Well it's been quite a while since I had any updates to this truck so I thought I'd post up some of the latest from this evening. I am getting closer to finishing off my dump trailer, all that is left is finishing off the rear gate and lock system, adding a rear bumper and mud flaps and also putting the front deck on with the fenders.
I hope to get some time this week and next to finish it if I can. As for this evenings fun, I finally got the replacement pump in for Scott's excavator that he picked up at the April show here in town so I decided to charge up his new battery and give the machine a little break in time.
The new pump is much better than the old one but still gets pretty warm after about 30 minutes of continuous use so I will probably throw a cooling fan on it to keep air movement throughout the machine. Also the excavator is pretty solid with the Spain conversion done to it and I am quite impressed with it all around. I had an extra bucket lying around so I chopped the teeth off and made a smooth bucket to do the clean up work much easier as well.
While not having anywhere outside this evening to run the excavator as we had some pretty nice showers and hail come through, I decided to build a little rock quarry inside the work area and set up a job site. I got Clifford off the shelf and stuck a couple batteries in and pulled down the trailer to load. I used a leftover box lid for my quarry and filled it with half a bag of gravel.
Now it's time to let the fun start and run the excavator and put it through it's paces. I will let the pictures do the talking for the time being.
The truck had no problems pulling the load around and the trailer also did great dumping it as well. I weighed the trailer empty and then I weighed it full at the end and I found out that I had 28lbs of gravel in the trailer when I was trying to dump it. That is prolly about the most this trailer will see unless I decided to fill it all the way to the top with the rear gate on and then I may be looking at another 5-8lbs I'm assuming. Anyways after I dumped a couple of loads I figured that the excavator was working properly as it should and it's ready to go back to Scott's for play/work time and so the grand kids can have a go at it as well.
After a few hours on the job site tonight didn't feel like doing much clean up so all the gravel went back into the trailer and lid and all was closed up so the cats didn't think they had a new bathroom facility.
Tomorrow we'll mess around at Scott's if we get time and see how he likes his new machine that he can finally run after two and a half weeks.
Thanks for looking guys and I'll try to keep you posted on updates and projects with this truck, trailer and excavator as time goes on.
Tyler