Creating a Lake
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Thanks Rob,
The dozer was giving me issues with massive amounts of blowby. The turbo was bad also, but even after replacing it, the oil was still coming out of the seals. I stalled and tried everything I could think of to avoid a rebuild, but in the end, that's what i have to do.
Number six cylinder is toast. The rings are busted in multiple pieces and wore the sleeve out. Number five has allot of taper too. Way too much. One through 4 would have been ok, but since it's apart, I'm replacing all of them.
Most of the rebuild parts came in and the macine shop has what he needs to finish the head. I pick that up Thursday with the rest of my parts. Then the rebuild begins. Right now everything is cleaned, oiled and ready to go in.
When it's up and running, I'll get back to the lake and update this thread.
Eddie
The dozer was giving me issues with massive amounts of blowby. The turbo was bad also, but even after replacing it, the oil was still coming out of the seals. I stalled and tried everything I could think of to avoid a rebuild, but in the end, that's what i have to do.
Number six cylinder is toast. The rings are busted in multiple pieces and wore the sleeve out. Number five has allot of taper too. Way too much. One through 4 would have been ok, but since it's apart, I'm replacing all of them.
Most of the rebuild parts came in and the macine shop has what he needs to finish the head. I pick that up Thursday with the rest of my parts. Then the rebuild begins. Right now everything is cleaned, oiled and ready to go in.
When it's up and running, I'll get back to the lake and update this thread.
Eddie
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Thanks Rob,
The dozer was giving me issues with massive amounts of blowby. The turbo was bad also, but even after replacing it, the oil was still coming out of the seals. I stalled and tried everything I could think of to avoid a rebuild, but in the end, that's what i have to do.
Number six cylinder is toast. The rings are busted in multiple pieces and wore the sleeve out. Number five has allot of taper too. Way too much. One through 4 would have been ok, but since it's apart, I'm replacing all of them.
Most of the rebuild parts came in and the macine shop has what he needs to finish the head. I pick that up Thursday with the rest of my parts. Then the rebuild begins. Right now everything is cleaned, oiled and ready to go in.
When it's up and running, I'll get back to the lake and update this thread.
Eddie
The dozer was giving me issues with massive amounts of blowby. The turbo was bad also, but even after replacing it, the oil was still coming out of the seals. I stalled and tried everything I could think of to avoid a rebuild, but in the end, that's what i have to do.
Number six cylinder is toast. The rings are busted in multiple pieces and wore the sleeve out. Number five has allot of taper too. Way too much. One through 4 would have been ok, but since it's apart, I'm replacing all of them.
Most of the rebuild parts came in and the macine shop has what he needs to finish the head. I pick that up Thursday with the rest of my parts. Then the rebuild begins. Right now everything is cleaned, oiled and ready to go in.
When it's up and running, I'll get back to the lake and update this thread.
Eddie
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The dozer is up and running. I put 15 hours on the engine doing fairly easy stuff like scraping the roads. It's running really strong and smooth. Hard to describe the smooth part, but it's definiately there.
The power is up too. It spun the tracks before, but now the engine doesn't lug when that happens, it just sort of keeps powering through what I'm pushing or moving!!!
The picture is of the lake site after sitting undesterbed.
Eddie
The power is up too. It spun the tracks before, but now the engine doesn't lug when that happens, it just sort of keeps powering through what I'm pushing or moving!!!
The picture is of the lake site after sitting undesterbed.
Eddie
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There are still a few trees that didn't make it to the burn pile. Here is a picture of my backhoe with my attachment that I made for hauling trees and brush that doesn't use any additional hydraulics. I call them bucket fingers. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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The burn pile is way too big and has allot of dirt in it from pushing 7 acres worth of trees into it with the dozer. It's something that builds up just a small amount with each tree. You push in thousands of trees, and you get allot of dirt.
I can get the fire to burn real nice, but then it goes out from the dirt piles underneath. Then I have to move it around and start another fire.
If I knew what I was doing, this shouldn't happen, but my Dad and I are more eager than expert. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
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I can get the fire to burn real nice, but then it goes out from the dirt piles underneath. Then I have to move it around and start another fire.
If I knew what I was doing, this shouldn't happen, but my Dad and I are more eager than expert. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
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Good to see you making progress on the lake again Eddie /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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You better hurry Eddie...The burn bans are in effect in many counties now and it's just a matter time before yours is in it as well.
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I'm surprised that Denton County's burn ban didn't go into effect until yesterday.
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The burn ban is in the news, but those who make the decision have been waiting to see if this storm arrives or not. It did.
