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ridenby said:
I am after the crusher,just to play with. No plans for the tractor/power unit.
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If you didn't live so far away I'd take it off your hands. I love cool old shit like that. Sometimes it gets cleaned up and sold as a core. Sometimes it gets parted out. Depends how much rust is in places it shouldn't be.
 
Tractor part is a McCormick Deering WK-40. Crusher is Universal Crusher . Looks to me that they took front axle from tractor put it on double channel iron frame with crusher mounted to it.
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PAToyota said:
I can see how a twin would have each engine power a track. I'm not sure how a triple would even work - or work efficiently.
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Similar thinking. Some of the innerwebs said it was just a photoshop and other places said there was only 1 tripper made total.

Twin wise, I think there was only 5 of them made from the factory and retrofit kits sold for single D8’s to become twins.
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
lol just need to scrub the 3/4” blobs of sap off. Now that it’s below freezing it flakes off vs smearing when it’s warm out.
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Rubbing alcohol on a cotton ball, let it soak and just pinch the sap off with the cotton ball. Always use a fresh ball or you are just spreading the dissolved sap all over.
 
Never seen these before. They're in a local bankruptcy auction for an equipment rental company that apparently didn't last more than a few weeks since all the machines have like 20 hours on them.

Look like a combination of an RT crane and telehandler. The biggest ones have 15k lb capacity and max 76' reach. And they also have a man basket and remote controls so you can use them as a manlift. Pretty fuckin' cool.


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bgaidan said:
Never seen these before. They're in a local bankruptcy auction for an equipment rental company that apparently didn't last more than a few weeks since all the machines have like 20 hours on them.

Look like a combination of an RT crane and telehandler. The biggest ones have 15k lb capacity and max 76' reach. And they also have a man basket and remote controls so you can use them as a manlift. Pretty fuckin' cool.


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That’s the little guy. Had its big brother at the cabin yesterday. Pretty awesome machine. Had almost 20 trees down by lunch. All 50’feet on a super small lot.
 
bgaidan said:
Never seen these before. They're in a local bankruptcy auction for an equipment rental company that apparently didn't last more than a few weeks since all the machines have like 20 hours on them.

Look like a combination of an RT crane and telehandler. The biggest ones have 15k lb capacity and max 76' reach. And they also have a man basket and remote controls so you can use them as a manlift. Pretty fuckin' cool.


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I could get into a lot of trouble with one of those...

Aaron Z
 
Those Merlos are super fancy with all kinds of sensors and bullshit.

The joystick has a proxy switch that detects your hand, so your hand has to grab the goofy joystick as designed or it won't recognize you. Can't just work the knob from the top, or reach in through the door to move the boom unless you can fully commit to grasping the shaft.

At work we've got a handful and they're impossible to keep running. Not just the electrical, we have lots of driveline failures and other mechanical issues.

Also, I do not like the quick attach system at all. On top the attachment has big beefy hooks like a CAT loader, but underneath it's a single vertical pin to capture the attachment. The pin pokes out into a single tab on the attachment. If you extend the pin without being perfectly lined up, you might even bend that tab out of the way. Also very easy to bend out of the way if you're doing something that puts up pressure on the attachment.

Most other equipment has two pins horizontal and they're in double shear.

I do not like being in the manbasket with just that one little tab keeping the basket from getting bounced off the boom.

Oh, also there's lots of sensors that will prevent you from tipping the machine over, like when the boom is extended. Stupid thing will lock you out of functions like extend, but retract will still work. There is a bypass, but I think it'll only bypass so much.

Also super goofy forward/reverse neutral selections.

That's all I can think of right now. :flipoff2:
 
Muckin_Slusher said:
Those Merlos are super fancy with all kinds of sensors and bullshit.
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That's all I can think of right now. :flipoff2:
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Those sound like a horrible choice for an underground mine. Sounds like an office guy decided they would be a good buy without having a miner look at them for 2 minutes.

Random Canadian mining question do you guys use tractors for underground transportation? The mine manager here brought in an Australian safety engineering firm to do a hazard assessment after are less than stellar safety record the last couple years. The Aussie went for a ride on a tractor and was terrified. I guess they don't use them in Australia and he was wondering if we use them all over the USA (the last mine I was at had tractors though was phasing them out for side by sides).
 
barrelroll said:
Those sound like a horrible choice for an underground mine. Sounds like an office guy decided they would be a good buy without having a miner look at them for 2 minutes.

Random Canadian mining question do you guys use tractors for underground transportation? The mine manager here brought in an Australian safety engineering firm to do a hazard assessment after are less than stellar safety record the last couple years. The Aussie went for a ride on a tractor and was terrified. I guess they don't use them in Australia and he was wondering if we use them all over the USA (the last mine I was at had tractors though was phasing them out for side by sides).
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They are a horrible choice, (merlos) but the selection seems to be dwindling. Can't get away from the bullshit. I think the JCB tele are nearly as bad. I think the Manitous are pretty good though.

side by sides get beat to shit and don't last at all, even the kubotas.

We were really, really heavy into miller converted 70 series landcruisers. They pulled the factory axles and brakes and installed SAHR planetary axles, which are pretty bulletproof.

We've recently switched more to Kovatera (Minecat) tractors for moving men. They hold up pretty good, minecats are built specifically for mining and being broken apart for small cages/slinging.

As for electrician service tractors, we have 3 Miller converted JCB 4CX backhoes, and they're fucking great. Only problem is that miller isn't converting them anymore, so the last one we bought was a big 6 series John Deere with a manual clutch. It's the most retarded useless piece of shit imaginable. They cut the front boom to add a second boom pivot to gain height and put a forklift mast on the rear 3 point hitch. The thing is huge and square and fetches up everywhere. So now we're forklifting stuff from the back end with very little capacity. The floor gets hot as lava and the manbasket is small and narrow, so we can't touch the wall (which is where we hang our cables...). Imagine driving on a 17% grade, with random rocks and boulders everywhere trying to be smooth with a clutch while you've got a man up in the air in a basket, tight to the ceiling with screen and rockbolts sticking out everywhere. Our guys refuse to drive it.
 
barrelroll said:
Those sound like a horrible choice for an underground mine. Sounds like an office guy decided they would be a good buy without having a miner look at them for 2 minutes.

Random Canadian mining question do you guys use tractors for underground transportation? The mine manager here brought in an Australian safety engineering firm to do a hazard assessment after are less than stellar safety record the last couple years. The Aussie went for a ride on a tractor and was terrified. I guess they don't use them in Australia and he was wondering if we use them all over the USA (the last mine I was at had tractors though was phasing them out for side by sides).
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Aussies love these for mine transport: Driftrunner - Impact Mining | Underground Mining Equipment Hire

Driftrunner:

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They're not completley idiot proof though. I saw an incident report from a mine I was working at. Driver was coasting downhill in neutral, then put it into low range.

Broke transfer box, transmission, mounts on transfer box, mounts on engine and god knows what else.:laughing:
 
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