Was going nto Sonny Bono wildlife preserve and came across this, never seen a scraper behnd a tractor.
BTW Sonny is appently skiing.
BTW Sonny is appently skiing.
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That's about all you see here.
You buttstuff buggers will like this,,,
Art on Bombay Beech salton sea.
Lotsa weird art there.
Art on Bombay Beech salton sea.
Lotsa weird art there.
A freind of mine had a couple he had rigged up for behind his semi's for road jobs
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Purveyor of bullshit, mostly.
Not common at all to see em behind green machines here, Steiger/CIH quad tracks pretty much dominate the market.
Ag tractors pulling scrapers is common on construction sites here, and about all you will see in any ag areas where the land is flat enough for flood irrigation.
Still have regular scrapers here. Get towards the valley and it’s all quad tracs and cans. Or hoes and off roads. Scrapers don’t do well in gumbo clay.
That's a setup you'll see around here from time to time. No regular pans left at all. Most prefer the hoe and truck method of moving dirt. It really depends on if you have competent operators. Pan can move a lot of dirt quick but you have to know what you are doing to do it. One good man on a hoe and 4 on trucks moves a lot of dirt with only one smart one.
I saw good pan operators, once. Running 627s. They spent the spent the first 2 days on the job dumping all along the haul road. I asked the foreman why they were putting so much, 8ish feet in some places, dirt on the road that the 621s has been running on for a week. “You’ll see” was the response I got. Came in the next morning to see those guys running WFO on the haul road thanks to the high banked turns they had built. I think they were doing 2 rounds for every 1 the 621 guys got.
good pan operator runs hand shift n suicide clutch, w/no front brake
them other things r called buggys round hear
them other things r called buggys round hear
Well there are similarities... don't think Ive even been on a pan/scraper/buggy with brakes. Early on the old timer told me thats what the bowl was for.
Lots of stories in this area of scrapers in the 70s and 80s that were just driven job to job. For road use you bit a bunch of old 11R20's and when you need to reduce speed juat dropped the bowl. Apparently it was quite the smoke show and a production. Times have changed.
I thought Pete was referring to a old Harley.
Saw that in live action, too. Asphalt not a good match for a cutting edge. Oopsie
Meh... that's what keeps the patching/resurfacing crews busy. Trickle down economics.
Our best day runnin 3 740B’s loaded with the 349 is just over 12k yards. Running 2 627’s and 2 637’s being pushed with a D9 we did 10k. We used to only use scrapers. They still have their place, stripping topsoil for example but 4 machines can move more dirt than 5 and burn much less fuel. We’re a small crew and almost everyone can run every piece of iron on the job, efficiently.
Beep beep. Might be a deranged coyote around too
I had a few saws to test.
Friends pile.
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046 did most.
Friends pile.
038M 046
046 did most.
