Equipment Operator Thread

[BSwope]

Im board cause i was rained out today and was just wondering what equipment some TDR memebers operate?



D6R XW SERIES III Brand Spankin New

 

[05mxdiesel]

Used to operate and maintenance equipment in the summers while in college. Mostly backhoes, skid loaders, mini excavators, and ocassionally I would get to hammer at the good ol Pennsylvania limestone in a trackhoe. Mostly residential work but the ocassional commercial state rate. I miss that work, as I work in a office. It didn't rain here today at all, it looked like it going to though.

 

[gravedigger]

310E John Deere Backhoe

 

[Turbo Tim 1]

A 750 Megawatt power plant, I know, not quite what you were looking for as far as equipment but it's still pretty cool. The dark brown plant is the one I work at and that is just steam during steam blows, not smoke or toxic stuff. The old brick building was built in 1951 and has been retired and the stacks are torn down now.



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[DBogo]

brand new deere 310SG, cat D5H XL, cat 320LC, deere 322, cat IT28G and some POS ingersoll rand compactor

 

[WDaniels]

I work occasionally at a privately owned gold mine. I've worked D9G's, we have 4. D9N. D10, Terex 8230. Excavators, Cat 345, 4 years old. Cat 330B with thumb. Older Cat 245 with 5 yard bucket, Koring 1066. Trommel. Couple of draglines. Wheeled cranes of all sorts up to 80 tons. Even run a 1942 D7M. One of the old ones that made the Alcan road up to here. An old cable rig. Cat 992, 988, 980, 966. Operating is one of the things I love to do.

WD

 

[D Canevari]

Im in the operating engineers union and i run any standard construction equipment as well as a klien 42m concrete pump. Currently running 966d,jd450g,hitachi ex300 and concrete pump. I work for a bridge building company called MCM construction.

 

[catoiler]

990F,988F,980H,769C,D9L,345,and a bunch of smaller cat eqp.

 

[BSwope]

The biggest we have are D8's, A 750 Hitachi, a 365 CAT

 

[daledozer]

Main job- screen/ crusher plant operator (sand and gravel), occasional loader operator (980G), winters strip trees, topsoil, and overburden (D8NII diff. steer).

 

[PToombs]

Main job, Case mech. get to run everything! Part time, NH575 backhoe, Case 450c, 850k dozers, w30, 621 loaders, 1840, 1825 skidsteers, Yanmar 50, Samsung 130lc. And some trucks, mack, reo, ih.

 

[mrsnow]

I dig diggin'

I am an operator for an environmental remediation company. We dig holes and fill them back in. :-laf

BTW, PToombs, do you work for Monroe Equipment?



Here is decent forum for heavy equipment operators heavyequipmentforums.com

 

[IngrahamS]

I'm a CAT mechanic in NH so i get to play with anything in the lot :-laf

-Stew

 

[RollOver_Pete]

Cat 365 - 320 excavators, 988 - 950 loaders, D10R - D4 dozers. Yeah, I never grew up, I just got a bigger Tonka Toy.



Here's who I work for.

www.eccoequipment.com



IUOE Local # 12

 

[PToombs]

BTW, PToombs, do you work for Monroe Equipment?



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Busted! Yeah, Monroe Tractor out of N. Syracuse. I was down your way a couple weeks ago. Had to go to West Winnfield to fix a 9020B.

 

[mrsnow]

Busted! Yeah, Monroe Tractor out of N. Syracuse.

That’s cool; the company I used to work for had an 850G from Monroe. I loved that machine; it was a great finish dozer.



I don't know if you were working for them at the time, or remember but, when I first started with them in 2000 we also had a KATO track hoe probably about a 60k# unit from Monroe. Anyway we had an operator that managed to bury it in some mud between Factory ave. and Ley Creek. When the machine sunk, the mud pushed the belly pans up and pinched the fuel line and killed it, so now we had a dead hoe buried in the mud. A mechanic from Monroe had to come to rig a temporary fuel tank (gallon jug) to get it running again. Well three other hoes, a dozer, and a backhoe we got her free.

 

[SMolteberg]

Hey, this is almost like AA

Well, I work in a paper and pulp plant where I feed the factory with woodchips. We operate only Volvo equipment, and I mainly drive our L330E or L220E. The later is my all time Volvo favorite, it must be the best wheeloader Volvo ever made. We use a 17-18 yard bucket on it and it handles it great. Another one I prefer to drive is our little L50B, it's getting a little old now, but nothing beats it when it comes to plowing snow. When new we complained about how gutless it was since it got a hydrostatic transmission. Volvo came and changed the axels with new gearing and tweaked the transmission and asked us to try this for a few months. It was great, it turned out to be thorsen diffs they put in there and after six months they wanted them back from what they thought would be a field-test. Well, they are still in the axels

 

[PToombs]

mrsnow, I heard all about that! I was laid off at the time, everybody in the shop went to see the Kato 1250 buried! We had this dumb broad(family website, nicest thing i could think of) running the service department, the 3/4 inch cable was stretch like a banjo string, and dummy walked right under it! When 1 of the techs got back he took a hardhat and wrote "nuisance" on it and gave it to her. :-laf

By the way, do you guys have the 2- 20ft 1/2 inch chains we loaned to get that out? They never came back from that adventure and we miss them!

 

[JLabossiere]

Nuisance!! thats being polite.

I don't know if this counts, but growing up we had a D8 13A that I started out on, then I had a D6c for a while. Operated various other equipment as time went by, but now I'm a gas plant operator and my pickup for the field is a Robinson R44. Lack of roads here and copus amounts of muskeg make it necessary.

 

[Pinion Twister]

I work for black beauty coal (peabody) as a leadman. We got all the big boy toys. For hyd. shovels we have hitachi 3500's and 1800's cat 5230's.

Backhoes we got hitachi 1200 all the way down to a 270 also a 245 cat.

Dozers are D11r carry dozers down to a D7LGP.

Trucks are 190 ton electric komatsu, 785 cat and 777 cats.

Graders are 16g cat.

Dont think i would want to do anything else.