Smooth Ride for my Cubs
Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:02 pm
I was meaning to post this much earlier like back on the 1st of August .. but well life happens.
As many know I have been playing with a lot of heavy equipment over the last 15 years or so as we built my logging road and such which included the trout pond, restoring the trout brook behind our house as well as some other work. Got to play with an IH/Dresser TD7/8, a Cat D2, JD 644D and E series loaders as well as a bunch of other equipment.
Ended up with a pretty nice road and all as well as a redone main parking area by the house. Only problem was that heavy rains tended to wash the driveway down well the driveway Not a big deal as we had the equipment to play with and fix things up including the drag that we used to level the gravel with Ellie.
And playing with the drag is a lot of fun.
But sometimes really nice things happen right out of the blue that tends to change things. Such a thing happened to us this summer. One afternoon .. just around my birthday got a phone call while we were in the van. Guy wanted to know if I was home and if we could meet. Told him I was out running with Em and could be home soon, he said.. well take your time.. would say 8pm be ok for a meeting. Said sure.. finished what we were doing and drove home. He was there by the time we got home. Introduced each other and then he asked me a strange question.
Wanted to know if I could use some stock for my driveway. I asked how much. He said enough to do the driveway. I said sure When He asked me if 0800 the next morning was soon enough... I said sure.
Anyways, the equipment arrived and shortly afterwards a parade of 36 live-loaders with an average of 29 metric tons of stock in each showed up at our house...
By 2pm they had finished and most of the equipment was gone. Just left me with about a weeks worth of seat time on a Bomag roller/compactor(similar to this one, gotta find a pic of Monarch's Bomag).
After almost 1,100 tons of stock this is what we ended up with It will certainly be a lot smoother from now on and a lot easier to plow this winter
The drag pictured below has now been moved way down the road where there isn't any blacktop. Gonna be used solely for the logging road.
A nice pad beside the storage trailer to park the trailers and other implements
It ain't perfect, but it was a lot of fun rolling as well as watching some really cool surfacing equipment play in the yard
As many know I have been playing with a lot of heavy equipment over the last 15 years or so as we built my logging road and such which included the trout pond, restoring the trout brook behind our house as well as some other work. Got to play with an IH/Dresser TD7/8, a Cat D2, JD 644D and E series loaders as well as a bunch of other equipment.
Ended up with a pretty nice road and all as well as a redone main parking area by the house. Only problem was that heavy rains tended to wash the driveway down well the driveway Not a big deal as we had the equipment to play with and fix things up including the drag that we used to level the gravel with Ellie.
And playing with the drag is a lot of fun.
But sometimes really nice things happen right out of the blue that tends to change things. Such a thing happened to us this summer. One afternoon .. just around my birthday got a phone call while we were in the van. Guy wanted to know if I was home and if we could meet. Told him I was out running with Em and could be home soon, he said.. well take your time.. would say 8pm be ok for a meeting. Said sure.. finished what we were doing and drove home. He was there by the time we got home. Introduced each other and then he asked me a strange question.
Wanted to know if I could use some stock for my driveway. I asked how much. He said enough to do the driveway. I said sure When He asked me if 0800 the next morning was soon enough... I said sure.
Anyways, the equipment arrived and shortly afterwards a parade of 36 live-loaders with an average of 29 metric tons of stock in each showed up at our house...
By 2pm they had finished and most of the equipment was gone. Just left me with about a weeks worth of seat time on a Bomag roller/compactor(similar to this one, gotta find a pic of Monarch's Bomag).
After almost 1,100 tons of stock this is what we ended up with It will certainly be a lot smoother from now on and a lot easier to plow this winter
The drag pictured below has now been moved way down the road where there isn't any blacktop. Gonna be used solely for the logging road.
A nice pad beside the storage trailer to park the trailers and other implements
It ain't perfect, but it was a lot of fun rolling as well as watching some really cool surfacing equipment play in the yard