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The lid was only 10” thick. I might be here a while…. Right where that 40’ pile of dirt is, I need to dig a retention pond. 200’ long. 10’ lower than where I’m sitting.

The job I’m on now is demolition and dirt work. There is an in-ground water storage tank that was decommissioned 5 years ago. The area will be turned into athletic fields in the future. The tank is 320’x400’x23’ deep. 18 million gallons. There is a hockey arena adjacent to this, the parking lots...

Demo boom delivered yesterday:

That is not the actual machine, it was an image I found on Google that best showed a beam trailer.

It takes some doing. Attachment gets hauled by the clam truck. Counterweights on the lowboy trailer. The boom folds up and has a cradle that sits on a flatbed trailer. The machine gets hauled by a beam deck trailer. I’m thinking we may buy our own beam deck trailer. This demo excavator makes...

Wrong again, it’s a R960. 108’ of reach. 200,000 lbs fully assembled. The hydraulic tank capacity is 104 gallons in the tank. Adding all the booms, cylinders, and lines brings the oil capacity up to 350 gallons.

Rumor has it that a new Liebherr showed up at the yard. Demolition machine, high reach. Haven’t heard if it’s a R940 or R950.

Cancelled all plans of a shed floor and driveway. Concrete is $173/yard delivered.

Work:

Test run went well, no swaying. Bit more bouncing unloaded, though. Sometimes I run without putting a strap over my ramps, they are heavy enough I have never had an issue. Not anymore, not until I beef them up and they are heavier.

This is the space that will get filled in with new decking as money permits. I have to figure out support and bracing. It will make the deck just over 12’ long.

So by welding new spring seats on top of the axle and getting the springs on top, I went from 9” from axle center to underside of the trailer deck, to 16”. A 175/80/13 trailer tire/rim combo has 24” diameter. This should work. Except..... One spring seat isn’t in the same plane as the other. One...

Old axle and springs: The old axle is 46” spring center, hub face is 55”. New axle is 60” hub to hub. I’m also going from slipper springs to double eye springs, so the axle is getting moved forward 4”. I am limited on height for new, larger, tires. The ones on there are only rated for 1,200...

I bought a Shorelander boat trailer in 2008 and converted it into a utility trailer. My FIL worked for a power company, and they cut up old power poles and made dimensional lumber out of them. So I had access to southern yellow pine, full 2x, lumber for free. My neighbor had 9’ long aluminum...

Ariens tillers are top notch. I can’t believe someone other than that CL dude scooped up an Ariens.

I guess the Honda

That is pretty much awesome.

Looks like an A to me, and if he has enough parts to make that loader work.... (They are tough to find)

‘I'll take a look my friend’

The techny arborvitae shrubs in the side yard are finally getting big enough it’s time not mow around them completely. The bagger brushes up against the next one over when I go around. I would start damaging branches around them this year, I think. I will mulch around them and in between. Gap is...