Pics of work updated 11-14-10.

[Blazin]

What I did Friday.
Pete 359, 475 Cat.


Oil pan had a crack in the rear right corner up near the mount flange. Had it tigged, and I painted it.
New pan is $1,400.00 









That was easier to get off then a small block pan on a 4x4!
Speaking of which I got to do one of those on a 1998 2500 4x4 the first part of last week!

[fitz]

That was easier to get off then a small block pan on a 4x4!
Speaking of which I got to do one of those on a 1998 2500 4x4 the first part of last week!

Blazin,
Did you have to lift the motor up a little to do the pan on the 98 2500 4x4?
I have a 2000 crew cab 4x4 with a 350 Vortec and the pan is getting crusty.
Just wondering how big of a job I'm in for.
Thanks.
             Fitz
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[Blazin]

Mitchel said to lift the motor. I dropped the front differential down as far as it would go. It was tight but it clears.
The front of the starter solenoid broke when I undid the main wire.

[Blazin]

Work couple days last week!

Before!




























Grinding away!


Let the boss have a little fun too!






After!

[ccz145a]

Your getting pretty good at those.

[Blazin]

Talked to the skidder operator. He said he tried to wreck the last one I built!

[ccz145a]

Dang, what are they doing??? That looks about as tough as an anvil.

[Blazin]

The trailer gets loaded with 100,000 120,000 lbs of wood chips. Most times the landings are soft or muddy. In order for the tractor get moving the skidder pushes him. If you look in the before pics you will see the bumper is all bent up. been pulled back out a dozen times, and had hackpro braces welded to them etc. The original bumpers are only tied into the box, and rear door opening of the trailers. they are stamped steel about an 1/8" thick! I fill in the gap between the suspension frame, and new bumper.
Some of these guys could break the horn off an anvil with a rubber mallet! 

[VileZambonie]

Very nice work!

[zieg85]

Boy I wished my company wouldn't have switched us to Blackberry's with no camera phone.  I was at the John Deere plant and viewed one of their new 764 high speed dozer cruising by.  Course you can see a video clip of it on their site.

http://www.deere.com/en_US/cfd/construction/deere_const/widescreen_home.html in case anyone is interested.  Saw one in production final assembly but the one on the back road behind the plant sure was cool but camera's aren't allowed in the plant.

[The dream]

I would love some tuff rough bumpers like that in my truck. 

[Blazin]

By the way that is Chassis Saver, with a caot of SEM acrylic enamel with activator in it. Brushed, and rolled on!

[smitty77]

Finally got around to posting some pics from my "office".  This year I took a new position testing the quality of the liquid asphalt binder we ship to our plants and other customers.  Here's a pic of it beling delivered by rail:



I used to spend a lot of time on the road traveling to hot-mix plants and doing quailty testing on the mix as it was produced.  They still let me out of my new testing lab to do this once in a while.  One such day this summer I was sent to Blazin's territory - a stretch of I-93 just south of Waterville Valley, NH about 2.5 hours from home (one way).  I made a day trip to check on things on day 1, but the crew was there for 3 days and then off to Vermont.  In this case we were laying a NovaChip surface treatment mix 1" thick over a milled surface.  Here's a shot of the line of trucks waiting for us as after we shifted lanes at lunchtime:



Here's a shot of the NovaPaver laying out the new surface:



The beauty of this type of pavement is you can put traffic on it a quarter of the time as conventional pavement.  When paving in neighborhoods we can have the road open almost as soon as the roller passes.  Here's a shot of the finished product, ready for traffic:

[Blazin]

You ever work with  GMI /I93 Asphalt? GMI sold I 93 earlier this year to Pike. We do all of GMI's work on their trucks, and trailers, also some work on the paver's, graders, etc.

[smitty77]

You ever work with  GMI /I93 Asphalt? GMI sold I 93 earlier this year to Pike. We do all of GMI's work on their trucks, and trailers, also some work on the paver's, graders, etc.

Maybe??  I'm not familiar with all of our work up north but I suppose it's possible.  We also own and operate the old New Hampshire Bituminous company in Boscawen, NH.  They do mostly cold-mix paving, chipseals, sand seals, and calcuim chloride treatment out of that facility.

The job in the photos was shipped from Pike in Hooksett, and whether is was our job with us buying the mix from Pike, or Pike's job with us contracted to do the laydown, I'm not sure.  Both scenarios are common for us.

BTW, sending you a PM