It's raining right now, the dozer is parked on high ground and my rain gauge has an inch in it so far. The forecast is rain for the next three days, so it's anybodies guess how much we get. The thunder and lightning is fun!!!
I'm rebuilding one of the cylinders on my backhoe, but that will have to wait until the rain stops.
Eddie
It's raining right now, the dozer is parked on high ground and my rain gauge has an inch in it so far. The forecast is rain for the next three days, so it's anybodies guess how much we get. The thunder and lightning is fun!!!
I'm rebuilding one of the cylinders on my backhoe, but that will have to wait until the rain stops.
Eddie
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It is good to see you back at!!!!
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This is what I'm looking for when digging and moving the clay. You can see the way it holds together and curls up along the blade. As it gets big enough, it will colaps on itself, but then it just curls back on up the blade again.
This picture really shows the ideal situation!!!!
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This picture really shows the ideal situation!!!!
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EddieWalker said:
You can get this effect in a hard packed sand soil as well, though sand wont build up that high... anyways, the curling / rolling up effect is usually requiring the least traction to move big amounts of dirt...
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Renze,
Thanks, I didn't know about the sand curling too. It's just realy nice when I get it to do this when I'm digging and moving dirt.
Every once in awhile I get my lazer to check my work and make sure the dam is at the right height. The land is changing elevation, but the water leve has to remain the same. Right now the dam is getting lower.
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Thanks, I didn't know about the sand curling too. It's just realy nice when I get it to do this when I'm digging and moving dirt.
Every once in awhile I get my lazer to check my work and make sure the dam is at the right height. The land is changing elevation, but the water leve has to remain the same. Right now the dam is getting lower.
Eddie
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Some of the pines will be saved for beams in the store. I've come up with a new plan for the store and resturant that takes better advantage of the location. Everytime I test out the dozer, I work on the pad a little more each time.
Now that it's taking shape, I'm seeing a different design for that building. Simpler with more square footage and a better view into the wildlife preserve. It also takes into consideration the ability to have a resturant down the road without any further building or modifications.
Eddie, for some reason I have not been keeping up wiht this thread. I have never been very good at visualzing or planning any type of gradin, I jsut can't see it in my mind, so prolly that is why I haven't been reading it for a while. But I perked right up when I saw that you wrote that you were planning a restaurant in the future.
Since my husband was a chef for 35 years I can say that prolly the most important factor in a good kitchen and serving stations is the design. When you get to that point I would recommend that you tap the experience of many chefs when working out your design. You will get ideas, different ideas from each one. The kitchen equipment manufacturers will provide a free design or low cost kitchen design, which is a good sarting point, however showing the plans to many chefs will really help you come up with the BEST design. My husband always says one of the biggest expenses in a kitchen is the hood. The hoods can cost you a lot of money and there is a lot of engineering to get the right hood. Just research kitchen hoods for a while and you will soon find out. I know you like to learn new things and search on the internet, so that should keep your active mind busy for a while. Kitchen hoods.
Now that it's taking shape, I'm seeing a different design for that building. Simpler with more square footage and a better view into the wildlife preserve. It also takes into consideration the ability to have a resturant down the road without any further building or modifications.
Eddie, for some reason I have not been keeping up wiht this thread. I have never been very good at visualzing or planning any type of gradin, I jsut can't see it in my mind, so prolly that is why I haven't been reading it for a while. But I perked right up when I saw that you wrote that you were planning a restaurant in the future.
Since my husband was a chef for 35 years I can say that prolly the most important factor in a good kitchen and serving stations is the design. When you get to that point I would recommend that you tap the experience of many chefs when working out your design. You will get ideas, different ideas from each one. The kitchen equipment manufacturers will provide a free design or low cost kitchen design, which is a good sarting point, however showing the plans to many chefs will really help you come up with the BEST design. My husband always says one of the biggest expenses in a kitchen is the hood. The hoods can cost you a lot of money and there is a lot of engineering to get the right hood. Just research kitchen hoods for a while and you will soon find out. I know you like to learn new things and search on the internet, so that should keep your active mind busy for a while. Kitchen hoods.
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Rox,
Thanks for the tip on the resturant. It's something I don't have a clue about and to be honest, it's one of my panic areas. I'm not so much worried about designing the kitchen, but where to put the utilities so I can build it down the road!!! Once the concrete is poured, it's really hard to change the location of things. Not impossible, just painfully dificult.
Eddie
Thanks for the tip on the resturant. It's something I don't have a clue about and to be honest, it's one of my panic areas. I'm not so much worried about designing the kitchen, but where to put the utilities so I can build it down the road!!! Once the concrete is poured, it's really hard to change the location of things. Not impossible, just painfully dificult.
Eddie
