Wades_76_cj7
RZR guy, NO I am not gay..
The fuggin bulldog stories are the best part..
Boys were just counting buckets.
My manager got them to get a drone that he flies over to measure piles. And make videos of jobs and stuff.Got all the 3” concrete all hailed out and sold. First big sale of the show material. $4000 in that pile.
Found a pile measuring app for the iPhone. I tried it out today. Works pretty slick. Basically you just take a video of the pile by walking around it and it calculates the volume. If you place 2 cones out front 25’ apart the accuracy get to less than 2%.
I measured the screened sand pile we made at the show. Belt scale had 7700 ton on it. We made 4-500 before I put the belt scale conveyor in. Dad pulled 150-200 ton off of it.
Here is the model it made from my walk around.
5700 yards at 1.4 tons/ yard is 7980 ton. Crazy how close that is. Especially with just a video walk around.
Some more I did today. Needed to verify these loader stacked piles. Boys were just counting buckets.
Only hard part is you need to get far enough back to capture the top and toe of the pile in the video as you are walking around.
You can see where I had to walk up another pile to get far enough back.
Lastly I wanted to try a really odd shaped pile. This is the 3” breaker stone we made at the show. Contractor needed 1900 yds so we’ll see how close it is.
I’m happy, unsure if I’ll subscribe or not. They give you a 7 day trial. . After that it is 100 a month.
You wouldn’t think it is but it is tough. Did I count that last one or not . Nothing but second guessing yourself.Thats alot harder that most folks would think
That’s fancy stuff.My manager got them to get a drone that he flies over to measure piles. And make videos of jobs and stuff.
You wouldn’t think it is but it is tough. Did I count that last one or not . Nothing but second guessing yourself.
Today I was supposed to keep count of the 12 tubes of caulk I used. Guess who got to dig through the trash at the end of the dayYup. Clickers or a talley sheet. It dont matter you are goona second guess over half of the count
The apprenticeToday I was supposed to keep count of the 12 tubes of caulk I used. Guess who got to dig through the trash at the end of the day
Invite onlySo when you hosted that show, is it invited guests only or is it open to the public.
Panz that app is pretty dang slick. do a walk around of the bulldog and see how many yards of dog you got? lol
Nah it’s more of a size of pit/ volume of material sold deal. Big quarries you can do the whole cast in place crushers. The only issues with this style is the lack of flexibility and the ever need to haul the material up to the crusher. If I could sell a million or 2 tons out of one location a stationary plant with a mobile jaw hooked to a mobile conveyor train to get it up to the plant up top is the way to go.So talk to me like I am 5...
These mining spreads are totally different from ours, I assume because of the rock (limestone)
None of our spreads are portable, the crusher is on a ramp built in to the ground, excavator with hydraulic breaker ran from the crusher office.
Is this just a geography deal or just the difference in quarry size, assuming you have the quarries up there like ours as well?
All my pits are within 5 miles of each other. A pits life is determined by the size/ depth of the deposit.Talk to me like I’m less than 5. Are your six gravel pits far apart? Like they do not border each other. What would make a gravel pit be done? Is there some law you can only go so deep? Does the rock change as you get deeper? What do you do when it’s done? Let tax liens build up?
Nah this isn’t a sales pitch. They do that dog and pony show in their fancy ass proving grounds in tomahawk wi. I would never waste the time on that shit. Hell I have only been to the con expo once in my life and really have no interest in going back.They dont want your feedback. They just want to sell you shit
Although if you do say anything bad, they will give you like 15 ballcaps. Least thats what the Komatzoo sales guy did. Then you get to have the fun conversation about how I dont wanna sit in your crappy loader, why in the hell would you think I want your name on my head Then they just go ask somebody else.
Tell them if they're gonna pay for hotels and meal to send the engineers to you.This would be a hang out with the engineers type deal.
They said they would pay mileage hotel and meals. For the 3 days in Fargo. This would be a hang out with the engineers type deal.
That’s just it. It’s gonna go tits up as soon as I get out of the countySounds to me like you also need to get compensation for your time unless you can spin this into a job in the winter or you’re getting something else out of it.
Positive me says sure that will be neat and informative for everyone. Negative side of me says everything will go asssideways as soon as I look away for 15 minutes.