. I've run a rental 60" Brush Buster on a Kubota SVL75 quite a bit. That particular unit is pretty lightweight, but it'll cut 3" material without...

Not yet, but I have a on the books. First I have to deal with this.... It wasn't leaking when I bought it or after using it the first time. It's gear oil coming from the floating seal between the final drive and hydraulic drive motor. The Case Construction dealer and regional service rep have...

Here are a few more gravel pics. 75 tons of road base and 25 tons of 3/4" crushed topping. The pile at the right of the first pic was as far as I could back up the trucks. Here's the only photo I have from another driveway. With the sun getting low on the horizon, the first of 3 loads...

I got a couple of photos today of the property. They'll have to do for now since they're all he had in his phone. The fire was in Jacksboro, Texas in 2011 and part of the 150,000 acre Possum Kingdom burn. Ground vegetation has started to grow back, but the vast majority of the trees are dead...

I was talking to one of my customers today and he mentioned a problem with his other property. A fire raged through and basically burnt up all of the trees. From the sound of it, the majority are pretty good size oaks. This being a little out of my ballpark, I thought I'd ask you guys for ideas...

Whether it's repairing a gravel driveway or grading...sod clumps are a real pain. A tooth bucket works pretty good to break clods up during grading. If its not a structural grade, I don't bother stripping the sod / topsoil and then trying to put it back over the top. I just mix it in with a...

I took some chain/binder setup pics for you. I used the chain wrapped around my stake pocket to simulate a d-ring. This method is the worst possible. It doesn't work too well with a boomer either. The wrap around the d-ring places the ratchet right next to the chain and interferes. It also...

I have a little job going Saturday that I'll use the 4in1 on. In the meantime, here's a couple photos of another exciting gravel driveway. :D

First official money making day for the TR320. First, a few poser shots. The previous owner chained the front down through the handles, scratching the paint on the arms and cylinders. I'll be chaining through the tube brace on the loader, so I'll get it painted up. Spreading 40 yards of...

You could bring the low side up 2". In 12', the difference wouldn't be too noticeable. On this former patio floor, I used a product from Mapei Products to bring up the low side 2" in 10'. It's a non self-leveling polymer modified cement product. You can start from featheredge and build up...

I haven't been too good at remembering to take photos over the last couple of months, but here's a few more. We removed a dirt-filled block retaining wall that was (of course) falling over. All but one of the blocks were in good shape, so my FIL took them to his house. There was really too much...

Grading out potholes and adding a few loads of base. After the owner gets some construction done, I'll be back to re-grade and add a stone topping Re-graded and added a topping of 3/4" limestone on this one.

You got that right!

Set the BB at the height you want and go slow so you can feel what its doing. I like to brace my pinky and hand on the console and use my thumb, index and middle finger for very small adjustments. I also have the hydraulic speed cranked all the way up so I don't have to wait on the function...

Here you go. 1/4" thick on the bucket. The back of the bucket is wrapped over the top full length and welded to the back face 2"x4" tubing top and bottom. The quick attach plates are welded to these too. There are 1/2" plates on the side edges of the bucket and 1/2" material is also used to...

Thought you folks may enjoy this. Volkswagen turned its Amarok pickup into a glacier-climbing monster truck and it痴 the best thing at the Winter Olympics (VIDEO, PHOTOS) | Equipment World | Construction Equipment, News and Information | Heavy Construction Equipment Not much Volkswagen under it...

Kevin - Yep, the side plates are beefy. I like the way the clamshell jaws ride inside the side plates too. To answer your question, I'll have more grading and swale jobs than brushwork and the 4n1 will get used a lot. My employer back in the 70's had them on all of their International track...

Thought I'd share some pics of the 4in1 bucket I purchased from High Rock Skid Steer Attachments - High Rock Skid Steer Attachments. It's an 80". Of course, at 1025# it's way too much for my tractor, but just right for my T320. It's much beefier than the Bradco or Bobcat versions and a whole...

Oh I did! :D Taking out some trees and dropping the grade down from the shed level (about 4'). Lots of rock. Bye, bye, Kubota. Today I bought this... It's a 2012 CASE TR320, 750 hrs, with an enclosed cab and smooth bucket. For less than the asking price, I also purchased the seller's...

Rough grading some lovely black gumbo.

The new year didn't start out quite as smoothly as the last year ended. After spending the majority of the day creating a drainage swale and working on a new driveway, all of my work was completely ruined by a sub trying to deliver his CAT 953 water injection rig in the rain and then...

Just a few updates...The crooked tree is gone. Way too much elevation change on that corner for a decent driveway. I'll post more pics of the job when I complete the gravel work. The year ended well. Here's a little crushed granite install for my local stone yard buddy's customer. The existing...

