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26951
« on: June 11, 2015, 10:55:20 AM »
Don't tell JR
He'll freak
All I'll hear is "Let's hear it run"
There will be bold, italicized, moving banners and he'll get other people all fired up and they will chime in as well.
And we definitely DON'T NEED THAT!
Plus, consider the agin' man's blood pressure. Hey he already lives in the Kalifornia which has to be nerve rackin' enough already, and he had a career of catchin' bad guys just so the criminal injustice system could release them then turn around and investigate him for possible rights abuses...
(worst part of that for guys like Bobby, me, Blaine, and Nate is he didn't get to shoot em!)
So don't tell him!
I started building the rear bumper! Yea, just having fun right now meltin' metal. Kinda like diggin' a hole when I was a kid (last year)
So, I just ordered the winch for it. Not going with the Badlands because, well, I'm not sure if I trust them. I went with Superwinch, because I do! And I found a store which sold it for $349 with free shipping...free shipping on a 94 pound winch!
Remember, Don't mention a thing to JR...Oh I can just hear it now....
26952
« on: June 11, 2015, 09:22:00 AM »
Need a link for that ^^^^^^ I want one
26953
« on: June 11, 2015, 09:07:47 AM »
Nate, How about having your CP3 overhauled at a pump builder? Plenty of them around. I'm guessing $1300 ish, perhaps as low as $1,100. Did you check into that?
26954
« on: June 11, 2015, 09:03:45 AM »
Finally got caught up on this. Remind me to never ask for your help on a fluids change and freshening up. With that bumper you could use this for tree clearing duty, and sell big red to fund other projects.
Maybe not just yet. It kinda needs to run for that.
I could almost package all this and sell it as a book! Much more to come on SquareD which is evolving into the "Never-ending project."
26955
« on: June 11, 2015, 09:02:17 AM »
Good dealers are hard to come by. If you have one that is taking care of you stick with them. We have a great kubota dealer close by that we deal with a lot. Been looking for a good used mini ex for a year or so. They knew it and we got the call as soon as they got a kx 91 in on trade. We were there when they unloaded it and brought in their shop. 2 yrs old, 250 hrs and not a mark on it. Must have been used to install a couple truck swallowing pits at the mall and that's it. Anyway, bout 20 after they got it in paperwork was signed. Got it for about 2/3 new cost.
Pecked all that out to say be patient. The right machine will there be yours in God's time.
Patience...You're talking about patience Did I ever tell you about patience and a squirrel? LOL Thanks
26956
« on: June 10, 2015, 06:21:52 PM »
Those drive motors are a common issue with older machines. As you found out if it aint tracking straight running at full speed they are likely the issue. When you get one it will quickly become the most used machine on the farm. Pretty easy to run efficiently if you have experience pulling levers to make things happen, as you do. The way I was taught was to look at the boom as your arm, 3 joints, and the bucket as your hand. Fun to run once you figure out the controls.
I'm learning every day I thought I had the machine. At only 28K I could have afforded it handily. But that drive motor costs $11,000! Now with a new drive motor I would have been OK except for Richard waving me off in telling them they didn't need to sell me that unit. Well, I trust him, and Larry and really, everyone there for that matter, and I think they did this to protect me. I am disappointed though. I was thinking within a week, I could muck out the pond and demo the house there and have a heck of a lot of fun building my dream down there. I really liked that Case CX-160 but without it being a dealership, I couldn't find financing. Commercial financing is difficult to say the least. They want to see balance sheets and all that and I just started the "Farm." Other than that, the pretty Case would have been a keeper. Just in a short time of grubbing around I was getting the hang of running that thing. I owned a couple back-hoes in the past and I'd say, I got on top of those things in a day or so. Well, I'm pretty good with a loader so we'll see what I can do with big red if no track hoe comes my way
26957
« on: June 10, 2015, 12:53:02 PM »
Being back to just Big Red is not such a bad place to be. It is ready now.
