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Offline Paul_H

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Having a blast
« on: November 03, 2005, 11:32:44 pm »
Things have been winding down with the mill and it's been too wet to haul out back so I hired on with a local logging outfit til snow flies.They have a few excavators hired on with a highways contactor that is building a highway into the Callaghan Valley for the 2010 Winter Olympics and I'm running a Kobelco SK350 prepping and mucking out for the blasters.



Stripping the rock.The guys in the backgroung are loading the holes for the blast,it took four of them 9 hours to load and prepare to blast last Saturday.









I had Sunday off while Brian shoved the rock off of the road with the D10





Early Monday morning I crawled up on the pile and threw the muck down to Bob and he shoved it of the road to the fill with the 966 Cat





I'm having a great time working there and it's good to see how the big outfits go about it.The one thing that is hard to get used to is having to stop and let traffic through.but working with Bob and Brian has been good.They are both around 60 and have been in construction all their lives.Lots of laughs and good stories at lunch time  :)

I'll post more tomorrow.




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Re: Having a blast
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2005, 11:49:10 pm »
Great pics, Paul. 8) 8)  Looks like you guys are really making your equipment earn its keep! :o
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Re: Having a blast
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2005, 12:30:42 am »
Thanks DanG.
They always put the hired machines on the rock pile,some things never change  ;D
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Re: Having a blast
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2005, 07:14:08 am »
Cool stuff Paul, that kind of work is my dream job.  8)

That D-10 makes the payloader look like a toy, looking forward to more pics. :)
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Re: Having a blast
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2005, 11:15:29 am »
Whoo-hoo, big boy toys  8)

Looks like a fun an interesting job.  I have always wondered hoe those roads were built without falling off the mountain.
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Re: Having a blast
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2005, 02:30:11 pm »
 Cool shots Paul  8). I always wanted to do work like that. Keep the pictures comming  :)
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Re: Having a blast
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2005, 07:23:16 pm »
Well,when I showed up this morning,there was only the drillers,surveyors,and another smaller excavator working and we only went until noon.It seems that there is no place to place the gravel and strippings until the bridge is in place so we're down for a bit.It has snowed on us last night and today so we might be down for the count soon.



Driller running a Furakawa putting in holes for the shear line



sending muck down to Brian who is loading it onto Bob's truck with the 245 Cat



Bob is a teamster and he's been trying to educate me on how important it is to stop for coffee at 9:30 and 3:00. I was only in the IWA for a total of two months in 1982 so I told him to be patient :D He's a good guy.





Finally climbing down off the ramp at 4:00 pm Thursday,4 days after climbing up of the road.The Kobelco has a custom fuel tank and gaurding package built by T-mar.The fuel tank holds at least four days fuel which was a good thing.




 

A before and after pic taken from pretty close to the same spot.That's all the pics for now.I would have liked to get more of the crew but it didn't work out.

Scott,Norm and OWW
it is fun especially when working with a good crew that is willing to share their knowledge and experience and I look forward to getting back there if possible this year.Tomorrow I'm back on a logging road driving a Moxie,no coffee breaks  ;)




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Re: Having a blast
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2005, 07:31:37 pm »
Looks like a great time.  I love big equipment and would have loved to bring a chair and watch even if I couldn't run any of it. 

Did The warden let you out of the cage?
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Re: Having a blast
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2005, 08:01:03 pm »
Quote from: Tom on November 04, 2005, 07:31:37 pm
Did The warden let you out of the cage?

At 9:30am,12:00 noon,3:00pm and 5:30 pm but I snuck out for a few pics  ;)
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Re: Having a blast
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2005, 08:35:59 pm »
How does God get those great big trees you guys got out there to grow in that rock?
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« Reply #10 on: November 05, 2005, 08:34:42 am »
Thanks for the additional pictures Paul. Now tell this flatlander what a Moxie is. ;)
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Re: Having a blast
« Reply #11 on: November 05, 2005, 07:42:18 pm »
Quote from: Jeff B on November 04, 2005, 08:35:59 pm
How does God get those great big trees you guys got out there to grow in that rock?