Check out this cheese grater cutting edge. Easygrader - YouTube I'm not sure...but I think the operator is saying something about his big blue tractor. :D Wish I could understand what he's saying. The cutting edge doesn't look very stout, so I'm interested in the theory behind it's use. Sifting?

Those of you following this thread may recall the hillside driveway I started awhile back. When the owner's funds would allow, I got back there to cut some hill with the KX 121. The owner has been doing his own clearing, but left me a few surprise stumps along the way. :D The top section...

I've had no problem at all with these on my daily hauling trailer or my wife's horse trailer. Here's a link. http://www.nueratrailerparts.com/c-2765-trailer-hub-caps-covers.aspx

I snapped a better photo for you. Everything attachments has a good video showing one in action. How To - Tractor Land Plane - Gravel Road Maintenance - YouTube

Started work on a new house property this week. It rained last night and it's raining today, so completion of my work is a little ways off. Got the culvert set, organic graded off and the main driveway crowned. Started the landscape grading and then spread 8 loads of base for the main...

Here's a pic showing the scarifier clips on my Gannon, if it helps. If you want to paint the BB, Sherwin Williams Sher-Kem (with the hardener) is tough stuff and looks good too. They can tint it pretty much any color you want. Both my trailer and Gannon were sprayed with it using a cheap HF...

Here are a few photos from a job I just completed. It took three days (over two weeks) to complete with the rain we've been having. The builder had spread a few loads of recycled concrete full of rebar, rebar chairs and plastic directly over the grass, mud / dirt prior to building this...

You could use a ratchet rake and then brush hog the area, or rent a CTL with a hydraulic brush hog (shredder). A hydraulic shredder will easily cut up to 3" material and make short work of the job.

More campground photos. Installation of the decomposed granite topping for the living areas and vibratory compaction. Some of the local wildlife.

A few more photos from the campground. Funny...this campground is run by one ranger and volunteers. All of them were still there, they were directed not to open. :rolleyes: Harley raking the organic and grading for the access roads, campsites and living areas. Laying the roadbase and...

I got an interesting call this morning from my Kubota rental guy. The local Lowes is redoing their parking lot and the dealership made a deal to have the loads of RAP dumped in their lot. Perfect timing since all of my jobs are too wet from the last two days of rain. 230 tons of RAP spread in...

Here's my early '99. 298k and still pulls strong and rolls coal nicely :D The only mod is a Hypertech tuner. I picked up another work truck, so the SD will go into semi retirement pulling my wife's two-horse trailer.

Retirement party for the Super Duty. After 298,000 miles of faithful service, the old gal will spend the rest of her days pulling my wife's horse trailer. Easy work.

Thanks tbc. Here's a few pics of another 1/4 mile driveway, mowable swales and cross-driveway culverts. Finished up this job in the rain and got soaked to the bone. Better than sweating!

Here's a hillside rough-in and culvert install. The hill gets too steep and rocky where I stopped for the ctl to be effective. I'll be back with the mini-ex to finish cutting the road, dress up the slope and cut a swale.

A bit of grading for a pond expansion and a cutout for the customer's future dock. Hogged out about 900 yards in two days, Not bad for a little ctl. The customer is planning to haul the dirt pile with his tractor bucket by bucket to the back of his property for a gun range backstop...

And for a change of pace...because I can't seem to say no. :rolleyes: 180 ft of epoxy injection to repair a cracked slab and a few delamination areas. Too bad, the slab is just over a year old and I don't think it's done cracking yet. My back will recover someday, I'm sure.

Here's a 1500 ft driveway I put in along with a couple of culverts. Crushed washout roadbase throughout with a sprinkling of 3/4" crushed limestone near the home.

Just to catch up a bit... Some more clearing, a culvert, and crushed washout road base over geo. Hmmm...didn't get any finished photos. A culvert and a driveway extension.

I was out looking for a part today and checked out a DK55 while I was waiting for the parts guy. Nice spacious cab, strong looking loader and beefy 3 pt. So for those that have one...what do you like and what don't you like?

The un-curl function on my TC35D started acting up yesterday and by this afternoon it was pretty much gone. If I lay the bucket flat on the ground and try to backdrag or push, the bucket starts to curl by itself. If I stand the cutting edge straight up and down and push down on the loader arm...

The Brush Buster comes to mind. B Built Skidsteer Attachments I've only run it for a couple of hundred hours, but it works pretty good on material up to 3" or so. The only downside is the lack of a push bar to protect the front edge, but that's easily added.

Paying for the Stude...

Just catching up on a few photos. Back at a drainage job to install a recycled asphalt driveway.