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That'd be great to have you stop by Steve. :cool: Having a bit of trouble with the packer wheels, the grass roots in soil & the dirt being so wet, it's clogging up in the cleaners & forcing the inside cleaner holder to turn on the axle. Got to take it apart & add more set screws. But otherwise it's doing a great job packing! I walk on it afterwards & hardly leave a print.
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The packer is a very nice piece of machine Joe looking good
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That looks great Joe, have you ever thought of adding a road grader to the arsenal?
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I made an offer on Ari's a couple yrs ago, but he never got back to me. :(
I did a lil combining yesterday, 20ac haha, got another 10ac to do next week when it ripens, but other than that I have an unusual amount of free time this time of yr, which I have been soaking up with this tunnel dig. Just about done the 1st cut, go back to that 3rd post, then cut the entry ramp and start on the next 14" cut. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psxvl9eg8v.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psawpuodt8.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pscbdwwkti.jpg |
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Left rear wheel on the B50 stopped turning last night... tear the rear axle down & narrowed the problem to the brushless motor failing :thinking: I got a spare brushless motor/gearhead from the loader kit I haven't built yet, esc must be fine b/c motor replacement runs smooth... good to have spare parts! :D
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Looks like your work is progressing nicely joe-I thought the brushless motors were a little more dependable than the brushed motors. Did you have a lot of hours on it?
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I'm sure I have surpassed the 500 loads mark with it already Tom, and 300+ were climbing the steep grade out of my basement this Spring. The B50 has become as much of a necessity as the JD850, when it quits - everything stops & I fix the trk right away, no substitutes! :)
But same day after above pics taken, I hauled 3 loads & then entire rear axle stops working... wt? :thinking: tear it down again to discover that I didn't get the wires pulled & secured tight enough & the outrunners cut the red motor wires. One motor was a quick fix, the other one - the new one I just put in, smoked the motor & esc too. :mad: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps45ujvh18.jpg So I did something a little different so that wouldn't happen again. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psrgzwj8no.jpg Most of Sunday spent wrenching on the B50, but it's working fine again. Just about finished top cut... the distance between these two posts, the grass roots are more abundant & when spread & packed, the roots & sticky clay is clogging the cleaners bad! I gotta take the cleaners off to get that crap out! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psek4x3f3w.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psmbaehu3o.jpg Cut down about 4" & across. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psbctjhl1j.jpg Piling the contaminated dirt off to side here for now & haul it outside later. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pskeowyowz.jpg |
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hey lil giants look what popped up on my facebook page today
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Since Sunday I've gotten about 50 new subs on youtube, so I wondered where the media source was coming from this time... thanx for the tip Chris. ;) Reading the article... "9 cubic feet annually" :rolleyes: I left a short comment.
Last night I cut the entry ramp to the lower level... I still got about 4 days or more before I can hit the field, I'm starting to vibrate b/c so many combines going around me & my crop just won't mature! This rc hobby has been a great escape from reality, especially this yr with so much bad weather. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psswwgbxg9.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psw3d9bb0b.jpg |
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Pics taken last couple weeks...
Down on the 2nd cut the clay is much denser, wetter, rolls up like plaster sine & was clogging the cleaners on the B4206 bad! I could tell by the way it was moving around that the motors were straining pretty hard & the varying degrees of resistance from each packer wheel was also putting tremendous strain on the electric steering too... back to tires on 4206. The Izzybilt dozer tracks were gumming up bad too... so no more mucking around with tracks in this stuff... flatten out the piles with Stahl wheel loader & pack with a loaded ADT or the 4206 with pan & 3 packer wheels in the box for weight works great too. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psrkyybrdi.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pscw4ufsdy.jpg My 1st try at tiging aluminum... Reg makes it look easy :thinking: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psusjncfwj.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psrrjnwi0c.jpg 2nd try welding a block to a plate... much like my mig welding, it aint pretty but it aint coming apart either! :D http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psylyitkd2.jpg And look here at this monster boulder!!! and I'm still digging deeper to find the bottom of it! :eek: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psxj0t3zyp.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps2101b7c4.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psix5kqtip.jpg That rock could be a couple hundred lbs :eek:... probably rig up a harness & use my engine crane & call the neighbor for a hand... I sure hope I don't find any more like it in the tunnel... I wonder if the 10th scale D9 would drag it out, best get busy working on bringing that back to life during these rainy days of late. ;) |
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Hi joe-it is amazing that all the people that are chosen to write stories on this type of work do not have a clue about what is really going on. I laugh each time I read an article about "the crazy Canadian". Oh well, their loss. It will be interesting to see what you find in the tunnel dig since that dirt probably has been there for many many years. I doubt if any type of R/C equipment can move that rock but it would be good to see the D9 back in action. I'm sure you will come up with something that will be interesting to watch.