Them rocks are the fertilizer. :D ;D
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Re: Having a blast
« Reply #12 on: November 05, 2005, 10:33:18 pm »
Norm,
A Moxie is a 6 wheel drive articulating/occilating dump truck.It works well for steep muddy areas.I'll try to get some pics tomorrow.We were snowed on most of the day today and it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas,everywhere I go... :)

Here is a link to an auction that shows the same model and vintage
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               Moxie

The door on the moxie I was driving has the door held shut with a bungee cord and whenever I hit a rough spot the door opens then shuts,all bloody day.Anyway,my brand new cell phone fell off my belt and some how slipped out the door this morning. My son had just set it all up and I was learning how to take digital pics with it but now it's a part of a logging road  :-X
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« Reply #13 on: November 06, 2005, 07:48:37 am »
Thanks for the link Paul, guess I've not seen those around here. Sorry to hear about your new cellphone, sounds like you guys fix doors around there pretty much like we do here also. Well except we'd use baling twine. :D
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Re: Having a blast
« Reply #14 on: November 06, 2005, 09:09:39 pm »
Do not feel like the Lone Ranger
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« Reply #15 on: November 06, 2005, 09:52:22 pm »
Took my camera to work again today but had it secured to the back of the seat so it wouldn't do the cell phone thing  :-X

We moved the Moxy(i was spelling it wrong) excavators and tank drill out of the way last night so the Grapple Yarder and loader could pass us on the "Y".As he was turning to head up the road,the track on the Grapple yarder slipped off of the front idler and blocked the road and kept us busy for an hour.We ended up hooking the grapple to a log that was held securely by the EX400 excavator and when Dave tightened up on the log it lifted the track off the ground and helped the track back on.



passing on the "Y" about the time the track jumped


 it's back on and we're all happy about it


Gary and Frank pumping grease back in to tighten up the track.Frank is smart cause he's just holding the coupler while Gary pumps the frozen grease(I'm smarter because I have the camera and everybody is on guard and hasn't noticed I didn't pump)  ;)



My freind Frank.Good logger and he'll keep you laughing all day



Harry (Hey) doesn't like working Sundays but they won't let him quit  :)



Ready to go again



Pulling guylines,getting ready to yard
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Re: Having a blast
« Reply #16 on: November 06, 2005, 10:08:26 pm »



A few pics to show how versitile the Moxy is.It can turn around in the same space a pickup truck takes and you can kick the back end over to dump off the side of the road.If done right you can back over your pile with the next load and dump



This is the swivel joint that allows the Moxy to occillate.It has the large bearing and the center pins behind it that lets the truck turn sharp
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« Reply #17 on: November 07, 2005, 07:48:50 am »
Those Moxy's look darn handy Paul, how many yards can they haul? Looks like winter has moved into your area. Neat to see how you folks do things out there, sure different from my area.
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Re: Having a blast
« Reply #18 on: November 07, 2005, 11:29:35 am »
Great pictures, Paul. Thanks  8)

I want one of those Moxys ;D ;D



                          ............ and about 10 acres of bank run gravel to fill it with  ;D :D ;D
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« Reply #19 on: November 07, 2005, 03:04:46 pm »
 Really cool shots Paul. I'm in college right now to be a Industrial Mechanic but if that falls through I'm seriously thinking of heading out your way for awhile. the more pics you post the more I want to be out there  :D.  A lot of guys run those Kobelcos around here , supposedly theyre one of the smoothest machines around. I like the Tmar gaurding packages. theyre feul tanks are the only ones I've seen that extend the full width of the machine and the catwalks, all the other ones are only as wide as the machine. Anyways thanks for the pictures and keep up the good work.  8)
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