Almost ready! Working on a pesky oil leak, but not a big deal...just time
26958
« on: June 10, 2015, 12:35:16 PM »
You already know, it is a lot better to find out before using the pen. There are plenty out there. You'll find the one you are supposed to have in God's time.
That's a fact! I prayed over this. If God wished me to have it, then he would make it possible, and if not to put a block in the way I believe he has spoken!
26959
« on: June 10, 2015, 12:27:51 PM »
Do you folks up there do basements? If that thing is on a basement it's huge!
We do basements here so, essentially, you end up with a 3-story
A problem with basements around here is the surface water likes to fill up holes it finds. All the drainage and asphalt coating around the outside of the basement does is slow down the water for a while. Once a crack forms in the floor or outside wall, water will be there after a rain event.
I thought as much, heck you folks live in a rain forest! Plus those volcanic rocks are a bunch harder than the softer limestone we tunnel through around here.
26960
« on: June 10, 2015, 12:24:02 PM »
Well, just now I got a call from the dealer.
They have determined it is a drive motor and it likely has metal chips throughout the system that didn't get trapped in a filter, so they no longer want to sell it to me!
Jerry asked me to let him search around for another machine in the 160-210 class, so I guess I'm back to just Big Red!
26961
« on: June 10, 2015, 12:11:26 PM »
Also, on the pond building, you have to know what you're doing, or you could waste a lot of time and money on fuel, and not accomplish a simple "hole that holds water"...
Have to check drainage in surrounding areas, check for springs, make sure you can core out for the dam, make sure you don't hit any water tables or springs! Contrary to everyones thinking, a spring/water table is the WORST thing you can hit when digging your pond. Reason is, when you dam up the pond, and it begins to build up with water, the head pressure of the volume of water pushing back against the water table/spring, can actually prevent your pond from filling up. It will get enough weight that it will push water back into the table/spring, instead of the opposite... Pond will only fill up to that point, then no more... Seen it happen, built one like that, landowner didn't care. It could drop 8" of rain in 5 hours, and his pond would not get with in 2' of his spillway. Would not happen.
So, make sure you get someone out there that knows what they are doing, to advise you as you go along...
Practice and experience make perfect, so learn from people that have been there, done that... 8)
I hear ya Built a pond in Tennessee that leaked! Would hold maybe 6 feet of water out of a 20' hole. My pastor a Texas man, got ahold of me right away. HE said let him to get his buddy, a guy like you to advise or even put in the pond for me...How cool is that? I do have a spring fed pond, but this is how I plan to manage that: The bigger pond site will surround the existing pond but at a lower level. The pond is on a slope, so I'll go down slope and pull out the dirt and build in the dam and set all that maybe 6 feet lower than the existing pond. Then I'll break the dam and flood the water (Not much) into the lower pond, the muck out the existing one. The new pond site will drain a lot of the ridgeline which has a road running down the center, a sunken road. Rains currently run into that road, then down and into a gulley. I plan to reroute all that to empty through a twisty into the new pond. I also plan to track in 6"-1 foot of clay which I expect to find in the hole excavation
26962
« on: June 10, 2015, 11:59:50 AM »
Ash,
Thanks for the feedback
I am moving forward with the purchase, but haven't paid for it yet.
The guys at Southeastern are being great with me. They understand how badly I got hurt with the first Big-Red repair.
Speaking with Jerry, the salesman, we talked about a fluid change of everything except for hydraulics, and filters, a total steam cleaning, a new seat, a general work off of things that should get fixed. He wants to put another bucket on it as the wobble I found there is not due to missing bushings, it has the wrong size pins. He was searching the company for a 42"-45" bucket when last we talked.
The big thing turned out to be in the propel system
When I "Drove" it I noticed it pulling to one side a little bit. I was thinking it needed a bit of adjustment to the levers. While I was talking to Jerry, Richard, the mechanic who has been fixing Big Red said he thought they should put a new drive motor in one side of the track system.
Jerry was working the numbers to give me the best possible price, and none of them want that machine to leave there with any significant problems.
