Western Railroad Discussion > OT - Heavy Equipment Mechanics Wanted

They're moving dirt to build a shopping center across from the church. There was a little "oops" today. I hope your day is better than these guys are experiencing.

BB

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That's got to be an "interesting" conversation!

It is an older unit, so either something just wore out or maintenance missed something.

They're still building shopping centers?. I thought most were being abandoned. I know a couple in my neck of the woods that have been re-purposed to other things.

It will take a bit to fix that crawler it is a pretty major break down. Cool and fun picture thanks.

Scott O'Dell 

OK Who fogot to tighten the spindle nut ?

seod Wrote:
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> They're still building shopping centers?. I
> thought most were being abandoned. I know a couple
> in my neck of the woods that have been re-purposed

> Scott O'Dell 

Yup-booming economy, Not a traditional shopping center-but four buildings with various retail businesses, offices, bank.
Effective minimum wage here is $14.00/hr and job openings galore.

BB


 

if they have AAA RV plus they are covered

No happy faces in that picture!

Larry

OK, I give up!  Where did this occur?

Dick

WOW! Major failure there! Looks like the spindle supporting that wheel
assembly has given up the ghost!

I've worked on older Terex scrapers and found them to be a major
pain in the A**! We had a fleet of 'em and at that time they were
all junk!

Pick it up and send it to the junk pile!!

Mike

When the Plantary Gears become unaligned!!

Ted Curphey
Ontario, OR

2ebright Wrote:
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> OK, I give up!  Where did this occur?
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> Dick

Bismarck



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/07/19 08:00 by bmarti7.

"...but we have to have the plant sluicing gold by the end of the week... what are we going to do? "

That is NOT a crawler, that is a rubber tired scraper. Brand X. upkpfan

Hmmmm, looks like a candidate for the next Farmer's commercial.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Hmmmm, looks like a candidate for the next Farmer's commercial.- - -  - - - - -

Yep, "We've seen it all"

 

If you spend much time around heavy equipment (I have, railroads included), stuff breaks.  Cat, Terex, Komatsu, Case, Deere, etc., etc., they all break as they age.  That's a fairly old Terex there (descendent of GM's Euclid Division).  I knew excavators who swore by their Euclid/Terex equipment, one guy ran nothing but Euclid and Terex equipment, and every big truck he had sported a Detroit Diesel.  You only had to listen to know where he was--you could hear those "screamin'" two-cycle Jimmies for miles.  Of course, the 2-cycle Detroit Diesel was a cousin to the two-cycle EMD 567, 645, and 710 locomotive prime movers that so many railfans love.  The old (pretty much true) adage about the truck and heavy equipment Detroits was that they only should be run at two speeds--wide open or off.  The didn't like to idle and, if idled for any long periods, they would develop oil seal leaks--thus, their nickname "Drip-troit."  Just like their locomotive cousins, though, they were tough, powerful engines that were fairly easily rebuildable.  

If I have to venture a guess, those "NoDak" (local slang for North Dakotan) folks will have that scraper put back together and running again pretty quick.  "Just another day at the office," as they say.  By the way, Terex still exists, but has no association with GM (hasn't for years) and its newer equipment has no mechanical relation to the "vintage" Terex equipment like this old scraper--it probably dating from the 1970's-80's.