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Might be time to drill and blast!! Lol!! I guess that would be hammer and chisel. I've move a few big 200+ pound rocks from the pit. I kept digging around them and made a gully or path to finally end up using a digging bar to hand push them into new location. Had to use the 1:1 backhoe to move some of them. At least you know that you aren't going to be hitting bedrock a few feet down. If it's like the basement dirt, it may be hard diggin but at least it's still able to to be dug up. Rocks are better than bones!! Lol!!!
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The other Joe told me he towed his riding lawnmower through the grass with the D9, the winch had originally plastic gears & they stripped, so he changed them to metal gears & now the dozer utilizes all its power... we'll see what happens Tom.
As moist as this clay is atm RW, I sink that 4" ripper tooth in 3 passes, it's pretty sweet digging... I hope I can maintain a steady enough dig travel that the dirt never gets as dry & hard as what I endeavored with the basement dig... probably use limited heat in this room during winter, enough to keep from freezing my fingers, just to avoid excessive evaporation. ;) Dug down another 6" this morning, still no bottom. The JD850 might be able to dig another 3" down from it's perch before it's out of reach. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psmpww528s.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ps8kfejpmv.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psrammakwx.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pseaf1s0cn.jpg |
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That's a strange looking rock Joe. You sure it's not a head stone?:eek:
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ugh.. thats what i thought.
this is creepy, it looks like a gravestone.. :jaw: |
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Hey Joe. I think I still have a stick of dynamite that can remove that problem real quick
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I can see the headlines now.... " Stonehenge found in Saskatchewan! " :lol:
Loving the dig so far Joe, hope the soil stays right for you and no crusher required on this project.:) |
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Just in time for Halloween lol
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Head stone?! :eek: It's definitely just an ordinary rock, a big somewhat jagged edge flat rock... not hand chiseled, nor chunk of manmade cement. I don't know wtf you ppl watch on tv or troll for on the internet to satisfy your curiosity with or dream about when you close your eyes to sleep... sinister ideas... I'm being rhetorical, I don't want to know! :p :D
My grandfather came out here from Ontario in 1905, the mainline railway that goes coast to coast is 30miles north of me, took my grandpa a day to walk out here and find a quarter section to start a way of life on... there's was nothing but prairie for as far as the eye could see when he got here. His homestead is a mile east of me. Where I live, it was homesteaded in 1925 by the brother of the guy that married my grandfather's sister & this house was built in 1929. My father's farm is 1,5 mile NE from grandfather's, was homesteaded in 1909 and belonged to my grandfather's brother-in-law. However, it just occurred to me the reason why that big rock is so vertical & so perfectly positioned due East-West is b/c I'm quite likely right on top of the trench for the waterline that goes from my well that's 20 feet away (back of 2nd photo) out to my barn where a hydrant & two cattle waterers are. Mystery solved ;) :D :p :lol: Waterline should be another 6 or 7 feet below where this rock is... but why the f? would they throw a boulder like that back in the trench?! :thinking: Calm down spuddy... this is a brand new building & I want to keep it for awhile. :eek: :rolleyes: |
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Joe , you'd be surprised at how many old water line trenches I've come across where they threw the rocks back in on top . Even cast iron sewer lines that where leveled with blocks . What a mess those repairs where :mad:. TNT , didn't we discuss this before :rolleyes::p
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Well that explains the "headstone" thing.lol It just seemed strange that it would naturally come to rest on edge under a couple feet of dirt. Mystery solved! I can sleep easy now.:rolleyes::lol:
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Hey Joe, you just had to tell the story and spoil it for the DQ's:lol::lol:, with Halloween around the corner you could have had some fun with that one!:D:D But I digress, keep the pictures coming it'll be interesting to see what it takes to get it out of there!