So I'll be in the 20's for a 150HP Cummins powered machine with a great undercarriage. I estimate 200 hours a year for a couple years, then probably a forth of that. I mean, it is so big, it will get a lot of work done pretty efficiently and quicker that grubbing around with big red. And now Red will compliment it well with more of a "Pushing" role than an out and out digging role.
26963
« on: June 10, 2015, 11:47:04 AM »
Do you folks up there do basements? If that thing is on a basement it's huge!
We do basements here so, essentially, you end up with a 3-story
26964
« on: June 10, 2015, 11:10:08 AM »
Yeah, i like it too. All the front gable pitches match on the shop at the house at 8/12. The shop was actually 9/12 and i noticed it while the plans were in engineering, so i had to have it updated... that's why they're dotted lines in that photo.
Oooh your garage is on the side, my wife really wanted a side garage but our property just wasn't wide enough. Nice house!
I would prefer your detached garage building setup. I actually have two garages, the one you see is my wife's 24X24 Mine is truly on the side and is a deep 3 car plus work area 36 X 28 or 30 I think. But like today, for example, if I spray that bumper with the Raptor, the fumes are really wicked, and they will migrate into the house. You'll have a better setup
26965
« on: June 10, 2015, 10:31:29 AM »
Very Nice
I like how you cut up the roof profile with all the dormers
I did the same thing on my house
26966
« on: June 10, 2015, 09:03:44 AM »
Like it!
What is the proposed house going to look like?
26967
« on: June 10, 2015, 09:00:45 AM »
I like that ^^^^
26968
« on: June 09, 2015, 08:08:27 PM »
For some reason my private messages don't work. When I first joined the site it did, but I could not post anywhere else. Someone was helping me fix that through PMs. When the other posting got fixed the PM quit working. I gave it a couple weeks to see it was something yall were working on, but it's still giving me this message when I try to open it.
An Error Has Occurred!
Sorry, you can't read your personal messages.
Can someone help with this please. I would at least like to thank the guy that helped me fix the other issue.
I just checked your settings, and found everything to be normal. I forwarded it to Kyle to see if he can figure it out We'll try to get you healed
26969
« on: June 09, 2015, 04:22:08 PM »
Maybe that was a gun that they captured from the Iraqi forces.
French! Only dropped once, never been fired!
26970
« on: June 09, 2015, 04:21:07 PM »
If they were crews, I'd be on it like white on rice
You bidding?
Was thinking you could throw down an $800 bid for me and see if I get lucky...But then I'd have another project...
What's the HFS? (Home front situation?)
Have a driveway yet?
Crops?
Roof(s)?
Not even going to think about asking about the W350
26971
« on: June 09, 2015, 02:00:17 PM »
Just make it real coffee BD.
I think there are videos of getting run over on youtube, might "kill" some time.
A colonel buddy of mine sent me some YouTube links. Good one An ISIS dude was dancing around twirling his rifle and tossing it about. Yup, you guessed it. He dropped it and shot himself! So I guess guns actually DO kill people. Was a good clip, kinda brought a tear to my eye in a hopeful sort of way... https://www.facebook.com/RyoooD/videos/790577004310714/
26972
« on: June 09, 2015, 01:05:24 PM »
Clever post.
Good use for a relatively newer tool
I would have never thought about that, or dulling the blade some to prevent over zealous rubber removal
26973
« on: June 09, 2015, 09:48:50 AM »
Thanks, Gentlemen
26974
« on: June 09, 2015, 08:34:59 AM »
I definitely picked up something. I feel like I have been run over by an eighteen wheeler, who backed up and ran over me a second time...with both sides.
Probably a bad idea but gonna try some quoffee
26975
« on: June 09, 2015, 08:33:13 AM »
Decor has two sealants for that rubber roof. The self leveling for the flat stuff up on the roof works great. On the corners the non-sag is better. It stays in place on the vertical stuff better. A couple tubes should do down the sides and the corners. If you're revealing everything that's up there it,ll prolly take a dozen or so tubes of self level. Put a couple heavy beads around everything that's sticking up and it will lay down real purty. That old sealant can be carved off of there with one of those oscillating tools. I dull the new blades on concrete for a second so they don't cut the roof so easily. Just light pressure not forcing it or it will slice the rubber. With some practice all the sealant could be stripped off in less than an hour with that tool.
