@heartny Amen to that! that is what my Dad used in his Job! A couple Kool projects he worked on was that Space Center in FLA (the original construction) then the little airport call Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD)
I did an internship at Caterpillar many years back. I was doing geeky computer things, but man, the earth movers were pretty crazy. And the truly massive mining trucks were always impressive just for the scale.
More a destruction machine than a construction machine, but my favorite was the John Deere 540 log skidder. Six cylinder turbo diesel engine, 4 wheel drive, articulating steering, 4 ft tall terra tires. It could plow through/roll over just about anything.
@macromeh Must be insanely fun to put those wheel chains on. Speaking from experience as a kid putting on chains on regular car tires when we’d visit folks in Western NY.
We needed to have a redundant fiber line run to our building and we needed to trench the parking lot to run that. A crew came in to do it with a bobcat with a trenching tool on the front, so I went out and jokingly asked the foreman if I could drive it. He said if you bring my guys a pizza you can drive anything you want. 15 minutes later there was pizza
@capnjb@tinamarie1974 I cut my equipment teeth on a John Deere backhoe with steering wheel + foot controls for the wheels and hand controls for the bucket.
Some time later, I rented a Bobcat skid-steer loader to do some dirt work at home. It had hand controls for the wheels and foot controls for the bucket. It took me a while to get the hang of it.
@chienfou@werehatrack nope and there are limited shops nationwide that will inspect and upgrade as needed to meet US requirements.
I use to import personal vehicles many, many years ago. It is not fun, easy or inexpensive. And with the current administration, importation has not gotten easier or cheaper.
@tinamarie1974 exactly… I remember when they first tried to import certain Citröens like the DS. They had to jump through so many hoops to cover US regs that they took out half of the details that made it such a spectacular car. @werehatrack good luck finding that 25-year-old kei truck that’s in good enough shape to be worth spending any money sending it to the US.
@chienfou@tinamarie1974 If I were going to try to grab such a thing, I’d just head over to one of the two places locally that have been bringing them over and doing the updates. “Barn finds” are a thing, even in Japan. My neighbor scored a mid-'60s Honda motorcycle from Japan a while back, a small econobike that was very definitely made for local run-around use. It took him about a week of cleaning, lubricating and tinkering to get it back in running shape. Old bikes like that have next to no regulatory issues to worry about.
@tinamarie1974@werehatrack
So they didn’t have any trouble getting it titled and tagged? Wow!! That’s really cool!
BTW I had a '65 Honda 305 back in the day…
@chienfou@tinamarie1974 Yup. It came with paperwork that Texas considered sufficient for its purposes, and because it was made before motorcycles had much in the way of safety standards and back when they had zero emissions standards, it was basically allowed in without a fuss.
@chienfou@tinamarie1974@werehatrack My friend’s dad had a white 60’s Honda 305 Dream back in the mid 70’s. He bought it used and reupholstered the seat with a garish blue-green metallic cover.The friend and I (mid-teens) each had street legal on/off road bikes and our motley threesome would occasionally go on rides together. Fun times.
I had a small cement truck (meaning mixer) we had one in our yard till the age of 42. It’s brought back a lot of memories for hid and seek. It was one of my favorite places to hide that nobody ever found me in. Even after i got too big to fit in there I still checked it regularly bc I knew other people could fit in there. It was one of the greatest spots for hiding go seek and came in handy to many many of sidewalks around our yard.
@cfg83@Star2236 well, they could turn it on! That would get you moving.
Side-story a young co-worker, maybe not co-incidentally from Alabama, was known for “dryer rides” in the large laundromat ones.
@heartny@mediocrebot Back in the '60s, my long-dead uncle bought a Mr Softee franchise, and then discovered that over half his territory was businesses. While there was enough residential to eke out an existence, he and my aunt decided to see if they could supplement the frozen-stuff sales by selling sandwiches and drinks in the business areas. It ended up being 90% of their revenue.
@sillyheathen I have a 4WD tractor, but it doesn’t have a backhoe attachment - I mostly use it with a brush hog or a rototiller. Our rural property includes 20 acres of commercial timber farm, so a lot of my tractor work is just keeping the trails in the woods clear. (I often say that NW Oregon is “morbidly fecund”. )
With all the rainfall this spring, there was a mudslide that covered about 20 feet of the steep trail down to the tree farm. I cleaned it up, but I had to do so in small sessions - I would clear a small patch with the front bucket, then had to wait for the wet mud to dry out so I could move the tractor on to the next bit (without getting stuck). That went on for a couple of months. Fortunately, for the last 10 feet or so, my neighbor brought his backhoe over to clear the rest away for me.