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Calm down spuddy... this is a brand new building & I want to keep it for awhile.
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About 7 or 8x now Steve. :eek:
Kent, you want some morbid & psychotic reading related to our hobby? just google "Canadian digs basement with rc", it'll bring up about 15 pages of links to articles, forums, blogs, ect of some of the world's worst sick twisted mofo's imaginations of what they thought of my hobby & what might be going on down there... there was one forum that started a petition to pass on to my local district attorney to investigate what I was really up to... you'll fully appreciate then why I don't want to touch this train of thought with a ten foot pole. ;) :) I'm all for fun Scott & I'll even pay to watch, but not in my backyard! :D |
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An M100 would be like the size of a 5ga pail in 14th, but I doubt it would even blow the dust off this big buzzard of a rock. :D :p
So last week the right track on the Izzybilt dozer quit, I thought maybe I had burnt a motor out, but after I got it tore apart I think the trouble is likely just a poorly soldered wire on a motor terminal... anyways, it's all apart now & I thought it was probably a good time to paint it too! Working in this small room with so much wet clay, the humidity is kinda high & the surface rust is really to show on the bare metal dozer. I got this sandblaster about a decade ago, took it out of the box yesterday & just as I got it set up at noon, it started to drizzle again & carried on all day... So today at noon the sun finally shines... hot dayum this thing works good, and fast! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psmwotkdgd.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psotbtz09x.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pspliicvut.jpg A couple minutes worth & it's like half a bobtail dispersed already. :eek: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psqhmdzhbb.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psdmtqx5ul.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psiqjnqoio.jpg So I go to town to the welding shop I coffee at, they do bulk ordering from Princess Auto all the time, I'm thinking a blast cabinet is a necessity & the owner says he has one that he wants to get rid of, it's too small for much of what they do... $$cheap!!! But the rubber gloves are rotted away, no light & site glass is pitted bad... how does this blaster work? Poor your sand in the bottom, shove the black tube into sand & just keep re using the same sand, contaminants & all? :thinking: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pshrxmntkd.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psw5cggyuh.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psoigoicnl.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psc8bzfb6r.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psmte9zeop.jpg |
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http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/...pssrhrg38r.jpg Air filter bolted on inside and the clear pieces in second pic are clear disposable tape on guards. I am a cheep a$$ and got a square of fine screen material to screen the blast media. But for the amount I use and cost of sand, when it gets too much junk I think I'll just toss it :) |
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Oh and I would think 20-30$ would cover a new set of gloves and covers, new piece of plexiglass? Harbor freight is what I got, I think that is your princess auto?!? I wish I would have got one the size you have, I couldn't get the frame of the lowboy I built in mine and even the dozer blade was big to be working around in the little cabinet I got.
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Thanx a bunch for the pics & script RW, I shopped around town this morning & didn't find a thing... no light, no filter, no plastic film, can't even get laminated glass... no surprise. :rolleyes: Just another few items to add to my city shopping list that I'll do before winter.
My last trip to the city in July, I bought a brand new hp laptop, they set it up for me, I pick it up a few hrs later & go straight home (2,5hr drive). Open up the laptap, it's asking me for a password :thinking:, phone the puter shop next day & they say they didn't set it up that way... so I have a brand new laptop sitting here that I can't get into. :rolleyes: |
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I know and sympathize with ya joe!! Every time I turn mine on it has to instal something!! It's hard to get anything done when everything is at your fingertips but ha don't have any fingers , so to speak !! I think a consumer warning should be placed on technology, may cause extreme frustration resulting in severe financial loss!!! Still only two tools needed , vice grips and hammer- even for sensitive computer devices!! I would feel better by dumping diesel fuel in my eyes and boxing mike Tyson than working on computer!! Lol!!!