Interesting technique
26976
« on: June 08, 2015, 06:22:11 PM »
There's Asian flu around now?
I'm not so bad now, but when I was sweatin it up in the garage I was feelin a bit peekish
26977
« on: June 08, 2015, 04:44:58 PM »
No NAPA near here that I know about
We have ORilleys, Autozone, some other a-zone like store, and Kentucky motors. I use the first and the last and am vaguely aware of the other two.
Besides it's already on the way
And
I have another development.
Last night one of the pre-Rangers pulled a 101.5 with projectile pukin'. Second one started it about noon, now I'm feeling it...
Probably a blessing that the stuff won't be here for 48.
I started in on another truck project on SquareD but finally gave it up around 1630... I'll lay around and complain, see if I can get some sympathy.
It's a long shot, but who knows!
26978
« on: June 08, 2015, 02:19:44 PM »
Went to get some this morn, but the paint store no longer carries it, so I'm back to A & W (Amazon and wait)
O'Reilly Auto, AutoZone and et al, generally have Herculiner for sale in there, that's pretty good stuff as well. If they do, then you won't have to wait, which means more build thread for us all to read...
Bobby, The herc stuff is not as good as the Raptor by a fair stretch. Not a 2-part urethane, just a brush on cheapo. Already ordered a Raptor kit...$125 with shipping, be here Wednesday
26979
« on: June 08, 2015, 12:54:51 PM »
Raptor that sucker up! boogered welds and all it looks better than anything out of the box, that's for sure.
Went to get some this morn, but the paint store no longer carries it, so I'm back to A & W (Amazon and wait)
26980
« on: June 08, 2015, 12:53:26 PM »
Man, that's the truth. Sometimes I let my tongue get the better of me... Will hang on to this one!
I meant that for me mostly!
26981
« on: June 08, 2015, 08:34:52 AM »
Amen!
26982
« on: June 08, 2015, 08:24:39 AM »
That's the stuff...Dicor!
26983
« on: June 08, 2015, 08:23:30 AM »
Good resource!
26984
« on: June 07, 2015, 10:33:56 PM »
^^^Raptor, confirmed!
26985
« on: June 07, 2015, 10:31:00 PM »
That pizza looks freakin amazing!
26986
« on: June 07, 2015, 10:29:27 PM »
...All the proding I needed. Excuse me, I meant, Prodin'
Raptor it is.
Side of the truck as well, cause it's time?
26987
« on: June 07, 2015, 10:27:25 PM »
That forklift thing had all the makin's of a good tale
Story when the results don't end up in an emergency and involve the VFD...Tale when it pushes ahead and involves some of the earlier elements
Ken, not silicone...check it out that PVC rubber composite does not work with silicone. I have tubes of the stuff you need, but can't recall just now what it is.
Results are spectacular...You bought that roof a few more years!
26988
« on: June 07, 2015, 10:20:23 PM »
And of course you'd paint it OD Green too....
All machinery should be one of the selected mil colors, but since OD green is the nicest, yes, I'd select that!
26989
« on: June 07, 2015, 07:02:24 PM »
I'm not doing anything today. It's sunday and I am, indeed, making this a day of rest!
But tomorrow...tomorrow that bumper will either get bolted back on or get sprayed partially with the Raptor.
What say ye (Not that I'll pay attention to any of it, but just for grins...what do ya think?)
I might just scratch up the paint and raptorize the lower panel on the truck while I'm at it
26990
« on: June 07, 2015, 06:59:43 PM »
Did you ever go to the reference book and look up the family name...to see who in your extended family died over there? Try it...
26991
« on: June 07, 2015, 06:51:00 PM »
Thought so!
I was looking at the specs on that machine. It has 55,000 lbs of draw-bar force, the rotation torque of the boom is 57,000 lbs. Fifty seven thousand pounds of torque!