The joys of rural living…
@macromeh@sillyheathen I went to a small dealer that had Massey Ferguson tractors. Was thinking of buying one. Asked if they had an appropriate flatbed trailer to loan/rent to me. No. Any for sale? No, there are some trailer places about 30 miles away… so never got a trailer or a tractor.
John Deere has a dealer that will deliver and maintain when needed; probably the best choice. But I had a bad experience with their mid-grade lawn tractor so didn’t do that yet either.
@pmarin@sillyheathen I used to be a John Deere fan, but they changed things so you were required to haul them into the dealer for service (even basic service). (I guess they have backed off somewhat now, but I’m still wary.)
Anyway, I’m happy with my Yanmar tractor (Yanmar, a Japanese company, makes many of the diesel engines used in John Deere tractors).
Might have been if not for the fact that it delayed getting down to the tree farm, so trails that could have been cleaned up with the tractor+brush hog will now require some manual work with the chainsaw.
/showme port-a-potty pumping truck and all the construction workers are super excited it’s at the job site
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@mediocrebot @medz You ARE the coolest showme of the day, and that ain’t no sh*t!
@narfcake Cab’s on the wrong side, and it looks more like a Komatsu anyway.
Caterpillar D11T!
Crane
@heartny Amen to that! that is what my Dad used in his Job! A couple Kool projects he worked on was that Space Center in FLA (the original construction) then the little airport call Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD)
Asphalt paver
Though I much prefer concrete to asphalt.
I did an internship at Caterpillar many years back. I was doing geeky computer things, but man, the earth movers were pretty crazy. And the truly massive mining trucks were always impressive just for the scale.
More a destruction machine than a construction machine, but my favorite was the John Deere 540 log skidder. Six cylinder turbo diesel engine, 4 wheel drive, articulating steering, 4 ft tall terra tires. It could plow through/roll over just about anything.
@macromeh Must be insanely fun to put those wheel chains on. Speaking from experience as a kid putting on chains on regular car tires when we’d visit folks in Western NY.
@phendrick Yeah, probably a major task. We never put chains on the one I drove. (It was a lease and it came with fresh tires.)
We needed to have a redundant fiber line run to our building and we needed to trench the parking lot to run that. A crew came in to do it with a bobcat with a trenching tool on the front, so I went out and jokingly asked the foreman if I could drive it. He said if you bring my guys a pizza you can drive anything you want. 15 minutes later there was pizza
@capnjb I am officially jealous
@tinamarie1974 What? Because you didn’t get pizza?
@capnjb yes, of course!!!
Did they actually let you operate it?
@tinamarie1974 A little bit. But I assure you I did no trenching
@tinamarie1974 I think they got a kick out of teaching me the ropes. It was probably my dress shoes…
@capnjb @tinamarie1974 I cut my equipment teeth on a John Deere backhoe with steering wheel + foot controls for the wheels and hand controls for the bucket.
Some time later, I rented a Bobcat skid-steer loader to do some dirt work at home. It had hand controls for the wheels and foot controls for the bucket. It took me a while to get the hang of it.
Those tall cranes they use to make skyscrapers.
In the rest of the world, Honda Kei truck for hauling around fiddly bits. My neighbor is considering the idea of importing one.
@werehatrack
Good luck passing the NHSTA standards…
@chienfou There’s a loophole if you can find a vehicle that’s 25 years or older. Not all states will register one, though.
@chienfou @werehatrack nope and there are limited shops nationwide that will inspect and upgrade as needed to meet US requirements.
I use to import personal vehicles many, many years ago. It is not fun, easy or inexpensive. And with the current administration, importation has not gotten easier or cheaper.
@tinamarie1974 exactly… I remember when they first tried to import certain Citröens like the DS. They had to jump through so many hoops to cover US regs that they took out half of the details that made it such a spectacular car.
@werehatrack good luck finding that 25-year-old kei truck that’s in good enough shape to be worth spending any money sending it to the US.
@chienfou @tinamarie1974 If I were going to try to grab such a thing, I’d just head over to one of the two places locally that have been bringing them over and doing the updates. “Barn finds” are a thing, even in Japan. My neighbor scored a mid-'60s Honda motorcycle from Japan a while back, a small econobike that was very definitely made for local run-around use. It took him about a week of cleaning, lubricating and tinkering to get it back in running shape. Old bikes like that have next to no regulatory issues to worry about.