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I'm done the 2nd cut this afternoon & it's time to cut the ramp... and my dozer is in the paint shop... great planning Joe. :rolleyes:
But I did it like the last time, the 850 ripped & then used the Stahl WA500 loader to push, rip some more, then pushed till I got it knocked out... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psg2z9jcuv.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psrsxak6ob.jpg Now this freaking rock is in my way... f/k it! I'm just gonna pick it by hand. :mad: It was a bit of a grunt to stand up straight with it and set it at the hole's edge. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psoorsudro.jpg Went & got a hand trk to haul it outside. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...psy3ncutvx.jpg Then I went & got my scale to weigh it... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...pskneyhg7p.jpg The red numbers are lbs :eek: ... that big bytch is heavier than I am!!! :eek: Ya know, Spring of '14 I was seriously considering quitting farming b/c my lower back pain was so intense that I couldn't barely bend over to tie my shoes without bringing a tear to my eye... it was pointed out to me by my massage therapist in June of '14 to get a better pair of workboots with special insoles & now 15 months later my back is like it was 10yrs ago! :) ...although, as I sit here last ten minutes typing this & loading pics, I can feel my back tightening up a bit... it's probably gonna be a struggle trying to get out of bed tomorrow morning?! Hmmm, go have a beer with the neighbor while sitting his hot tub for 30 minute. ;) :D :p |
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hi joe i saw one of your post of damp conditions have you thought of a humidifyer (bad spelling lol ) might be good for both moister and as a iv to keep ground moist for easy digging ?
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As wet as the dirt is, the equipment is not even moist, but a humidifier :thinking: I guess I'll see how dry it gets to be in the tunnel, that might be great idea for a deep soaking without creating a mudslide... thanx for the input Jack. ;)
Here's a vid to show the start at digging the face of the tunnel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmRU9R9mHDU&lc I still have quite a few loads behind me yet to cut it in the steps & get the floor level before moving forward. |
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Your making good progress joe-A hydraulic front shovel would work good against that wall but your hoe is doing a fine job. The water line that you mentioned. Will it interfere with the tunnel? Also, will you make steps going in and out of the tunnel for you and a ramp for the machines?
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Good start to a hopefully long and enjoyable project!! You made me remember my tree stump project, just haven't had the time but summer is coming to an end and I'm slowly catching up from work. Hopefully beginning of October I can move fence sections and have some quality RC seat time!!
So with all the equipment and nothing breaks down , how many yards ya shooting for removal over winter? I imagine you get 12-18" frost or more in that soil? What are ya planing on doing for roof support? Lumber framing as you go? Just remember it doesn't take very much dirt to collapse to crush and constrict!!! You know if you do get a collapse, it will take time to have us organize and ship more RC equipment up there, and the time to dig ya out too!!! I'm sure you'll keep it safe, just curious what plans ya got. |
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It would be like those miners in Chile a few years ago.
If Joe got buried, I'd take the time off work, pack my gear and go help any way I could. :). It's the Canadian thing to do! :D |
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Crazy thought Joe. Maybe a little RC buggy or something with a camera strapped on it to get an up close view of the face digging going on once you get down and dark. Speaking of which, do you have your lighting package ready for the deep dig? :)
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Wouldn't it though, eh Tom?! If only BareBones Excavators had that prototype Caterpillar front shovel, that's seen on their site, finished. ;) Judging by where the waterline exits through the wall in my well room, it's about 2ft below basement floor, which would put it atleast 9ft below ground. I'm going down 7ft at most, so I can walk through without ducking. ;) :D I'll install a metal staircase, and yes there'll be a dirt ramp too within that 5ft width, with approx. 10 - 12 degree grade.
RW, my contractor was fully aware of what I was up to with this "addition" to my workshop & all necessary precautions have been taken to keep the ceiling from coming down on top of me. ;) The concrete pad above tunnel is a 1ft thick with 5/8 rebar & wire mesh. And that pad also anchors to the house's cement foundation with 1" rebar that was hammer drilled. When the tunnel is done I will then add a steel door frame at both ends for added support to take care of any shifting or settling in the yrs to come. No targets set, work at it when I feel like it... and this Fall with so much idle time, when I should have been taking off a big crop & instead have next to no crop, well I have a lot done already with approx. 5 or 6 cubes dug... but that was the easy digging. :D Frost?... don't know what effect there will be... if it snows a ft before it gets wicked cold, frost won't be much of an issue, as snow is very insulating. ;) You don't have to wait for a collapse to visit Mario. ;) :) I have no problem operating my equip with reasonable accuracy 20-30ft away. Where my JD850 sits in the video, that will be where my seat will be till I get clear through to the other side. ;) A 250watt work light should be sufficient lighting. :) |
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