Has a 5.9 Cummins, 97 gallons of fuel, 160 gallons of hydraulic oil, moves along at 3.7mph and is just pretty powerful.
Ever seen someone put in a fence row with one?
One guy holds the post...The excavator operator positions the bucket over the post and simply pushes it into the ground the correct depth...Done!
Logging? Cut the log out of the tree you just dropped and just pick it up and carry it off
Digging? This one can scratch a vertical wall 31 feet high or dig a hole 22 feet deep!
Talk about pole barn building? Here's your crane!
Some neat tricks I've seen/heard about:
Find a paper wasps nest. Use excavator to pull branch with nest off of tree. Place branch in back of pickup truck of a friend or someone who is not your friend ;-)
Place really big rocks or stumps on either end of someone's car
Dig all the ground out around someone's car and leave them perched on a pedestal 6 feet high!
Dig a big hole in a farm road just where the trees close in on either side. Do this when the offending person is out in the field working...then leave
If you are the wife of someone who has wronged you (Husband who cheated on her) use excavator to drive over top of his truck
Park anywhere you wish to create a temporary road block...like to block your neighbors driveway...the one who constantly complains over everything you do...that sort of neighbor
I could see them successfully employed in tearing down mosques
And in the same vein, used to clear out waste treatment plant, sediment ponds!
I've heard of them used to fill up a convertible owned by the lawyer who represented the ex in court where someone got burned
If you suspect the haji who lives down the street has a car bomb inside his 1991 BMW745, use the excavator to remove the roof panel to ensure everyone's safety!
They can also be used for general construction and digging of ponds!
Lots of useful and creative possibilities with such a machine
26992
« on: June 07, 2015, 05:53:26 PM »
A big loader with a thumb has to be about one of the most valuable pieces of equipment out there, especially with all those trees on your property.
Saw a video of a guy the other day using his loader to cut firewood. Literally just picked up a log a few feed off the ground, and chunked it up into rounds without even having to bend over... YES PLEASE!
Loader or excavator?
26993
« on: June 07, 2015, 02:51:58 PM »
Yea, after that crash that started in 07, we took a beating. I lost around $300K. Was going to pay for the house and be done. Now I still have a mortgage!
But with how things are shaping up, if/when the dollar and the markets collapse, with the open mayhem that will ensue, I'm going to the farm assuming I have it to a habitable state. This place will just attract looters and I don't want to stay up all night every night shooting them, I figure I can get more sleep down in the Kentucky outback.
What that all means is that although I technically have a mortgage, when the banks fail I won't have a mortgage, but there won't be a means to pay anyway
26994
« on: June 07, 2015, 02:46:53 PM »
NO...Trade my bumper for some of those meals!
26995
« on: June 07, 2015, 02:45:48 PM »
^^^ Parker has that stuff also, their own brand. I used it all over SquareD
26996
« on: June 07, 2015, 02:40:54 PM »
Good looking machine there. Don't think I've ever seen this many pics of Don unless you count his book.
Maybe for the asking price they can get all those little items cleaned up, and wake up Rip.
The pre-ranger was snapping the pics. So he was snapping them of his dad...go figure I'll start the purchase conversation tomorrow, see where all that leads. But with a machine like that, all things will be possible on that "Farm"
26997
« on: June 07, 2015, 08:31:02 AM »
Served on a plastic plate, eaten on a glass table
That has cookout written all over it!
26998
« on: June 07, 2015, 08:27:18 AM »
Cool!
26999
« on: June 07, 2015, 08:24:43 AM »
That bumper would fit that square Chevy of yours Nate
I'd almost be willing to trade for some of those meals you have posted up!
27000
« on: June 07, 2015, 08:23:14 AM »
I think you just hit on an idea for another "Build" thread.
Red Neck, why don't you start a thread on glock mods. Personally, I have a couple slide release extensions sitting around that I have not installed.
We could cover magazine extensions, trigger mods, sights (HC was on me for running stock sights!) and anything else.
Then we could have a separate thread for the XD folks, the 1911 guys, and whatever else tickles you'll's fancy (A double apostrophe legal?)
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