@tinamarie1974 @werehatrack
So they didn’t have any trouble getting it titled and tagged? Wow!! That’s really cool!
BTW I had a '65 Honda 305 back in the day…
@chienfou @tinamarie1974 Yup. It came with paperwork that Texas considered sufficient for its purposes, and because it was made before motorcycles had much in the way of safety standards and back when they had zero emissions standards, it was basically allowed in without a fuss.
@chienfou @tinamarie1974 @werehatrack My friend’s dad had a white 60’s Honda 305 Dream back in the mid 70’s. He bought it used and reupholstered the seat with a garish blue-green metallic cover.The friend and I (mid-teens) each had street legal on/off road bikes and our motley threesome would occasionally go on rides together. Fun times.
@macromeh @tinamarie1974
The super hawk was a huge success and a trailblazer…
The supervisor’s truck.
/giphy pick-up work truck
The cement truck + the big boom concrete pumper. Schwing!
(Wayne’s world reference)
I’m going with mining dumps trucks because Megaweapon …
I had a small cement truck (meaning mixer) we had one in our yard till the age of 42. It’s brought back a lot of memories for hid and seek. It was one of my favorite places to hide that nobody ever found me in. Even after i got too big to fit in there I still checked it regularly bc I knew other people could fit in there. It was one of the greatest spots for hiding go seek and came in handy to many many of sidewalks around our yard.
@Star2236 But, it was one entry/exit, so no escape if found, right?
@cfg83 @Star2236 well, they could turn it on! That would get you moving.
Side-story a young co-worker, maybe not co-incidentally from Alabama, was known for “dryer rides” in the large laundromat ones.
@pmarin @Star2236
This sounds like a practical way to dry yourself and your clothes at the same time.
Crane with a wrecking ball
@TheGreatNico and Miley Cyrus!
/image Miley wrecking ball
/showme an ice cream truck at a construction site and the workers are happy to be able to buy cold refreshing ice cream and ices
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@heartny @mediocrebot Back in the '60s, my long-dead uncle bought a Mr Softee franchise, and then discovered that over half his territory was businesses. While there was enough residential to eke out an existence, he and my aunt decided to see if they could supplement the frozen-stuff sales by selling sandwiches and drinks in the business areas. It ended up being 90% of their revenue.
@heartny @mediocrebot @werehatrack
That’s pretty smart. They were the food truck before it became cool to be one.
Bessy. My little tractor that could.
@sillyheathen Sweet!
@sillyheathen I have a 4WD tractor, but it doesn’t have a backhoe attachment - I mostly use it with a brush hog or a rototiller. Our rural property includes 20 acres of commercial timber farm, so a lot of my tractor work is just keeping the trails in the woods clear. (I often say that NW Oregon is “morbidly fecund”.
)
With all the rainfall this spring, there was a mudslide that covered about 20 feet of the steep trail down to the tree farm. I cleaned it up, but I had to do so in small sessions - I would clear a small patch with the front bucket, then had to wait for the wet mud to dry out so I could move the tractor on to the next bit (without getting stuck). That went on for a couple of months. Fortunately, for the last 10 feet or so, my neighbor brought his backhoe over to clear the rest away for me.
The joys of rural living…
@macromeh @sillyheathen might be weird to hear, but sounds like fun!
@macromeh @sillyheathen I went to a small dealer that had Massey Ferguson tractors. Was thinking of buying one. Asked if they had an appropriate flatbed trailer to loan/rent to me. No. Any for sale? No, there are some trailer places about 30 miles away… so never got a trailer or a tractor.
John Deere has a dealer that will deliver and maintain when needed; probably the best choice. But I had a bad experience with their mid-grade lawn tractor so didn’t do that yet either.
@pmarin @sillyheathen I used to be a John Deere fan, but they changed things so you were required to haul them into the dealer for service (even basic service). (I guess they have backed off somewhat now, but I’m still wary.)
Anyway, I’m happy with my Yanmar tractor (Yanmar, a Japanese company, makes many of the diesel engines used in John Deere tractors).
@pmarin @sillyheathen
Might have been if not for the fact that it delayed getting down to the tree farm, so trails that could have been cleaned up with the tractor+brush hog will now require some manual work with the chainsaw.